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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.30.32

దైవేనాసాదితం తస్య శమలం నిరయే పుమాన్ । భుఙ్క్తే కుటుమ్బపోషస్య హృతవిత్త ఇవాతుర: ॥ ౩౨ ॥
daivenāsāditaṁ tasya
[daivenaasaaditam tasya]
śamalaṁ niraye pumān
[shamalam niraye pumaan]
bhuṅkte kuṭumba-poṣasya
[bhunkte kutumba-poshasya]
hṛta-vitta ivāturaḥ
[hrita-vitta ivaaturah]
daivena — by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead āsāditam — obtained tasya — his śamalam — sinful reaction niraye — in a hellish condition pumān — the man bhuṅkte — undergoes kuṭumba-poṣasya — of maintaining a family hṛta-vittaḥ — one whose wealth is lost iva — like āturaḥ — suffering.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
daivenāsāditaṁ tasya
daivena
by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
āsāditam
obtained
tasya
his
śamalaṁ niraye pumān
śamalam
sinful reaction
niraye
in a hellish condition
pumān
the man
bhuṅkte kuṭumba-poṣasya
bhuṅkte
undergoes
kuṭumba-poṣasya
of maintaining a family
hṛta-vitta ivāturaḥ
hṛta-vittaḥ
one whose wealth is lost
iva
like
āturaḥ
suffering.
Thus, by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the maintainer of kinsmen is put into a hellish condition to suffer for his sinful activities, like a man who has lost his wealth.

The example set herein is that the sinful person suffers just like a man who has lost his wealth. The human form of body is achieved by the conditioned soul after many, many births and is a very valuable asset. Instead of utilizing this life to get liberation, if one uses it simply for the purpose of maintaining his so-called family and therefore performs foolish and unauthorized action, he is compared to a man who has lost his wealth and who, upon losing it, laments. When wealth is lost, there is no use lamenting, but as long as there is wealth, one has to utilize it properly and thereby gain eternal profit. It may be argued that when a man leaves his money earned by sinful activities, he also leaves his sinful activities here with his money. But it is especially mentioned herein that by superior arrangement ( daivenāsāditam ), although the man leaves behind him his sinfully earned money, he carries the effect of it. When a man steals some money, if he is caught and agrees to return it, he is not freed from the criminal punishment. By the law of the state, even though he returns the money, he has to undergo the punishment. Similarly, the money earned by a criminal process may be left by the man when dying, but by superior arrangement he carries with him the effect, and therefore he has to suffer hellish life.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
By the arrangement of karma, the man, without his family members, afflicted like a man who has lost his wealth, experiences the fault of maintaining his family sinfully in hell. By the arrangement of karma, he experiences the fault (śamalam) of maintaining his family by sin, without his family, like a man who has lost his wealth.
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