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The Divine and Demonic Nature
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१६ एक्ट १६
अनेकचित्तविभ्रान्ता मोहजालसमावृताः । प्रमुक्ताः कामभोगेषु पतन्ति नरकेऽग्रचौ ॥१६॥
aneka-citta-vibhrāntā moha-jāla-samāvṛtāḥ prasaktāḥ kāma-bhogeṣu patanti narake’śucau
aneka —numerous;  citta-vibhrāntāḥ —perplexed by anxieties;  moha —of illusions;  jāla —by a network;  samāvṛtāḥ —surrounded;  prasaktāḥ —attached;  kāma —lust;  bhogeṣu —sense gratification;  patanti —glides down;  narake —into hell;  aśucau —unclean.
TRANSLATION
Thus perplexed by various anxieties and bound by a network of illusions, one becomes too strongly attached to sense enjoyment and falls down into hell.
PURPORT
The demoniac man knows no limit to his desire to acquire money. That is unlimited. He only thinks how much assessment he has just now and schemes to engage that stock of wealth farther and farther. For that reason, he does not hesitate to act in any sinful way and so deals in the black market for illegal gratification. He is enamoured by the possessions he has already, such as land, family, house and bank balance, and he is always planning to improve them. He believes in his own strength, and he does not know that whatever he is gaining is due to his past good deeds. He is given an opportunity to accumulate such things, but he has no conception of past causes. He simply thinks that all his mass of wealth is due to his own endeavor. A demoniac person believes in the strength of his personal work, not in the law of  karma . According to the law of  karma , a man takes his birth in a high family, or becomes rich, or very well educated, or very beautiful because of good work in the past. The demoniac thinks that all these things are accidental and due to the strength of his personal ability. He does not sense any arrangement behind all the varieties of people, beauty, and education. Anyone who comes into competition with such a demoniac man is his enemy. There are many