36 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 14
Narayana). If money is utilized in the service of Laksmi-Narayana. the
devotee automatically lives in an opulent way. However. if one wants to
enjoy Laksmi the way Ravana did. he will be vanquished by the laws of
nature, and whatever few possessions he has will be taken away. Finally
death will take everything away. and death is the representative of
Krsna.
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efra anmaatiratfiareitant carat sfafrar-
SHEN TAA ATT AT UEI
kvacic ca Sita-vatady-anekadhidaivika-bhautikatmiyanam dasanam
pratinivarane *kalpo duranta-cintaya visanna Gste.

kvacit—sometimes: ca—also; sita-vata-ddi—such as cold and strong
wind; aneka—various: adhidaivika—created by the demigods:
bhautika—adhibhautika, created by other living beings: atmiyanam—
adhyatmika, created by the body and mind: dasaném—of conditions of
misery; pratinivadrane—in the counteracting: akalpah—unable:
duranta—very severe: cintayd—by anxieties: visannah—morose:
aste—he remains.

TRANSLATION

Being unable to protect himself from the threefold miseries of
material existence, the conditioned soul becomes very morose and
lives a life of lamentation. These threefold miseries are miseries
suffered by mental calamity at the hands of the demigods [such as
freezing wind and scorching heat], miseries offered by other living
entities, and miseries arising from the mind and body themselves.

PURPORT

The so-called happy materialistic person is constantly having to en-
dure the threefold miseries of life, called adhidaivika, adhyatmika and
adhibhautika. Actually no one can counteract these threefold miseries.
All three may assail one at one time, or one misery may be absent and the
other present. Thus the living entity is full of anxiety. fearing misery
