Text 28]
The Movements of the Living Entities
1343
PURPORT
The word  vigata-jñānam  means that the spiritual knowledge which the child developed in the abdomen is already lost to the spell of  māyā . Owing to various kinds of disturbances and to being out of the abdomen, the child cannot remember what he was thinking of for his salvation. It is assumed that even if a person acquires some spiritually uplifting knowledge, circumstantially he is prone to forget it. Not only children but also elderly persons should be very careful to protect their sense of  Kṛṣṇa  consciousness and avoid unfavorable circumstances so that they may not forget their prime duty.
TEXT 28
इत्येवं शैशवं भुक्त्वा दुःखं पौगण्डमेव च ।
अलब्धाभीप्सितोऽज्ञानादिद्धमन्युःशुचार्पितः॥२८॥
ity evam śaiśavam bhuktvā duḥkham paugaṇḍam eva ca alabdhābhīpsito jñānād iddha-manyuḥ śucārpitaḥ
iti evam—in this way; śaiśavam—childhood; bhuktvā—having undergone; duḥkham—distress; paugaṇḍam—boyhood; eva—even; ca—and; alabdha—not achieved; abhīpsitaḥ—he whose desires; ajñānāt—due to ignorance; iddha—kindled; manyuḥ—his anger; śucā—by sorrow; arpitaḥ—overcome.
TRANSLATION
In this way, the child passes through his childhood, suffering different kinds of distresses, and he attains boyhood. In boyhood also he suffers pain over desires to get things which he can never achieve. And thus, due to ignorance, he becomes angry and sorry.
PURPORT
From birth to the end of five years of age is called childhood. After five years up to the end of the fifteenth year is called  paugaṇḍa . At sixteen years of age, youth begins. The distresses of childhood are already explained, but when the child attains boyhood he is enrolled in a school which he does not like. He wants to play, but he is forced to go to school and study and take responsibility for passing examinations. Another kind of distress is that he wants to get some things with which to play, but