Text 8] Prahāda Instructs His Demoniac Schoolmates
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perform even material activities, one passes another twenty years wastefully.
PURPORT
Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one wastes twenty years in childhood and boyhood and another twenty years in old age, when one cannot perform any material activities and is full of anxiety about what is to be done by his sons and grandsons and how one's estate should be protected. Half of these years are spent in sleep. Furthermore, one wastes another thirty years sleeping at night during the rest of his life. Thus seventy out of one hundred years are wasted by a person who does not know the aim of life and how to utilize this human form.
TEXT 8
दुरापूरेण कामेन मोहेन च बलीयसा । शेषं गृहेषु सक्तस्य प्रपत्तस्यापयाति हि ॥ ८ ॥
durāpūreṇa kāmena mohena ca balīyasā śeṣam gṛheṣu saktasya pramattasyāpayāti hi
durāpūreṇa —which is never fulfilled;  kāmena —by a strong aspiration to enjoy the material world;  mohena —by bewilderment;  ca —also;  balīyasā —which is strong and formidable;  śeṣam —the remaining years of life;  gṛheṣu —to family life;  saktasya —of one who is too attached;  pramattasya —mad;  apayāti —wastefully pass;  hi —indeed.
TRANSLATION
One whose mind and senses are uncontrolled becomes increasingly attached to family life because of insatiable lusty desires and very strong illusion. In such a madman's life, the remaining years are also wasted because even during those years he cannot engage himself in devotional service.