Text 31] Description of Adverse Fruitive Activities 1307
if one is not responsible for his activities, then he is sure to get a hellish
life, as described herein.
TEXT 31
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PASAT yore TW yaT 12M
ekah prapadyate dhvantam
hitvedam sva-kalevaram
kuSaletara-patheyo
bhita-drohena yad bhrtam
ekah—alone; prapadyate—he enters; dhvantam—darkness; hitvad—after
quitting; idam—this; sua—his; kalevaram—body ; kusala-itara—sin; patheyah
—his passage money; bhitta—to other living entities; drohena—by injury;
yad—which body; bhrtam—was maintained.
TRANSLATION
He goes alone to the darkest regions of hell after quitting the present
body, and the money which he acquired by envying other living entities is
the passage money with which he leaves this world.
PURPORT
When a man earns money by unfair means and maintains his family and
himself with that money, the money is enjoyed by many members of the
family, but he alone goes to hell. A person who enjoys life by earning
money or by envying another’s life, and who enjoys with family and
friends, will have to enjoy alone the resultant sinful reactions accrued from
such violent and illicit life. For example, if a man secures some money by
killing someone and with that money maintains his family, those who
enjoy the black money earned by him are also partially responsible and
are also sent to hell, but he who is the leader is especially punished. The
result of material enjoyment is that one takes with him the sinful reaction
only, and not the money. The money he earned is left in this world, and
he takes only the reaction.
In this world also, if a person acquires some money by murdering some-
one, the family is not hanged, although its members are sinfully contami-
nated. But the man who commits the murder and maintains his family is
