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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 2]
TEXT 7
कस्तां त्वनादृत्य परानुचिन्ता- मृते पशूनसतीं नाम कुर्यात् । पश्यञ्जनं पतितं वैतरण्यां स्वकर्मजान् परितापाञ्जुषाणम् ॥ ७ ॥
kas tām tv anādṛtya parānucintām ṛte paśūn asatīn nāma kuryāt paśyañ janam patitam vaitaraṇyām sva-karma-jān paritāpāñ juṣāṇam
kaḥ—who else; tām—that; tu—out; anādṛtya—by neglecting; parānu- cintām—transcendental thoughts; ṛte—without; paśūn—the materialists; asatīm—in the nonpermanent; nāma—name; kuryāt—will adopt; paśyan— seeing definitely; janam—the general mass of people; patitam—fallen; vaitaraṇyām—in Vaitaraṇī, the river of suffering; sva-karma-jān—produced from one's own work; paritāpān—suffering; juṣāṇam—being overtaken by.
TRANSLATION
Who else but the gross materialists will neglect such transcendental thought and take to the nonpermanent names only, seeing the mass of people fallen in the river of suffering as the consequence of accruing the result of their own work?
PURPORT
In the  Vedas  it is said that persons who are attached to demigods to the exclusion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are like the animals who follow the herdsman even though they are taken to the slaughterhouse. The materialists, like animals, also do not know how they are being mis- directed by neglecting the transcendental thought of the Supreme Person. No one can remain vacant of thought. It is said that an idle brain is a devil's workshop because a person who cannot think in the right way must think of something which may bring about disaster. The materialists are always worshiping some minor demigods, although this is condemned in the  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 7.20). As long as a person is illusioned by material