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Rahūgaṇa Converses with Jaḍa Bharata
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TEXT 26
राजोवाच
यो ह वा इह बहुविदा महाभागवत त्वयाभिहितः परोक्षेण वचसा जीवलोकभवाध्वा स ह्यार्यमनीषया कल्पितविषयो नाज्जसाव्युत्पन्नलोक- समधिगमः । अथ तदेवैतदुखगमं समवेतानुकल्पेन निर्दिश्यतामिति ॥२६॥
rājovāca
ya ha vā iha bahu-vidā mahā-bhāgavata tvayābhihitaḥ parokṣeṇa vacasā jīva-loka-bhavādhvā sa hy ārya-manīṣayā kalpita-viṣayo nāñjasāvyutpanna-loka-samadhigamaḥ. atha tad evaitad duravagamam samavetānukalpena nirdiśyatām iti.
rājā uvāca —King Parīkṣit said;  yaḥ —which;  ha —certainly;  vā —or;  iha —in this narration;  bahu-vidā —who are aware of many incidents of transcendental knowledge;  mahā-bhāgavata —O great devotee sage;  tvayā —by you;  abhihitaḥ —described;  parokṣeṇa —figuratively;  vacasā —by words;  jīva-loka-bhava-adhvā —the path of material existence of the conditioned soul;  saḥ —that;  hi —indeed;  ārya-manīṣayā —by the intelligence of advanced devotees;  kalpita-viṣayaḥ —the subject matter is imagined;  na —not;  añjasā —directly;  avyutpanna-loka —of persons who are not very experienced or intelligent;  samadhigamaḥ —the complete understanding;  atha —therefore;  tat eva —because of that;  etat —this matter;  duravagamam —which is difficult to understand;  samaveta-anukalpena —by substituting the direct meaning of such incidents;  nirdiśyatām —let it be described;  iti —thus.
TRANSLATION
King Parīkṣit then told Śukadeva Gosvāmī: My dear lord, O great devotee sage, you are omniscient. You have very nicely described the position of the conditioned soul, who is compared to a merchant in the forest. From these instructions intelligent men can understand that the senses of a person in the bodily conception are like rogues and thieves in that forest, and one's wife and children are like jackals and other ferocious animals. However, it