Text 33]
Creation of the Kumāras and Others
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TEXT 33
स इत्थं गृणतः पुत्रान् पुरो दृष्ट्वा प्रजापतीन् । 
  प्रजापतिपतिस्तन्वं तत्याज व्रीडितस्तदा । 
  तां दिशो जगृष्टुर्घोरां नीहारं यद्विदुस्तमः ॥३३॥
sa ittham gṛṇataḥ putrān 
  puro dṛṣṭvā prajā-patīn 
  prajāpati-patis tanvam 
  tatyāja vrīḍitas tadā 
  tām diśo jagṛhur ghorām 
  nīhāram yad vidus tamaḥ
saḥ—he (Brahmā); ittham—thus; gṛṇataḥ—speaking; putrān—sons; puraḥ—before; dṛṣṭvā—seeing; prajā-patīn—all the progenitors of living entities; prajāpati-patiḥ—the father of all of them (Brahmā); tanvam—body; tatyāja—quit; vrīḍitaḥ—ashamed; tadā—at that time; tām—that body; diśaḥ—all directions; jagṛhuḥ—accepted; ghorām—blamable; nīhāram—fog; yat—which; viduḥ—they know as; tamaḥ—darkness.
TRANSLATION
The father of all Prajāpatis, Brahmā, thus seeing all his Prajāpati sons speaking in that way, became very much ashamed and at once gave up the body which he had accepted. Later that body appeared in all directions as the dangerous fog in darkness.
PURPORT
The best way to compensate for one's sinful acts is to give up one's body at once, and Brahmā, the leader of the living entities, showed this by his personal example. Brahmā has a fabulous duration of life, but he was obliged to give up his body due to his grievous sin, even though he had merely contemplated it in his mind without having actually done it.
This is a lesson for the living entities how sinful an act it is to indulge in unrestricted sex life. Even to think of abominable sex life is sinful, and to compensate for such sinful acts, one has to give up his body. In other words, one's duration of life, blessings, opulence, etc., are decreased by sinful acts, and the most dangerous type of sinful act is unrestricted sex.
Ignorance is the cause of sinful life, or sinful life is the cause of gross ignorance. The feature of ignorance is darkness or fog. Darkness or fog