SB 1.14.10 (1965)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 10
Patya utpatan narabyaghra dibyan bhouman sadaihikan Darunan samsate adurat bhayam no buddhi mohanam.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Pasya—just see, Utpatatan—disturbances, Narabyaghra—oh the strongman like a tiger, Dibyan—happenings in the sky or by Planetary influence, Bhouman—happenings on the earth, Sadaihikan—happenings of the body and the mind, Duruhan—awfully dangerous, Samsate—indicating, Adurat—in the near future, Bhayam—danger, No—our, Buddhi—intelligence, Mohanam—deluding.
TRANSLATION
Just see oh the strongest man like a tiger, how much miseries of life due to celestial influence, earthly reaction and bodily pains all awfully dangerous are indicating dangers in the near future by deluding our intelligence.
PURPORT
Material advancement of civilization means advancement of the reactions of the threefold miseries due to celestial influence, earthly reactions and bodily or mental pains. By celestial influence of the stars there are many calamities like excessive heat, cold, rains or no rains, and the after effects are famine scarcity of foodstuff, diseases, epidemics and the aggregate result is agony of the body and the mind. Man made material science cannot do anything in the matter of counteracting all these threefold miseries. They are all punishments from the superior energy of Maya under the direction of the Supreme Lord. Therefore our constant touch with the Lord by devotional service can give us relief without being disturbed in the matter of discharging our humanly duties. The Ashuras however do not believe in the existence of God and they make their own plans to counteract all these threefold miseries meeting with failures in every time. The Bhagwat Geeta clearly directs that the reaction of material energy is never to be conquered because of the binding of the three modes. They can simply be overcome by one who surrenders fully in devotion under the lotus feet of the Lord. (B.G. 7/14)