Text 19] Description of Adverse Fruitive Activities 1297

TRANSLATION

Thus the man, who engaged with uncontrolled senses in maintaining a
family, dies in great grief, seeing his relatives crying. He dies most pathet-
ically, in great pain and without consciousness.

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gita it is said that at the time of death one will be absorbed
in the thoughts which he cultivated during his lifetime. A person who had
no other idea than to properly maintain his family members must have
family affairs in his last thoughts. That is the natural sequence for a
common man. The common man does not know the destiny of his life; he
is simply busy in his flash of life, maintaining his family. At the last stage,
no one is satisfied with how he has improved the family economic con-
dition; everyone thinks that he could not provide sufficiently. Because of
his deep family affection, he forgets his main duty of controlling the senses
and improving his spiritual consciousness. Sometimes a dying man entrusts
the family affairs to either his son or some relative, saying, ‘‘I am going.
Please look after the family.” He does not know where he is going, but
even at the time of death he is anxious about how his family will be main-
tained. Sometimes it is seen that a dying man requests the physician to
increase his life at least for a few years so that the family maintenance plan
which he has begun can be completed. These are the material diseases of
the conditioned soul. He completely forgets his real engagement—to be-
come Krsna conscious~and is always serious about planning to maintain
his family, although he changes families one after another.

TEXT 19

THM Fal Te Met AeA
a tel reece: aHeyt fgets ee

yama-ditau tada praptau
bhimau sarabhaseksanau

sa drstva trasta-hrdayah
Sakrn-mittram vimuncati

yama-diitau—two messengers of Yamaraja; tada—at that time; praptau—
arrived; bhimau—terrible; sa-rabhasa—full of wrath; iksanau—their eyes;
