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One whose mind and senses are uncontrolled becomes increasingly
attached to family life because of insatiable lusty desires and very
strong illusion. In such a madman's life, the remaining years are also
wasted because even during those years he cannot engage himself in
devotional service.
PURPORT by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada
This is the account of one hundred years of life. Although in this age
a lifetime of one hundred years is generally not possible, even if one
has one hundred years, the calculation is that fifty years are wasted
in sleeping, twenty years in childhood and boyhood, and twenty years in
invalidity (jara-vyadhi). This leaves only a few more years, but
because of too much attachment to household life, those years are also
spent with no purpose, without God consciousness. Therefore, one should
be trained to be a perfect brahmachari in the beginning of life
and then to be perfect in sense control, following the regulative
principles, if one becomes a householder. From household life one is
ordered to accept
vanaprastha life and go to the forest and then accept sannyasa.
That is the perfection of life. From the very beginning of life, those
who are ajitendriya, who cannot control their senses, are
educated only for sense gratification, as we have seen in the Western
countries. Thus the entire duration of a life of even one hundred years
is wasted and misused, and at the time of death one transmigrates to
another body, which may not be human. At the end of one hundred years,
one who has not acted as a human being in a life of tapasya
(austerity and penance) must certainly be embodied again in a body like
those of cats, dogs and hogs. Therefore this life of lusty desires and
sense gratification is extremely risky.
