यद्यधर्मरत: सङ्गादसतां वाजितेन्द्रिय: । कामात्मा कृपणो लुब्ध: स्त्रैणो भूतविहिंसक: ॥ २७ ॥ पशूनविधिनालभ्य प्रेतभूतगणान् यजन् । नरकानवशो जन्तुर्गत्वा यात्युल्बणं तम: ॥ २८ ॥ कर्माणि दु:खोदर्काणि कुर्वन् देहेन तै: पुन: । देहमाभजते तत्र किं सुखं मर्त्यधर्मिण: ॥ २९ ॥
yady adharma-rataḥ saṅgād asatāṁ vājitendriyaḥ kāmātmā kṛpaṇo lubdhaḥ straiṇo bhūta-vihiṁsakaḥ paśūn avidhinālabhya preta-bhūta-gaṇān yajan narakān avaśo jantur gatvā yāty ulbaṇaṁ tamaḥ karmāṇi duḥkhodarkāṇi kurvan dehena taiḥ punaḥ deham ābhajate tatra kiṁ sukhaṁ martya-dharmiṇaḥ
- yadi
- if
- adharma
- in irreligion
- rataḥ
- he is engaged
- saṅgāt
- due to association
- asatām
- of materialistic people
- vā
- or
- ajita
- due to not conquering
- indriyaḥ
- the senses
- kāma
- material lusty desires
- ātmā
- living for
- kṛpaṇaḥ
- miserly
- lubdhaḥ
- greedy
- straiṇaḥ
- a woman-hunter
- bhūta
- against other living beings
- vihiṁsakaḥ
- committing violence
- paśūn
- animals
- avidhinā
- without the authority of Vedic injunctions
- ālabhya
- killing
- preta-bhūta
- ghosts and spirits
- gaṇān
- the groups of
- yajan
- worshiping
- narakān
- to hells
- avaśaḥ
- helplessly, being under the control of fruitive activities
- jantuḥ
- a living being
- gatvā
- having gone
- yāti
- approaches
- ulbaṇam
- extreme
- tamaḥ
- darkness
- karmāṇi
- activities
- duḥkha
- great unhappiness
- udarkāṇi
- bringing in the future
- kurvan
- performing
- dehena
- with such a body
- taiḥ
- by such activities
- punaḥ
- again
- deham
- a material body
- ābhajate
- accepts
- tatra
- therein
- kim
- what
- sukham
- happiness
- martya
- always leading to death
- dharmiṇaḥ
- of one sworn to activities
If a human being is engaged in sinful, irreligious activities, either because of bad association or because of his failure to control his senses, then such a person will certainly develop a personality full of material desires. He thus becomes miserly toward others, greedy and always anxious to exploit the bodies of women. When the mind is so polluted one becomes violent and aggressive and without the authority of Vedic injunctions slaughters innocent animals for sense gratification. Worshiping ghosts and spirits, the bewildered person falls fully into the grip of unauthorized activities and thus goes to hell, where he receives a material body infected by the darkest modes of nature. In such a degraded body, he unfortunately continues to perform inauspicious activities that greatly increase his future unhappiness, and therefore he again accepts a similar material body. What possible happiness can there be for one who engages in activities inevitably terminating in death?