Devanagari
सन्दह्यमानसर्वाङ्ग एषामुद्वहनाधिना ।
करोत्यविरतं मूढो दुरितानि दुराशय: ॥ ७ ॥
Verse text
sandahyamāna-sarvāṅga
eṣām udvahanādhinā
karoty avirataṁ mūḍho
duritāni durāśayaḥ
Synonyms
sandahyamāna
—
burning
;
sarva
—
all
;
aṅgaḥ
—
his limbs
;
eṣām
—
these family members
;
udvahana
—
for maintaining
;
ādhinā
—
with anxiety
;
karoti
—
he performs
;
aviratam
—
always
;
mūḍhaḥ
—
the fool
;
duritāni
—
sinful activities
;
durāśayaḥ
—
evil-minded .
Translation
Although he is always burning with anxiety, such a fool always performs all kinds of mischievous activities, with a hope which is never to be fulfilled, in order to maintain his so-called family and society.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Burning in all his limbs, the fool, with sinful mind, performs sinful acts because of anxiety to maintain his family.
Udvahanādhinā means “with worries about protecting, feeding, showing affection, marrying off his family members.”
Purport
It is said that it is easier to maintain a great empire than to maintain a small family, especially in these days, when the influence of Kali-yuga is so strong that everyone is harassed and full of anxieties because of accepting the false presentation of
māyā’s
family. The family we maintain is created by
māyā;
it is the perverted reflection of the family in Kṛṣṇaloka. In Kṛṣṇaloka there are also family, friends, society, father and mother; everything is there, but they are eternal. Here, as we change bodies, our family relationships also change. Sometimes we are in a family of human beings, sometimes in a family of demigods, sometimes a family of cats, or sometimes a family of dogs. Family, society and friendship are flickering, and so they are called
asat.
It is said that as long as we are attached to this
asat,
temporary, nonexisting society and family, we are always full of anxieties. The materialists do not know that the family, society and friendship here in this material world are only shadows, and thus they become attached. Naturally their hearts are always burning, but in spite of all inconvenience, they still work to maintain such false families because they have no information of the real family association with Kṛṣṇa.