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The Movements of the Living Entities
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and the land from which his body is born as worshipable. In this way he performs all sorts of misconceived activities, which lead to his perpetual bondage in repetition of birth and death in various species.
In modern civilization, the so-called social, national and government leaders mislead people more and more, under the bodily conception of life, with the result that all the leaders, with their followers, are gliding down to hellish conditions birth after birth. An example is given in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam .  Andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ : when a blind man leads several other blind men, the result is that all of them fall down in a ditch. This is actually happening. There are many leaders to lead the ignorant public, but because every one of them is bewildered by the bodily conception of life, there is no peace and prosperity in human society. So-called  yogīs  who perform various bodily feats are also in the same category as such ignorant people because the  haṭha-yoga  system is especially recommended for persons who are grossly implicated in the bodily conception. The conclusion is that as long as one is fixed in the bodily conception, he has to suffer birth and death.
TEXT 32
यघसद्भिः पथि पुनः शिभ्रोदरकृतोद्यमैः । अस्थितो रमते जन्तुस्तमो विशति पूर्ववत् ॥३२॥
yady asadbhiḥ pathi punaḥ śiśnodara-kṛtodyamaiḥ āsthito ramate jantus tamo viśati pūrvavat
yadi—if; asadbhiḥ—with the unrighteous; pathi—on the path; punaḥ—again; śiśna—for the genital; udara—for the stomach; kṛta—done; udyamaiḥ—whose endeavors; āsthitaḥ—associating; ramate—enjoys; jantuḥ—the living entity; tamaḥ—darkness; viśati—enters; pūrva-vat—as before.
TRANSLATION
If, therefore, the living entity again associates with the path of unrighteousness, influenced by sensually-minded people engaged in the pursuit of sexual enjoyment and the gratification of the palate, he again goes to hell as before.