SB 3.

30 Description by Lord Kapila of Adverse Fruitive Activities

Speaker: HG Balaram Shakti Pr
Chapter Connection: Kapiladev now answers the second question abt samsara. This continues till
chapter 32.
SB 3.30.1-18: Life and Death of a Person who acts in Ignorance
1-18– Kapiladev to Devahuti:
SB 3.30.1: Foolish men do not recognize the characteristics of time, though they are pushed by it.
SB 3.30.2: Whatever he has painstakingly accumulated for enjoyment, time finishes it off. He then
laments for those lost things.
SB 3.30.3: But why does he lament? He laments because, under the potency of maya, he has accepted
temporary things related to this body as permanent.
 Materialists are crazy, because they consider the temporary as permanent, but devotees use
everything in Lord’s service, because they see everything in relation with the Lord.
SB 3.30.4: He experiences some kind of happiness in whatever species he takes birth and roams.
Therefore he does not get detached from that body.
 Praksematmika potency of maya – to push / pulling down
 Avarnatmika potency of maya – covering / ignorence
SB 3.30.5: Maya bewilders him so much that he doesn’t want to give up even a hellish body
 Hellish enjoyment: food (meet), association with woman, & wine
SB 3.30.6: Why he doesn’t want to give up? In the presence of his family members and wealth he feels
fully successful.
SB 3.30.7: But, he is under constant anxiety to maintain them. Therefore he resorts to sinful means to
maintain them.
SB 3.30.8: What gives him the impetus in family life? Loving illicit dealings with women, and the sweet
words of the child.
SB 3.30.9: Being thus engaged, he is firmly convinced that the happiness that he is getting is
counteracting the miseries of his life
SB 3.30.10: For that so called happiness, he tries to maintain his family by committing lot of violence.
Because of this, while living he only gets to eat their remnants, and after death goes to hell.
SB 3.30.11: Is he at least successful in maintaining them? NO. He again and again fails to maintain them
and hence feels miserable. So he starts desiring other’s wealth.
SB 3.30.12: He is thus constantly overcome by this anxiety to maintain his family.
SB 3.30.13: Reaction of family members: stop showing any respect to him, treat him like a dog. He eats
whatever is disrespectfully given to him
SB 3.30.14: His physical state: he has become old and diseased
SB 3.30.15: His digestive fire is not working, he has lost appetite
SB 3.30.16: His pupils bulge out, throat has blocked, coughs and breaths with difficulty, & throat begins
to rattle
SB 3.30.17: Does he change because of this? NO. In spite of this treatment and health he doesn’t become
detached.
SB 3.30.18: His last stage: He is lying down surrounded by the relatives, though he wants to speak he
cannot, he faces great pain due to the lamenting relatives, & finally dies
SB 3.30.19-34: His Post Death Experience
SB 3.30.19: The Yamadutas arrive at his death. He is so scared seeing them that he passes urine and stool
SB 3.30.20-23: His experiences on the way to hell:
SB 3.30.20: They put him in a body suitable for punishment, and drag him to hell by putting a noose
around his neck
SB 3.30.21: They chastise him with piercing words, he is bitten by dogs on the path, at that time he
remembers that he is receiving the results of his sin
SB 3.30.22: He is afflicted by hunger and thirst, he is burnt by winds as hot as forest fire, whipped on his
back, his path is filled with hot sand, and has no resting place with water
SB 3.30.23: He falls down here and there with fatigue and also faints many times on the way
SB 3.30.24-28: Experience at Hell:
SB 3.30.24: They cross this path of 99,000 yojanas in 2 or 3 moments and reach hell
SB 3.30.25: Surrounded by burning wood, his limbs burst into flames, he is made to eat his own flesh, or
others eat his flesh
SB 3.30.26: His entrails are pulled out while he is eaten alive by dogs and vultures, snakes, scorpions and
gad-flies sting his body
SB 3.30.27: One by one his limbs are being cut off or torn off by elephants and other creatures, he is
hurled from mountain peaks, he is pushed under water and locked in holes
SB 3.30.28: Because of their sinful association men and women experience various types of hell like
Tamisra, Andha-Tamisra and Raurava
SB 3.30.29: Even in this world hell and heaven are experienced. Hellish punishments are seen in this
world also.
