72 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 15

should be perfectly aware that these things will never be able to give him
happiness. One must be situated in his spiritual identity and eternally
serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead as a devotee. Angira Rsi and
Narada Muni gave this instruction to Maharaja Citraketu.

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BAMTATA AATHAT AAAISATY [12

drsyaman4 vinarthena
na drsyante manobhavah
karmabhir dhyayato nana-
karmaémi manaso ’bhavan

drsyamanah—being perceived; vind—without; arthena—substance
or reality; na—not; drsyante—are seen; manobhavah—creations of
mental concoction; karmabhih—by fruitive activities; dhydyatah—
meditating upon; ndnd—various; karmani—fruitive activities;
manasah—from the mind; abhavan—appear.

TRANSLATION

These visible objects like wife, children and property are like
dreams and mental concoctions. Actually what we see has no per-
manent existence. It is sometimes seen and sometimes not. Only
because of our past actions do we create such mental concoctions,
and because of these concoctions, we perform further activities.

PURPORT

Everything material is a mental concoction because it is sometimes
visible and sometimes not. At night when we dream of tigers and snakes,
they are not actually present, but we are afraid because we are affected
by what we envision in our dreams. Everything material is like a dream
because it actually has no permanent existence.

Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura writes as follows in his commen-
tary: arthena vydghra-sarpadin4 vinaiva drsyamanah svapnadi-bharge
sati na drsyante tad evam daradayo ’vastava-vastu-bhiitah svapnadayo
