Bhagavatapurana 5.14.2

5.14.2

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yasyām u ha vā ete ṣaḍ-indriya-nāmānaḥ karmaṇā dasyava eva te tad yathā puruṣasya dhanaṃ yat kiñcid dharmaupayikaṃ bahu-kṛcchrādhigataṃ sākṣāt parama-puruṣārādhana-lakṣaṇo yo 'sau dharmas taṃ tu sāmparāya udāharanti tad-dharmyaṃ dhanaṃ darśana-sparśana-śravaṇāsvādanāvaghrāṇa-saṅkalpa-vyavasāya-gṛha-grāmyopabhogena kunāthasyājitātmano yathā sārthasya vilum-panti //

2. For what little money a man earns through many a hard task becomes the true means of Dharma or righteousness; and that Dharma, being no other than the direct and intensely faithful worship of the supreme Person, is, the wise say, the way to Heaven. Of that money or wealth fit to be used for righteous purposes, when, in domestic life, spent on vulgar enjoyments of seeing, touching, hearing, tasting, smelling or (other) low aims and purposes, the foolish man is deprived (by others), even as foolish caravans are, when headed by a wicked and worthless leader.

1. All the Jivas have got into a way hard to foot like a mountain path, by (the force of) the six senses, that bring in the experiences of the beginningless Samsara which consists in entering into, and departing from, various kinds of bodies created by the good or bad actions induced by the particular gunas, Satva, Rajas or Tamas, in the case of those that mistake the body for Atman. Having been started on that road by Maya under the direction of the glorious Vishnu, Ruler of Rulers, Jivas like a company of merchants bent upon making a fortune enjoy the fruits of Karma, wrought by means of their own body, and find themselves in the wilderness of Samsara like unto the burning ground, all their activities being impeded by numerous obstacles and rendered ineffectual; still they do not find their way to association with the bees (devotees) that have made their resort to the lotus-like feet of the Guru who is no other than Hari—the only resort that promises relief from all afflictions of Samsara; for in that forest of Samsara robbers indeed are they who are called the ‘Six senses.’