Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.17.58

evam grihāśayākshipta-

hridayo mūdha-dhīr ayam

atriptas tān anudhyāyan

mrito 'ndham viśate tamah

SYNONYMS

evam — thus; griha — in his domestic situation; āśaya — by intense desire; ākshipta — overwhelmed; hridayah — his heart; mūdha — unintelligent; dhīh — whose point of view; ayam — this person; atriptah — unsatisfied; tān — them (family members); anudhyāyan — constantly thinking of; mritah — he dies; andham — blindness; viśate — enters; tamah — darkness.

TRANSLATION

Thus, because of his foolish mentality, a householder whose heart is overwhelmed by family attachment is never satisfied. Constantly meditating on his relatives, he dies and enters into the darkness of ignorance.

PURPORT

Andham viśate tamah indicates that in his next life an attached householder will certainly be degraded because of his primitive mentality of bodily attachment, which is called mūdha-dhī. In other words, after enjoying the sense gratification of considering oneself the center of everything, one enters into a lower species of life. Somehow or other, we must fix our minds on Lord Krishna and come out of the darkness of ignorance to our real life in Krishna consciousness.

Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda to the Eleventh Canto, Seventeenth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "Lord Krishna's Description of the Varnāśrama System."

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