440 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 13
illusory energy?” People do not understand that they are actually sleep-
ing in this material world, being devoid of knowledge of spiritual life.
Caitanya Mahaprabhu therefore says:
enechi ausadhi maya nasibara lagi’
hari-naéma-mahd-mantra lao tumi magi’
“I have brought medicine to awaken every living being from perpetual
sleep. Please receive the holy name of the Lord, the Hare Krsna maha-
mantra, and awaken.” The Katha Upanisad (1.3.14) also says, uttistha
Jagrata prapya vardn nibodhata: “‘O living entity, you are sleeping in
this material world. Please get up and take advantage of your human
form of life.” The sleeping condition means loss of all knowledge. In
Bhagavad-gita (2.69) it is also said, ya nisa sarva-bhitanadm tasyam
Jagarti samyami: “What is night for all beings is the time of awakening
for the self-controlled.”” Even in the higher planets, everyone is under
the spell of the illusory energy. No one is really interested in the real
values of life. The sleeping condition, called kala-sarpa (the time factor),
keeps the conditioned soul in a state of ignorance, and therefore pure
consciousness is lost. In the forest there are many blind wells, and if one
falls down in one there is no chance of being rescued. In a state of sleep,
one remains perpetually bitten by some animals, especially snakes.
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