jihmaprāyaṁ vyavahṛtaṁ śāṭhya-miśraṁ ca sauhṛdam pitṛ-mātṛ-suhṛd-bhrātṛ- dampatīnāṁ ca kalkanam
Synonyms
jihma-prāyam—almost cheating; vyavahṛtam—in all ordinary transactions; śāṭhya—duplicity; miśram ca—adulterated in; sauhṛdam—in the matter friendly well wishes; pitṛ—father; mātṛ—in the matter of the mother; suhṛt—one's own brother; bhrātṛ—in the matter of husband and wife; dampatīnām—also; ca—mutual quarrel.
Translation
All ordinary transactions and dealings become poluted with cheating; even they are mixed up with cheatings between a friend and friend. And over all in the family affairs there is always misunderstanding between father mother and sons, between wellwishers, between brohters and even with husband and wife there is always a strain of mind and quarrel.
Purport
A conditioned living being in endowed with four principle of malpractices namely errors, insanity, inability and cheating. These are signs of imperfectness and out of the four one malpractice namely the propensity for cheating others is most prominent. And why this cheating practice is there in the conditoned soul because the conditioned souls are primarily in the material world imbued with an unnatural desire for lording it over the material world. A living being in his pure state is not conditioned by the laws because in his pure state he is conscious that a living being is eternally subservient to the Supreme Being and as such it is always good for him to remain as subservient, instead of falsely trying to lord it over the property of the Supreme Lord. In the conditioned state such living being is not satisfied even if he becomes actually the Lord of all that he surveys which he never becomes and therefore he becomes the victim of all kinds of cheating even with his most nearest and intimate relations. In such unsatisfactory state of affairs there is no harmony even between the father and the sons or berween the husnand and the wife. But all these contending difficultes can be mitigated by one sanguine process and that is devotional service of the Lord. The world of hypocrisy can be checked only by counteraction of devotional service of the Lord. and nothing else. Maharaj Yudhisthir having obserived the disparities, conjectued dislocation of the Lord's presence on the earth.