Text 6] The Forest of Enjoyment 13
PURPORT
The following song is sung by Narottama dasa Thakura:
ahaikdare matta hana, nitdi-pada pasariya,
asatyere satya kari mani
Due to forgetting the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda and being puffed up
by material possessions, wealth and opulence, one thinks the false, tem-
porary material world to be an actual fact. This is the material disease.
The living entity is eternal and blissful, but despite miserable material
conditions, he thinks the material world to be real and factual due to his
ignorance.
TEXT 6

aa ahaaniqateng  frrarrate wadtaasraratte-
STMAAST | & Ul
tatra ca kvacid Gtapodaka-nibhan visayan upadhavati pana-bhojana-
vyavayadi-vyasana-lolupah.

tatra—there (in this phantom place): ca—also: kvacit—sometimes;:
atapa-udaka-nibhadn—like the water in a mirage in the desert:
visayan—the objects of sense enjoyment: upadhavati—runs after;
pana—to drinking; bhojana—to eating: vyavaya—to sex life: adi—and
so on; vyasana—with addiction; lolupah—a debauchee.

TRANSLATION

Sometimes in this house in the sky [gandharva-pura] the condi-
tioned soul drinks, eats and has sex. Being overly attached, he
chases after the objects of the senses just as a deer chases a mirage
in the desert.

PURPORT

There are two worlds—the spiritual and the material. The material

world is false like a mirage in the desert. In the desert. animals think
