- sarvatra tāpa-traya-duḥkhitātmā
- nirvidyate na sva-kuṭumba-rāmaḥ
- (SB 7.6.14)
Actually, they are experiencing every step miserable. It is not that by improving economic condition of life one has become very peaceful. Otherwise why there is war? Why there is struggle? This is . . . these things cannot be stopped. However you may improve materially, however you may improve your economic condition, the disturbance of the world, at least birth, death, disease and old age, cannot be checked.
So if we do not understand these things very seriously and simply engage ourself in these material activities, although we are experiencing sarvatra tāpa-traya-duḥkhitātmā . . . Tāpa-traya means three kinds of miseries: miseries inflicted by other persons or other living entities . . . that is, we have practical experience. We create so many friends also, so many enemies also.
We do not go into the jungle, because we know there are jungle animals who may attack us. So . . . even at home there are bugs, there are mosquitoes; they also give us trouble. So there is a kind of trouble or misery inflicted by other living entities. That is called adhibhautika. Three kinds of miseries. Miseries offered by other living entities.
We also offer, I mean to say, miseries to the other animals. Just like we have created our slaughterhouse. We send so many cows and animals for being slaughtered. Similarly, we are also attacked by other animals. So this is the law of nature. I am killing you, you are killing me. This is called adhibhautika. This is one class of misery.
The other class of misery is due to this body and mind. Sometimes the body is sick; we don't feel very nice. Sometimes the mind is disturbed. That is also . . . it may be due to other friend or other relative; so mind is not in order. So this is called adhyātmika. So adhibhautika, adhyātmika. And another disturbance created by adhidaivaika. Daiva means on which we have no control, just like earthquake, flood, or similarly nature's disturbance, on which we have no control.