न साम्परायः प्रतिभाति बालं
प्रमाद्यन्तं वित्तमोहेन मूढम् ।
अयं लोको नास्ति पर इति मानी
पुनः पुनर्वशमापद्यते मे ॥ ६॥
na sāmparāyaḥ pratibhāti bālaṃ
pramādyantaṃ vittamohena mūḍham .
ayaṃ loko nāsti para iti mānī
punaḥ punarvaśamāpadyate me .. 6..
The Hereafter never reveals itself to a person devoid of discrimination, heedless and perplexed by the delusion of wealth. “This world alone exists,” he thinks, “and there is no other.” Again and again he comes under my sway.
Commentary:
Children are these people living in this world. They do not know what is above the world. Do children know what is outside the world? Children indeed are all people, all humanity, because mankind as a whole is wrongly under the impression that this world is complete in itself and whatever we get from this world is all we can expect in our life, not knowing that there is a life beyond this world.
Here is a dig at atheists and people who do not believe that there is another world different from this world. Like children, they do not apprehend the existence of a world beyond this world. Why is it so? Because they are giddy with the power and intoxication of wealth that has deprived them of their understanding, and they seem to be satisfied with this earthly joy. They do not know that there is something else waiting for them, which they will have to confront one day or the other. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. We should not be under the impression we can go scot-free just because we do not know that there is another world. One day we will have to know it, and we will have to pay the price for our ignorance. People say, “This world is all; there is no other world.” Such people come under the clutch of death. They perish, and they get reborn only to perish once again. Sorrow shall be their lot. Yama shall control them because they do not believe in other worlds and the laws that are transcendent to this physical world.
Swami Vivekananda Says —
Yama said, “That which is beyond never rises before the mind of a thoughtless child deluded by the folly of riches. ‘This world exists, the other does not,’ thinking thus they come again and again under my power.[Source]
Very few men ask for the truth, fewer dare to learn the truth, and fewest of all dare to follow it in all its practical bearings. It is not their fault; it is all weakness of the brain.[Source]
Among thousands of men, one strives for perfection and even among those who strive and succeed, one knows Me in essence.
— Bhagavad Gita 7.3