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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 5]
the morning, catching a local train and being packed in a compartment. He has to stand for an hour or two in order to reach his place of business. Then again he takes a bus to get to the office. At the office he works hard from nine to five; then he takes two or three hours to return home. After eating, he has sex and goes to sleep. For all this hardship, his only happiness is a little sex.  Yan maithunādi-grhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham.  Rṣabhadeva clearly states that human life is not meant for this kind of existence, which is enjoyed even by dogs and hogs. Indeed, dogs and hogs do not have to work so hard for sex. A human being should try to live in a different way and should not try to imitate dogs and hogs. The alternative is mentioned. Human life is meant for  tapasya , austerity and penance. By  tapasya , one can get out of the material clutches. When one is situated in  Kṛṣṇa  consciousness, devotional service, his happiness is guaranteed eternally. By taking to  bhakti-yoga , devotional service, one's existence is purified. The living entity is seeking happiness life after life, but he can make a solution to all his problems simply by practicing  bhakti-yoga . Then he immediately becomes eligible to return home, back to Godhead. As confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  (4.9):
janma karma ca me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so 'rjuna
“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.”
TEXT 2
महत्सेवां द्वारमाहुर्विमुक्ते- स्तमोद्धारं योषितां सङ्ग्रिसङ्गम् । महान्तस्ते समचित्ताः प्रशान्ता विमन्यवः सुहृदः साधवो ये ॥ २ ॥
mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimuktes tamo-dvāraṁ yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam