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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 30]
himself hanged as a murderer. The direct offender is more responsible for sinful activities than the indirect enjoyer. The great learned scholar Cāṇakya Paṇḍita says, therefore, that whatever one has in his possession had better be spent for the cause of  sat , or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, because one cannot take his possessions with him. They remain here, and they will be lost. Either we leave the money or the money leaves us, but we will be separated. The best use of money as long as it is within our possession is to spend it to acquire Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
TEXT 32
दैवेनासादितं तस्य शमलं निरये पुमान् ।
भूङ्क्ते कुटुम्बपोषस्य हृतवित्त इवातुरः ॥३२॥
daivenāsāditam tasya śamalam niraye pumān bhuṅkte kuṭumba-poṣasya hṛta-vitta ivāturaḥ
daivena —by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  āsāditam —obtained;  tasya —his;  śamalam —sinful reaction;  niraye —in a hellish condition;  pumān —the man;  bhuṅkte —undergoes;  kuṭumba-poṣasya —of maintaining a family;  hṛta-vittaḥ —one whose wealth is lost;  iva —like;  āturaḥ —suffering.
TRANSLATION
Thus, by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the maintainer of kinsmen is put into a hellish condition to suffer for his sinful activities, like a man who has lost his wealth.
PURPORT
The example set herein is that the sinful person suffers just like a man who has lost his wealth. The human form of body is achieved by the conditioned soul after many, many births and is a very valuable asset. Instead of utilizing this life to get liberation, if one uses it simply for the purpose of maintaining his so-called family and therefore performs foolish and unauthorized action, he is compared to a man who has lost his wealth and who, upon losing it, laments. When wealth is lost, there is no use lamenting, but as long as there is wealth, one has to utilize it properly and thereby gain