(Bhagavatham 5.5.4 – 5.5.6)

Rishabha continues, “Why human beings are not expected to crave for sensory pleasures? Because, when you try to please the senses, your power of discrimination loses. That is the basis for all demerits. This clouded intellect leads to sins and brings misery.

Again and again you will have to take the human body to experience the resulting Karmaphalam. You will fall into the cycle of births and deaths”.

He warns, “Do not think that you will not have to suffer for a long time as the body is perishable and hence the misery is temporary.

As long as you do not desire for the Knowledge of the Self, you will have pride in the body and hence stuck in body consciousness.

Death implies the death of gross body only; the subtle body (mind) carries the Vasanas and takes birth again to undergo the Karmaphalam”.

The end of ignorance starts with the introspection of your own Self. When your craving for Karma is strong, your ‘self discovery’ or exploration of the Self will be weak.