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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 13]
illusory energy?” People do not understand that they are actually sleeping in this material world, being devoid of knowledge of spiritual life. Caitanya Mahāprabhu therefore says:
enechi auṣadhi māyā nāśibāra lāgi’ hari-nāma-mahā-mantra lao tumi māgi’
“I have brought medicine to awaken every living being from perpetual sleep. Please receive the holy name of the Lord, the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra , and awaken.” The  Kaṭha Upaniṣad  (1.3.14) also says,  uttiṣṭha jāgrata prāpya varān nibodhata : “O living entity, you are sleeping in this material world. Please get up and take advantage of your human form of life.” The sleeping condition means loss of all knowledge. In  Bhagavad-gītā  (2.69) it is also said,  yā niśā sarva-bhūtānām tasyām jāgarti samyamī : “What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled.” Even in the higher planets, everyone is under the spell of the illusory energy. No one is really interested in the real values of life. The sleeping condition, called  kāla-sarpa  (the time factor), keeps the conditioned soul in a state of ignorance, and therefore pure consciousness is lost. In the forest there are many blind wells, and if one falls down in one there is no chance of being rescued. In a state of sleep, one remains perpetually bitten by some animals, especially snakes.
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कर्हि स चित्क्षुद्रसान् विचिन्वं- स्तन्मक्षिकाभिर्व्यथितो विमानः । तत्रातिकृच्छ्रात्प्रतिलब्धमानो बलाद्विलुप्यन्त्यथ तं ततोऽन्ये ॥१०॥
karhi sma cit kṣudra-rasān vicinvamis tan-makṣikābhir vyathito vimānaḥ tatrāti-kṛcchrāt pratilabdhamāno balād vilumpanty atha tam tato ’nye