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The Hellish Planets
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material nature, the results of their activities are also divided into three. One who acts in the mode of goodness is religious and happy, one who acts in passion achieves mixed misery and happiness, and one who acts under the influence of ignorance is always unhappy and lives like an animal. Because of the varying degrees to which the living entities are influenced by the different modes of nature, their destinations are also of different varieties.
TEXT 3
अथेदानीं प्रतिषिद्धलक्षणस्याधर्मस्य तथैव कर्तुः श्रद्धाया वैसादृश्यात्कर्मफलं विसदृशं भवति या ह्यनाद्यविद्यया कृतकामानां तत्परिणामलक्षणाः सृतयः सहस्रशः प्रवृत्तास्तासां प्राचुर्येणानुवर्णयिष्यामः॥३॥
athedānīm pratiṣiddha-lakṣaṇasyādharmasya tathaiva kartuḥ śraddhāyā vaisādrśyāt karma-phalam visadrśam bhavati yā hy anādy- avidyayā kṛta-kāmānām tat-pariṇāma-lakṣaṇāḥ sṛtayaḥ sahasraśaḥ pravṛttās tāsām prācuryeṇānuvarṇayiṣyāmaḥ.
atha—thus; idānīm—now; pratiṣiddha—by what is forbidden; lak- ṣaṇasya—symptomized; adharmasya—of impious activities; tathā—so also; eva—certainly; kartuḥ—of the performer; śraddhāyāḥ—of faith; vaisādrśyāt—by the difference; karma-phalam—the reaction of fruitive activities; visadrśam—different; bhavati—is; yā—which; hi—indeed; anādi—from time immemorial; avidyayā—by ignorance; kṛta—per- formed; kāmānām—of persons possessing many lusty desires; tat- pariṇāma-lakṣaṇāḥ—the symptoms of the results of such impious desires; sṛtayaḥ—hellish conditions of life; sahasraśaḥ—by thousands upon thousands; pravṛttāḥ—resulted; tāsām—them; prācuryeṇa—very widely; anuvarṇayiṣyāmaḥ—I shall explain.
TRANSLATION
Just as by executing various pious activities one achieves different positions in heavenly life, by acting impiously one