Texts 23-25]
Talks Between Nārada and King Prācīnabarhi
1395
carāḥ —followers;  bhūta —of living entities;  upasarga —at the time of distress;  āśu —very soon;  rayaḥ —very powerful;  prajvāraḥ —named Prajvāra;  dvividhaḥ —two kinds;  jvaraḥ —fever;  evam —thus;  bahu-vidhaiḥ —of different varieties;  duḥkhaiḥ —by tribulations;  daiva —by providence;  bhūta —by other living entities;  ātma —by the body and mind;  sambhavaiḥ —produced;  kliśyamānaḥ —subjected to sufferings;  śatam —hundred;  varṣam —years;  dehe —in the body;  dehī —the living entity;  tamaḥ-vṛtaḥ —covered by material existence;  prāṇa —of life;  indriya —of the senses;  manaḥ —of the mind;  dharmān —characteristics;  ātmani —unto the soul;  adhyasya —wrongly attributing;  nirguṇaḥ —although transcendental;  śete —lies down;  kāma —of sense enjoyment;  lavān —on fragments;  dhyāyan —meditating;  mama —mine;  aham —I;  iti —thus;  karma-kṛt —the actor.
TRANSLATION
The followers of Yavaneśvara [Yamarāja] are called the soldiers of death, and they are known as the various types of disturbances that pertain to the body and mind. Prajvāra represents the two types of fever: extreme heat and extreme cold—typhoid and pneumonia. The living entity lying down within the body is disturbed by many tribulations pertaining to providence, to other living entities and to his own body and mind. Despite all kinds of tribulations, the living entity, subjected to the necessities of the body, mind and senses and suffering from various types of disease, is carried away by many plans due to his lust to enjoy the world. Although transcendental to this material existence, the living entity, out of ignorance, accepts all these material miseries under the pretext of false egoism (I and mine). In this way he lives for a hundred years within this body.
PURPORT
In the  Vedas  it is stated:  asaṅgo 'yam puruṣaḥ . The living entity is actually separate from material existence, for the soul is not material. In  Bhagavad-gītā  it is also said that the living entity is the superior energy, and the material elements—earth, water, fire, air and so on—are the inferior energy. The material elements are also described as  bhinna , or separated energy. When the internal or superior energy comes in contact with the external energy, it is subjected to so many tribulations. In  Bhagavad-gītā  the Lord also says:
mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ āgamāpāyino 'nityās tāms titikṣasva bhārata