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Nārada Muni Cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa
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nānubhūya na jānāti pumān viṣaya-tīkṣṇatām nirvidyate svayaṁ tasmān na tathā bhinna-dhīḥ paraiḥ
na—not; anubhūya—experiencing; na—not; jānāti—knows; pumān—a person; viṣaya-tīkṣṇatām—the sharpness of material enjoyment; nirvidyate—becomes aloof; svayaṁ—himself; tasmāt—from that; na tathā—not like that; bhinna-dhīḥ—whose intelligence is changed; paraiḥ—by others.
TRANSLATION
Material enjoyment is indeed the cause of all unhappiness, but one cannot give it up unless one has personally experienced how much suffering it is. Therefore one should be allowed to remain in so-called material enjoyment while simultaneously advancing in knowledge to experience the misery of this false material happiness. Then, without help from others, one will find material enjoyment detestful. Those whose minds are changed by others do not become as renounced as those who have personal experience.
PURPORT
It is said that unless a woman becomes pregnant, she cannot understand the trouble of giving birth to a child.  Bandhyā ki bujhibe prasavavedanā.  The word  bandhyā  means a sterile woman. Such a woman cannot give birth to a child. How, then, can she perceive the pain of delivery? According to the philosophy of Prajāpati Dakṣa, a woman should first become pregnant and then experience the pain of childbirth. Then, if she is intelligent, she will not want to be pregnant again. Actually, however, this is not a fact. Sex enjoyment is so strong that a woman becomes pregnant and suffers at the time of childbirth, but she becomes pregnant again, despite her experience. According to Dakṣa's philosophy, one should become implicated in material enjoyment so that after experiencing the distress of such enjoyment, one will automatically renounce. Material nature, however, is so strong that although a man suffers at every step, he will not cease his attempts to enjoy ( trpyanti