1392 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 29

Just as a king is seated on a chariot, the living entity is seated in the
body. The sitting place is the heart, and the living entity sits there and
engages in the struggle for existence, which goes on without progress
perpetually. In the words of Narottama dasa Thakura:

karma-kanda, jiidna-kdnda, kevala visera bhanda,
amrta baliya yebd khaya

nand yoni sadd phire, kadarya bhaksana kare,
tdra janma adhah-pate yaya

The living entity struggles very hard due to the influence of fruitive
activity and mental speculation and simply gets a different type of body
life after life. He eats all kinds of nonsense and is condemned by his
activities of sense enjoyment. If one really wants to progress in life, he
must give up the ways of karma-kanda and jidna-kanda, fruitive activities
and mental speculation. Being fixed in Krsna consciousness, one can
become free from the entanglement of birth and death and the vain
struggle for existence. In these verses the words mrga-trsnan pradhavati
are very significant because the living entity is influenced by a thirst for
sense enjoyment. He is like a deer that goes to the desert to search out
water. In a desert an animal simply searches in vain for water. Of course
there is no water in the desert, and the animal simply sacrifices his life in
an attempt to find it. Everyone is planning for future happiness, thinking
that somehow or other, if he can reach a certain point, he will be happy.
In actuality, however, when he comes to that point, he sees that there is
no happiness. He then plans to go further and further to another point.
This is called mrga-trsna, and its basis is sense enjoyment in this material
world.

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sanvatsaras canda-vegah
kalo yenopalaksitah
tasyahdaniha gandharva
gandharvyo ratrayah smrtah
haranty dyuh parikrantya
sasthy-uttara-sata-trayam
