- nidrayā hriyate naktaṁ
- vyavāyena ca vā vayaḥ
- diva cārthehayā rājan
- kuṭumba-bharaṇena vā
- (SB 2.1.3)
The materialistic way of life means nidrayā hriyate naktam. At night either sleep or enjoy sex. Nidrayā hriyate naktaṁ vyavāyena ca . . . (SB 2.1.3). Vyavāyena means sex. And at daytime? Diva cārthehayā rājan. In daytime, "Where is money? Where is money? Where is money?" Go, take your car and run. So diva cārthehayā rājan. And when you get money, kuṭumba-bharaṇena vā: then find out, purchase something for my wife, for my children, for myself, spend the money. Again night comes, again sleep, again sex. Again day comes, all right, go to market, earn money and spend it. This is going on. This is called material life.
So it is very difficult to convince the people of the modern day how they are wasting their time, how they are risking their life by this way of irresponsible life of material existence. They are thinking that "The more I enjoy sex, the more I enjoy sleeping, that is perfect. That is my profit." And to convince them, "No, it is simply loss. You are simply risking your life," it is very difficult. But this is the fact. This is the fact, in this way, because in this duration of life, human, if I do not make my life perfect, stop the materialistic miserable condition, namely janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi (BG 13.9)—birth, death, old age and disease—then I am missing the opportunity.