Kṛṣṇa describes the ‘Downward Spiral’. Attaining birth after birth in demoniac families, these foolish souls never approach Him. Instead, they sink further and further down into the most abominable types of existence. Each life in ignorance makes the next life even more difficult, as they lose more and more contact with their spiritual conscience. This is the ‘Slippery Slope’ of the ego. When you refuse to listen to truth, your heart becomes hard. In the next life, you are born in an environment where truth is even harder to find. It is a tragic loss of opportunity. Kṛṣṇa notes that they never reach Him (‘Mām aprāpya’) because they have built a wall of pride that is too high to climb. They choose the darkness until it becomes their only reality. It teaches us that we must take our spiritual life seriously *now*. If we continue to ignore the Divine, it becomes harder to turn back later. Every choice we make is a vote for our future destination. We should use our human intelligence to break this cycle before the momentum of our negative habits pulls us too far down to hear the Lord’s voice.