Hard struggle for existence

Expressions researched:
"hard struggle for existence" |"hard struggling for existence"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 13 - 18

In the scriptures the Lord says that those attracted by this material nature are undergoing a hard struggle for existence.

BG 13.20, Purport: Actually the living entity is originally the spiritual part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, but due to his rebellious nature, he is conditioned within material nature. It really does not matter how these living entities or superior entities of the Supreme Lord have come in contact with material nature. The Supreme Personality of Godhead knows, however, how and why this actually took place. In the scriptures the Lord says that those attracted by this material nature are undergoing a hard struggle for existence. But we should know it with certainty from the descriptions of these few verses that all transformations and influences of material nature by the three modes are also productions of material nature. All transformations and variety in respect to living entities are due to the body. As far as spirit is concerned, living entities are all the same.