तत्रगतो दंशमशकसमापसदैर्मनुजै: शलभशकुन्ततस्करमूषकादिभिरुपरुध्यमानबहि:प्राण: क्वचित् परिवर्तमानोऽस्मिन्नध्वन्यविद्याकामकर्मभिरुपरक्तमनसानुपपन्नार्थं नरलोकं गन्धर्वनगरमु पपन्नमिति मिथ्यादृष्टिरनुपश्यति ॥ ५ ॥
tatra gato damsa-masaka-samapasadair manujaih salabha-sakunta-taskara-musakadibhir uparudhyamana-bahih-pranah kvacit parivartamano ’sminn adhvany avidya-kama-karmabhir uparakta-manasanupapannartham nara-lokam gandharva-nagaram upapannam iti mithya-drstir anupasyati.
- tatra
- to that household life
- gatah
- gone
- damsa
- gadflies
- masaka
- mosquitoes
- sama
- equal to
- apasadaih
- who are low-class
- manu-jaih
- by men
- salabha
- locusts
- sakunta
- a large bird of prey
- taskara
- thieves
- musaka-adibhih
- by rats and so on
- uparudhyamana
- being disturbed
- bahih-pranah
- the external life air in the form of wealth and so on
- kvacit
- sometimes
- parivartamanah
- wandering
- asmin
- in this
- adhvani
- path of material existence
- avidya-kama
- by ignorance and lust
- karmabhih
- and by fruitive activities
- uparakta-manasa
- due to the mind’s being influenced
- anupapanna-artham
- in which the desired results are never obtained
- nara-lokam
- this material world
- gandharva-nagaram
- a will-o’-the-wisp city
- upapannam
- existing
- iti
- taking it as
- mithya-drstih
- he whose vision is mistaken
- anupasyati
- observes
Sometimes the conditioned soul in household life, being attached to material wealth and possessions, is disturbed by gadflies and mosquitoes, and sometimes locusts, birds of prey and rats give him trouble. Nonetheless, he still wanders down the path of material existence. Due to ignorance he becomes lusty and engages in fruitive activity. Because his mind is absorbed in these activities, he sees the material world as permanent, although it is temporary like a phantasmagoria, a house in the sky.