duṣpūreṇānalena
ca
SYNONYMS
āvṛtam
— covered; jñānam
— pure
consciousness; etena
— by this; jñāninaḥ
— of the knower; nitya-vairiṇā
— by the eternal enemy; kāma-rūpeṇa — in the form of lust; kaunteya
— O
son of Kuntī;
duṣpūreṇa
— never to
be satisfied; analena
— by the fire; ca
— also.
TRANSLATION
Thus
the wise living entity's pure consciousness becomes covered by his eternal
enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and which burns like fire.
PURPORT
It
is said in the Manu-smṛti
that lust cannot be satisfied by any amount of sense enjoyment, just as fire is
never extinguished by a constant supply of fuel. In the material world, the
center of all activities is sex, and thus this material world is called maithunya-āgāra,
or the shackles of sex life. In the ordinary prison house, criminals are kept
within bars; similarly, the criminals who are disobedient to the laws of the
Lord are shackled by sex life. Advancement of material civilization on the
basis of sense gratification means increasing the duration of the material
existence of a living entity. Therefore, this lust is the symbol of ignorance
by which the living entity is kept within the material world. While one enjoys
sense gratification, it may be that there is some feeling of happiness, but
actually that so-called feeling of happiness is the ultimate enemy of the sense
enjoyer.
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