Text 31] The Behavior of a Perfect Person 119

If he again misses the opportunity, he is again put into the cycle of birth
and death, going sometimes higher and sometimes lower, turning on the
samsdra-cakra, the wheel of material existence. As a wheel sometimes
goes up and sometimes comes down, the stringent laws of material nature
make the living entity in material existence sometimes happy and some-
times distressed. How he suffers in the cycle of happiness and distress is
described in the next verse.

TEXT 31

TTT TET aR aT ATMA BERT |
HAS HoRAIAIA: Bra: Hae Fy 13211

ddhyatmikadibhir duhkhair
avimuktasya karhicit

martyasya krcchropanatair
arthaih kdmaih kriyeta kim

adhyatmika-adibhih—adhyatmika, adhidaivika and adhibhautika;
duhkhaih—by the threefold miseries of material life; avimuktasya —of
one who is not freed from such miserable conditions (or one who is sub-
jected to birth, death, old age and disease); karhicit—sometimes;
martyasya—of the living entity subjected to death; krcchra-
upanataih—things obtained because of severe miseries; arthaih—even
if some benefit is derived; kamaih—which can fulfill one’s material
desires; kriyeta—what do they do; kim—and what is the value of such
happiness.

TRANSLATION

Materialistic activities are always mixed with three kinds of
miserable conditions—adhyatmika, adhidaivika and adhibautika.
Therefore, even if one achieves some success by performing such
activities, what is the benefit of this success? One is still subjected
to birth, death, old age, disease and the reactions of his fruitive ac-
tivities.

PURPORT

According to the materialistic way of life, if a poor man, after laboring

very, very hard, gets some material profit at the end of his life, he is
