740 Srimad-Bhagavatam (Canto 1, Ch. 14
conclusion is that God’s sanction is the immediate cause for all happenings,
good or bad. Any successful man should feel grateful to the Lord for all
he has achieved.
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TRteTATATaN foray ata aafearg |
Trey Vadis at afeaterqil 2 oll
pasyotpatan nara-vyaghra
divyan bhauman sa-dathikan
darunan gamsato ‘durad
bhayam no buddhi-mohanam

pasya—just see; utpatan—disturbances; nara-vyaghra—O man of tigerlike
strength; divyan—happenings in the sky or by planetary influence;
bhaumdan—happenings on the earth; sa-daihikan—happenings of the body
and the mind; darunan—awfully dangerous; samsatah—indicating; adurat—
in the near future; bhayam—danger; nah—our; buddhi—intelligence;
mohanam-— deluding.

TRANSLATION
Just see, O man with a tiger’s strength, how many miseries due to
celestial influences, earthly reactions and bodily pains—all very dangerous
in themselves—are forboding danger in the near future by deluding our
intelligence.
PURPORT

Material advancement of civilization means advancement of the reactions
of the threefold miseries due to celestial influence, earthly reactions and
bodily or mental pains. By the celestial influence of the stars there are
many calamities like excessive heat, cold, rains or no rains, and the after-
effects are famine, disease, and epidemic, and the aggregate result is agony
of the body and the mind. Man-made material science cannot do anything
to counteract all these threefold miseries. They are all punishments from
the superior energy of maya under the direction of the Supreme Lord.
Therefore our constant touch with the Lord by devotional service can give
us relief without being disturbed in the discharge of our human duties. The
