352 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 10

then your punishment will be like beating a dead horse. There will
be no effect. When a madman is punished, he is not cured of his
madness.

PURPORT

Everyone in this material world is working like a madman under cer-
tain impressions falsely acquired in the material condition. For example,
a thief who knows that stealing is not good and who knows that it is
followed with punishment by a king or by God, who has seen that thieves
are arrested and punished by the police, nonetheless steals again and
again. He is obsessed with the idea that by stealing he will be happy. This
is a sign of madness. Despite repeated punishment, the thief cannot give
up his stealing habit; therefore the punishment is useless.

TEXT 14.
NA SUA

CHATS TTATTAT TARTS BAA STIS | SAAT ATT
Palit Soa HAY SITY TAA TATE UI

Sri-Suka uvaca
etavad anuvada-paribhdsaya pratyudirya muni-vara upasama-sila
uparatanadtmya-nimitta upabhogena karmarabdham vyapanayan raja-
yanam api tathovaha.

Sri-Sukah uvaéca—Sukadeva Gosvami continued to speak; etavat—so
much; anuvdda-paribhasaya—by explanatory repetition of words
spoken previously by the King; pratyudirya—giving replies one after
another; muni-varah—great sage Jada Bharata; upasama-silah—who
was calm and peaceful in character; uparata—ceased; andtmya—things
not related to the soul: nimittah —whose cause (ignorance) for identifica-
tion with things not related to the soul; upabhogena—by accepting the
consequences of his karma; karma-drabdham—the resultant action now
attained; vyapanayan—finishing; rdja-ydnam—the palanquin of the
King; api—again; tatha—as before; uva@ha—continued to carry.
