Text 15] The Forest of Enjoyment 25
rate further and further into a hellish condition wherein they will per-
form abominable acts.
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Mae Te arataaagagas waka aaa

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kvacid Gsadya grham davavat priyartha-vidhuram asukhodarkam
Sokagninad dahyamano bhrsam nirvedam upagacchati.

kvacit—sometimes: asddya—experiencing: grham—the home life:
ddva-vat—exactly like a blazing fire in the forest: priya-artha-
vidhuram—without any beneficial object: asukha-udarkam—resulting
only in more and more unhappiness; Soka-agnind—by the fire of lamen-
tation: dahyamanah—being burned: bhrsam—very great: nirvedam—
disappointment: upagacchati—he obtains.

TRANSLATION

In this world, family life is exactly like a blazing fire in the
forest. There is not the least happiness, and gradually one becomes
more and more implicated in unhappiness. In household life,
there is nothing favorable for perpetual happiness. Being impli-
cated in home life, the conditioned soul is burned by the fire of
lamentation. Sometimes he condemns himself as being very unfor-
tunate, and sometimes he claims that he suffers because he per-
formed no pious activities in his previous life.

PURPORT
In the Gurv-astaka, Srila Vigvanatha Cakravati Thakura has sung:
samsara-davanala-lidha-loka-
tranaya karunya-ghanaghanatvam

A life in this material world is exactly like a blazing forest fire. No one
goes to set fire to the forest. yet the fire takes place. Similarly. everyone
