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the foolish materialists cannot understand that they are simply wasting
time in producing material necessities which are destined to be vanquished
in due course of time. This waste of energy is due to the ignorance of the
mass of people, who do not know that they are eternal and that they
have an eternal engagement also. They do not know that this span of life
in a particular type of body is a flash in the eternal journey. Not knowing
this fact, they take the small flash of life to be everything, and they waste
time in improving economic conditions.

TEXT 3

TAA BA aga sla: |
watt werd ately Teazaafa FU 3 I

yad adhruvasya dehasya
sanubandhasya durmatih

dhruvani manyate mohad
grha-ksetra-vasini ca

yat—because; adhruvasya—temporary; dehasya—of the body; sa-
anubandhasya—with that which is related; durmatih—misguided person;
dhruvani—permanent; manyate—thinks; mohat—because of ignorance;
grha—home; ksetra—land; vasiini—wealth; ca—and.

TRANSLATION

The misguided materialist does not know that his very body is imper-
manent and that the attractions for home, land and wealth, which are in
relationship to that body, are also temporary. Out of ignorance only, he
thinks that everything is permanent.

PURPORT

The materialist thinks that persons engaged in Krsna consciousness are
crazy fellows wasting time by chanting Hare Krsna, but actually he does
not know that he himself is in the darkest region of craziness because of
accepting his body as permanent. And, in relation to his body, he accepts
his home, his country, his society and all other paraphernalia as perma-
nent. This materialistic acceptance of the permanency of home, land,
etc., is called the illusion of maya. This is clearly mentioned here. Mohad
