Text 2] Rahigana Converses with Jada Bharata 427

TRANSLATION

Jada Bharata, who had fully realized Brahman, continued: My
dear King Rahigana, the living entity wanders on the path of the
material world, which is very difficult for him to traverse, and he
accepts repeated birth and death. Being captivated by the material
world under the influence of the three modes of material nature
(sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna), the living entity can see
only the three fruits of activities under the spell of material
nature. These fruits are auspicious, inauspicious and mixed. He
thus becomes attached to religion, economic development, sense
gratification and the monistic theory of liberation (merging with
the Supreme). He works very hard day and night exactly like a
merchant who enters a forest to acquire some articles to sell later
for profit. However, he cannot really achieve happiness within this
material world.

PURPORT

One can very easily understand how difficult and insurmountable the
path of sense gratification is. Not knowing what the path of sense
gratification is, one becomes implicated in the repetition of birth and ac-
cepts different types of bodies again and again. Thus one suffers in
material existence. In this life one may think that he is very happy being
an American, Indian, Englishman or German, but in the next life one has
to accept another body among 8,400,000 species. The next body has to be
immediately accepted according to karma. One will be forced to accept a
certain type of body, and protesting will not help. That is the stringent
law of nature. Due to the living entity’s ignorance of his eternal blissful
life, he becomes attracted to material activities under the spell of mayd.
In this world, he can never experience happiness, yet he works very hard
to do so. This is called maya.

TEXT 2

Taae Wares za!
aes ara FANT THT |
maaan aa efea aha
TATA TAM TH VI
