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Chapter 16
Link:- The Lord, in the next two verses, explains the feelings, thought and conduct, of such atheists.
cintamaparimeyam ca pralayantamupasritah
kamopabhogaparama etavaditi niscitah
Obsessed lifelong with innumerable cares that end only with death, steeped in the gratification of desires and accumulation of wealth as the highest aim, and convinced that, that is the end-all. 11
Comment:-
Cintamapaeimeyam ca pralayantamupasrirah:- They are beset with innumerable cares, worries and anxieties, till they die. So they have to follow, a cycle of birth and death.
The cares or worries, can be of two kinds - the spiritual and mundane. Those, who are worried about their salvation, are noble. But people possessing a demoniac nature, are not beset with spiritual worries. They are obsessed with, such cares and worries, as to how they could maintain honour, praise, fame and prestige etc., how they would live long, what would happen to their family, wealth and property, after their death and so on.
But the fact is, that a man is worried out of ignorance. The Lord, provides the necessities of life to people, according to their fortune.When a person dies, he leaves behind several things and objects, consumed. Even a dispassionate saint leaves his loin-cloth and a pot made of hollowed gourd, when he dies, when a rich man dies, his riches are of no avail, to him.
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