Text 3] Rahigana Converses with Jada Bharata 429

viduh svartha-gatirn hi visnum). Everyone works very hard to earn
money, but no one knows that his real self-interest is in serving the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. Instead of spending money for advanc-
ing the Krsna consciousness movement, one spends his hard-earned
money on clubs, brothels, liquor, slaughterhouses and so forth. Due to
sinful activities, one becomes implicated in the process of transmigration
and thus has to accept one body after another. Being thus absorbed in a
distressed condition, one never attains happiness.

TEXT 3

TTT ITY ATE
waned VITRO |
wag arate saat
Sretaaleae 3

prabhita-virut-trna-gulma-gahvare
kathora-damsair masakair upadrutah

kvacit tu gandharva-puram prapasyati
kvacit kvacic casu-rayolmuka-graham

prabhitta—a very large number: virut—of creepers: trna—of
varieties of grass; gulma—of thickets; gahvare—in bowers: kathora—
cruel: damsaih—by bites: masakaih—by mosquitoes: upadrutah—dis-
turbed; kvacit—sometimes; tu—but; gandharva-puram—a false palace
created by the Gandharvas: prapasyati—he sees: kvacit—and some-
times; kvacit—sometimes: ca—and; dSu-raya—very quickly:
ulmuka—like a meteor; graham—a fiend.

TRANSLATION

In this forest there are dense bowers composed of thickets of
bushes, grass and creepers. In these bowers the conditioned soul is
always disturbed by cruelly biting mosquitoes [envious people].
Sometimes he sees an imaginary palace in the forest, and some-
times he is bewildered by seeing a fleeting fiend or ghost, which
appears like a meteor in the sky.
