Persons blind to the soul waste their brief lives protecting temporary relationships that death inevitably destroys.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.4 — November 7, 1973, Delhi 731107SB-DELHI [44:40 Minutes] SB-02.01.04_731107SB-DELHI Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] dehāpatya-kalatrādiṣv ātma-sainyeṣv asatsv api teṣāṁ pramatto nidhanaṁ paśyann api na paśyati [SB 2.1.4] [break]
Prabhupāda: Hmm. Anyone else? [break] Yes. Word meaning.
Pradyumna: deha—body; apatya—children; kalatra—wife; ādiṣu—and in everything in relation to them; ātma—own; sainyeṣu—fighting soldiers; asatsu—fallible; api—in spite of; teṣām—of all of them; pramattaḥ—too attached; nidhanam—destruction; paśyan—having been experienced; api—although; na—does not; paśyati—see it. [03:30] Translation: "Persons devoid of ātma-tattva do not inquire into the problems of life, being too attached to the fallible soldiers like the body, children, wife, etc. Although sufficiently experienced, still, they do not see their inevitable destruction." Prabhupāda: Yes. The same word is being continued, apaśyatām ātma-tattvam [SB 2.1.2], "Those who are blind about ātma-tattva, the science, the spiritual science, the knowledge of spirit soul." So these persons, those who are blind, those who are accepting this body as the self like cats and dogs, their description is given here again that deha...
They are bodily, beginning from bodily cons..., "I am this body." "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am this," "I am that." Deha, and then apatya, children, and kalatra, wife. First of all, one deha, one body. Just like this child. His only one conception, "Yes, I am everything, this body." Gradually, when one grows, becomes youthful, there is sex desire.
Therefore finding out the opposite sex, kalatra, wife, or girlfriend or boyfriend. So kalatra ādi, making the center kalatra, then ātma-sainyeṣu, we increase our attraction to this material world. This whole material world is based on sex desire. Puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etam [SB 5.5.8]. Everywhere, either in cat society, dog society, human society, bird society, beast society, anywhere you go, even aquatics, fish, insects, flies, ants—everywhere you will find this attraction, sex attraction.
This is the ādi-rasa. Everyone is trying to get some taste. So this is the beginning of taste. So we have got attraction, natural attraction.
Puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam. This material world is simply attraction of this sex life. So when they are actually unite in different ways... But they must unite. Either in a legal way or illegal way, they must unite, because attraction is there.