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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 20]
their identity as soul. Almost everyone is thinking that he is this body; he has no information of the spirit soul. Guided by this misconception, one always thinks, “This is my body, and anything in relationship with this body is mine.” For such misguided living entities, sex life is the background of material existence. Actually, the conditioned souls, in ignorance in this material world, are simply guided by sex life, and as soon as they get the opportunity for sex life, they become attached to so-called home, motherland, children, wealth and opulence. As these attachments increase, so  moha , or the illusion of the bodily concept of life, also increases. Thus the idea that “I am this body, and everything belonging to this body is mine” also increases, and as the whole world is put into  moha , sectarian societies, families and nationalities are created, and they fight with one another.  Mahāmoha  means to be mad after material enjoyment. Especially in this age of Kali, everyone is overwhelmed by the madness to accumulate paraphernalia for material enjoyment. These definitions are very nicely given in  Viṣṇu Purāṇa , wherein it is said:
tamo 'viveko mohaḥ syād antaḥ-karaṇa-vibhramaḥ mahā-mohas tu vijñeyo grāmya-bhoga-sukhaiṣaṇā maraṇam hy andha-tāmisram tāmisram krodha ucyate avidyā pañca-parvaiṣā prādurbhūtā mahātmanaḥ
TEXT 19
विससर्जात्मनः कायं नाभिनन्दंस्तमोमयम् । जगद्दुर्यक्षरक्षांसि रात्रिं क्षुत्तृट्समुद्भवाम् ॥१९॥
visasarjātmanaḥ kāyam nābhinandams tamomayam jagrhur yakṣa-rakṣāmsi rātrim kṣut-tṛṭ-samudbhavām
visasarja—threw off; ātmanaḥ—his own; kāyam—body; na—not; abhinandan—being pleased; tamas-mayam—made of ignorance; jagrhuḥ—took possession; yakṣa-rakṣāmsi—the Yakṣas and Rākṣasas; rātrim—night; kṣudh—hunger; tṛṣ—thirst; samudbhavām—the source.
TRANSLATION
Out of disgust, Brahmā threw off the body of ignorance, and taking this opportunity, Yakṣas and Rākṣasas sprang for possession of the body,