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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 6]
PURPORT
This is the account of one hundred years of life. Although in this age a lifetime of one hundred years is generally not possible, even if one has one hundred years, the calculation is that fifty years are wasted in sleeping, twenty years in childhood and boyhood, and twenty years in invalidity ( jarā-vyādhi ). This leaves only a few more years, but because of too much attachment to household life, those years are also spent with no purpose, without God consciousness. Therefore, one should be trained to be a perfect  brahmacārī  in the beginning of life and then to be perfect in sense control, following the regulative principles, if one becomes a householder. From household life one is ordered to accept  vānaprastha  life and go to the forest and then accept  sannyāsa . That is the perfection of life. From the very beginning of life, those who are  ajitendriya , who cannot control their senses, are educated only for sense gratification, as we have seen in the Western countries. Thus the entire duration of a life of even one hundred years is wasted and misused, and at the time of death one transmigrates to another body, which may not be human. At the end of one hundred years, one who has not acted as a human being in a life of  tapasya  (austerity and penance) must certainly be embodied again in a body like those of cats, dogs and hogs. Therefore this life of lusty desires and sense gratification is extremely risky.
TEXT 9
को गृहेषु पुमान्सक्तमात्मानमजितेन्द्रियः। 
  स्नेहपाशैर्द्देवेद्ध्रुत्सहेत विमोचितुम् ॥ ९ ॥
ko gṛheṣu pumān saktam  
 ātmānam ajitendriyaḥ  
 sneha-pāśair dṛḍhair baddham  
 utsaheta vimocitum
kaḥ —what;  gṛheṣu —to household life;  pumān —man;  saktam —very much attached;  ātmānam —his own self, the soul;  ajita-indriyaḥ —who has not conquered the senses;  sneha-pāśaiḥ —by the ropes of affection;  dṛḍhaiḥ —very strong;  baddham —bound hand and foot;  utsaheta —is able;  vimocitum —to liberate from material bondage.