the Vedas, the original holy scriptures) and fruitful rituals without any error or contamination, one will reach a heavenly situation in the next life. But even this result, which is only achieved by the perfect performance of fruitful rituals, will be overcome by time.

Now listen to this.

If on earth a being makes sacrifices for the satisfaction of sentient beings celestial, he will travel to the celestial planets, where, just like a celestial being, he will enjoy all the celestial pleasures he has gained through his performances.

Having reached the celestial planets, the postulant for the ritual sacrifices travels in a flaming plane, which he obtains thanks to his piety on earth. Glorified by songs sung by the Gandharvas (heavenly singers) and dressed in wonderfully charming clothes, he enjoys life surrounded by heavenly goddesses. Accompanied by celestial women, the recipient of the fruits of the sacrifice takes pleasure rides in a marvelous plane decorated with circles of tinting bells, which flies wherever he wants. Relaxed, comfortable and happy in the gardens of heavenly pleasure, he does not consider himself exhausting the fruits of his godliness, and will soon fall into the mortal world. Until his godly blessings are exhausted, the artist of sacrifice enjoys life on the celestial planets. However, when the pious bounties are exhausted, he falls from the pleasure gardens of heaven, moving against his will by the force of eternal time.

If a human being is engaged in sinful and irreligious activities, either because from a bad association or because of his inability to control his senses, then such a person will certainly develop a personality full of material desires. He thus becomes stingy with others, greedy and always anxious to exploit the bodies of women. When the mind is polluted in this way, one becomes violent and aggressive and without the authority of Vedic injunctions, one slaughters innocent animals for the satisfaction of the senses. Worshiping ghosts and spirits, the bewildered person falls completely into the grip of unauthorized activity and therefore goes to hell, where he or she receives a material body infected with nature's darkest modes. In such a degraded body, he unfortunately continues to perform ominous activities which greatly increase his future unhappiness, and so he again accepts a similar material body. What happiness can there be for one who engages in activities that inevitably end in death?

In all planetary systems, from celestial to hell, and for all great celestial beings who live a thousand cycles of yuga [yuga = age. A thousand cycles of four ages, be it; Golden Age, Silver Age, Copper Age and Iron Age], there is a fear of Me in My form of time. Even Brahma (the demiurge and first created being), who has the supreme lifespan of 311 trillion 40 billion earth years, is also afraid of Me.

The material senses create material activities, pious or sinful, and the attributes and modes of influence of material nature (virtue, passion and ignorance) set in motion