1308 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 30
himself hanged as a murderer. The direct offender is more responsible for
sinful activities than the indirect enjoyer. The great learned scholar Canakya
Pandita says, therefore, that whatever one has in his possession had better
be spent for the cause of sat, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, be-
cause one cannot take his possessions with him. They remain here, and
they will be lost. Either we leave the money or the money leaves us,
but we will be separated. The best use of money as long as it is within our
possession is to spend it to acquire Krsna consciousness.
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avaraniad aad fd gar |
GER FeTTVS Cafea Krag 122
daivendsaditam tasya
§amalarh niraye puman
bhunkte kutumba-posasya
hrta-vitta ivaturah
daivena—by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
asaditam—obtained; tasya—his; samalam—sinful reaction; niraye—in a
hellish condition; puman—the man; bhunkte—undergoes; kutumba-posasya
—of maintaining a family; hrta-vittah—one whose wealth is lost; iva—like;
aturah—suffering.
TRANSLATION
Thus, by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the
maintainer of kinsmen is put into a hellish condition to suffer for his sin-
ful activities, like a man who has lost his wealth.
PURPORT
The example set herein is that the sinful person suffers just like a man
who has lost his wealth. The human form of body is achieved by the con-
ditioned soul after many, many births and is a very valuable asset. Instead
of utilizing this life to get liberation, if one uses it simply for the purpose
of maintaining his so-called family and therefore performs foolish and un-
authorized action, he is compared to a man who has lost his wealth and
who, upon losing it, laments. When wealth is lost, there is no use lamenting,
but as long as there is wealth, one has to utilize it properly and thereby gain
