1368 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 32
gratification, and the objective of the grhastha is self-realization. Here the
Lord is speaking about the grhamedhi, or the person who wants to remain
in this material world. His activity is to enjoy material benefits by perform-
ing religious rituals for economic development and thereby ultimately
satisfy the senses. He does not want anything more. Such a person works
very hard throughout his life to become very rich and eat very nicely and
drink. By giving some charity for pious activity he can go to a higher
planetary atmosphere in the heavenly planets in his next life, but he does
not want to stop the repetition of birth and death and finish with the
concomitant miserable factors of material existence. Such a person is
called a grhamedhi.

A grhastha is a person who lives with family, wife, children and relatives
but has no attachment for them. He prefers to live in family life rather
than as a mendicant or sannyasi, but his chief aim is to achieve self-realiza-
tion or to come to the standard of Krsna consciousness. Here, however,
Lord Kapiladeva is speaking about the grhamedhis, who have made their
aim the materialistically prosperous life, which they achieve by sacrificial
ceremonies, by charities and by good work. They are posted in good posi-
tions, and since they know that they are using up their assets of pious
activities, they again and again perform activities of sense gratification. It
is said by Prahlada Maharaja, punah punas carvita-carvananam: they prefer
to chew the already chewed. Again and again they experience the material
pangs, even if they are rich and prosperous, but they do not want to give
up this kind of life.

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sa capi bhagavad-dharmat
kama-miidhah paran-mukhah
yajate kratubhir devan
pitrms ca sraddhayanvitah

sah—he; ca api—moreover; bhagavat-dharmat—from devotional service;
kama-miidhah—infatuated by lust; parak-mukhah—having the face turned
away; yajate—worships; kratubhih—with sacrificial ceremonies; devan—the
demigods; pit7n—the forefathers; ca—and; sraddhaya—with faith; anvitah—
endowed.
