Text 27] The Atrocities of King Karnsa 301

dog,” “I am a cat,”’ or, when the ignorance is still further advanced, “I
am God.”’ Unless one is fully self-realized, one’s life of ignorance will
continue.

TEXT 27

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Soka-harsa-bhaya-dvesa-
lobha-moha-madanvitah

mitho ghnantam na pasyanti
bhavair bhavam prthag-drsah

soka—lamentation; harsa—jubilation; bhaya—fear; dvesa—envy;
lobha—greed; moha—illusion; mada—madness; anvitah—endowed
with; mithah—one another; ghnantam—engaged in killing; na
pasyanti—do not see; bhdvaih—because of such differentiation;
bhévam—the situation in relation to the Supreme Lord; prthak-drsah—
persons who see everything as separate from the control of the Lord.

TRANSLATION

Persons with the vision of differentiation are imbued with the
material qualities lamentation, jubilation, fear, envy, greed, illu-
sion and madness. They are influenced by the immediate cause,
which they are busy counteracting, because they have no knowl-
edge of the remote, supreme cause, the Personality of Godhead.

PURPORT

Krsna is the cause of all causes (sarva-kdrana-kdranam), but one who
has no connection with Krsna is disturbed by immediate causes and can-
not restrain his vision of separation or differences. When an expert
physician treats a patient, he tries to find the original cause of the disease
and is not diverted by the symptoms of that original cause. Similarly, a
devotee is never disturbed by reverses in life. Tat te ‘nukampam
susamiksamanah (Bhag. 10.14.8). A devotee understands that when he
is in distress, this is due to his own past misdeeds, which are now
