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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 3, Ch. 30 ]
the time which he has at his disposal. A conditioned soul lives in a particular body for a fixed measurement of time, and it is recommended in the scriptures that within that small measurement of time one has to finish Kṛṣṇa consciousness and thus gain release from the influence of the time factor. But, unfortunately, those who are not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness are carried away by the strong power of time without their knowledge, as clouds are carried by the wind.
TEXT 2
यं यमर्थम्रुपादत्ते दुःखेन सुखहेतवे । तं तं धुनोति भगवान् पुमाञ्छोचति यत्कृते ॥ २ ॥
yam yam artham upādatte duḥkhena sukha-hetave tam tam dhunoti bhagavān pumāñ chocati yat-kṛte
yam yam—whatever; artham—object; upādatte—one acquires; duḥkhena—with difficulty; sukha-hetave—for happiness; tam tam—that; dhunoti—destroys; bhagavān—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pumāñ—the person; śocati—laments; yat-kṛte—for which reason.
TRANSLATION
Whatever is produced by the materialist with great pain and labor for so-called happiness, the Supreme Personality, as the time factor, destroys, and for this reason the conditioned soul laments.
PURPORT
The main function of the time factor, which is a representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is to destroy everything. The materialists, in material consciousness, are engaged in producing so many things in the name of economic development. They think that by advancing in satisfying the material needs of man they will be happy, but they forget that everything they have produced will be destroyed in due course of time. From history we can see that there were many powerful empires on the surface of the globe that were constructed with great pain and great perseverance, but in due course of time they have all been destroyed. Still