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The Glories of Lord Nityananda Balarama

Cc Ādi 5.20
Text
cintāmaṇi-bhūmi, kalpa-vṛkṣa-maya vana
carma-cakṣe dekhe tāre prapañcera sama
Synonyms

cintāmaṇi-bhūmi-the land of touchstone; kalpa-vṛkṣa-maya-full of desire trees; vana-forests; carma-cakṣe-the material eyes; dekhe-see; tāre-it; prapañcera sama-equal to the material creation.

Translation

The land there is touchstone [cintāmaṇi], and the forests abound with desire trees. Material eyes see it as an ordinary place.

Purport

Foolish persons engrossed in their material assets are unnecessarily proud of being leaders of the people, but they ignore the spiritual value of man. Such illusioned leaders make plans covering any number of years, but they can hardly make humanity happy in a state conditioned by the threefold miseries inflicted by material nature. One cannot control the laws of nature by any amount of struggling. One must at last be subject to death, nature's ultimate law. Death, birth, old age and illness are symptoms of the diseased condition of the living being. The highest aim of human life should therefore be to get free from these miseries and go back home, back to Godhead.