Three Types Of Miserable Condition - Prabhupada 0280

690413 - Lecture SB 11.03.21 and Initiations - New York

Anyone who has accepted this material body has to undergo the miserable condition of material existence. That is a fact.

And what are the miserable condition? There are three types: adhyātmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika. Adhyātmika means pertaining to the body, mind. Everyone is experienced that, "I'm not feeling today well due to some sickness of my body or some mental disturbance." This is called adhyātmika. And there are other miseries, inflicted by other living entities: my enemies, some animal, some mosquito or some bug.

There are so many living entities, they are also trying to give me some trouble. This is called adhibhautika. And there is another type of misery, which is called adhidaivika. That is natural disturbance—severe cold, severe heat, some famine, some earthquake, some disaster, some hurricanes. There are so many things, natural disturbance.