364 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 10

drstah—it is experienced by everyone; sramah—fatigue; karmatah—
from acting in some way; atmanah—of the soul; vai—indeed; bhar-
tuh—of one who is carrying the palanquin; gantuh—of one who is mov-
ing; bhavatah—of yourself; ca—and; anumanye—I guess like that;
yatha—as much as; asata—with something that is not an actual fact;
uda—of water; Gnayana-ddi—of the bringing and other such tasks;
abhavat—from the absence; sa-milah—based on evidence; istah—
respected; vyavahadra-margah—phenomenon.

TRANSLATION

You have said, ‘‘I am not fatigued from labor.”’ Although the
soul is different from the body, there is fatigue because of bodily
labor, and it appears to be the fatigue of the soul. When you are
carrying the palanquin, there is certainly labor for the soul. This is
my conjecture. You have also said that the external behavior ex-
hibited between the master and the servant is not factual, but
although in the phenomenal world it is not factual, the products of
the phenomenal world can actually affect things. That is visible
and experienced. As such, even though material activities are im-
permanent, they cannot be said to be untrue.

PURPORT

This is a discussion on impersonal Mayavada philosophy and the prac-
tical philosophy of Vaisnavas. The Mayavada philosophy explains this
phenomenal world to be false, but Vaisnava philosophers do not agree.
They know that the phenomenal world is a temporary manifestation, but
it is not false. A dream that we see at night is certainly false, but a hor-
rible dream certainly affects the person seeing it. The soul’s fatigue is not
factual, but as long as one is immersed in the illusory bodily conception,
one is affected by such false dreams. When dreaming, it is not possible to
avoid the actual facts, and the conditioned soul is forced to suffer due to
his dream. A waterpot is made of earth and is temporary. Actually there
is no waterpot; there is simply earth. However, as long as the waterpot
can contain water, we can use it in that way. It cannot be said to be ab-
solutely false.
