1290 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 30

and mating. Human society competes nationally or individually, and in
the attempt to be successful, the entire human society becomes full of
diplomacy. We should always remember that in spite of all diplomacy
and all intelligence in the struggle for our existence, everything will end in
a second by the supreme will. Therefore, all our attempts to become happy
in this material world are simply a delusion offered by maya.

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arthair dpaditair gurvya
himsayetas-tatas ca tan

pusnati yesam posena
§esa-bhug yaty adhah svayam

arthaih—by wealth; Gpaditaih—secured; gurvya—great; himsaya—by vio-
lence; itah-tatah—here and there; ca—and; tan—them (family members);
pusnati—he maintains; yesam—of whom; posena—because of the mainten-
ance; sesa—remnants; bhuk—eating; yati-he goes; adhah—downwards;
svayam— himself.

TRANSLATION

He secures money by committing violence here and there, and although
he employs it in the service of his family, he himself eats only a little
portion of the food thus purchased, and he goes to hell for those for whom
he earned the money in such an irregular way.

PURPORT

There is a Bengali proverb, “The person for whom | have stolen accuses
me of being a thief.” The family members, for whom an attached person
acts in so many criminal ways, are never satisfied. In illusion an attached
person serves such family members, and by serving them he is destined to
enter into a hellish condition of life. For example, a thief steals something
to maintain his family, and he is caught and imprisoned. This is the sum
and substance of material existence and attachment to material society,
friendship and love. Although an attached family man is always engaged
