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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 1]
sands;  apaśyatām —of the blind;  ātma-tattvam —knowledge of self, the ultimate truth;  grheṣu —at home;  grha-medhinām —of persons too materially engrossed.
TRANSLATION
Those persons who are materially engrossed, being blind to the knowledge of ultimate truth, have many things as subject matter for hearing in the human society, O Emperor.
PURPORT
In the revealed scriptures there are two nomenclatures for the householder's life. One is  grhastha , and the other is  grhamedhī . The  grhasthas  are those who live together with wife and children, but live transcendentally for realizing the ultimate truth. The  grhamedhīs , however, are those who live only for the benefit of the family members, extended or centralized, and thus are envious of others. The word  medhī  indicates jealousy of others. The  grhamedhīs , being interested in family affairs only, are certainly envious of others. Therefore, one  grhamedhī  is not on good terms with another  grhamedhī , and in the extended form, one community, society or nation is not on good terms with another counterpart of selfish interest. In the age of Kali, all the householders are jealous of one another because they are blind to the knowledge of ultimate truth. They have many subject matters for hearing, namely political, scientific, social, economic and so on, but due to a poor fund of knowledge, they set aside the question of the ultimate miseries of life, namely miseries of birth, death, old age and disease. Factually, the human life is meant for making an ultimate solution to birth, death, old age and disease, but the  grhamedhīs , being illusioned by the material nature, forget everything about self-realization. The ultimate solution of the problems of life is to go back to home, back to Godhead, and thus, as stated in the  Bhagavad-gītā , the miseries of material existence—birth, death, old age and disease—are removed. (Bg. 8.16)
The process of going back to home, back to Godhead, is to hear about the Supreme Lord, His name, form, attributes, pastimes, paraphernalia and variegatedness. Foolish people do not know this. They want to hear something about the name, form, etc., of everything temporary, but they do not know how to utilize this propensity of hearing for the ultimate good. Misguided as they are, they also create some false literatures about the