The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
The Way of the Worldly - 42-44
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 44
Bhoga aishwarya prasaktanam taya apahrta chetasam I
Vyavasayatmika buddhih samadhau na vidhyate II sloka 44
भोग ऐश्वर्य प्रसक्तानां तया अपहर्त चेतसां ।
व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिः समाधौ न विधीयते ।। श्लोक ४४
There is no fixity of mind for those who cling to pleasure and power and whose discrimination is stolen away
The desire ridden are those who have not risen to ethical and spiritual levels; they are the unrefined among the human. Their sole aim in life is to hunt after vulgar enjoyments here and hereafter. Their learning, enquiry and power of speech are all directed to this base end. The ritualistic portions in the vedas pander merely to the low tastes of crude happiness-hunters. Rites of this kind in the vedas are useful to only those who seek to prolong the wheel of birth for the sake of several enjoyments. Though the vedas are the oldest literature in the world, all that they contain are not sublime and elevating. The needs of the vulgar are also met in them.
Enjoyment of pleasure and happiness is not the goal of human life. The attainment of perfection is its supreme object. The means for it is to be absorbed in the Samkhya and yoga. Rituals simply distract the mind. Samadhi cannot be had from them.
The vulture soars high But its eyes are always on the carrion and carcass below on the earth. However much one may be learned in the vedas, as long as one's eyes are fixed on the sense - pleasures one acts like a vulture. Spiritual enlightenment is not to be one given to lust and greed.
Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
What ought to be the ideal in life follows in the coming slokas
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