Text 6] Narada and Angira Instruct King Citraketu 57

TRANSLATION

O King, both you and us—your advisers, wives and ministers—
as well as everything moving and not moving throughout the en-
tire cosmos at this time, are in a temporary situation. Before our
birth this situation did not exist, and after our death it will exist no
longer. Therefore our situation now is temporary, although it is
not false.

PURPORT

The Mayavadi philosophers say, brahma satyam jagan mithya: Brah-
man, the living being, is factual, but his present bodily situation is false.
According to the Vaisnava philosophy, however, the present situation is
not false but temporary. It is like a dream. A dream does not exist before
one falls asleep, nor does it continue after one awakens. The period for
dreaming exists only between these two, and therefore it is false in the
sense that it is impermanent. Similarly, the entire material creation, in-
cluding our own creation and those of others, is impermanent. We do not
lament for the situation in a dream before the dream takes place or after
it is over, and so during the dream, or during a dreamlike situation, one
should not accept it as factual and lament about it. This is real
knowledge.

TEXT 6
qaqa yam: aaeata ea a
ATTA ATTY «AEA UI & Il

bhitair bhitani bhitesah
srjaty avati hanti ca
atma-srstair asvatantrair

anapekso ’pi balavat

bhitaih—by some living beings; bhitani—other living entities;
bhiita-isah—the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of every-
thing; srjati—creates; avati—maintains; hanti—kills; ca—also; atma-
srstaih—who are created by Him; asvatantraih—not independent;
