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Śrimad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 13]
PURPORT
The material household is actually a hole of fruitive activity. To earn a livelihood, one engages in different industries and trades, and sometimes one performs great sacrifices to go to higher planetary systems. Apart from this, at least everyone is engaged in earning a livelihood in some profession or occupation. In these dealings, one has to meet many undesirable people, and their behavior is compared to the biting of mosquitoes. This creates very undesirable conditions. Even in the midst of these disturbances, one imagines that he is going to construct a grand house and live there permanently, although he knows that he cannot. Gold is compared to a quickly fleeting fiend, which appears like a meteor in the sky. It displays itself for a moment and is then gone. Generally  karmīs  are attracted to gold or money, but these are compared herein to ghosts and witches.
TEXT 4
निवासतोयद्रविणात्मबुद्धि-  
 स्ततस्ततो धावति भो अटव्याम् ।  
 कचिच्च वात्योत्थितपांसुधूत्रा  
 दिशो न जानाति रजस्वलाक्षः ॥ ४ ॥
nivāsa-toya-draviṇātma-buddhis 
  tatas tato dhāvati bho aṭavyām 
  kvacic ca vātyotthita-pāmsu-dhūmrā 
  diśo na jānāti rajas-valākṣaḥ
nivāsa —residential place;  toya —water;  draviṇa —wealth;  ātma-buddhiḥ —who considers these material things the  ātma , or self;  tataḥ —here and there;  dhāvati —he runs;  bhoḥ —O King;  aṭavyām —on that forest path of material existence;  kvacit ca —and sometimes;  vātyā —by the whirlwind;  utthita —raised;  pāmsu —by dust;  dhūmrāḥ —appear smoke-colored;  diśaḥ —the directions;  na —not;  jānāti —knows;  rajaḥ-vala-akṣaḥ —whose eyes are covered by the dust of the wind or who is captivated by his wife during her menstrual period.