12 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 6
PURPORT

This is the account of one hundred years of life. Although in this age a
lifetime of one hundred years is generally not possible, even if one has
one hundred years, the calculation is that fifty years are wasted in sleep-
ing, twenty years in childhood and boyhood, and twenty years in in-
validity (jara-vyddhi). This leaves only a few more years, but because of
too much attachment to household life, those years are also spent with no
purpose, without God consciousness. Therefore, one should be trained to
be a perfect brahmacari in the beginning of life and then to be perfect in
sense control, following the regulative principles, if one becomes a
householder. From household life one is ordered to accept vaénaprastha
life and go to the forest and then accept sannyasa. That is the perfection
of life. From the very beginning of life, those who are ajitendriya, who
cannot control their senses, are educated only for sense gratification, as
we have seen in the Western countries. Thus the entire duration of a life
of even one hundred years is wasted and misused, and at the time of
death one transmigrates to another body, which may not be human. At
the end of one hundred years, one who has not acted as a human being in
a life of tapasya (austerity and penance) must certainly be embodied
again in a body like those of cats, dogs and hogs. Therefore this life of

lusty desires and sense gratification is extremely risky.

TEXT 9
Bl WEE garawarearratsatesa |
aemietagae = fT NG II
ko grhesu pumaén saktam
atmanam ajitendriyah
sneha-pasair drdhair baddham
utsaheta vimocitum

_ kah—what; grhesu—to household life; pumaén—man; saktam—very
much attached; dtmanam—his own self, the soul; ajita-indriyah—who
has not conquered the senses; sneha-pdsaih—by the ropes of affection;
drdhaih—very strong; baddham—bound hand and foot; utsaheta—is

able; vimocitum—to liberate from material bondage.
