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The Forest of Enjoyment
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PURPORT
The following song is sung by Narottama dāsa Thākura:
ahaṅkāre matta hañā, nitāi-pada pāsariyā, asatyere satya kari māni
Due to forgetting the lotus feet of Lord Nityānanda and being puffed up by material possessions, wealth and opulence, one thinks the false, temporary material world to be an actual fact. This is the material disease. The living entity is eternal and blissful, but despite miserable material conditions, he thinks the material world to be real and factual due to his ignorance.
TEXT 6
तत्र च क्वचिदातपोदकनिभान् विषयानुपधावति पानभोजनव्यवायादि- व्यसनलोलुपः ॥ ६ ॥
tatra ca kvacid ātapodaka-nibhān viṣayān upadhāvati pāna-bhojana- vyavāyādi-vyasana-lolupaḥ.
tatra —there (in this phantom place);  ca —also;  kvacit —sometimes;  ātapa-udaka-nibhān —like the water in a mirage in the desert;  viṣayān —the objects of sense enjoyment;  upadhāvati —runs after;  pāna —to drinking;  bhojana —to eating;  vyavāya —to sex life;  ādi —and so on;  vyasana —with addiction;  lolupaḥ —a debauchee.
TRANSLATION
Sometimes in this house in the sky [gandharva-pura] the conditioned soul drinks, eats and has sex. Being overly attached, he chases after the objects of the senses just as a deer chases a mirage in the desert.
PURPORT
There are two worlds—the spiritual and the material. The material world is false like a mirage in the desert. In the desert, animals think