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रजसि परलयं गत्वा कर्मसङ्गिषु जायते तथा परलीनस तमसि मूढयॊनिषु जायते
rajasi pralayaṁ gatvā karma-saṅgiṣu jāyate tathā pralīnas tamasi mūḍha-yoniṣu jāyate
WORD BY WORD
rajasi in passion; pralayam dissolution; gatvā attaining; karma-saṅgiṣu in the association of those engaged in fruitive activities; jāyate takes birth; tathā similarly; pralīnaḥ being dissolved; tamasi in ignorance; mūḍha-yoniṣu in animal species; jāyate takes birth;
TRANSLATION
| When one dies in the mode of passion, he takes birth among those engaged in fruitive activities; and when one dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth in the animal kingdom.
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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 an 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 Kṛṣṇa 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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