4 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 14

vasa-vartinyd mayaya jiva-loko ’yam yathé vanik-sdrtho ’rtha-parah
sva-deha-nispadita-karmanubhavah smasanavad asivatama yam
samsaratavyam gato nadyapi viphala-bahu-pratiyogehas tat-
tdpopasamanim _hari-guru-carandravinda-madhukaradnupadavim
avarundhe.

sah—the self-realized devotee (Sri Sukadeva Gosvami); ha—indeed:
uvdca—spoke; sah—he (the conditioned soul); esah—this one; deha-
atma-mdninam—of those who foolishly take the body to be the self; sat-
tva-ddi—of sattva, rajah and tamah; guna—by the modes; visesa —par-
ticular; vikalpita—falsely constituted; kusala—sometimes by favorable
actions; akusala—sometimes by very unfavorable actions;
samavahara—by a mixture of both; vinirmita—obtained; vividha—
various types; deha-dvalibhih—by the series of bodies: viyoga-
samyoga-adi—symptomized by giving up one type of body (viyoga) and
accepting another (sarnyoga); anddi-sarnsdra-anubhavasya—of the per-
ception of the beginningless process of transmigration; dvara-bhiitena—
existing as the doorways; sat-indriya-vargena—by these six senses (the
mind and five knowledge-acquiring senses, namely the eyes, ears,
tongue, nose and skin); tasmin—on that; durga-adhva-vat—like a path
that is very difficult to traverse; asugame—being difficult to pass
through; adhvani—on a path in the forest; dpatitah—happened;
isvarasya—of the controller; bhagavatah—the Supreme Personality of
Godhead; visnoh—of Lord Visnu; vasa-vartinyd —acting under the con-
trol; mayaya—by the material energy; jiva-lokah—the conditioned liv-
ing entity; ayam—this; yathad—exactly like; vanik—a merchant; sa-
arthah—having an object; artha-parah—who is very attached to
money: sva-deha-nispddita—performed by his own body; karma—the
fruits of activities; anubhavah—who experiences: Smasdna-vat
asivatamayam —like an inauspicious cemetery or place of burial; sam-
sdra-atavyam—in the forest of material life; gatah—having entered;
na—not; adya api—until now; viphala—unsuccessful; bahu-pra-
tiyoga—full of great difficulties and varieties of miserable conditions;
ihah—whose activities here in this material world; tat-tdpa-upasa-
manim—which pacifies the miseries of the forest of material life; hari-
guru-carana-aravinda—to the lotus feet of the Lord and His devotee;
