16 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 14
necessities, he forgets everything and perpetually runs around the
forest of material existence.
PURPORT

As originally mentioned, a poor man belonging to the mercantile com-
munity goes to the forest to get some cheap goods to bring back to the city
to sell at a profit. He is so absorbed in the thought of maintaining body
and soul together that he forgets his original relationship with Krsna and
seeks only the bodily comforts. Thus material activities are the condi-
tioned soul’s only engagement. Not knowing the aim of life, the
materialist perpetually wanders in material existence, struggling to get
the necessities of life. Not understanding the aim of life, even though he
acquires sufficient necessities, he manufactures artificial necessities and
thus becomes more and more entangled. He creates a mental situation
whereby he needs greater and greater comforts. The materialist does not
know the secret of nature’s ways. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (3.27):

prakrteh kriyamdnani
gunaih karmani sarvasah
ahankéra-vimidhaitma
kartaham iti manyate
~The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of
material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities which are in
actuality carried out by nature.” Due to lusty desire, the living entity
creates a certain mental situation whereby he wants to enjoy this material
world. He thus becomes entangled. enters different bodies and suffers in
them.
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