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TEXT 39 avrtam jnanam etena
SYNONYMS  avrtam--covered;
jnanam--pure
consciousness; etena--by this; jnaninah--of the knower; nitya-vairina--eternal
enemy; kama-rupena--in the form of lust; kaunteya--O son
of Kunti; duspurena--never to be satisfied; analena--by the
fire; ca--also.
TRANSLATION Thus, a man's
pure consciousness is 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-smrti 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-agara, 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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