They believe that to gratify the senses unto the end of life is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus there is no end to their anxiety. Being bound by hundreds and thousands of desires, by lust and anger, they secure money by illegal means for sense gratification.
The demoniac person thinks: "So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine how, and it will increase in the future, more and more. He is my enemy, and I have killed him; and my other enemy will alsp be killed. I am the lord of everything. I am the enjoyer. I am perfect, powerful and happy. I am the richest man surrounded by aristocratic relatives. There is none so powerful and happy as I am. I shall perform sacrifices, I shall give some charity, and thus I shall rejoice. Thinking like this, such person is deluded by ignorance.
Thus perplexed by various anxieties and caught in a network of illusions, one becomes too strongly attached to a sense enjoyment and falls down into hell.
Self-complacent and always impudent, deluded by wealth and false prestige, they some-times perform sacrifices in name only without following any rules or regulations.
Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demon becomes envious of the supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in his own body and in the bodies of others, and acts against the real religion.
Those who are nvious and mischievous, who are the lowest among men, are cast by me into the ocean of material existence, into various demoniac species of life.
Attaining repeated birth amongst the species of demoniac life, such persons can never approach me. Gradually they sink down to the most abominable type of existence.
There are three gates leading to this hell-lust anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul.
The man who has escaped these three gates of hell, O son of Kunti, performs acts conducive to self-realization and thus gradually attains the supreme destination.
But he who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his own whims attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme destination.
One should understand what is duty and what is not duty by the regulations of the scriptures. Knowing such rules and regulations, one should act so that he may gradually be elevated. | |