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Chapter 32: Entanglement in Fruitive Activities

Verse 20 of 38
SB 3.32.20

दक्षिणेन पथार्यम्णः पितृलोकं व्रजन्ति ते प्रजामनु प्रजायन्ते श्मशानान्तक्रियाकृतः

dakṣiṇena pathāryamṇaḥ pitṛ-lokaṁ vrajanti te prajām anu prajāyante śmaśānānta-kriyā-kṛtaḥ

Synonyms

dakṣiṇenasouthern; pathāby the path; aryamṇaḥof the sun; pitṛ-lokamto Pitṛloka; vrajantigo; tethey; prajāmtheir families; anualong with; prajāyantethey take birth; śmaśānathe crematorium; antato the end; kriyāfruitive activities; kṛtaḥperforming..

Translation

Such materialistic persons are allowed to go to the planet called Pitṛloka by the southern course of the sun, but they again come back to this planet and take birth in their own families, beginning again the same fruitive activities from birth to the end of life.

Purport

In Bhagavad-gītā, Ninth Chapter, twenty-first verse, it is stated that such persons are elevated to the higher planetary systems. As soon as their lifetimes of fruitive activity are finished, they again return to this planet, and thus they go up and come down. Those who are elevated to the higher planets again come back into the same family for which they had too much attachment; they are born, and the fruitive activities continue again until the end of life. There are different prescribed rituals from birth until the end of life, and they are very much attached to such activities.

Verse 20 of 38
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