SB 11.8.36
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Please note: The synonyms, translation and purport of this verse were composed by disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda
TEXT 36
- kiyat priyaṁ te vyabhajan
- kāmā ye kāma-dā narāḥ
- ādy-antavanto bhāryāyā
- devā vā kāla-vidrutāḥ
SYNONYMS
kiyat — how much; priyam — actual happiness; te — they; vyabhajan — have provided; kāmāḥ — sense gratification; ye — and those; kāma-dāḥ — who give sense gratification; narāḥ — men; ādi — a beginning; anta — and an end; vantaḥ — having; bhāryāyāḥ — of a wife; devāḥ — the demigods; vā — or; kāla — by time; vidrutāḥ — separated and thus disturbed.
Translation and purport composed by disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda
TRANSLATION
Men provide sense gratification for women, but all these men, and even the demigods in heaven, have a beginning and an end. They are all temporary creations who will be dragged away by time. Therefore how much actual pleasure or happiness could any of them ever give to their wives?
PURPORT
In this material world everyone is basically pursuing his personal sense gratification, and thus everyone is being ruined by the influence of time. On the material platform no one actually helps anyone else. So-called material love is simply a cheating process, as the lady Piṅgalā is now discovering.