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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 14]
TEXT 5
तत्रगतो दंशमशकसमापसदैर्मनुजैः शलभशकुन्ततस्करमुषकादिभिरु- परुध्यमानवहिःप्राणः क्वचित् परिवर्तमानोऽस्मिन्नध्वन्यविद्याकामकर्मभिरु परक्तमनसानुपपन्नार्थं नरलोकं गन्धर्वनगरमुपपन्नमिति मिथ्यादृष्टिर- नुपश्यति ॥ ५ ॥
tatra gato daṁśa-maśaka-samāpasadair manujaiḥ śalabha-śakunta- taskara-mūṣakādibhir uparudhyamāna-bahiḥ-prāṇaḥ kvacit parivartamāno 'sminn adhvany avidyā-kāma-karmabhir uparakta- manasānupapannārthaṁ nara-lokaṁ gandharva-nagaram upapannam iti mithyā-drṣṭir anupaśyati.
tatra —to that household life;  gataḥ —gone;  daṁśa —gadflies;  maśaka —mosquitoes;  sama —equal to;  apasadaiḥ —who are low-class;  manu-jaiḥ —by men;  śalabha —locusts;  śakunta —a large bird of prey;  taskara —thieves;  mūṣaka-ādibhiḥ —by rats and so on;  uparudhyamāna —being disturbed;  bahiḥ-prāṇaḥ —the external life air in the form of wealth and so on;  kvacit —sometimes;  parivartamānaḥ — wandering;  asmin —in this;  adhvani —path of material existence;  avidyā-kāma —by ignorance and lust;  karmabhiḥ —and by fruitive ac- tivities;  uparakta-manasā —due to the mind's being influenced;  anupapanna-artham —in which the desired results are never obtained;  nara-lokam —this material world;  gandharva-nagaram —a will-o'-the- wisp city;  upapannam —existing;  iti —taking it as;  mithyā-drṣṭiḥ —he whose vision is mistaken;  anupaśyati —observes.
TRANSLATION
Sometimes the conditioned soul in household life, being at- tached to material wealth and possessions, is disturbed by gadflies and mosquitoes, and sometimes locusts, birds of prey and rats give him trouble. Nonetheless, he still wanders down the path of material existence. Due to ignorance he becomes lusty and engages in fruitive activity. Because his mind is absorbed in these activities, he sees the material world as permanent, although it is temporary like a phantasmagoria, a house in the sky.