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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.2.22

గృహేషు కూటధర్మేషు సక్తో గ్రామ్యసుఖేచ్ఛయా । కర్మతన్త్రం వితనుతే వేదవాదవిపన్నధీ: ॥ ౨౨ ॥
gṛheṣu kūṭa-dharmeṣu
[griheshu koota-dharmeshu]
sakto grāmya-sukhecchayā
[sakto graamya-sukhechchayaa]
karma-tantraṁ vitanute
[karma-tantram vitanute]
veda-vāda-vipanna-dhīḥ
[veda-vaada-vipanna-dheeh]
gṛheṣu — in householder life kūṭa-dharmeṣu — of pretentious religiosity saktaḥ — being attracted grāmya-sukha-icchayā — by desire for material happiness karma-tantram — fruitive activities vitanute — he performs veda-vāda — by the explanations of the Vedas vipanna-dhīḥ — intelligence being lost.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
gṛheṣu kūṭa-dharmeṣu
gṛheṣu
in householder life
kūṭa-dharmeṣu
of pretentious religiosity
sakto grāmya-sukhecchayā
saktaḥ
being attracted
grāmya-sukha-icchayā
by desire for material happiness
karma-tantraṁ vitanute
karma-tantram
fruitive activities
vitanute
he performs
veda-vāda-vipanna-dhīḥ
veda-vāda
by the explanations of the Vedas
vipanna-dhīḥ
intelligence being lost.
Pretentiously religious householder life, in which one is attracted to material happiness and thus also attracted to the superficial explanation of the Vedas, robs one of all intelligence and attaches one to fruitive activities as all in all.

Persons who identify with bodily existence are attached to the fruitive activities described in the Vedic literature. For example, in the Vedas it is said that one who observes the cāturmāsya vow will attain eternal happiness in the heavenly kingdom. In Bhagavad-gītā, it is said that this flowery language of the Vedas mostly attracts persons who identify with the body. To them such happiness as that of the heavenly kingdom is everything; they do not know that beyond that is the spiritual kingdom, or kingdom of God, and they have no knowledge that one can go there. Thus they are bereft of transcendental knowledge. Such persons are very careful in observing the rules and regulations of household life in order to be promoted in the next life to the moon or other heavenly planets. It is stated here that such persons are attached to grāmya-sukha, which means “material happiness,” without knowledge of eternal, blissful, spiritual life.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
That person, attached to cheating rules of household life with a desire for material happiness, his intelligence spoiled by misleading followers of the Vedas, will become totally absorbed in karma-khāṇda. “Followers of the Vedas” means those whose intelligence is spoiled by statements such as akṣayyaṁ ha vai cāturmāsya-yājinaḥ sukṛtaṁ bhavati: the performer of four months of austerity achieved immortality. (Āpastamba Śrauta Sūtra, Kṛṣṇa Yajur Veda 8.1.1)
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