6 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 1

and they are allowed regulated economic development or association of
woman for sex indulgence. Those who are above the karmis, that is, the
jiidnis, yogis and devotees, are strictly prohibited from sex indulgence.
The karmis are more or less devoid of atma-tattva knowledge, and as such,
their life is spent without spiritual profit. The human life is not meant for
hard labor for economic development, nor is it meant for sex indulgence
like the dogs and hogs. It is specially meant for making a solution to the
problems of material life and the miseries thereof. So the karmis waste
their valuable human life by sleeping and sex indulgence at night, and by
laboring hard in the daytime to accumulate wealth, and after doing so,
they try to improve the standard of materialistic life. The materialistic way
of life is described herein in a nutshell, and how foolishly men waste the
boon of human life is described as follows.

TEXT 4

eT WATAqGT |

a wat Red weal a gata le i

dehapatya-kalatradisv
atma-sainyesv asatsv apt

tesam pramatto nidhanam
pasyann api na pasyati

deha—body; apatya—children; kalatra—wife; adisu—and in everything in
relation to them; @tma—own; sainyesu—fighting soldiers; asatsu—fallible;
api—in spite of; tesam—of all of them; pramattah—too attached; nidhanam
—destruction; pasyan—having been experienced; api—although; na—does
not; pasyati—see it.

TRANSLATION

Persons devoid of atma-tattva do not inquire into the problems of life,
being too attached to the fallible soldiers like the body, children, wife,
etc. Although sufficiently experienced, still they do not see their inevitable
destruction.
