नूनं प्रमत्त: कुरुते विकर्म यदिन्द्रियप्रीतय आपृणोति । न साधु मन्ये यत आत्मनोऽय- मसन्नपि क्लेशद आस देह: ॥ ४ ॥
nunam pramattah kurute vikarma yad indriya-pritaya aprnoti na sadhu manye yata atmano ’yam asann api klesada asa dehah
- nunam
- indeed
- pramattah
- mad
- kurute
- performs
- vikarma
- sinful activities forbidden in the scriptures
- yat
- when
- indriya-pritaye
- for sense gratification
- aprnoti
- engages
- na
- not
- sadhu
- befitting
- manye
- I think
- yatah
- by which
- atmanah
- of the soul
- ayam
- this
- asan
- being temporary
- api
- although
- klesa-dah
- giving misery
- asa
- became possible
- dehah
- the body.
When a person considers sense gratification the aim of life, he certainly becomes mad after materialistic living and engages in all kinds of sinful activity. He does not know that due to his past misdeeds he has already received a body which, although temporary, is the cause of his misery. Actually the living entity should not have taken on a material body, but he has been awarded the material body for sense gratification. Therefore I think it not befitting an intelligent man to involve himself again in the activities of sense gratification by which he perpetually gets material bodies one after another.