चिन्तामपरिमेयां च प्रलयान्तामुपाश्रिताः | कामोपभोगपरमा एतावदिति निश्चिताः ||१६-११||
cintāmaparimeyāṃ ca pralayāntāmupāśritāḥ . kāmopabhogaparamā etāvaditi niścitāḥ ||16-11||
- cintām
- fears and anxieties
- aparimeyām
- immeasurable
- ca
- and
- pralaya-antām
- unto the point of death
- upāśritāḥ
- having taken shelter of
- kāma-upabhoga
- sense gratification
- paramāḥ
- the highest goal of life
- etāvat
- thus
- iti
- in this way
- niścitāḥ
- having ascertained
They believe that to gratify the senses is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus until the end of life their anxiety is immeasurable. Bound by a network of hundreds of thousands of desires and absorbed in lust and anger, they secure money by illegal means for sense gratification.