Text 33] Description of Adverse Fruitive Activities 1309
eternal profit. It may be argued that when a man leaves his money earned
by sinful activities, then he also leaves his sinful activities here with his
money. But it is especially mentioned herein that by superior arrange-
ment, (daivenasaditam), although the man leaves behind him his sinfully
earned money, he carries the effect of it. When a man steals some money,
if he is caught and agrees to return it, he is not freed from the criminal
punishment. By the law of the state, even though he returns the money, he
has to undergo the punishment. Similarly, the money which is earned by a
criminal process may be left by the man when dying, but by superior
arrangement he carries with him the effect, and therefore he has to suffer
hellish life.
TEXT 33
For | TTT ATTA |
ante shaseratied att ara: Te 1331
kevalena hy adharmena
kutumba-bharanotsukah
yati jivo ’ndha-tamisram
caramam tamasah padam

kevalena—simply; hi—certainly; adharmena—by irreligious activities;
kutumba—family ; bharana—to maintain; utsukah—eager; yati—goes; jivah—
a person; andha-tamisram—to Andha-tamisra; caramam—ultimate; tamasah
—of darkness; padam-—region.

TRANSLATION

Therefore a person who is very eager to maintain his family and kins-
men simply by black methods certainly goes to the darkest region of hell,
which is known as Andha-tamisra.

PURPORT

Three words in this verse are very significant. Kevalena means only by
black methods, adharmena means unrighteous or irreligious, and kutumba-
bharana means family maintenance. Maintaining one’s family is cer-
tainly the duty of a householder, but one should be eager to earn his liveli-
hood by the prescribed method, as stated in the scriptures. In Bhagavad-
gita it is described that the Lord has divided the social system into four
