BHAGAVAD-GITA 16:10

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 16:10

 

kamam asritya duspuram

dambha-mana-madanvitah

mohad grhitvasad-grahan

pravartante 'suci-vratah

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

kamam--lust; asritya--taking shelter of; duspuram--insatiable;

dambha--of pride; mana--and false prestige; mada-anvitah--absorbed in

the conceit; mohat--by illusion; grhitva--taking; asat--nonpermanent;

grahan--things; pravartante--they flourish; asuci--to the unclean;

vratah--avowed.

 

TRANSLATION

 

Taking shelter of insatiable lust and absorbed in the conceit of pride

and false prestige, the demoniac, thus illusioned, are always sworn to

unclean work, attracted by the impermanent.

 

PURPORT

 

The demoniac mentality is described here. The demons have no satiation

for their lust. They will go on increasing and increasing their

insatiable desires for material enjoyment. Although they are always

full of anxieties on account of accepting nonpermanent things, they

still continue to engage in such activities out of illusion. They have

no knowledge and cannot tell that they are heading the wrong way.

Accepting nonpermanent things, such demoniac people create their own

God, create their own hymns and chant accordingly. The result is that

they become more and more attracted to two things--sex enjoyment and

accumulation of material wealth. The word asuci-vratah, "unclean

vows," is very significant in this connection. Such demoniac people

are only attracted by wine, women, gambling and meat-eating; those are

their asuci, unclean habits. Induced by pride and false prestige, they

create some principles of religion which are not approved by the Vedic

injunctions. Although such demoniac people are most abominable in the

world, by artificial means the world creates a false honor for them.

Although they are gliding toward hell, they consider themselves very

much advanced.

 

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