Shloka 8
Prahlāda Instructs the Sons of Demons: Begin Bhakti from Childhood; Household Attachment as Bondage; Nārāyaṇa as the All-Pervading Supersoul
दुरापूरेण कामेन मोहेन च बलीयसा । शेषं गृहेषु सक्तस्य प्रमत्तस्यापयाति हि ॥ ८ ॥
durāpūreṇa kāmena mohena ca balīyasā śeṣaṁ gṛheṣu saktasya pramattasyāpayāti hi
ເນື່ອງຈາກກາມທີ່ບໍ່ເຄີຍອີ່ມ ແລະໂມຫະອັນແຮງກ້າ ຄົນຈຶ່ງຕິດພັນກັບຊີວິດຄອບຄົວ; ຜູ້ຫຼົງເມົາແບບນັ້ນຍັງເສຍເວລາປີທີ່ເຫຼືອໄປອີກ ເພາະບໍ່ອາດອຸທິດຕົນໃນການຮັບໃຊ້ພັກຕິໄດ້॥8॥
This is the account of one hundred years of life. Although in this age a lifetime of one hundred years is generally not possible, even if one has one hundred years, the calculation is that fifty years are wasted in sleeping, twenty years in childhood and boyhood, and twenty years in invalidity ( jarā-vyādhi ). This leaves only a few more years, but because of too much attachment to household life, those years are also spent with no purpose, without God consciousness. Therefore, one should be trained to be a perfect brahmacārī in the beginning of life and then to be perfect in sense control, following the regulative principles, if one becomes a householder. From household life one is ordered to accept vānaprastha life and go to the forest and then accept sannyāsa. That is the perfection of life. From the very beginning of life, those who are ajitendriya, who cannot control their senses, are educated only for sense gratification, as we have seen in the Western countries. Thus the entire duration of a life of even one hundred years is wasted and misused, and at the time of death one transmigrates to another body, which may not be human. At the end of one hundred years, one who has not acted as a human being in a life of tapasya (austerity and penance) must certainly be embodied again in a body like those of cats, dogs and hogs. Therefore this life of lusty desires and sense gratification is extremely risky.
FAQs
This verse says kāma is insatiable and, along with stronger moha, makes a person negligent so that the remaining time of life is wasted and slips away.
Prahlāda was teaching the sons of demons that material attachment—especially to home-centered enjoyment—creates carelessness and robs one of the rare chance for devotion and liberation.
Reduce compulsive sense-enjoyment and distraction, prioritize sādhana (hearing/chanting), and treat time as sacred so family duties support bhakti rather than replace it.