jagata kī bad̤ī anokhī bāta

English meaning

The ways of the worldly people are really very strange. Although these people constantly go through terrible pain and suffering on account of their filthy sensual desires, yet they are never satiated with them. They do not take shelter in the feet of the saints, but they feel no shame at all in lying at the feet of the fallen women (prostitutes). In the absence of or separation from their son, wife, property, etc., all worldly people start saying that this world is only an illusion but it should be borne in mind that this detachment is not actually from the worldly objects themselves but just from their absence. Because as soon as these so-called detached persons get those things back, they become absolutely attached to them again. Often it results from the lack of association with genuine saints. Due to selfishness, these worldly people start quarrelling just for a few coins, with the very same person whom they used to call dearer than their own life. Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “To me the ways of the above mentioned worldly people appear to be as strange and beyond comprehension as are the divine līlās of God.”

Complete whole-pad meaning transcribed from the supplied English edition. The source provides no separate line-by-line or word-by-word meaning.

Prem Ras Madira (English), Part 1 · PDF page 98 · printed page 43.

Meanings: Smt. Padmā Devī. English translation and transliteration: Sushrī Braj Parikarī Devī. Source details.