Text 13] Maharaja Rahigana Meets Jada Bharata 351

to the order of the Supreme Lord, material nature gives us a certain type
of body. For some time we play as master or servant, as actors play on the
stage under someone else’s direction. While we are in the human form,
we should put an end to this nonsensical stage performance. We should
come to our original constitutional position, known as Krsna conscious-
ness. At the present moment, the real master is material nature. Daivi hy
esd gunamayi mama maya duratyaya (Bg. 7.14). Under the spell of
material nature, we are becoming servants and masters, but if we agree
to be controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His eternal
servants, this temporary condition ceases to exist.

TEXT 13
_ me q a fatataaa |
ay: fear wan faeces
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unmatta-matta-jadavat sva-samstham
gatasya me vira cikitsitena

arthah kiyan bhavatda siksitena
stabdha-pramattasya ca pistapesah

unmatta—madness; matta—a drunkard; jada-vat—like a dunce:
sva-samstham—situation in my original constitutional position:
gatasya—of one who has obtained; me—of me; vira—O King; cikit-
sitena—by your chastisement; arthah—the meaning or purpose:
kiyan—what; bhavata—by you; Siksitena—by being instructed:
stabdha—dull; pramattasya—of a crazy man; ca—also: pista-pesah—
like grinding flour.

TRANSLATION

My dear King, you have said, ‘*You rascal, you dull, crazy fellow!
I am going to chastise you, and then you will come to your senses.”
In this regard, let me say that although I live like a dull, deaf and
dumb man, I am actually a self-realized person. What will you gain
by punishing me? If your calculation is true and I am a madman,
