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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.25.6

గృహేషు కూటధర్మేషు పుత్రదారధనార్థధీ: । న పరం విన్దతే మూఢో భ్రామ్యన్ సంసారవర్త్మసు ॥ ౬ ॥
gṛheṣu kūṭa-dharmeṣu
[griheshu koota-dharmeshu]
putra-dāra-dhanārtha-dhīḥ
[putra-daara-dhanaartha-dheeh]
na paraṁ vindate mūḍho
[na param vindate moodho]
bhrāmyan saṁsāra-vartmasu
[bhraamyan samsaara-vartmasu]
gṛheṣu — in family life kūṭa-dharmeṣu — in false occupational duties putra — sons dāra — wife dhana — wealth artha — the goal of life dhīḥ — one who considers na — not param — transcendence vindate — achieves mūḍhaḥ — rascal bhrāmyan — wandering saṁsāra — of material existence vartmasu — on the paths.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
gṛheṣu kūṭa-dharmeṣu
gṛheṣu
in family life
kūṭa-dharmeṣu
in false occupational duties
putra-dāra-dhanārtha-dhīḥ
putra
sons
dāra
wife
dhana
wealth
artha
the goal of life
dhīḥ
one who considers
na paraṁ vindate mūḍho
na
not
param
transcendence
vindate
achieves
mūḍhaḥ
rascal
bhrāmyan saṁsāra-vartmasu
bhrāmyan
wandering
saṁsāra
of material existence
vartmasu
on the paths.
Those who are interested only in a so-called dutiful life — namely remaining as a householder entangled by sons and a wife and searching after wealth — think that such things are life’s ultimate goal. Such people simply wander in different types of bodies throughout this material existence without finding out the ultimate goal of life.

Those who are too much attached to family life, which consists of entanglement with wife, children, wealth and home, are engaged in kūṭa-dharma, pseudo duties. Prahlāda Mahārāja has likened these pseudo occupational duties to a dark well ( andha-kūpam ). Prahlāda has purposefully spoken of this dark well because if one falls into this well he will die. He may cry for help, but no one will hear him or come to rescue him.

The words bhrāmyan saṁsāra-vartmasu are significant. In Caitanya-caritāmṛta ( Madhya 19.151) , Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu very clearly explains, brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva. All living entities are wandering in different types of bodies throughout different planets, and if, in the course of their wanderings, they come in contact with a devotee by the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, their lives become successful. Even though King Prācīnabarhiṣat was engaged in fruitive activity, the great sage Nārada appeared before him. The King was very fortunate to be able to associate with Nārada, who enlightened him in spiritual knowledge. It is the duty of all saintly persons to follow in the footsteps of Nārada Muni and travel all over the world to every country and village just to instruct illusioned persons about the goal of life and to save them from the entanglement of karma-bandha, fruitive activity.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
One whose intelligence is fixed in sons, wife, wealth and acquisitions in family life, filled with many obligations and rules, does not enjoy liberation. Foolishly he wanders the road of repeated birth and death. All householders are like me.
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