Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 28

Sanskrit:

पुंसस्त्रिवर्गो विहित: सुहृदो ह्यनुभावित: ।न तेषु क्लिश्यमानेषु त्रिवर्गोऽर्थाय कल्पते ॥ २८ ॥

ITRANS:

puṁsas tri-vargo vihitaḥsuhṛdo hy anubhāvitaḥna teṣu kliśyamāneṣutri-vargo ’rthāya kalpate

Translation:

When one’s friends and relatives are properly situated, one’s religion, economic development and sense gratification, as described in the Vedic literatures, are beneficial. Otherwise, if one’s friends and relatives are in distress, these three cannot offer any happiness.

Purport:

Vasudeva regretfully informed Nanda Mahārāja that although he had his wife and children, he could not properly discharge his duty of maintaining them and was therefore unhappy.