Text 29]
The Forest of Enjoyment
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PURPORT
When the conditioned soul is embraced by his beloved wife, he forgets everything about Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The more he becomes attached to his wife, the more he becomes implicated in family life. One Bengali poet, Bankim Chandra, says that to the eyes of the lover the beloved is always very beautiful, even though ugly. This attraction is called  devamāyā . The attraction between man and woman is the cause of bondage for both. Actually both belong to the  parā prakṛti , the superior energy of the Lord, but both are actually  prakṛti  (female). However, because both want to enjoy one another, they are sometimes described as  puruṣa  (male). Actually neither is  puruṣa , but both can be superficially described as  puruṣa . As soon as man and woman are united, they become attached to home, hearth, land, friendship and money. In this way they are both entrapped in material existence. The word  bhuja-latā-upagūḍha , meaning “being embraced by beautiful arms which are compared to creepers,” describes the way the conditioned soul is bound within this material world. The products of sex life—sons and daughters—certainly follow. This is the way of material existence.
TEXT 29
कदाचिदीश्वरस्य भगवतो विष्णोश्चक्रात्परमाण्वादिद्विपरार्धापवर्ग- कालोपलक्षणात्परिवर्तितेन वयसा रंहसा हरत आब्रह्मतृणस्तम्बादीनां भूताना- मनिमिषतो मिषतां वित्रस्तहृदयस्तमेवेश्वरं कालचक्रनिजायुधं साक्षाद्गवन्तं यज्ञपुरुषमनादृत्य पाखण्डदेवताः कङ्कण्रध्वकवटप्राया आर्यसमयपरिहृताः साङ्केत्येनाभिधत्ते ॥२९॥
kadācid īśvarasya bhagavato viṣṇoś cakrāt paramāṇv-ādi-dvi- parārdhāpavarga-kālopalakṣaṇāt parivartitena vayasā ramhasā harata ābrahma-tṛṇa-stambādīnām bhūtānām animiṣato miṣatām vitrasta- hṛdayas tam eveśvaram kāla-cakra-nijāyudham sākṣād bhagavantam yajña-puruṣam anādṛtya pākhaṇḍa-devatāḥ kaṅka-gṛdhra-baka-vaṭa- prāyā ārya-samaya-parihṛtāḥ sāṅketyenābhidhatte.
kadācit—sometimes; īśvarasya—of the Supreme Lord; bhagavataḥ— of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; viṣṇoḥ—of Lord Viṣṇu: