Text 41] Bhagavatam is the Answer 595
Some of the living entities are relatively happy and in better conditions
of life, whereas others are in distressed conditions of life. But factually
none of them are actually happy in the material conditional life. No one
can be happy in prison life, although one is a first-class prisoner and the
other is a third-class prisoner. The intelligent person should not try to be
promoted from third-class prison life to first-class prison life, but should
try to be released from the prison altogether. One may be promoted to
first-class prisoner, but the same first-class prisoner is again degraded to a
third-class prisoner in the next term. One should try to be free from
prison life and go back to home, back to Godhead. That is the real goal for
all types of living entities.
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sattvam rajas tama iti
lisrah suranmnarakah
tatrapy ekaikaso rajan
bhidyante gatayas tridha
yadaikaikataro’nyabhyam
sva-bhava upahanyate
sattvam—the mode of goodness; rajah—the mode of passion; tamah—the
mode of darkness; iti—thus; tisrah—trio; sura—demigod; nr—human being;
narakah—one who is suffering hellish conditions; tatra api—even there;
ekaikasah—another; rajan—O King; bhidyante—divide into; gatayah—
movements; tridha—three; yada—at that time; ekaikatarah—one in relation
with another; anyabhyam—from the other; sva-bhavah—habit; upahanyate
—develops.
TRANSLATION
According to the different modes of material nature—the mode of
goodness, the mode of passion and the mode of darkness—there are
different living creatures, who are known as demigods, human beings
and hellish living entities. O King, even a particular mode of nature, being
mixed with the other two, is divided into three, and thus each kind of
living creature is influenced by the other modes and acquires its habits also.
