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Attack by Caṇḍavega on the City of Purañjana
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of nonsense and becomes condemned by his activities of so-called sense enjoyment.”
Thus the field of action and reactions, by which one’s descendants are increased, begins with sex life. Purañjana increased his whole family by begetting sons who in their turn begot grandsons. Thus the living entity, being inclined toward sexual gratification, becomes involved in many hundreds and thousands of actions and reactions. In this way he remains within the material world simply for the purpose of sense gratification and transmigrates from one body to another. His process of reproducing so many sons and grandsons results in so-called societies, nations, communities and so on. All these communities, societies, dynasties and nations simply expand from sex life. As stated by Prahlāda Mahārāja:  yan maithunādi gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham (Bhāg. 7.9.45) . A  gṛhamedhī  is one who wants to remain within this material existence. This means that he wants to remain within this body or society and enjoy friendship, love and community. His only enjoyment is in increasing the number of sex enjoyers. He enjoys sex and produces children, who in their turn marry and produce grandchildren. The grandchildren also marry and in their turn produce great-grandchildren. In this way the entire earth becomes overpopulated, and then suddenly there are reactions provoked by material nature in the form of war, famine, pestilence and earthquakes, etc. Thus the entire population is again extinguished simply to be recreated. This process is explained in  Bhagavad-gītā :
bhūta-grāmaḥ sa evāyaṁ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate rātry-āgame 'vaśaḥ pārtha prabhavaty ahar-āgame
“Again and again the day comes, and this host of beings is active, and again the night falls, O Pārtha, and they are helplessly dissolved.” (Bg. 8.19)
Due to a lack of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all this creation and annihilation is going on under the name of human civilization. This cycle continues due to man’s lack of knowledge of the soul and the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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तेषु तद्विस्थहारेषु गृहकोशानुजीविषु । निरूढेन ममत्वेन विषयेष्वन्वयधत ॥१०॥