Text 18] The Forest of Enjoyment 27
TEXT 17
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satel Il
kadacin manorathopagata-pitr-pitamahdady asat sad iti svapna-nirorti-
laksanam anubhavati.
kadacit—sometimes; manoratha-upagata—obtained by mental con-
coction: pitr—the father: pita-maha-ddi—or grandfather and others:
asat—although long dead (and although no one knows that the soul has
gone); sat—again the father or grandfather has come; iti—thus think-
ing: svapna-nirvrti-laksanam—the kind of happiness found in dreams:
anubhavati—the conditioned soul feels.
TRANSLATION
Sometimes the conditioned soul imagines that his father or
grandfather has again come in the form of his son or grandson. In
this way he feels the happiness one sometimes feels in a dream,
and the conditioned soul sometimes takes pleasure in such mental
concoctions.
PURPORT
Due to ignorance of the real existence of the Lord. the conditioned soul
imagines many things. Influenced by fruitive activity. he comes together
with his relatives, fathers. sons and grandfathers. exactly as straws
gather together in a moving stream. In a moment the straws are thrown
everywhere. and they lose contact. In conditional life. the living entity is
temporarily with many other conditioned souls. They gather together as
family members. and the material affection is so strong that even after a
father or grandfather passes away. one takes pleasure in thinking that
they return to the family in different forms. Sometimes this may happen.
but in any case the conditioned soul likes to take pleasure in such con-
cocted thoughts.
TEXT 18
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mena mfratat alata ig cil
