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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 13]
PURPORT
The words  kṛpaṇasya jijīviṣoḥ  are significant. There are two classes of men. One is called the  kṛpaṇa , and the other is called the  brāhmaṇa . The  kṛpaṇa , or the miserly man, has no estimation of his material body, but the  brāhmaṇa  has a true estimation of himself and the material body. The  kṛpaṇa , having a wrong estimation of his material body, wants to enjoy sense gratification with his utmost strength, and even in old age he wants to become a young man by medical treatment or otherwise. Dhṛtarāṣṭra is addressed herein as a  kṛpaṇa  because without any estimation of his material body he wants to live at any cost, and Vidura is trying to open his eyes to see that he cannot live more than his term and that he must prepare for death. Since death is inevitable, why should he accept such a humiliating position for living? It is better to take the right path, even at the risk of death. Human life is meant for finishing all kinds of miseries of material existence, and life should be so regulated that one can achieve the desired goal. Dhṛtarāṣṭra, due to his wrong conception of life, had already spoiled eighty percent of his achieved energy, so it behooved him to utilize the remaining days of his miserly life for the ultimate good. Such a life is called miserly because one cannot properly utilize the assets of the human form of life. Such a miserly man, by good luck only, meets a self-realized soul like Vidura and by his instruction gets rid of the nescience of material existence.
TEXT 26
गतस्वार्थमिमं देहं विरक्तो मुक्तबन्धनः । अविज्ञातगतिर्जह्यात् स वै धीर उदाहृतः ॥२६॥
gata-svārtham imam deham   virakto mukta-bandhanaḥ   avijñāta-gatir jahyāt   sa vai dhīra udāhṛtaḥ
gata-svārtham —without being properly utilized;  imam —this;  deham —material body;  viraktaḥ —indifferently;  mukta —being freed;  bandhanaḥ —from all obligations;  avijñāta-gatiḥ —unknown destination;  jahyāt —one should give up this body;  saḥ —such a person;  vai —certainly;  dhīraḥ —undisturbed;  udāhṛtaḥ —is said to be so.