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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 24]
planets, people are engrossed in temporary, material happiness, forgetting that in due course of time they have to change their bodies according to the material laws and suffer the repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. Not caring what will happen in the next birth, gross materialists are simply busy enjoying during the present short span of life. A Vaiṣṇava is always anxious to give all such bewildered materialists the real happiness of spiritual bliss.
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येषु महाराज मयेन मायाविना विनिर्मिताः पुरो नानामणिप्रवर- प्रवेकविरचितविचित्रभवनप्राकारगोपुरसभाचैत्यचत्वरायतनादिभिर्नागासुरमि- धुनपारावतशुकसारिकाकीर्णकृत्रिमभूमिभिर्विवरेश्वरगृहोत्तमैः समलङ्कृताश्चक्रा- सति ॥ ९ ॥
yeṣu mahārāja mayena māyāvinā vinirmitāḥ puro nānā-maṇi-pravara- praveka-viracita-vicitra-bhavana-prākāra-gopura-sabhā-caitya- catvarāyatanādibhir nāgāsura-mithuna-pārāvata-śuka-sārikākīrṇa- kṛtrima-bhūmibhir vivareśvara-gṛhottamaiḥ samalaṅkṛtāś cakāsati.
yeṣu—in those lower planetary systems; mahā-rāja—O my dear King; mayena—by the demon named Maya; māyā-vinā—possessing ad- vanced knowledge in the construction of material comforts; vinir- mitāḥ—constructed; puraḥ—cities; nānā-maṇi-pravara—of valuable gems; praveka—with excellent; viracita—constructed; vicitra—won- derful; bhavana—houses; prākāra—walls; gopura—gates; sabhā— legislative meeting rooms; caitya—temples; catvara—schools; āyatana- ādibhiḥ—with hotels or recreation halls and so on; nāga—of living en- tities with snakelike bodies; asura—of demons, or godless persons; mithuna—by couples; pārāvata—pigeons; śuka—parrots; sārikā— mynas; ākīrṇa—crowded; kṛtrima—artificial; bhūmibhiḥ—possessing areas; vivara-īśvara—of the leaders of the planets; gṛha-uttamaiḥ— with first-class houses; samalaṅkṛtāḥ—decorated; cakāsati—shine mag- nificently.