Text 35] Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi 1407
TRANSLATION .

Narada continued: O you who are free from all sinful activity! No one
can counteract the effects of fruitive activity simply by manufacturing a
different activity devoid of Krsna consciousness. All such activity is due to
our ignorance. When we have a troublesome dream, we cannot relieve it
with a troublesome hallucination. One can counteract a dream only by
awaking. Similarly, our material existence is due to ignorance and illusion.
Unless we awaken to Krsna consciousness, we cannot be relieved of such
dreams. For the ultimate solution to all problems, we must awaken to
Krsna consciousness.

PURPORT

There are two kinds of fruitive activity. We can place the burden on the
head, or we can place it on the shoulder. Actually, keeping the burden in
either place is the same. The transferral, however, is taking place under the
name of counteraction. In this connection Prahlada Maharaja said that fools
and rascals in the material world plan so gorgeously for bodily comfort
without knowing that such arrangements, even if successful, are only maya.
People are working hard day and night for the illusory happiness of the
body. This is not a way to achieve happiness. One has to get out of this
material entanglement and return home, back to Godhead. That is real
happiness. The Vedas therefore enjoin: “Don’t remain in the darkness of
this material world. Go to the light of the spiritual world.” To counteract
the distress of this material body, one has to take on another distressed
condition. Both situations are only illusion. There is no gain in taking on
one trouble to counteract another trouble. The conclusion is that one
cannot be perpetually happy as long as one exists in this material world.
The only remedy is to get out of this material world altogether and return
home, back to Godhead.

TEXT 35
af afraastt dagfad fara |
waa fometan ay rata qa N34
arthe hy avidyamane ’pi
samsrtir na nivartate
manasa linga-riipena
svapne vicarato yatha
