Garudapurana

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29. Then, when he is touched by that magic, powerless, he is unable to speak. He experiences the miseries of infancy and childhood arising from dependence. 30. He is nourished by people who do not understand his wishes, unable to ward off what is thrust upon him against his desire. 31. Lain upon a bed unclean and befouled by perspiration, he is unable to scratch his limbs, to sit, rise or move. 32. Mosquitoes, gnats, bugs and other flies bite him, skinless and weeping and deprived of understanding, just as insects bite little worms. 33. In this wise having experienced the miseries of infancy and of childhood, he reaches youth and acquires evil tendencies. 34. Then he begins evil brooding, mingling in the company of the wicked; he hates the scriptures and good men, and becomes lustful. 35. Seeing a seductive woman, his senses captivated by her blandishments, infatuated he falls into great darkness, like a moth into a flame. 36. The deer, the elephant, the bird, the bee and the fish: these five are led to destruction by one of the senses; how then shall the infatuated one not be destroyed, when he enjoys the five kinds of objects by five senses. 37. He longs for the unobtainable, and on account of ignorance becomes angry and sorry, and his pride and anger increase with the growth of his body. 38. The lover makes quarrels with rivals, to his own ruin and is destroyed by those stronger than himself, as one elephant by another. 39. Who is more sinful than the fool who, attached to sense-objects, spends in vain the human birth which was difficult to obtain. 40: After hundreds of lives one obtains human birth on earth; and even more difficult to obtain is that as a twice-born: and who then only provides for and pampers the senses, through foolishness lets slip the nectar from his hand. 41. Then, having arrived at old age, he is troubled with great diseases; and, death having come, he goes to a miserable hell, as before. 42. Thus held fast in the ever-circling noose of karma, the sinful, bewildered by my magic, are never released. 43. Thus I have related to you, O Târkᚣya, how the sinful, deprived of the sacrifices for the dead, go in hell. What else do you wish to hear?


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