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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.9

మన్దస్య మన్దప్రజ్ఞస్య వయో మన్దాయుషశ్చ వై । నిద్రయా హ్రియతే నక్తం దివా చ వ్యర్థకర్మభి: ॥ ౯ ॥
mandasya manda-prajṣasya
[mandasya manda-prajshasya]
vayo mandāyuṣaś ca vai
[vayo mandaayushash cha vai]
nidrayā hriyate naktaṁ
[nidrayaa hriyate naktam]
divā ca vyartha-karmabhiḥ
[divaa cha vyartha-karmabhih]
mandasya — of the lazy manda — paltry prajṣasya — of intelligence vayaḥ — age manda — short āyuṣaḥ — of duration of life ca — and vai — exactly nidrayā — by sleeping hriyate — passes away naktam — night divā — daytime ca — also vyartha — for nothing karmabhiḥ — by activities.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
mandasya manda-prajṣasya
mandasya
of the lazy
manda
paltry
prajṣasya
of intelligence
vayo mandāyuṣaś ca vai
vayaḥ
age
manda
short
āyuṣaḥ
of duration of life
ca
and
vai
exactly
nidrayā hriyate naktaṁ
nidrayā
by sleeping
hriyate
passes away
naktam
night
divā ca vyartha-karmabhiḥ
divā
daytime
ca
also
vyartha
for nothing
karmabhiḥ
by activities.
Lazy human beings with paltry intelligence and a short duration of life pass the night sleeping and the day performing activities that are for naught.

The less intelligent do not know the real value of the human form of life. The human form is a special gift of material nature in the course of her enforcing stringent laws of miseries upon the living being. It is a chance to achieve the highest boon of life, namely to get out of the entanglement of repeated birth and death. The intelligent take care of this important gift by strenuously endeavoring to get out of the entanglement. But the less intelligent are lazy and unable to evaluate the gift of the human body to achieve liberation from the material bondage; they become more interested in so-called economic development and work very hard throughout life simply for the sense enjoyment of the temporary body. Sense enjoyment is also allowed to the lower animals by the law of nature, and thus a human being is also destined to a certain amount of sense enjoyment according to his past or present life. But one should definitely try to understand that sense enjoyment is not the ultimate goal of human life. Herein it is said that during the daytime one works “for nothing” because the aim is nothing but sense enjoyment. We can particularly observe how the human being is engaged for nothing in the great cities and industrial towns. There are so many things manufactured by human energy, but they are all meant for sense enjoyment, and not for getting out of material bondage. And after working hard during the daytime, a tired man either sleeps or engages in sex habits at night. That is the program of materialistic civilized life for the less intelligent. Therefore they are designated herein as lazy, unfortunate and short-lived.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
The sages have called death here so that no one dies. Therefore, men should drink the words containing sweet pastimes of the Lord.
Commentary

Then what should men do? They should drink the nectar of the Lord’s pastimes.

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