Continual process of birth and death (Explained by Lord Kapila):
A person in material consciousness cannot understand how he is being carried by the powerful time factor. Whatever such a materialist produces with great pain and labor, for the purpose of achieving so-called happiness, is destroyed by the supreme Lord as the time factor, and thus he laments.
He foolishly takes his body and bodily relations to be permanent, and whatever species he appears in, he becomes satisfied with that condition and thus is unwilling to give up his body, even when in hell. Such satisfaction with one's standard of life is due to a deep-rooted attraction for the body. Although burning with anxiety, such a fool performs mischievious acts to maintain his family, while keeping within his heart a hope that is never to be fulfilled.
(To be continued...)
Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3
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