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Description of Adverse Fruitive Activities
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PURPORT
Materialistic life is based on sex life. The existence of all the materialistic people who are undergoing severe tribulation in the struggle for existence is based on sex. Therefore, in the Vedic civilization sex life is allowed only in a restricted way; it is for the married couple and only for begetting children. But when sex life is indulged in for sense gratification illegally and illicitly, both the man and the woman await severe punishment in this world or after death. In this world also they are punished by virulent diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea, and in the next life, as we see in this passage of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , they are put into different kinds of hellish conditions to suffer. In  Bhagavad-gītā , First Chapter, illicit sex life is also very much condemned, and it is said that one who produces children by illicit sex life is sent to hell. It is confirmed here in the  Bhāgavatam  that such offenders are put into hellish conditions of life in Tāmisra, Andha-tāmisra and Raurava.
TEXT 29
अत्रैव नरकः स्वर्ग इति मातः प्रचक्षते । या यातना वै नारक्यस्ता इत्यप्युपलक्षिताः ॥२९॥
atraiva narakaḥ svarga iti mātaḥ pracakṣate yā yātanā vai nārakyas tā ihāpy upalakṣitāḥ
atra—in this world; eva—even; narakaḥ—hell; svargaḥ—heaven; iti—thus; mātaḥ—O mother; pracakṣate—they say; yāḥ—which; yātanāḥ—punishments; vai—certainly; nārakyaḥ—hellish; tāḥ—they; iha—here; api—also; upalakṣitāḥ—visible.
TRANSLATION
Lord Kapila continued:  My dear mother, it is sometimes said that we experience hell or heaven on this planet, for hellish punishments are sometimes visible on this planet also.
PURPORT
Sometimes unbelievers do not accept these statements of scripture regarding hell. They disregard such authorized descriptions. Lord Kapila