 Hell is like training place & to continue in earth in different species of life
SB 3.30.30-31: One, who maintains his own body and family by sinful means, and by giving violence to
others, goes to hell after his death.
SB 3.30.32: This hellish experience is arranged by the karma of the man for sinfully maintaining his
family
SB 3.30.33: Such a person goes to a region of hell called Andha-Tamisra
SB 3.30.34: After going through many births below the human form and becoming purified, he returns to
this earth as a human being

SB 3.31 Lord Kapila's Instructions on the Movements of the Living Entities

Speaker: HG Balaram Shakti Pr
Chapter Connection: The previous chapter ended with the description of how the living entity, after
passing through many sub human births, finally gets a human birth. In the 31 st chapter the pains in the
womb, at birth, as an infant and as a child are described.
SB 3.31.1-11: Jiva’s entry into the womb, his growth and sufferings in the womb
SB 3.31.1: The Jiva, about to get a human body according to his karma, enters the mother’s womb by
taking shelter of the semen of the man
SB 3.31.2-4: Development of embryo from day 1 to 6 months
SB 3.31.5: The child gets nourished by whatever mother eats and drinks
SB 3.31.5-11: Sufferings of the child within the womb
SB 3.31.5: It sleeps in the same hole which holds stool and urine
SB 3.31.6: Worms bite the soft body of the child continuously, due to which it continuously faints
 Important knowledge – Miseries of birth, death, old age & disease.
SB 3.31.7: All its limbs suffer from contact with mother’s food if it is too bitter, sour, pungent or hot
 Avarnatmika shakti makes one forget all these miseries.
SB 3.31.8: Unable to move because of the covering of the outer skin and the intestines, the child remains
in a bent position
SB 3.31.9: Unable to do anything, by the influence of his karmic impressions, he remembers his actions
in the past 100 lives.
 SC: this human form can bestow all beniits.
SB 3.31.10: From the seventh month he attains consciousness. At that time the Suti-Vata becomes active
and it tosses the child here and there
SB 3.31.11: The devotee jiva, frightened and pleading, offers prayers to the Lord with a distressed voice.
SB 3.31.12-21: Prayers by the devotee Jiva within the womb
 Only a devotee jiva prays to the Lord, that who prayed in the past (previous life).
SB 3.31.12: Your lotus feet bestow fearlessness. You appear in various incarnations to protect your
devotees
SB 3.31.13: You have appeared like a conditioned soul, but pure, changeless and endowed with
indestructible knowledge. You are perceived within my distressed heart
 Lord is realized by only a repentant soul. The soul becomes repentant for forgetting his real position.
SB 3.31.14: You are superior to both Prakrti and the Purusavataras, and Your powers are not weakened
by contact with matter
SB 3.31.15: How can a person, deeply afflicted with samsara, remember the abode of the Lord, without
the mercy of His devotees?
SB 3.31.16: Who else but the Paramatma can give this knowledge to a person like me? Therefore, we
should worship Him to destroy our miseries.
SB 3.31.17: The foolish jiva, tortured inside the womb of his mother, and desiring to get out, counts the
months and prays: Oh Lord! When will I get out?
SB 3.31.18: But I am grateful to You for giving me this opportunity to be born as a devotee by your
mercy. I cannot repay this mercy. Please be satisfied with Your act of compassion
SB 3.31.19: A Jnani soul sees, through his intelligence, the sufferings and happiness that his body
undergoes. A devotee soul like me sees You, the original person, the giver of that intelligence.
SB 3.31.20: Though I am suffering here inside the womb, I do not desire to get out of this place, bcz the
outside place is under the control of maha-maya who bewilders the living entity and perpetuates his
samsara.
