1. A description of materialistic life

    nidraya hriyate naktam
    vyavayena ca va vayah
    diva carthehaya rajan
    kutumba-bharanena va
    [SB 2.1.3]

    The materialistic way of life means nidraya hriyate naktam. At night either sleep or enjoy sex. Nidraya hriyate naktam vyavayena ca… [SB 2.1.3]. Vyavayena means sex. And in daytime? Diva carthehaya rajan. In daytime, “Where is money? Where is money? Where is money?” Go, take your car and run. So diva carthehaya rajan. And when you get money, kutumba-bharanena va: then find out, purchase something for my wife, for my children, for myself, spend the money. Again night comes, again sleep, again sex. Again day comes, all right, go to market, earn money and spend it. This is going on. This is called material life.

    From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.6.6 — June 22, 1976