170 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 5

A AY aed Faq AAAIST-

waa FIT MA Ae VI

niinam pramattah kurute vikarma
yad indriya-pritaya a@prnoti

na sddhu manye yata Gtmano ’yam
asann api klesada asa dehah

niinam—indeed: pramattah—mad; kurute—performs: vikarma—
sinful activities forbidden in the scriptures: yat—when: indriya-
pritaye—for sense gratification: dprnoti—engages: na—not: sddhu—
befitting: manye—| think: yatah—by which: atmanah—of the soul:
ayam—this: asan—being temporary: api—although: klesa-dah—
giving misery: @sa—became possible; dehah—the body.

TRANSLATION

When a person considers sense gratification the aim of life, he
certainly becomes mad after materialistic living and engages in all
kinds of sinful activity. He does not know that due to his past
misdeeds he has already received a body which, although tempo-
rary, is the cause of his misery. Actually the living entity should
not have taken on a material body, but he has been awarded the
material body for sense gratification. Therefore | think it not
befitting an intelligent man to involve himself again in the ac-
tivities of sense gratification by which he perpetually gets material
bodies one after another.

PURPORT

Begging, borrowing and stealing to live for sense gratification is con-
demned in this verse because such consciousness leads one to a dark,
hellish condition. The four sinful activities are illicit sex, meat-eating.
intoxication and gambling. These are the means by which one gets
another material body that is full of miseries. In the Vedas it is said:
asarigo hy ayam purusah. The living entity is not really connected with
this material world, but due to his tendency to enjoy the material senses,
he is put into the material condition. One should perfect his life by asso-
