Text 13] King Yayati Achieves Liberation 67
suicide. Prahlada Maharaja therefore recommended that in due time, at
least after one’s fiftieth year, one must give up household life and go to
the forest. Vanam gato yad dharim dsrayeta. There one should seek
shelter at the lotus feet of Hari.
TEXT 13
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yat prthivyam vrihi-yavam
hiranyam pasavah striyah
na duhyanti manah-pritim
pumsah kéma-hatasya te

yat—what; prthivyam—within this world; vrihi—food grains, rice;
yavam—barley; hiranyam—gold; pasavah—animals; striyah—wives
or other women; na duhyanti—do not give; manah-pritim—satisfaction
of the mind; pumsah—to a person; kdma-hatasya—because of being
victimized by lusty desires; te—they.

TRANSLATION

A person who is lusty cannot satisfy his mind even if he has
enough of everything in this world, including rice, barley and
other food grains, gold, animals and women. Nothing can satisfy
him.

PURPORT

Improvement of one’s economic condition is the aim and object of a
materialist, but there is no end to this material advancement, for if one
cannot control his lusty desires, he will never be pleased, even if he gets
all the material wealth of the world. In this age we see much material im-
provement, but still people are struggling to get more and more material
opulence. Manah sasthdnindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati. Although
every living entity is a part of the Supreme Being, because of lusty
desires one continuously struggles for so-called betterment of one’s
