Text 14] The Residents of Jambūdvipa Offer Prayers
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activities. Many householders, although well-educated in the knowledge of the  Vedas , become attached to family life. They are compared herein to crocodiles out of water, for they are devoid of all spiritual strength. Their greatness is like that of a young husband and wife who, though uneducated, praise one another and become attracted to their own temporary beauty. This kind of greatness is appreciated only by low-class men with no qualifications.
Everyone should therefore seek the shelter of the Supreme Soul, the source of all living entities. No one should waste his time in the so-called happiness of materialistic household life. In the Vedic civilization, this type of crippled life is allowed only until one's fiftieth year, when one must give up family life and enter either the order of  vānaprastha  (independent retired life for cultivation of spiritual knowledge) or  sannyāsa  (the renounced order, in which one completely takes shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead).
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तस्माद्रजोरागविषादमन्यु-
मानस्पृहाभयदैन्याधिमूलम्
हित्वा गृहं संसृतिचक्रवालं
नृसिंहपादं भजताकुतोमयमिति ॥१४॥
tasmād rajo-rāga-viṣāda-manyu- māna-spṛhā-bhayadainyādhimūlam hitvā gṛhaṁ saṁsṛti-cakravālam nṛsiṁha-pādaṁ bhajatākutobhayam iti
tasmāt —therefore;  rajaḥ —of passion or material desires;  rāga —attachment for material things;  viṣāda —then disappointment;  manyu —anger;  māna-spṛhā —the desire to be respectable in society;  bhaya —fear;  dainya —of poverty;  adhimūlam —the root cause;  hitvā —giving up;  gṛham —household life;  saṁsṛti-cakravālam —the cycle of repeated birth and death;  nṛsiṁha-pādam —the lotus feet of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva;  bhajata —worship;  akutaḥ-bhayam —the shelter of fearlessness;  iti —thus.