Text 3] The Hellish Planets 435

material nature, the results of their activities are also divided into
three. One who acts in the mode of goodness is religious and
happy, one who acts in passion achieves mixed misery and happi-
ness, and one who acts under the influence of ignorance is always
unhappy and lives like an animal. Because of the varying degrees
to which the living entities are influenced by the different modes
of nature, their destinations are also of different varieties.

TEXT 3
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BAI: ALAA: ATA MIA Maa OTA: 131

athedanir pratisiddha-laksanasyaddharmasya tathaiva kartuh
sraddhaya vaisddrsyat karma-phalam visadrsam bhavati ya hy anddy-
avidyayé krta-kamanam tat-parindma-laksanah srtayah sahasrasah
pravrtids tasam pracuryenanuvarnayisyamah.

atha—thus; idanim—now; pratisiddha—by what is forbidden; lak-
sanasya—symptomized; adharmasya—of impious activities: tathd —so
also; eva—certainly; kartuh—of the performer: sraddhadyah—of faith:
vaisddrsyat—by the difference; karma-phalam—the reaction of fruitive
activities: visadrsam—different: bhavati—is; ya—which: hi—indeed:
anddi—from time immemorial; avidyaya—by ignorance: krta—per-
formed: kamdndm—of persons possessing many lusty desires: tat-
parindma-laksanah—the symptoms of the results of such impious
desires; srtayah—hellish conditions of life: sahasrasah—by thousands
upon thousands; pravrttah—resulted; tasam—them: prdcuryena—very
widely; anuvarnayisyamah—] shall explain.

TRANSLATION

Just as by executing various pious activities one achieves
different positions in heavenly life, by acting impiously one
