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Sanskrit
गृहेषु कूटधर्मेषु सक्तो ग्राम्यसुखेच्छया ।
कर्मतन्त्रं वितनुते वेदवादविपन्नधी: ॥ २२ ॥
Transliteration
gṛheṣu kūṭa-dharmeṣu
sakto grāmya-sukhecchayā
karma-tantraṁ vitanute
veda-vāda-vipanna-dhīḥ
Synonyms
gṛheṣu — in householder life; kūṭa-dharmeṣu — of pretentious religiosity; saktaḥ — being attracted; grāmya-sukha-icchayā — by desire for material happiness; karma-tantram — fruitive activities; vitanute — he performs; veda-vāda — by the explanations of the Vedas; vipanna-dhīḥ — intelligence being lost.
Translation
Pretentiously religious householder life, in which one is attracted to material happiness and thus also attracted to the superficial explanation of the Vedas, robs one of all intelligence and attaches one to fruitive activities as all in all.
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