Text 15] | Narada Muni Cursed by Prajapati Daksa 275

tat-sarga—by association with the prostitute of intelligence;
bhrarisita—taken away; aisvaryam—the opulence of independence;
sarhsarantam —undergoing the material way of life; ku-bharya-vat—
exactly like a person who has a polluted wife; tat-gatith—the movements
of the polluted intelligence; abudhasya—of one who does not know;
tha—in this world; kim asat-karmabhih bhavet—what can be the
benefit of performing temporary fruitive activities.

TRANSLATION

[Narada Muni had also spoken of a man who is the husband of
the prostitute. The Haryasvas understood this as follows.] If one
becomes the husband of a prostitute, he loses all independence.
Similarly, if a living entity has polluted intelligence, he prolongs
his materialistic life. Frustrated by material nature, he must follow
the movements of the intelligence, which brings various
conditions of happiness and distress. If one performs fruitive
activities under such conditions, what will be the benefit?

PURPORT

Polluted intelligence has been compared to a prostitute. One who has
not purified his intelligence is said to be controlled by that prostitute. As
stated in Bhagavad-gita (2.41), vyavasdéyatmika buddhir ekeha kuru-
nandana: those who are actually serious are conducted by one kind of
intelligence, namely, intelligence in Krsna consciousness. Bahu-sakha
hy anantas ca buddhayo ’vyavasdyinam: one who is not fixed in proper
intelligence discovers many modes of life. Thus involved in material
activities, he is exposed to the different modes of material nature and
subjected to varieties of so-called happiness and distress. If a man
becomes the husband of a prostitute, he cannot be happy, and similarly
one who follows the dictations of material intelligence and material
consciousness will never be happy.

One must judiciously understand the activities of material nature. As
stated in Bhagavad-gita (3.27):

prakrteh kriyamanani
gunaih karmaéni sarvasah
