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Description of Adverse Fruitive Activities
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in getting money by hook or by crook for the maintenance of his family, he cannot enjoy more than what he could consume even without such criminal activities. A man who eats eight ounces of foodstuffs may have to maintain a big family and earn money by any means to support that family, but he himself is not offered more than what he can eat, and sometimes he eats the remnants that are left after his family members are fed. Even by earning money by unfair means, he cannot enjoy life for himself. That is called the covering illusion of  māyā .
The process of illusory service to society, country and community is exactly the same everywhere; the same principle is applicable even to big national leaders. A national leader who is very great in serving his country is sometimes killed by his countrymen because of irregular service. In other words, one cannot satisfy his dependents by this illusory service, although one cannot get out of the service because servant is his constitutional position. A living entity is constitutionally part and parcel of the Supreme Being, but he forgets that he has to render service to the Supreme Being and diverts his attention to serve others; this is called  māyā . By serving others he falsely thinks that he is master. The head of a family thinks of himself as the master of the family, or the leader of a nation thinks of himself as the master of the nation, whereas actually he is serving, and by serving  māyā  he is gradually going to hell. Therefore, a sane man should come to the point of  Kṛṣṇa  consciousness and engage in the service of the Supreme Lord, applying his whole life, all of his wealth, his entire intelligence and his full power of speaking.
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वार्तायां दुष्यमानायामारब्धायां पुनः पुनः ।
लोमामिभूतो निःसच्चः परार्थे कुरुते स्पृहाम् ॥११॥
vārtāyām lupyamānāyām ārabdhāyām punaḥ punaḥ lobhābhibhūto niḥsattvaḥ parārthe kurute spṛhām
vārtāyām—when his occupation; lupyamānāyām—is hampered; ārabdhāyām—undertaken; punaḥ punaḥ—again and again; lobha—by greed; abhibhūtaḥ—overwhelmed; niḥsattvaḥ—ruined; para-arthe—for the wealth of others; kurute spṛhām—he longs.