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TEXT 15 rajasi pralayam gatva
SYNONYMS  rajasi--in
passion; pralayam--dissolution; gatva--attaining; karma-sangisu--in
the association of fruitive activities; jayate--takes birth; tatha--thereafter;
pralinah--being dissolved; tamasi--in ignorance; mudha--animal;
yonisu--species; jayate--take birth.
TRANSLATION When one
dies in the mode of passion, he takes birth among those engaged in fruitive
activities; and when he dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth in
the animal kingdom.
PURPORT Some people
have the impression that when the soul reaches the platform of human life,
it never goes down again. This is incorrect. According to this verse, if
one develops the mode of ignorance, after his death he is degraded to the
animal form of life. From there one has to again elevate himself, by an
evolutionary process, to come again to the human form of life. Therefore,
those who are actually serious about human life should take to the mode
of goodness and in good association transcend the modes and become situated
in Krsna consciousness. This is the aim of human life. Otherwise, there
is no guarantee that the human being will again attain to the human status.
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