यदर्थ इह कर्माणि विद्वन्मान्यसकृन्नर: । करोत्यतो विपर्यासममोघं विन्दते फलम् ॥ ४१ ॥
yad-artha iha karmani vidvan-many asakrn narah karoty ato viparyasam amogham vindate phalam
- yat
- of which
- arthe
- for the purpose
- iha
- in this material world
- karmani
- many activities (in factories, industries, speculation and so on)
- vidvat
- advanced in knowledge
- mani
- thinking himself to be
- asakrt
- again and again
- narah
- a person
- karoti
- performs
- atah
- from this
- viparyasam
- the opposite
- amogham
- unfailingly
- vindate
- achieves
- phalam
- result.
A materialistic person, thinking himself very advanced in intelligence, continually acts for economic development. But again and again, as enunciated in the Vedas, he is frustrated by material activities, either in this life or in the next. Indeed, the results one obtains are inevitably the opposite of those one desires.