72 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 1

to transmigrate from one body to another in human life, animal
life and life as a demigod. When the living entity gets the body of a
demigod, he is certainly very jubilant, when he gets a human body
he is always in lamentation, and when he gets the body of an
animal, he is always afraid. In all conditions, however, he is ac-
tually miserable. His miserable condition is called samsrti, or
transmigration in material life.

PURPORT

The sum and substance of material conditional life is explained in this
verse. The living entity, the seventeenth element, is struggling alone,
life after life. This struggle is called samsrti, or material conditional life.
In Bhagavad-gitd it is said that the force of material nature is insur-
mountably strong (daivi hy esa gunamayi mama mayd duratyayd).
Material nature harasses the living entity in different bodies, but if the
living entity surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he be-
comes free from this entanglement, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita
(mam eva ye prapadyante maydém etam taranti te). Thus his life be-
comes successful.

TEXT 52

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BTR CTA HHT SSTET Tera NR

dehy ajno jjita-sad-vargo
necchan karmani karyate

kosakara iwatmanam
karmanacchadya muhyati

dehi—the embodied soul; ajfiah—without perfect knowledge; ajita-
sat-vargah—who has not controlled the senses of perception and the
mind; na icchan—without desiring; karmani—activities for material
benefit; karyate—is caused to perform; kosakadrah—the silkworm;
iva—like; atmadnam—himself; karmand—by fruitive activities; dc-
chadya—covering; muhyati—becomes bewildered.
