Text 26] Rahigana Converses with Jada Bharata 461

TEXT 26
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Mea ze aha weed aaa wan saa
Haserarar a aaa aferasat areteegeradis-
aati: | 1a azaacerd anaeaaeta fatcerentefa 24

rajovdca
ya ha va iha bahu-vida maha-bhagavata tvayabhihitah paroksena
vacasa jiva-loka-bhavadhva sa hy arya-manisaya kalpita-visayo
nanjasavyutpanna-loka-samadhigamah. atha tad evaitad
duravagamam samavetanukalpena nirdisyatam iti.

raja uvaca—King Pariksit said: yah—which: ha—certainly: vé—or:
itha—in this narration: bahu-vidé —who are aware of many incidents of
transcendental knowledge: mahd-bhagavata—O great devotee sage:
tvaya—by you: abhihitah—described: paroksena—figuratively:
vacasi—by words; jiva-loka-bhava-adhva—the path of material exis-
tence of the conditioned soul; sah—that: hi—indeed: arya-manisaya —
by the intelligence of advanced devotees: kalpita-visayah—the subject
matter is imagined: na—not:; arjasd—directly: avyutpanna-loka—of
persons who are not very experienced or intelligent: samadhigamah—
the complete understanding: atha—therefore: tat eva—because of that:
etat—this matter: duravagamam—which is difficult to understand:
samaveta-anukalpena—by substituting the direct meaning of such inci-
dents; nirdisyatam—let it be described: iti—thus.

TRANSLATION
King Pariksit then told Sukadeva Gosvami: My dear lord, O

great devotee sage, you are omniscient. You have very nicely de-
scribed the position of the conditioned soul, who is compared to a
merchant in the forest. From these instructions intelligent men
can understand that the senses of a person in the bodily concep-
tion are like rogues and thieves in that forest, and one’s wife and
children are like jackals and other ferocious animals. However, it
