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TEXT 16 aneka-citta-vibhranta
SYNONYMS  aneka--numerous;
citta vibhrantah--perplexed by anxieties; moha--of illusions;
jala--by a network; samavrtah--surrounded; prasaktah--attached;
kama--lust; bhogesu--sense gratification; patanti--glides
down; narake--into hell; asucau--unclean.
TRANSLATION Thus perplexed
by various anxieties and bound by a network of illusions, one becomes too
strongly attached to sense enjoyment and falls down into hell.
PURPORT The demoniac
man knows no limit to his desire to acquire money. That is unlimited. He
only thinks how much assessment he has just now and schemes to engage that
stock of wealth farther and farther. For that reason, he does not hesitate
to act in any sinful way and so deals in the black market for illegal gratification.
He is enamored by the possessions he has already, such as land, family,
house and bank balance, and he is always planning to improve them. He believes
in his own strength, and he does not know that whatever he is gaining is
due to his past good deeds. He is given an opportunity to accumulate such
things, but he has no conception of past causes. He simply thinks that
all his mass of wealth is due to his own endeavor. A demoniac person believes
in the strength of his personal work, not in the law of karma. According
to the law of karma, a man takes his birth in a high family, or
becomes rich, or very well educated, or very beautiful because of good
work in the past. The demoniac think that all these things are accidental
and due to the strength of his personal ability. He does not sense any
arrangement behind all the varieties of people, beauty, and education.
Anyone who comes into competition with such a demoniac man is his enemy.
There are many demoniac people, and each is enemy to the others. This enmity
becomes more and more deep--between persons, then between families, then
between societies, and at last between nations. Therefore there is constant
strife, war and enmity all over the world.
Each demoniac
person thinks that he can live at the sacrifice of all others. Generally,
a demoniac person thinks of himself as the Supreme God, and a demoniac
preacher tells his followers: "Why are you seeking God elsewhere? You are
all yourselves God! Whatever you like, you can do. Don't believe in God.
Throw away God. God is dead." These are the demoniac's preachings.
Although
the demoniac person sees others equally rich and influential, or even more
so, he thinks that no one is richer than he and that no one is more influential
than he. As far as promotion to the higher planetary system is concerned,
he does not believe in performing yajnas or sacrifices. Demons think
that they will manufacture their own process of yajna and prepare
some machine, by which they will be able to reach any higher planet. The
best example of such a demoniac man was Ravana. He offered a program to
the people by which he would prepare a staircase so that anyone could reach
the heavenly planets without performing sacrifices, such as are prescribed
in the Vedas. Similarly, in the present age such demoniac men are
striving to reach the higher planetary systems by mechanical arrangements.
These are examples of bewilderment. The result is that, without their knowledge,
they are gliding toward hell. Here the Sanskrit word moha-jala is
very significant. Jala means net; like fish caught in a net, they
have no way to come out.
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