Text 8] Prahlada Instructs His Demoniac Schoolmates 11
perform even material activities, one passes another twenty years
wastefully.
PURPORT

Without Krsna consciousness, one wastes twenty years in childhood
and boyhood and another twenty years in old age, when one cannot per-
form any material activities and is full of anxiety about what is to be
done by his sons and grandsons and how one’s estate should be protected.
Half of these years are spent in sleep. Furthermore, one wastes another
thirty years sleeping at night during the rest of his life. Thus seventy out
of one hundred years are wasted by a person who does not know the aim
of life and how to utilize this human form.

TEXT 8
GTN WA AeA FT TSTTAT |
at Tey aKa Tavarvata fF UN <I
durapiirena kamena
mohena ca baliyasa
Sesam grhesu saktasya
pramattasyapayati hi

durdpirena—which is never fulfilled; kamena—by a strong aspira-
tion to enjoy the material world; mohena—by bewilderment; ca—also;
baliyasé—which is strong and formidable; sesam—the remaining years
of life; grhesu—to family life; saktasya—of one who is too attached;
pramattasya—mad; apayati—wastefully pass; hi—indeed.

TRANSLATION

One whose mind and senses are uncontrolled becomes in-
creasingly attached to family life because of insatiable lusty desires
and very strong illusion. In such a madman’s life, the remaining
years are also wasted because even during those years he cannot
engage himself in devotional service.
