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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 3, Ch. 30 ]
and mating. Human society competes nationally or individually, and in the attempt to be successful, the entire human society becomes full of diplomacy. We should always remember that in spite of all diplomacy and all intelligence in the struggle for our existence, everything will end in a second by the supreme will. Therefore, all our attempts to become happy in this material world are simply a delusion offered by  māyā .
TEXT 10
अर्थेरापादितेर्गुन्यां हिंसयेतस्ततश्च तान् । 
    पुष्णाति येषां पोषेण शेषशृग्यात्यधः स्वयम् ॥१०॥
arthair āpāditair gurvyā  
 hiṁsayetas-tataś ca tān  
 puṣṇāti yeṣāṁ poṣeṇa  
 śeṣa-bhug yāty adhaḥ svayam
arthaiḥ —by wealth;  āpāditaiḥ —secured;  gurvyā —great;  hiṁsayā —by violence;  itaḥ-tataḥ —here and there;  ca —and;  tān —them (family members);  puṣṇāti —he maintains;  yeṣāṁ —of whom;  poṣeṇa —because of the maintenance;  śeṣa —remnants;  bhuk —eating;  yāti —he goes;  adhaḥ —downwards;  svayam —himself.
TRANSLATION
He secures money by committing violence here and there, and although he employs it in the service of his family, he himself eats only a little portion of the food thus purchased, and he goes to hell for those for whom he earned the money in such an irregular way.
PURPORT
There is a Bengali proverb, “The person for whom I have stolen accuses me of being a thief.” The family members, for whom an attached person acts in so many criminal ways, are never satisfied. In illusion an attached person serves such family members, and by serving them he is destined to enter into a hellish condition of life. For example, a thief steals something to maintain his family, and he is caught and imprisoned. This is the sum and substance of material existence and attachment to material society, friendship and love. Although an attached family man is always engaged