Text 29] Description of Adverse Fruitive Activities 1305
PURPORT
Materialistic life is based on sex life. The existence of all the material-
istic people who are undergoing severe tribulation in the struggle for
existence is based on sex. Therefore, in the Vedic civilization sex life is
allowed only in a restricted way; it is for the married couple and only
for begetting children. But when sex life is indulged in for sense gratifica-
tion illegally and illicitly, both the man and the woman await severe
punishment in this world or after death. In this world also they are pun-
ished by virulent diseases like syphillis and gonorrhea, and in the next
life, as we see in this passage of Srimad-Bhdgavatam, they are put into
different kinds of hellish conditions to suffer. In Bhagavad-gita, First
Chapter, illicit sex life is also very much condemned, and it is said that
one who produces children by illicit sex life is sent to hell. It is confirmed
here in the Bhagavatam that such offenders are put into hellish conditions
of life in Tamisra, Andha-tamisra and Raurava.
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TH MIA TAFT LAATSIT: 122 I
atraiva narakah svarga
iti matah pracaksate
ya yatana vai narak yas
ta ihapy upalaksitah
atra—in this world; eva—even; narakah—hell; svargah—heaven; iti—thus;
matah—O mother; pracaksate—they say; yah—which; yatanah—punish-
ments; vai—certainly; narakyah—hellish; tah—they; iha—here; api—also;
upalak sitah —visible.
TRANSLATION
Lord Kapila continued: My dear mother, it is sometimes said that we
experience hell or heaven on this planet, for hellish punishments are some-
times visible on this planet also.
PURPORT
Sometimes unbelievers do not accept these statements of scripture re-
garding hell. They disregard such authorized descriptions. Lord Kapila
