वैषम्यमिह भूतानां ममाहमिति पार्थिव ॥२४॥
hiá¹sÄ tad-abhimÄnena
daṇá¸a-pÄruá¹£yayor yathÄ
vaiá¹£amyam iha bhÅ«tÄnÄá¹
mamÄham iti pÄrthiva
hiá¹sÄ - suffering; tat - of this; abhimÄnena - by the false conception; daṇá¸a-pÄruá¹£yayoḥ - when there is punishment and chastisement; yathÄ - just as; vaiá¹£amyam - misconception; iha - here (in this body); bhÅ«tÄnÄm - of the living entities; mama-aham - mine and I; iti - thus; pÄrthiva - O lord of the earth.
My dear King, the conditioned soul, being in the bodily conception of life, considers his body to be his self and considers everything in relationship with the body to be his. Because he has this wrong conception of life, he is subjected to dualities like praise and chastisement.
Only when a conditioned soul accepts the body as himself does he feel the effects of chastisement or praise. Then he determines one person to be his enemy and another his friend and wants to chastise the enemy and welcome the friend. This creation of friends and enemies is a result of one’s bodily conception of life.
