66 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 2
TRANSLATION
Pretentious religious householder life, in which one is attracted to ma-
terial happiness and thus also attracted to the superficial explanation of the
Vedas, robs one of all intelligence and attaches one to fruitive activities as
all in all.
PURPORT
Persons who identify with bodily existence are attached to the fruitive
activities described in the Vedic literature. For example, in the Vedas it is
said that one who observes the caturmdsya vow will attain eternal happiness
in the heavenly kingdom. In Bhagavad-gita, it is said that this flowery
language of the Vedas mostly attracts persons who identify with the body.
To them such happiness as that of the heavenly kingdom is everything;
they do not know that beyond that there is the spiritual kingdom or
kingdom of God, and they have no knowledge that one can go there.
Thus they are bereft of transcendental knowledge. Such persons are very
careful in observing the rules and regulations of household life in order
to be promoted in the next life to the moon or other heavenly planets. It
is stated here that such persons are attached to graémya-sukha, which means
material happiness, without knowledge of eternal, blissful, spiritual life.
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buddhya parabhidhyayinya
vismrtatmagatih pasuh
stri-kamah so’stv atitaram
dakso basta-mukho’cirat
buddhya—by intelligence; para-abhidhydyinya—by accepting the body
as the self; vismrta-atmagatih—having forgotten the knowledge of Visnu;
pasuh—an animal; stri-kamah—attached to sex life; sah—he (Daksa); astu—
let; atitaram—excessive; daksah—Dakgsa; basta-mukhah—the face of a goat;
acirat—in a very short time.
TRANSLATION
Daksa has accepted the body as all in all. Therefore, since he has for-
gotten the Visnupada or Visnugati and is attached to sex life only, within
a short time he will have the face of a goat.
