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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 6]
farthing is lost by mismanagement. Thus although an attached person in material existence always suffers from threefold miseries, he does not develop a distaste for the way of material existence.
PURPORT
A foolish man does not understand the values of human life, nor does he understand how he is wasting his valuable life simply for the maintenance of his family members. He is expert in calculating the loss of pounds, shillings and pence, but he is so foolish that he does not know how much money he is losing, even according to material considerations. Cāṇakya Paṇḍita gives the example that a moment of life cannot be purchased in exchange for millions of dollars. A foolish person, however, wastes such a valuable life without knowing how much he is losing, even according to monetary calculations. Although a materialistic person is expert in calculating costs and doing business, he does not realize that he is misusing his costly life for want of knowledge. Even though such a materialistic person is always suffering threefold miseries, he is not intelligent enough to cease his materialistic way of life.
TEXT 15
वित्तेषु नित्याभिनिविष्टचेता 
    विद्वांश्च दोषं परवित्तहर्तुः। 
    प्रेत्येह वायाप्यजितेन्द्रियस्त- 
    दशान्तकामो हरते कुटुम्बी ॥१५॥
vitteṣu nityābhiniviṣṭa-cetā  
 vidvāṁś ca doṣaṁ para-vitta-hartuḥ  
 pretyeha vāthāpy ajitendriyas tad  
 aśānta-kāmo harate kuṭumbī
vitteṣu —in material wealth;  nitya-abhiniviṣṭa-cetāḥ —whose mind is always absorbed;  vidvān —having learned;  ca —also;  doṣaṁ —the fault;  para-vitta-hartuḥ —of one who steals the money of others by cheating or by transactions on the black market;  pretya —after dying;  iha —in this