Text 5] Prahlada Instructs His Demoniac Schoolmates 7
head, who can deliver one from the material clutches; carana-ambu-
jam—the lotus feet.
TRANSLATION

Endeavors merely for sense gratification or material happiness
through economic development are not to be performed, for they
result only in a loss of time and energy, with no actual profit. If
one’s endeavors are directed toward Krsna consciousness, one can
surely attain the spiritual platform of self-realization. There is no
such benefit from engaging oneself in economic development.

PURPORT

We see materialistic persons busily engaged in economic development
all day and all night, trying to increase their material opulence, but even
if we suppose that they get some benefit from such endeavors, that does
not solve the real problem of their lives. Nor do they know what the real
problem of life is. This is due to a lack of spiritual education. Especially
in the present age, every man is in darkness, in the bodily conception of
life, not knowing anything of the spirit soul and its needs. Misguided by
the blind leaders of society, people consider the body to be everything,
and they are engaged in trying to keep the body materially comfortable.
Such a civilization is condemned because it does not lead humanity
toward knowing the real goal of life. People are simply wasting time and
the valuable gift of the human form because a human being who does not
cultivate spiritual life but dies like the cats and dogs is degraded in his
next life. From human life, such a person is put into the cycle of con-
tinuous birth and death. Thus one loses the true benefit of human life,
which is to become Krsna conscious and solve life’s problems.

TEXT 5
TM Att FIs: Far ATATAA: |
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Tat they Tae fea GReTL NY II
tato yateta kusalah
ksemaya bhavam Gsritah
