गृहेषु कूटधर्मेषु दु:खतन्त्रेष्वतन्द्रित: । कुर्वन्दु:खप्रतीकारं सुखवन्मन्यते गृही ॥ ९ ॥
grhesu kuta-dharmesu duhkha-tantresv atandritah kurvan duhkha-pratikaram sukhavan manyate grhi
- grhesu
- in family life
- kuta-dharmesu
- involving the practice of falsehood
- duhkha-tantresu
- spreading miseries
- atandritah
- attentive
- kurvan
- doing
- duhkha-pratikaram
- counteraction of miseries
- sukha-vat
- as happiness
- manyate
- thinks
- grhi
- the householder.
The attached householder remains in his family life, which is full of diplomacy and politics. Always spreading miseries and controlled by acts of sense gratification, he acts just to counteract the reactions of all his miseries, and if he can successfully counteract such miseries, he thinks that he is happy.