Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.14.15
క్వచిదాసాద్య గృహం దావవత్ప్రియార్థవిధురమసుఖోదర్కం శోకాగ్నినా దహ్యమానో భృశం నిర్వేదముపగచ్ఛతి ॥ ౧౫ ॥
kvacid āsādya gṛhaṁ dāvavat priyārtha-vidhuram asukhodarkaṁ śokāgninā dahyamāno bhṛśaṁ nirvedam upagacchati.
[kvachid aasaadya griham daavavat priyaartha-vidhuram asukhodarkam shokaagninaa dahyamaano bhrisham nirvedam upagachchati.]
Word-for-word
kvacit
—
sometimes
āsādya
—
experiencing
gṛham
—
the home life
dāva-vat
—
exactly like a blazing fire in the forest
priya-artha-vidhuram
—
without any beneficial object
asukha-udarkam
—
resulting only in more and more unhappiness
śoka-agninā
—
by the fire of lamentation
dahyamānaḥ
—
being burned
bhṛśam
—
very great
nirvedam
—
disappointment
upagacchati
—
he obtains.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
kvacid āsādya gṛhaṁ dāvavat priyārtha-vidhuram asukhodarkaṁ śokāgninā dahyamāno bhṛśaṁ nirvedam upagacchati.
kvacit
sometimes
āsādya
experiencing
gṛham
the home life
dāva-vat
exactly like a blazing fire in the forest
priya-artha-vidhuram
without any beneficial object
asukha-udarkam
resulting only in more and more unhappiness
śoka-agninā
by the fire of lamentation
dahyamānaḥ
being burned
bhṛśam
very great
nirvedam
disappointment
upagacchati
he obtains.
In this world, family life is exactly like a blazing fire in the forest. There is not the least happiness, and gradually one becomes more and more implicated in unhappiness. In household life, there is nothing favorable for perpetual happiness. Being implicated in home life, the conditioned soul is burned by the fire of lamentation. Sometimes he condemns himself as being very unfortunate, and sometimes he claims that he suffers because he performed no pious activities in his previous life.
Purport
In the Gurv-aṣṭaka, Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura has sung:
saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka- trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam
A life in this material world is exactly like a blazing forest fire. No one goes to set fire to the forest, yet the fire takes place. Similarly, everyone wants to be happy in the material world, but the miserable conditions of material life simply increase. Sometimes a person caught in the blazing fire of material existence condemns himself, but due to his bodily conception he cannot get out of the entanglement, and thus he suffers more and more.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
Sometimes he enters the house which is like a forest fire, devoid of pleasing objects and ending in suffering, and burned by the fire of lamentation, becomes greatly depressed.
This verse explains the forest fire. (SB 5.13.6)
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