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Description of Adverse Fruitive Activities
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if one is not responsible for his activities, then he is sure to get a hellish life, as described herein.
TEXT 31
एकः प्रपद्यते ध्वान्तं हित्वेदं स्वकलेवरम् । कुशलेतरपाथेयो भूतद्रोहेण यद् भूतम् ॥३१॥
ekaḥ prapadyate dhvāntam hitvedam sva-kalevaram kuśaletara-pātheyo bhūta-droheṇa yad bhṛtam
ekaḥ —alone;  prapadyate —he enters;  dhvāntam —darkness;  hitvā —after quitting;  idam —this;  sva —his;  kalevaram —body;  kuśala-itara —sin;  pātheyaḥ —his passage money;  bhūta —to other living entities;  droheṇa —by injury;  yad —which body;  bhṛtam —was maintained.
TRANSLATION
He goes alone to the darkest regions of hell after quitting the present body, and the money which he acquired by envying other living entities is the passage money with which he leaves this world.
PURPORT
When a man earns money by unfair means and maintains his family and himself with that money, the money is enjoyed by many members of the family, but he alone goes to hell. A person who enjoys life by earning money or by envying another's life, and who enjoys with family and friends, will have to enjoy alone the resultant sinful reactions accrued from such violent and illicit life. For example, if a man secures some money by killing someone and with that money maintains his family, those who enjoy the black money earned by him are also partially responsible and are also sent to hell, but he who is the leader is especially punished. The result of material enjoyment is that one takes with him the sinful reaction only, and not the money. The money he earned is left in this world, and he takes only the reaction.
In this world also, if a person acquires some money by murdering someone, the family is not hanged, although its members are sinfully contaminated. But the man who commits the murder and maintains his family is