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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 2]
TRANSLATION
Pretentious religious householder life, in which one is attracted to material happiness and thus also attracted to the superficial explanation of the Vedas, robs one of all intelligence and attaches one to fruitive activities as all in all.
PURPORT
Persons who identify with bodily existence are attached to the fruitive activities described in the Vedic literature. For example, in the  Vedas  it is said that one who observes the  cāturmāsya  vow will attain eternal happiness in the heavenly kingdom. In  Bhagavad-gītā , it is said that this flowery language of the  Vedas  mostly attracts persons who identify with the body. To them such happiness as that of the heavenly kingdom is everything; they do not know that beyond that there is the spiritual kingdom or kingdom of God, and they have no knowledge that one can go there. Thus they are bereft of transcendental knowledge. Such persons are very careful in observing the rules and regulations of household life in order to be promoted in the next life to the moon or other heavenly planets. It is stated here that such persons are attached to  grāmya-sukha , which means material happiness, without knowledge of eternal, blissful, spiritual life.
TEXT 23
बुद्ध्या पराभिभ्यायिन्या विस्मृतात्मगतिः पशुः ।
स्त्रीकामः सोऽस्त्वतितरां दक्षो बस्तमुखोऽचिरात् ॥२३॥
buddhyā parābhidhyāyinyā vismṛtāmagatiḥ paśuḥ strī-kāmaḥ so'stv atitarām dakṣo basta-mukho'cirāt
buddhyā —by intelligence;  para-abhidhyāyinyā —by accepting the body as the self;  vismṛta-ātmagatiḥ —having forgotten the knowledge of  Viṣṇu ;  paśuḥ —an animal;  strī-kāmaḥ —attached to sex life;  saḥ —he (Dakṣa);  astu —let;  atitarām —excessive;  dakṣaḥ —Dakṣa;  basta-mukhaḥ —the face of a goat;  acirāt —in a very short time.
TRANSLATION
Dakṣa has accepted the body as all in all. Therefore, since he has forgotten the  Viṣṇupāda  or  Viṣṇugati  and is attached to sex life only, within a short time he will have the face of a goat.