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TEXT 10 kamam asritya duspuram
SYNONYMS  kamam--lust;
asritya--taking shelter of; duspuram--insatiable; dambha--pride;
mana--false prestige; mada-anvitah--absorbed in conceit;
mohat--by illusion; grhitva--taking; asat--nonpermanent;
grahan--things; pravartante--flourish; asuci--unclean;
vratah--avowed.
TRANSLATION The demoniac,
taking shelter of insatiable lust, pride and false prestige, and being
thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent.
PURPORT The demoniac
mentality is described here. The demons lust is never satiated. They will
go on increasing and increasing their insatiable desires for material enjoyment.
Although they are always full of anxieties on account of accepting nonpermanent
things, they still continue to engage in such activities out of illusion.
They have no knowledge and cannot tell that they are heading the wrong
way. Accepting nonpermanent things, such demoniac people create their own
God, create their own hymns and chant accordingly. The result is that they
become more and more attracted to two things--sex enjoyment and accumulation
of material wealth. The word asuci-vratah, unclean vow, is very
significant in this connection. Such demoniac people are only attracted
by wine, women, gambling and meat-eating; those are their asuci,
unclean habits. Induced by pride and false prestige, they create some principles
of religion which are not approved by the Vedic injunctions. Although such
demoniac people are most abominable in the world, still, by artificial
means the world creates a false honor for them. Although they are gliding
toward hell, they consider themselves very much advanced.
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