ब्राह्मण उवाच दुरत्ययेऽध्वन्यजया निवेशितो रजस्तम:सत्त्वविभक्तकर्मदृक् । स एष सार्थोऽर्थपर: परिभ्रमन् भवाटवीं याति न शर्म विन्दति ॥ १ ॥
brahmana uvaca duratyaye ’dhvany ajaya nivesito rajas-tamah-sattva-vibhakta-karmadrk sa esa sartho ’rtha-parah paribhraman bhavatavim yati na sarma vindati
- brahmanah uvaca
- the brahmana Jada Bharata continued to speak
- duratyaye
- which is very difficult to traverse
- adhvani
- on the path of fruitive activities (performing actions in this life, creating a body in the next life by those actions, and in this way continuously accepting birth and death)
- ajaya
- by maya, the external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- nivesitah
- caused to enter
- rajah-tamah-sattva-vibhakta-karma-drk
- a conditioned soul who sees only immediately beneficial fruitive activities and their results, which are divided into three groups by the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance
- sah
- he
- esah
- this
- sa-arthah
- the living entity falsely seeking sense gratification
- artha-parah
- intent upon gaining wealth
- paribhraman
- wandering all over
- bhava-atavim
- the forest known as bhava, which means the repetition of birth and death
- yati
- enters
- na
- not
- sarma
- happiness
- vindati
- obtains
Jada Bharata, who had fully realized Brahman, continued: My dear King Rahugana, the living entity wanders on the path of the material world, which is very difficult for him to traverse, and he accepts repeated birth and death. Being captivated by the material world under the influence of the three modes of material nature (sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna), the living entity can see only the three fruits of activities under the spell of material nature. These fruits are auspicious, inauspicious and mixed. He thus becomes attached to religion, economic development, sense gratification and the monistic theory of liberation (merging with the Supreme). He works very hard day and night exactly like a merchant who enters a forest to acquire some articles to sell later for profit. However, he cannot really achieve happiness within this material world.