Text 3] Rahagana 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 TT ATER
PANATATRV A: |
Ce
wag oaeagt | saeata
TR OR coi CL: aa ea
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.
