Text 34] Description of Adverse Fruitive Activities 1311

human birth, and having thus been purged of his sins, one is reborn again
as a human being on this earth.

PURPORT

Just as a prisoner who has undergone troublesome prison life is set free
again, similarly the person who has always engaged in impious and mis-
chievous activities is put into hellish conditions, and when he has under-
gone different hellish lives, namely those of lower animals like cats, dogs
and hogs, by the gradual process of evolution he again comes back as a
human being. In Bhagavad-gita it is stated that even though a person en-
gaged in the practice of the yoga system may not finish perfectly and may
fall down for some reason or other, his next life as a human being is
guaranteed. It is stated that such a person, who has fallen from the path of
yoga practice, is given a chance in his next life to take birth in a very rich
family or in a very pious family. It is interpreted that ‘rich family” refers
to a big mercantile family because generally people who engage in trades
and mercantile business are very rich. One who engaged in the process of
self-realization or connecting with the Supreme Absolute Truth but fell
short is allowed to take birth in such a rich family, or he is allowed to take
birth in the family of pious brahmanas; either way, he is guaranteed to ap-
pear in human society in his next life. It can be concluded that if someone
is not willing to enter into hellish life, as in Tamisra or Andha-tamisra, then
he must take to the process of Krsna consciousness, which is the first-class
yoga system, because even if one is unable to attain complete Krsna con-
sciousness in this life, he is guaranteed at least to take his next birth ina
human family. He cannot be sent into a hellish condition. Krsna conscious-
ness is the purest life, and it protects all human beings from gliding down
to hell to take birth in a family of dogs or hogs.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to the Third Canto, Thirtieth
Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “Description by Lord Kapila
of Adverse Fruitive Activities.”
