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considered a success, even though he again dies while suffering the
threefold miseries—adhyatmika, adhidaivika and adhibhautika. No one
can escape the threefold miseries of materialistic life, namely miseries
pertaining to the body and mind, miseries pertaining to the difficulties
imposed by society, community, nation and other living entities, and
miseries inflicted upon us by natural disturbances from earthquakes,
famines, droughts, floods, epidemics, and so on. If one works very hard,
suffering the threefold miseries, and then is successful in getting some
small benefit, what is the value of this benefit? Besides that, even if a
karmi is successful in accumulating some material wealth, he still cannot
enjoy it, for he must die in bereavement. I have even seen a dying man
begging a medical attendant to increase his life by four years so that he
could complete his material plans. Of course, the medical man was un-
successful in expanding the life of the man, who therefore died in great
bereavement. Everyone must die in this way, and after one’s mental con-
dition is taken into account by the laws of material nature, he is given
another chance to fulfill his desires in a different body. Material plans for
material happiness have no value, but under the spell of the illusory en-
ergy we consider them extremely valuable. There were many politicians,
social reformers and philosophers who died very miserably, without
deriving any practical value from their material plans. Therefore, a sane
and sensible man never desires to work hard under the conditions of
threefold miseries, only to die in disappointment.

TEXT 32
reat frat wa Soap |
ances aaashifaeary |3RII
pasyami dhaninam klesam
lubdhandm ajitatmanam
bhaydad alabdha-nidréanam

sarvato "bhivisankinadm

pasyadmi—I can practically see; dhanindm—of persons who are very
rich; klesam—the miseries; lubdhandm—who are extremely greedy;
ajita-dtmandm—who are victims of their senses; bhaydt—because of