SB 3.31.21: Therefore, I will stay here and destroy my sufferings by using my intelligence to surrender
unto You. By this, I will not take birth again.
SB 3.31.22-31: Suffering of the jiva after he comes out of the womb
SB 3.31.22: While the wise jiva extols the Lord after 10 months, the unwise jiva is propelled out of the
womb by the Suti-Vata.
 Ex., Sukadeva Gosvami stayed with in the womb for many years.
SB 3.31.23: He comes out upside down with great difficulty, covered with blood, hardly breathing and
without the memory of his previous births
SB 3.31.24: He cries out loudly and having lost knowledge of his previous births, he enters ignorance.
SB 3.31.25: People do not understand his desires and put him into more miseries
SB 3.31.26: He is laid down in an unclean, bug infested bed and he further suffers by the biting of the
bugs, mosquitoes and other insects
SB 3.31.27: In this way, he passes throu gh distressful infancy and boyhood, overcome by anger and
sorrow
SB 3.31.28: The jiva, who is now a youth, is filled with material desires and he picks up quarrel with
other such people, leading to his own destruction
SB 3.31.29: Accepting the impermanent as permanent, such a foolish jiva constantly thinks in terms of I
and mine.
 Suffering is caused by lust only.
 Kama in the service of Krsna, Krodha on the envious of evotees, Lobha to hear Krsna katha in the
association of devotees, moha by not able to see ones ista devata, and madha by glorifying the
qualities of the Lord, thus all the anarthas can be positively engaged in Lord’s service.
SB 3.31.30: Subsequently, he performs actions for the sake of his body and becomes further implicated
by reactions
SB 3.31.32-48: Effects of bad association
SB 3.31.32: If that jiva enjoys by associating with sinful people in order to satisfy his stomach and
genitals, he again enters hell, as before
 Material life – satisfaction of tounge, belly & genitals.
 Spiritual life – devoid of the association of tongue, belly & genitals.
SB 3.31.33: All his good qualities are destroyed by such an association
SB 3.31.34: What is bad association? – Violent, foolish, destroyers of the self, the sinful, the most
lamentable people and those who are play things in the hands of women. One should avoid the
association of such people.
 These are 6 catogories of asat sanga (bad association).
SB 3.31.35-42: Beware of the opposite sex
SB 3.31.35: Man is not as much bound and bewildered by his attachment to other objects as much as he is
due to association of women
SB 3.31.36: Even Brahma got attracted to his own daughter
 Even great demigods can get affected by this lust (stri sanga).
SB 3.31.37: Amongst those who do not worship Narayana, however great he may be, no one is spared by
maya in the form of a woman
SB 3.31.38: She even kicks great kings into submission by the mere movement of her eyebrows
SB 3.31.39: Even great devotees and jnanis should stay away from the association of women
SB 3.31.40: One should see an approaching woman as death, like a well, covered with grass
 Woman approaches in the guise of service, causes disturbance in the mind. Then one becomes a prey
to the will of maya.
SB 3.31.41: Wife attached to husband becomes man
 Better opportunity to get out of MW: Male body
 Women also similarly get attached to maya in the form of a man
SB 3.31.42: Family – arrangement for death
 She should also understand that maya in the form of husband, children and house is her own death
SB 3.31.43–48: Reclaiming one’s eternal nature
SB 3.31.43: Living entitie’s transmigration becose of fruitive acts
SB 3.31.44-46: What is birth & death?
 Change of bodies is due to change of activities
 Death: soul in specific body loses ability to perceive
 Birth: onset of soul’s new bodily identification.
 Material life – series of actions and reactions.
SB 3.31.47: Do’s & Don’ts
 PA: Follow the authority & act according, spend time in Krsna’s service – good for our level.
SB 3.31.48: Being unconcerned with MW
 PA: attempt to renounce the world is foolish, but to renounce the idea that this MW is for my
enjoyment.
 Understanding the goal of life, one should move about in this world without attachment