Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 7 - Chapter 7 - Verse 41
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 7 - Chapter 1 - Verse 41 Sanskrit: यदर्थ इह कर्माणि विद्वन्मान्यसकृन्नर: ।करोत्यतो विपर्यासममोघं विन्दते फलम् ॥ ४१ ॥ ITRANS: yad-artha iha karmāṇividvan-māny asakṛn naraḥkaroty ato viparyāsamamoghaṁ vindate phalam Translation: A materialistic person, thinking himself very advanced in intelligence, continually acts for economic development. But again and again, as enunciated in the Vedas, he is frustrated by material activities, either in this life or in the next. Indeed, the results one obtains are inevitably the opposite of those one desires....