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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 32]
gratification, and the objective of the  gṛhastha  is self-realization. Here the Lord is speaking about the  gṛhamedhī , or the person who wants to remain in this material world. His activity is to enjoy material benefits by performing religious rituals for economic development and thereby ultimately satisfy the senses. He does not want anything more. Such a person works very hard throughout his life to become very rich and eat very nicely and drink. By giving some charity for pious activity he can go to a higher planetary atmosphere in the heavenly planets in his next life, but he does not want to stop the repetition of birth and death and finish with the concomitant miserable factors of material existence. Such a person is called a  gṛhamedhī .
A  gṛhastha  is a person who lives with family, wife, children and relatives but has no attachment for them. He prefers to live in family life rather than as a mendicant or  sannyāsī , but his chief aim is to achieve self-realization or to come to the standard of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Here, however, Lord Kapiladeva is speaking about the  gṛhamedhīs , who have made their aim the materialistically prosperous life, which they achieve by sacrificial ceremonies, by charities and by good work. They are posted in good positions, and since they know that they are using up their assets of pious activities, they again and again perform activities of sense gratification. It is said by Prahlāda Mahārāja,  punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām : they prefer to chew the already chewed. Again and again they experience the material pangs, even if they are rich and prosperous, but they do not want to give up this kind of life.
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स चापि यगवद्धर्मात्काममुदः पराङ्मुखः ।
यजते क्रतुमिर्देवान् पितृंश्च श्रद्धयान्वितः ॥ २ ॥
sa cāpi bhagavad-dharmāt  
 kāma-mūḍhaḥ parāṅ-mukhaḥ  
 yajate kratubhir devān  
 pitṝṁś ca śraddhayānvitaḥ
saḥ —he;  ca api —moreover;  bhagavat-dharmāt —from devotional service;  kāma-mūḍhaḥ —infatuated by lust;  parāk-mukhaḥ —having the face turned away;  yajate —worships;  kratubhiḥ —with sacrificial ceremonies;  devān —the demigods;  pitṝṁ —the forefathers;  ca —and;  śraddhayā —with faith;  anvitaḥ —endowed.