Text 14] Rahigana Converses with Jada Bharata 445
mity between the two parties. Similarly, in the marriage relationship,
monetary transactions are sometimes overpowered by the dangerous con-
ditions of material life. One then becomes diseased or monetarily embar-
rassed. In the modern age most countries have developed economically,
but due to business exchanges, relationships seem to be strained. Finally
wars are declared between nations, and as a result of these upheavals
there is destruction all over the world, and people suffer heavily.
TEXT 14
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tams tan vipannan sa hi tatra tatra
vihaya jatam parigrhya sarthah
Gvartate ‘dyadpi na kascid atra
virddhvanah param upaiti yogam
tan tan—all of them: vipanndn—embarrassed in various ways: sah—
the living being: hi—certainly; tatra tatra—here and there: vihdya—
giving up: jatam—those who are newly born: parigrhya—taking: sa-
arthah—the living being searching for his own interest: @vartate—wan-
ders in this forest: adya api—even until now: na—not: kascit—any of
them; atra—here in this forest: vira—O hero: adhvanah—of the path
of material life: padram—the ultimate end: upaiti—gets: yogam—the
process of devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
My dear King, on the forest path of material life, first a person is

bereft of his father and mother, and after their death he becomes
attached to his newly born children. In this way he wanders on the
path of material progress and is eventually embarrassed. Nonethe-
less, no one knows how to get out of this, even up to the moment
of death.
