460 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 26

that: eva—only: atibibhatsitam—extremely disgusting; asnanti—they
eat.

TRANSLATION

The shameless husbands of lowborn sidra women live exactly
like animals, and therefore they have no good behavior, cleanli-
ness or regulated life. After death, such persons are thrown into
the hell called Payoda, where they are put into an ocean filled with
pus, stool, urine, mucus, saliva and similar things. Sadras who
could not improve themselves fall into that ocean and are forced to
eat those disgusting things.

PURPORT

Srila Narottama dasa Thakura has sung,

karma-kanda, jnana-kanda, kevala visera banda,
amrta baliyad yeba khaya
nana yoni sada phire, kadarya bhaksana kare,
tara janma adah-pate yaya

He says that persons following the paths of karma-kanda and jidana-
kanda (fruitive activities and speculative thinking) are missing the op-
portunities for human birth and gliding down into the cycle of birth and
death. Thus there is always the chance that he may be put into the
Piiyoda Naraka, the hell named Payoda, where one is forced to eat stool.
urine, pus, mucus, saliva and other abominable things. It is significant
that this verse is spoken especially about sddras. If one is born a Sidra,
he must continually return to the ocean of Payoda to eat horrible things.
Thus even a born Sidra is expected to become a brahmana; that is the
meaning of human life. Everyone should improve himself. Krsna says in
Bhagavad-gita (4.13), catur-varnyamh mayd srstar guna-karma-
vibhagasah: “‘According to the three modes of material nature and the
work ascribed to them, four divisions of human society were created by
Me.” Even if one is by qualification a Sddra, he must try to improve his
position and become a brahmana. No one should try to check a person,
no matter what his present position is, from coming to the platform of a
