CHAPTER THIRTY
Description by Lord Kapila of Adverse Fruitive Activities
TEXT 1
कपिल उवाच
तस्यैतस्य जनो नूनं नायं वेदोरुविक्रमम् ।
काल्यमानोऽपि बलिनो वायोरिव घनावलिः ॥ १ ॥
kapila uvāca tasyaitasya jano nūnam nāyam vedoru-vikramam kālyamāno 'pi balino vāyor iva ghanāvaliḥ
kapilaḥ uvāca —Lord Kapila said;  tasya etasya —of this very time factor;  janaḥ —person;  nūnam —certainly;  na —not;  ayam —this;  veda —knows;  uru-vikramam —the great strength;  kālyamānaḥ —being carried off;  api —although;  balinaḥ —powerful;  vāyoḥ —of the wind;  iva —like;  ghana —of clouds;  āvaliḥ —a mass.
TRANSLATION
The Personality of Godhead said: As a mass of clouds does not know the powerful influence of the wind, so a person engaged in material consciousness does not know the powerful strength of the time factor by which he is being carried.
PURPORT
The great politician- paṇḍita  named Cāṇakya said that even one moment of time cannot be returned even if one is prepared to pay millions of dollars. One cannot calculate the amount of loss there is in wasting valuable time. Either materially or spiritually, one should be very alert in utilizing
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