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Rahūgaṇa Converses with Jaḍa Bharata
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viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum ). Everyone works very hard to earn money, but no one knows that his real self-interest is in serving the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Instead of spending money for advancing the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, one spends his hard-earned money on clubs, brothels, liquor, slaughterhouses and so forth. Due to sinful activities, one becomes implicated in the process of transmigration and thus has to accept one body after another. Being thus absorbed in a distressed condition, one never attains happiness.
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प्रभूतवीरुत्तृणगुल्मगह्वरे
कठोरदंशमंशकैरुपद्रुतः
कचित्तु गन्धर्वपुरं प्रपश्यति
कचित्कचित्राशुरयोल्पुकग्रहम् ॥ ३ ॥
prabhūta-vīrut-tṛṇa-gulma-gahvare kaṭhora-daṁśair maśakair upadrutaḥ kvacit tu gandharva-puraṁ prapaśyati kvacit kvacic cāśu-rayolmuka-graham
prabhūta —a very large number;  vīrut —of creepers;  tṛṇa —of varieties of grass;  gulma —of thickets;  gahvare —in bowers;  kaṭhora —cruel;  daṁśaiḥ —by bites;  maśakaiḥ —by mosquitoes;  upadrutaḥ —disturbed;  kvacit —sometimes;  tu —but;  gandharva-puram —a false palace created by the Gandharvas;  prapaśyati —he sees;  kvacit —and sometimes;  kvacit —sometimes;  ca —and;  āśu-raya —very quickly;  ulmuka —like a meteor;  graham —a fiend.
TRANSLATION
In this forest there are dense bowers composed of thickets of bushes, grass and creepers. In these bowers the conditioned soul is always disturbed by cruelly biting mosquitoes [envious people]. Sometimes he sees an imaginary palace in the forest, and sometimes he is bewildered by seeing a fleeting fiend or ghost, which appears like a meteor in the sky.