Text 3] Entanglement in Fruitive Activities 1369
TRANSLATION

Such persons are ever bereft of devotional service due to being too
attached to sense gratification, and therefore, although they perform
various kinds of .sacrifices and take great vows to satisfy the demigods and
forefathers, they are not interested in Krsna consciousness, devotional
service.

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gita it is said that persons who worship demigods have lost
their intelligence: kamais tais tair hyta-jianah (Bg. 7.20). They are much
attracted to sense gratification, and therefore they worship the demigods.
It is, of course, recommended in the Vedic scriptures that if one wants
money, health or education, then he should worship the various demigods.
A materialistic person has manifold demands, and thus there are manifold
demigods to satisfy his senses. The grhamedhis, who want to continue a
prosperous materialistic way of life, generally worship the demigods or the
forefathers by offering pinda, or respectful oblations. Such persons are
bereft of Krsna consciousness and are not interested in devotional service
to the Lord. This kind of so-called pious and religious man is the result of
impersonalism. The impersonalists maintain that the Supreme Absolute
Truth has no form and that one can imagine any form he likes for his
benefit and worship in that way. Therefore the grhamedhis or materialistic
men say that they can worship any form of a demigod as worship of the
Supreme Lord. Especially amongst the Hindus, those who are meat-eaters
prefer to worship goddess Kali because it is prescribed that one can sacri-
fice a goat before that goddess. They maintain that whether one worships
the goddess Kali, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead Visnu, or any
demigod, the destination is the same. This is first-class rascaldom, and
such people are misled. But they prefer this philosophy. Bhagavad-gita
does not accept such rascaldom, and it is clearly stated that such methods
are meant for persons who have lost their intelligence. The same judg-
ment is confirmed here, and the word kama-mudha, meaning one who has
lost his sense or is infatuated by the lust of attraction for sense gratifica-
tion, is used. Kaéma-miidhas are bereft of Krsna consciousness and devo-
tional service and are infatuated by a strong desire for sense gratification. The
worshipers of demigods are condemned both in Bhagavad-gita and in
Srimad-Bhagavatam.

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