Text 33] Creation of the Kumaras and Others 467

TEXT 33

BH TTT TAT FU EET TUTTE |
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sa ittham grnatah putran
puro drstva praja-patin

prajapati-patis tanvam
tatyaja uriditas tada

tam diso jagrhur ghoram
niharam yad vidus tamah

sah—he (Brahma); ittham—thus; grnatah—speaking; putran—sons;
purah—before; drstva—seeing; praja-patin—all the progenitors of living
entities; prajapati-patih—the father of all of them (Brahma); tanvam—
body ; tatyaja—quit; vriditah— ashamed; tada—at that time; tam—that body;
disah—all directions; jagrhuh—accepted; ghoram—blamable; niharam—fog;
yat—which; viduh—they know as; tamah—darkness.

TRANSLATION

The father of all Prajapatis, Brahma, thus seeing all his Prajapati sons
speaking in that way, became very much ashamed and at once gave up the
body which he had accepted. Later that body appeared in all directions as
the dangerous fog in darkness.

PURPORT

The best way to»compensate for one’s sinful acts is to give up one’s
body at once, and Brahma, the leader of the living entities, showed this
by his personal example. Brahma has a fabulous duration of life, but he
was obliged to give up his body due to his grievous sin, even though he had
merely contemplated it in his mind without having actually done it.

This is a lesson for the living entities how sinful an act it is to indulge in
unrestricted sex life. Even to think of abominable sex life is sinful, and to
compensate for such sinful acts, one has to give up his body. In other
words, one’s duration of life, blessings, opulence, etc., are decreased by
sinful acts, and the most dangerous type of sinful act is unrestricted sex.

Ignorance is the cause of sinful life, or sinful life is the cause of gross
ignorance. The feature of ignorance is darkness or fog. Darkness or fog
