Merchants sometimes enter the
forest to collect many rare things and sell them at a good profit in the city,
but the forest path is always bedecked with dangers. When the pure soul wants
to give up the Lord’s service to enjoy the material world, Krishna certainly
gives him a chance to enter the material world. As stated in the premavivarta:
Krishna-bahirmukhee haan bhog vaacha kare. This is the reason the pure spirit
soul falls down to the material world. Due to his activities under the
influence of the three modes of material nature, the living entity takes
different positions in different species. Sometimes he is a demigod in the
heavenly planets and sometimes a most insignificant creature in the lower planetary
systems. In this regard, Srila Narottama dasa Thakura says, nana yoni Sada
phire: the living entity passes through various species. kaaradary bhakshan
kare:
: he is obliged to eat and enjoy abominable things. Tara Janma Adha-Pateyya: in
this way his whole life is spoiled. Without the protection of an all-merciful
Vaisnava, the conditioned soul cannot get out of the clutches of Maya. As
stated in Bhagavad-gita (manah sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati), the
living entity begins material life with his mind and the five
knowledge-acquiring senses, and with these, he struggles for existence within
the material world. These senses are compared to rogues and thieves within the
forest. They take away a man’s knowledge and place him in a network of nescience.
Thus the senses are like rogues
and thieves that plunder his spiritual knowledge. Over and above this, there
are family members, wife, and children, who are exactly like ferocious animals
in the forest. The business of such ferocious animals is to eat a man’s flesh.
The living entity allows himself to be attacked by jackals and foxes (wife and
children), and thus his real spiritual life is finished. In the forest of
material life, everyone is envious like mosquitoes, and rats and mice are
always creating disturbances. Everyone in this material world is placed in many
awkward positions and surrounded by envious people and disturbing animals. The
result is that the living entity in the material world is always plundered and
bitten by many living entities. Nonetheless, despite these disturbances, he
does not want to give up his family life, and he continues his fruitive
activities in an attempt to become happy in the future. He thus becomes more
and more entangled in the results of karma, and thus he is forced to act
impiously. His witnesses are the sun during the day and the moon during the
night. The demigods also witness, but the conditioned soul thinks that his
attempts at sense gratification are not being witnessed by anyone. Sometimes,
when he is detected, he temporarily renounces everything, but due to his great
attachment for the body, his renunciation is given up before he can attain
perfection. In this material world, there are many envious people. There is the
tax-exacting government, which is compared to an owl, and there are invisible
crickets that create unbearable sounds. The conditioned soul is certainly
greatly harassed by the agents of material nature, but his intelligence is lost
due to an undesirable association. In an attempt to gain relief from the
disturbances of material existence, he falls victim to so-called yogis, sadhus,
and incarnations who can display some magic but who do not understand
devotional service. Sometimes the conditioned soul is bereft of all money, and
consequently, he becomes unkind to his family members. In this material world,
there is not a pinch of actual happiness, for which the conditioned soul is
longing life after life. The government officials are like carnivorous
Rakshasas who exact heavy taxes for the maintenance of the government. The
hard-working conditioned soul is very saddened due to these heavy taxes.
The path of fruitive activities
leads to difficult mountains, and sometimes the conditioned soul wants to cross
these mountains, but he is never successful, and consequently, he becomes more
and more aggrieved and disappointed. Becoming materially and financially
embarrassed, the conditioned soul unnecessarily chastises his family. In the
material condition, there are four principal needs, out of which sleep is
compared to a python. When asleep, the conditioned soul completely forgets his
real existence, and in sleep, he does not feel the tribulations of material
life. Sometimes, being in need of money, the conditioned soul steals and
cheats, although he may apparently be associated with devotees for spiritual
advancement. His only business is getting out of the clutches of Maya, but due
to improper guidance, he becomes more and more entangled in material dealings.
This material world is simply an embarrassment and is composed of tribulations
presented as happiness, distress, attachment, enmity, and envy. On the whole,
it is simply full of tribulation and misery. When a person loses his
intelligence due to attachment to wife and sex, his entire consciousness
becomes polluted. He thus only thinks of the association of women. The time
factor, which is like a serpent, takes away everyone’s life, including that of
Lord Brahma and the insignificant ant. Sometimes the conditioned soul tries to
save himself from inexorable time and thus takes shelter of some bogus savior.
Unfortunately, the bogus savior cannot even save himself. How, then can he
protect others? The bogus saviors do not care for bona fide knowledge received
from qualified brahmanas and Vedic sources. Their only business is indulging in
sex and recommending sexual freedom even for widows. Thus they are like monkeys
in the forest. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami thus explains the material forest and its
difficult path to Maharaja Pariksit.
SMB 5.14. introduction
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