Text 29] The Forest of Enjoyment 41

PURPORT

When the conditioned soul is embraced by his beloved wife, he forgets
everything about Krsna consciousness. The more he becomes attached to
his wife, the more he becomes implicated in family life. One Bengali
poet, Bankim Chandra, says that to the eyes of the lover the beloved is al-
ways very beautiful, even though ugly. This attraction is called deva-
maya. The attraction between man and woman is the cause of bondage
for both. Actually both belong to the pard prakrti, the superior energy of
the Lord. but both are actually prakrti (female). However, because both
want to enjoy one another. they are sometimes described as purusa
(male). Actually neither is purusa, but both can be superficially de-
scribed as purusa. As soon as man and woman are united. they become
attached to home, hearth. land, friendship and money. In this way they
are both entrapped in material existence. The word bhuja-lata-
upagtdha, meaning “being embraced by beautiful arms which are com-
pared to creepers. describes the way the conditioned soul is bound
within this material world. The products of sex life—sons and
daughters—certainly follow. This is the way of material existence.

TEXT 29

TRS aT | RsoarerAafeferrateat-
watisrmerhatida TA Cal Va AAT NATAL WATAT-
afafaa fica faaeaedaat weaafaagd aad

iy
FARIA ECF qrassaqat HF VATHASAAT MATA:
TMS AUATTT URI
kadacid isvarasya bhagavato visnos cakrat paramanv-adi-dvi-
parardhdpavarga-kdlopalaksanat parivartitena vayasad ramhasd harata
abrahma-trna-stambadinam bhiitanaém animisato misatam vitrasta-
hrdayas tam evesvaram kdla-cakra-niyjadyudham sdksdd bhagavantamn

yajna-purusam anddrtya pakhanda-devatah kanka-grdhra-baka-vata-
praya arya-samaya-parihrtah sanketyenabhidhatte.

kaddcit—sometimes: isvarasya—of the Supreme Lord: bhagavatah—
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead: visnoh—of Lord Visnu:
