Text 29] The Behavior of a Perfect Person 115
TRANSLATION

In this way the conditioned soul living within the body forgets
his self-interest because he identifies himself with the body. Be-
cause the body is material, his natural tendency is to be attracted
by the varieties of the material world. Thus the living entity
suffers the miseries of material existence.

PURPORT

Everyone is trying to be happy because, as explained in the previous
verse, sukham asydtmano riipam sarvehoparatis tanuh: when the living
entity is in his original spiritual form, he is happy by nature. There is no
question of miseries for the spiritual being. As Krsna is always happy,
the living entities, who are His parts and parcels, are also happy by
nature, but because of being put within this material world and forget-
ting their eternal relationship with Krsna, they have forgotten their real
nature. Because every one of us is a part of Krsna, we have a very affec-
tionate relationship with Him, but because we have forgotten our iden-
tities and are considering the body to be the self, we are afflicted by all
the troubles of birth, death, old age and disease. This misconception in
materialistic life continues unless and until one comes to understand his
relationship with Krsna. The happiness sought by the conditioned soul is
certainly only illusion, as explained in the next verse.

TEXT 29
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MTMTTNA TUAAVITE AT 1122 I
jalam tad-udbhavais channam
hitvajrio jala-kamyaya
mrgatrsnam upadhavet
tathanyatrartha-drk svatah

jalam—water; tat-udbhavaih—by grass grown from that water;
channam—covered; hitva—giving up; ajiah—a foolish animal; jala-
kamyayad—desiring to drink water; mrgatrsnadm—a_ mirage;
