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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.20
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 20
- dakṣiṇena pathāryamṇaḥ
- pitṛ-lokaṁ vrajanti te
- prajām anu prajāyante
- śmaśānānta-kriyā-kṛtaḥ
dakṣiṇenasouthern — southern; pathāby the path — by the path; aryamṇaḥof the sun — of the sun; pitṛto Pitṛloka-lokamto Pitṛloka — to Pitṛloka; vrajantigo — go; tethey — they; prajāmtheir families — their families; anualong with — along with; prajāyantethey take birth — they take birth; śmaśānathe crematorium — the crematorium; antato the end — to the end; kriyāfruitive activities — fruitive activities; kṛtaḥperforming — performing.
Such materialistic persons are allowed to go to the planet called Pitṛloka by the southern course of the sun, but they again come back to this planet and take birth in their own families, beginning again the same fruitive activities from birth to the end of life.
In Bhagavad-gītā, Ninth Chapter, verse 21, Not yet available in the library. Try the live source., it is stated that such persons are elevated to the higher planetary systems. As soon as their lifetimes of fruitive activity are finished, they return to this planet, and thus they go up and come down. Those who are elevated to the higher planets again come back into the same family for which they had too much attachment; they are born, and the fruitive activities continue again until the end of life. There are different prescribed rituals from birth until the end of life, and they are very much attached to such activities.