Any act focused on the pleasure of the senses, the self-interested action carried out outside the devotional service dedicated to God is made impure by the influences of material nature and leads to good and / or bad consequences.
All material activities intended for the satisfaction of the senses are impure. As long as the embodied being does not seek the spiritual values of existence, he must experience defeat and the evils of ignorance.
Whether it concerns virtue or sin, karma [law of action -reaction, self-serving action, law of cause and effect] bears fruit, and if a person is involved in some form of karma, his or her mind is called “tainted with the desire to enjoy the fruits of action”. As long as the mind remains impure, the consciousness remains obscured, and as long as one follows the path of self-interested action, one must put on a material body.
On the other hand, activities related to the service of love and of devotion offered to God and performed for the sole satisfaction of the Supreme Lord are pure and free from the influence of the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion and ignorance. They have no consequences.
The Lord said: Of all those who have put on material bodies in this world, those to whom human form has been granted should not toil day and night for the sole pleasure of the senses, accessible even to dogs and pigs that feed on excrement. Rather, they should practice penance and austerity to reach the divine level of devotional service. Thanks to this practice, the heart is purified and we then discover an eternal existence, all of bliss, which transcends material happiness and lasts forever.
The Lord condemns the fact of begging, borrowing or stealing in sight satisfaction of the senses, because doing so brings us into a hellish condition, the darkest.
The four sinful activities are illicit sex life (outside marriage), eating meat, fish and eggs, use of stimulants and toxic substances, and gambling. These are the four paths which lead the being towards a new material body subject to all kinds of suffering.
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The Lord teaches us the right way and the right attitude.
The Lord says: