Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 58


Sanskrit:

एवं गृहाशयाक्षिप्तहृदयो मूढधीरयम् ।अतृप्तस्ताननुध्यायन् मृतोऽन्धं विशते तम: ॥ ५८ ॥

ITRANS:

evaṁ gṛhāśayākṣipta-hṛdayo mūḍha-dhīr ayamatṛptas tān anudhyāyanmṛto ’ndhaṁ viśate tamaḥ

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:

Andhaṁ viśate tamaḥ indicates that in his next life an attached householder will certainly be degraded because of his primitive mentality of bodily attachment, which is called mūḍha-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 Kṛṣṇa and come out of the darkness of ignorance to our real life in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.