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Description of Adverse Fruitive Activities
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the foolish materialists cannot understand that they are simply wasting time in producing material necessities which are destined to be vanquished in due course of time. This waste of energy is due to the ignorance of the mass of people, who do not know that they are eternal and that they have an eternal engagement also. They do not know that this span of life in a particular type of body is a flash in the eternal journey. Not knowing this fact, they take the small flash of life to be everything, and they waste time in improving economic conditions.
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यदश्वस्य देहस्य सानुबन्धस्य दुर्मतिः ।
ध्रुवाणि मन्यते मोहाद् गृहक्षेत्रवस्तुनि च ॥ ३ ॥
yad adhruvasya dehasya sānubandhasya durmatiḥ dhruvāṇi manyate mohād gṛha-kṣetra-vasūni ca
yat —because;  adhruvasya —temporary;  dehasya —of the body;  sa-anubandhasya —with that which is related;  durmatiḥ —misguided person;  dhruvāṇi —permanent;  manyate —thinks;  mohāt —because of ignorance;  gṛha —home;  kṣetra —land;  vasūni —wealth;  ca —and.
TRANSLATION
The misguided materialist does not know that his very body is impermanent and that the attractions for home, land and wealth, which are in relationship to that body, are also temporary. Out of ignorance only, he thinks that everything is permanent.
PURPORT
The materialist thinks that persons engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness are crazy fellows wasting time by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, but actually he does not know that he himself is in the darkest region of craziness because of accepting his body as permanent. And, in relation to his body, he accepts his home, his country, his society and all other paraphernalia as permanent. This materialistic acceptance of the permanency of home, land, etc., is called the illusion of  māyā . This is clearly mentioned here.  Mohād