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suicide. Prahlāda Mahārāja therefore recommended that in due time, at least after one's fiftieth year, one must give up household life and go to the forest.  Vanam gato yad dharim āśrayeta . There one should seek shelter at the lotus feet of Hari.
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यत् पृथिव्यां त्रीहियवं हिरण्यं पशवः स्त्रियः ।
न दुह्यन्ति मनःप्रीतिं पुंसः कामहतस्य ते ॥१३॥
yat pṛthivyām vrīhi-yavam hiraṇyam paśavaḥ striyaḥ na duhyanti manaḥ-prītim puṁsaḥ kāma-hatasya te
yat—what; pṛthivyām—within this world; vrīhi—food grains, rice; yavam—barley; hiraṇyam—gold; paśavaḥ—animals; striyaḥ—wives or other women; na duhyanti—do not give; manaḥ-prītim—satisfaction of the mind; puṁsaḥ—to a person; kāma-hatasya—because of being victimized by lusty desires; te—they.
TRANSLATION
A person who is lusty cannot satisfy his mind even if he has enough of everything in this world, including rice, barley and other food grains, gold, animals and women. Nothing can satisfy him.
PURPORT
Improvement of one's economic condition is the aim and object of a materialist, but there is no end to this material advancement, for if one cannot control his lusty desires, he will never be pleased, even if he gets all the material wealth of the world. In this age we see much material improvement, but still people are struggling to get more and more material opulence.  Manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati . Although every living entity is a part of the Supreme Being, because of lusty desires one continuously struggles for so-called betterment of one's