Enchantment by Kṛṣṇa's Glories
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friend. Better for You to fight and let me sit down and smoke  gañjā .” No, that is not Kṛṣṇa consciousness. A God conscious person does not say, “God, You please do everything for me and let me smoke  gañjā .” Rather, a God conscious person must work for God. But even if one does not work for the sake of God, one must work, for without work one cannot even maintain one's body. This material world, therefore, is meant for  pariśrama , hard labor.
Even a lion, although king of the beasts, must still look for its own prey in the jungle. It is said,  na hi suptasya siṁhasya praviśanti mukhe mṛgāḥ . A lion cannot think, “Since I am king of the forest, let me sleep, and all the animals will come into my mouth.” That is not possible. “No, sir. Although you are a lion, you must go search for your food.” Thus even the lion, although so powerful, must endeavor with great difficulty to find another animal to eat, and similarly everyone in this material world must work with great difficulty to continue his life.
Thus  pa  indicates  pariśrama , labor, and  pha  is for  phenila , which means “foam.” While working very hard a horse foams at the mouth, and similarly human beings must also work hard in this way. Such hard labor, however, is  vyartha , futile, and this is what is indicated by the letter  ba . And  bha  indicates  bhaya , fear. Despite working so hard, one is always somewhat fearful that things will not be done as he desires. The nature of the body is that it involves eating, sleeping, mating, and fearing ( āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca ). Although one may eat very nicely, one must consider whether one is overeating, so that he will not fall sick. Thus even eating involves fear. A bird, while eating, looks this way and that way, fearful that some enemy may be coming. And for all living entities, everything finally ends in death,  mṛtyu , and this is what is indicated by the letter  ma .
Thus  pavarga  and its component letters  pa ,  pha ,  ba ,  bha , and  ma  indicate hard labor ( pariśrama ), foam at the mouth ( phenila ), frustration ( vyartha ), fear ( bhaya ), and death ( mṛtyu ). This is called  pavarga , the path of material tribulation.  Apavarga , however, indicates just the opposite—the spiritual world, where there is no labor, no foam, no frustration, no fear, and no death. Thus Kṛṣṇa is known as  anapavarga-vīrya , for He shows the path to the spiritual world.
Why should one suffer from these five kinds of tribulation? Because one has a material body. As soon as one accepts a material body—whether it is that of a president or a common man, a demigod or a human being, an insect or a Brahmā—one must go through these tribulations. This is called material existence. Kṛṣṇa comes, therefore, to show one