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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 14]
to material sense gratification, and they cannot appreciate the miserable condition of material life, neither in this life nor in the next. Therefore the  Vedas  enjoin that one should awaken to spiritual consciousness and utilize all his activities to attain the favor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord Himself says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.27):
yat karoṣi yad aśnāsi yaj juhoṣi dadāsi yat yat tapasyasi kaunteya tat kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam
“O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me.”
The results of all one’s activities should be utilized not for sense gratification but for the mission of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Lord gives all information in  Bhagavad-gītā  about the aim of life, and at the end of  Bhagavad-gītā  He demands surrender unto Him. People do not generally like this demand, but one who cultivates spiritual knowledge for many births eventually surrenders unto the lotus feet of the Lord ( bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate ).
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मुक्तस्ततो यदि बन्धाद्देवदत्त उपाच्छिनत्ति तस्मादपि विष्णुमित्र इत्यनवस्थितिः ॥ २४ ॥
muktas tato yadi bandhād devadatta upācchinatti tasmād api viṣṇumitra ity anavasthitiḥ.
muktaḥ—liberated; tataḥ—from that; yadi—if; bandhāt—from the government imprisonment or being beaten by the protector of the woman; deva-dattaḥ—person named Devadatta; upācchinatti—takes the money from him; tasmāt—from the person named Devadatta; api—again; viṣṇu-mitraḥ—a person named Viṣṇumitra; iti—thus; anavasthitiḥ—the riches do not stay in one place but pass from one hand to another.