The Lord adds: The man who has managed to avoid these three doors of hell dedicates his existence to actions that lead to spiritual fulfillment. He thus gradually attains the supreme goal.
He, on the other hand, who rejects the precepts of the scriptures to act according to his whim, will attain neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme goal.
Therefore, know how to determine what your duty is and what it is not, in the light of the principles given by the Scriptures. Knowing these laws, act in such a way as to gradually elevate yourself.
Those who seek to satisfy their lust, if they fail to do so, then anger and greed arise. That is why a sane human being, who does not want to fall into demonic species, must try to rid himself of these three poisons or enemies, capable of misleading the soul, plunging it into turmoil and illusion, to the point of depriving it of any chance of freeing itself from the traps of material existence, and, as the Lord says, leading it to its ruin.
When the soul comes into contact with material creation, its love for Krishna is transformed under the influence of illusion into lust. Unsatisfied, this lust transforms into anger, and anger into illusion, through which we remain prisoners of material existence. Lust is therefore indeed the greatest enemy of the embodied spiritual being.
It is what keeps the pure soul captive in matter.
Spiritual beings have a tiny amount of independence in this material world. But because they have misused it and because they have transformed their devotional attitude into a desire for material enjoyment, they have fallen under the sway of lust. The material world was created by the Lord to allow conditioned souls to satisfy their lustful or carnal desires, and after an endless series of vain and frustrating efforts, the human being begins to question his true nature.
As long as we have not controlled this lust, we will have to die and be reborn endlessly. Whether it is for sex, the tongue, the ears, the eyes, or touch, our senses attract us towards death. As long as we want to enjoy these senses, we will have to remain in this world and experience death, life after life.
Lust can never be satisfied by the pursuit of new material pleasures. The center of all material activities is sexual life, which is why the material universe is called: “The world of impermanence,” “The world of death,” or “The chains of sexual life.”
In truth, those who transgress the laws of the Lord are bound by the chains of sexual life. The progress of materialistic civilizations is based on sensory pleasure; it implies, for the embodied being, a prolongation of material existence.