यं यमर्थमुपादत्ते दु:खेन सुखहेतवे । तं तं धुनोति भगवान्पुमाञ्छोचति यत्कृते ॥ २ ॥
yam yam artham upadatte duhkhena sukha-hetave tam tam dhunoti bhagavan puman chocati yat-krte
- yam yam
- whatever
- artham
- object
- upadatte
- one acquires
- duhkhena
- with difficulty
- sukha-hetave
- for happiness
- tam tam
- that
- dhunoti
- destroys
- bhagavan
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- puman
- the person
- socati
- laments
- yat-krte
- for which reason.
Whatever is produced by the materialist with great pain and labor for so-called happiness, the Supreme Personality, as the time factor, destroys, and for this reason the conditioned soul laments.