1268 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 27
parivrttya vilumpanti
sarva-kama-vinirmitam
gandharvyah—Gandharvis; tadrsih—similarly; asya—of Candavega;
maithunyah—companions for sexual intercourse; ca—also; sita—white;
asitah—black; parivrttya—by surrounding; vilumpanti—they plundered;
sarva-kama—all kinds of desirable objects; vinirmitam—manufactured.
TRANSLATION

Along with Candavega were as many female Gandharvis as there were
soldiers, and all of them repetitively plundered all the paraphernalia for
sense enjoyment.

PURPORT

The days have been compared to the soldiers of Candavega. Night is
generally a time for sex enjoyment. Days are considered to be white, and
nights are considered to be black, or, from another point of view, there
are two kinds of nights—black nights and white nights. All these days and
nights combine to pass away our span of life and everything we manu-
facture for sense gratification. Material activity means manufacturing
things for sense gratification. Scientists are conducting research to find
out how we can satisfy our senses more and more elaborately. In this
Kali-yuga, the demoniac mentality is employed in manufacturing various
machines to facilitate the process of sense gratification. There are so many
machines for ordinary household activities. There are machines for washing
dishes, cleansing the floor, shaving, clipping hair—today everything is done
by machine. All these facilities for sense gratification are described in this
verse as sarva-kama-vinirmitam. The time factor, however, is so strong that
not only is our span of life being expended, but all the machines and
facilities for sense gratification are deteriorating. Therefore in this verse
the word vilumpanti (plundering) is used. Everything is being plundered
from the very beginning of our lives.

This plundering of our possessions and life span begins with the day of
our birth. One day will come when death will finish everything, and the
living entity will have to enter another body to begin another chapter of
life and again begin the cycle of material sense gratification. Prahlada
Maharaja describes this process as punah punas carvita-carvananam
(Bhag. 7.5.30). Materialistic life means chewing the chewed again and
again. The central point of material life is sense gratification. In different
types of bodies, the living entity enjoys various senses, and through
