1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 16 - Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga - Sloka 11

The entire content of this mail is from Shri V N Gopala Desikan's  Srimad Bhagavad Gita, published by Vishishtadvaita Research Centre, Chennai and The Bhagavad Gita by Swami Chidbhavananda published by Ramakrishna Mission

The evil ways of the diabolical are further illustrated further.

The Demoniacal Ways - 7-18

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 16 - Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga - Sloka 11

The soul being driven by the 5 senses

Chintam aparimeyam cha pralaya antam upashritah I

Kama upabhoga paramah etavat iti nischitah II sloka 11

चिन्तां अपरिमेयां च प्रलय अन्ताम् उपाश्रिताः I 

काम उप भोग परमाः एता वत् इति निश्चिताः II श्लोक 11

Beset with immense cares ending only with death, regarding gratification of lust as the highest, and feeling sure that that is all;

These people do not know that their life is limited and that they may die any moment. There is no end to their desires and worries. Their base and boisterous passions seem to the others to have come to an end with death. But actually those passions get buried in their inner core, only to remanifest themselves in the next birth. Tendencies become latent at death as they do in sleep.

They think that enjoyment of sensual pleasures alone is the highest goal; that there is no other goal, higher than this. Their effort to achieve their boundless desires will have to be continued even till pralaya. They do not recognise moksha, kaivalya or swarga as desirable. 

  

The earth bound people do not learn a lesson even when overcome with acute pain, disappointments, failures and misfortunes in life. They are like the camels which go on biting off the thorny shrubs unmindful of the bleeding caused to their lips. 

A dearly loved wife dies or deserts; the man forgets all about it and remarries. The sudden passing away of a beloved child brings in desolation. But in a few days he brushes it aside and gets absorbed in life. The mother weeps and wails over the death of her baby. The next minute she is busy arranging her jewels and costly clothings, scrupulously attending to her toilet as well. The parents are driven to penury due to the marriages of 2 or 3 daughters.  Still the begetting continues as usual! 

In litigation the property is drained away; but on that ground further litigation does not stop. Though there is no where withal to maintain the existing brood of children, new additions do not fail to come in year after year! 

How strange!!

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa