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friend. Better for You to fight and let me sit down and smoke gajijd.”’ No,
that is not Krsna consciousness. A God conscious person does not say,
“God, You please do everything for me and let me smoke gajija.”
Rather, a God conscious person must work for God. But even if one does
not work for the sake of God, one must work, for without work one can-
not even maintain one’s body. This material world, therefore, is meant
for parisrama, hard labor.

Even a lion, although king of the beasts, must still look for its own prey
in the jungle. It is said, na hi suptasya simhasya pravisanti mukhe mrgah. A
lion cannot think, ‘‘Since I am king of the forest, let me sleep, and all the
animals will come into my mouth.”’ That is not possible. ‘‘No, sir. Al-
though you are a lion, you must go search for your food.” Thus even the
lion, although so powerful, must endeavor with great difficulty to find
another animal to eat, and similarly everyone in this material world must
work with great difficulty to continue his life.

Thus pa indicates parisrama, labor, and pha is for phenila, which means
‘foam.’ While working very hard a horse foams at the mouth, and
similarly human beings must also work hard in this way. Such hard labor,
however, is vyartha, futile, and this is what is indicated by the letter ba.
And bha indicates bhaya, fear. Despite working so hard, one is always
somewhat fearful that things will not be done as he desires. The nature of
the body is that it involves eating, sleeping, mating, and fearing (adhdra-
nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca). Although one may eat very nicely, one must
consider whether one is overeating, so that he will not fall sick. Thus
even eating involves fear. A bird, while eating, looks this way and that
way, fearful that some enemy may be coming. And for all living entities,
everything finally ends in death, mrtyu, and this is what is indicated by
the letter ma.

Thus pavarga and its component letters pa, pha, ba, bha, and ma indi-
cate hard labor (parisrama), foam at the mouth (phenila), frustration
(vyartha), fear (bhaya), and death (mrtyu). This is called pavarga, the
path of material tribulation. Apavarga, however, indicates just the op-
posite —the spiritual world, where there is no labor, no foam, no frustra-
tion, no fear, and no death. Thus Krsna is known as anapavarga-virya, for
He shows the path to the spiritual world.

Why should one suffer from these five kinds of tribulation? Because
one has a material body. As soon as one accepts a material body—
whether it is that of a president or acommon man, a demigod or a human
being, an insect or a Brahma—one must go through these tribulations.
This is called material existence. Krsna comes, therefore, to show one
