Chapter 14
एवमध्वन्यवरुन्धानो मृत्युगजभयात्तमसि गिरिकन्दरप्राये ॥ ३३ ॥
Transliteration
evam adhvany avarundhāno mṛtyu-gaja-bhayāt tamasi giri-kandara-prāye.
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
evam — in this way; adhvani — on the path of sense gratification; avarundhānaḥ — being confined, he forgets the real purpose of life; mṛtyu-gaja-bhayāt — out of fear of the elephant of death; tamasi — in the darkness; giri-kandara-prāye — similar to the dark caves in the mountains.
Translation
“In this material world, when the conditioned soul forgets his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and does not care for Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he simply engages in different types of mischievous and sinful activities. He is then subjected to the threefold miseries, and, out of fear of the elephant of death, he falls into the darkness found in a mountain cave.”