evaḿ gṛhāśayākṣipta-
hṛdayo mūḍha-dhīr ayam
atṛptas tān anudhyāyan
mṛto 'ndhaḿ viśate tamaḥ
evam -- thus; griha -- in his domestic situation; asaya -- by intense desire; akshipta -- overwhelmed; hridayah -- his heart; mudha -- unintelligent; dhih -- whose point of view; ayam -- this person; atriptah -- unsatisfied; tan -- them (family members); anudhyayan -- constantly thinking of; mritah -- he dies; andham -- blindness; visate -- enters; tamah -- darkness.
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.
Andham visate tamah indicates that in his next life an attached householder will certainly be degraded because of his primitive mentality of bodily attachment, which is called mudha-dhi. 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 Krishna and come out of the darkness of ignorance to our real life in Krishna consciousness.
Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to the Eleventh Canto, Seventeenth Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled "Lord Krishna's Description of the Varnasrama System."
