Text 41] Narada Muni Cursed by Prajapati Daksa 313

nanubhiiya na janati

puman visaya-tiksnatam
nirvidyate svayam tasman

na tatha bhinna-dhih paraih

na—not; anubhiiya—experiencing; na—not; jaéndati—knows;
pumdn—a person; visaya-tiksnatam—the sharpness of material
enjoyment; nirvidyate—becomes aloof; svayam—himself; tasmat—
from that; na tathd—not like that; bhinna-dhih—whose intelligence is
changed; paraih—by others.

TRANSLATION

Material enjoyment is indeed the cause of all unhappiness, but
one cannot give it up unless one has personally experienced how
much suffering it is. Therefore one should be allowed to remain in
so-called material enjoyment while simultaneously advancing in
knowledge to experience the misery of this false material
happiness. Then, without help from others, one will find material
enjoyment detestful. Those whose minds are changed by others do
not become as renounced as those who have personal experience.

PURPORT

It is said that unless a woman becomes pregnant, she cannot under-
stand the trouble of giving birth to a child. Bandhya ki bujhibe prasava-
vedana. The word bandhyd means a sterile woman. Such a woman can-
not give birth to a child. How, then, can she perceive the pain of deliv-
ery? According to the philosophy of Prajapati Daksa, a woman should
first become pregnant and then experience the pain of childbirth. Then.
if she is intelligent, she will not want to be pregnant again. Actually.
however, this is not a fact. Sex enjoyment is so strong that a woman be-
comes pregnant and suffers at the time of childbirth, but she becomes
pregnant again, despite her experience. According to Daksa’s philosophy.
one should become implicated in material enjoyment so that after ex-
periencing the distress of such enjoyment, one will automatically
renounce. Material nature, however, is so strong that although a man
suffers at every step, he will not cease his attempts to enjoy (trpyanti
