Text 7] The Glories of Devotional Service 1007

TRANSLATION

Devahiti remembered the words spoken to her by Brahma. Seeing her
son, Kapila, who could show the ultimate goal of the Absolute Truth,
sitting at leisure, she questioned Him as follows.

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Va AEA ATA TA: Tat Ul 9 Il

devahiitir uvdca
nirvinna nitaram bhimann
asad-indriya-tarsanat
yena sambhavyamanena
prapannandham tamah prabho

devahittih uvaca—Devahiti said; nirvinnd—disgusted; nitaram—very;
bhiman—O my Lord; asat—impermanent; indriya—of the senses; tarsanat—
from agitation; yena—by which; sambhavyamanena—being prevalent;
prapanna—I have fallen; andham tamah—into the abyss of ignorance;
prabho—O my Lord.

TRANSLATION

Devahiti said: I am very sick of the disturbance of my material senses,
for because of this sense disturbance, my Lord, I have fallen into the
abyss of ignorance.

PURPORT

Here the word asad-indriya-tarsanat is significant. Asat means imperma-
nent, temporary, and indriya means senses. Thus asad-indriya-tarsanat
means from being agitated by the temporarily manifest senses of the mate-
rial body. We are evolving through different statuses of material bodily
existence—sometimes in a human body, sometimes in an animal body—
and therefore the engagements of our material senses are also changing.
Anything which changes is called temporary, or asat. We should know that
beyond these temporary senses are our permanent senses, which are now
