एकदासत्प्रसङ्गान्निकृतमतिर्व्युदकस्रोत:स्खलनवद् उभयतोऽपि दु:खदं पाखण्डमभियाति ॥ १३ ॥
ekadasat-prasangan nikrta-matir vyudaka-srotah-skhalanavad ubhayato ’pi duhkhadam pakhandam abhiyati.
- ekada
- sometimes
- asat-prasangat
- by association of nondevotees who are against the Vedic principles and who manufacture different paths of religion
- nikrta-matih
- whose intelligence has been brought to the abominable status of defying the authority of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- vyudaka-srotah
- into rivers without sufficient water
- skhalana-vat
- like jumping
- ubhayatah
- from both sides
- api
- although
- duhkha-dam
- giving distress
- pakhandam
- the atheistic path
- abhiyati
- he approaches
Sometimes, to mitigate distresses in this forest of the material world, the conditioned soul receives cheap blessings from atheists. He then loses all intelligence in their association. This is exactly like jumping in a shallow river. As a result one simply breaks his head. He is not able to mitigate his sufferings from the heat, and in both ways he suffers. The misguided conditioned soul also approaches so-called sadhus and svamis who preach against the principles of the Vedas. He does not receive benefit from them, either in the present or in the future.