SB 10.10.1-King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: O great and powerful saint, what was the cause of Nalakūvara’s and Maṇigrīva’s having been cursed by Nārada Muni? What did they do that was so abominable that even Nārada, the great sage, became angry at them? Kindly describe this to me.
SB 10.10.8–Nārada Muni said: Among all the attractions of material enjoyment, the attraction of riches bewilders one’s intelligence more than having beautiful bodily features, taking birth in an aristocratic family, and being learned. When one is uneducated but falsely puffed up by wealth, the result is that one engages his wealth in enjoying wine, women and gambling.

PURPORT Among the three modes of material nature—goodness, passion and ignorance—people are certainly conducted by the lower qualities, namely passion and ignorance, and especially by passion. Conducted by the mode of passion, one becomes more and more involved in material existence. Therefore human life is meant for subduing the modes of passion and ignorance and advancing in the mode of goodness.tadā rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ kāma-lobhādayaś ca ye ceta etair anāviddhaṁ sthitaṁ sattve prasīdati (Bhāg. 1.2.19)This is culture: one must subdue the modes of passion and ignorance. In the mode of passion, when one is falsely proud of wealth, one engages his wealth only for three things, namely wine, women and gambling. We can actually see, especially in this age, that those who have unnecessary riches simply try to enjoy these three things. In Western civilization, these three things are very prominent because of an unnecessary increase of wealth. Nārada Muni considered all this in the case of Maṇigrīva and Nalakūvara because he found in them so much pride in the wealth of their father, Kuvera.

SB 10.10. 9--Unable to control their senses, rascals who are falsely proud of their riches or their birth in aristocratic families are so cruel that to maintain their perishable bodies, which they think will never grow old or die, they kill poor animals without mercy. Sometimes they kill animals merely to enjoy an excursion.

PURPORT When the modes of passion and ignorance increase in human society, giving rise to unnecessary economic development, the result is that people become involved with wine, women and gambling. Then, being mad, they maintain big slaughterhouses or occasionally go on pleasure excursions to kill animals. ….. The root cause of this punishment is that when one unnecessarily accumulates wealth, one becomes more and more degraded, not knowing that his wealth will be finished with his next birth.…“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.” A devotee, therefore, does not eat anything that would require slaughterhouses for poor animals. Rather, devotees take prasāda of Kṛṣṇa (tena tyaktena bhuñjīthāḥ). Kṛṣṇa recommends that one give Him patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyam—a leaf, a flower, fruit or water. Animal food is never recommended for human beings; instead, a human being is recommended to take prasāda, remnants of food left by Kṛṣṇa. Yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ (Bg. 3.13). If one practices eating prasāda, even if there is some little sinful activity involved, one becomes free from the results of sinful acts.
SB 10.10.11-While alive, does this body belong to its employer, to the self, to the father, the mother, or the mother’s father? Does it belong to the person who takes it away by force, to the slave master who purchases it, or to the sons who burn it in the fire? Or, if the body is not burned, does it belong to the dogs that eat it? Among the many possible claimants, who is the rightful claimant? Not to ascertain this but instead to maintain the body by sinful activities is not good.

SB 10.10.12--This body, after all, is produced by the unmanifested nature and again annihilated and merged in the natural elements. Therefore, it is the common property of everyone. Under the circumstances, who but a rascal claims this property as his own and while maintaining it commits such sinful activities as killing animals just to satisfy his whims? Unless one is a rascal, one cannot commit such sinful activities.

PURPORT Atheists do not believe in the existence of the soul. Nonetheless, unless one is very cruel, why should one kill animals unnecessarily? The body is a manifestation of a combination of matter. In the beginning it was nothing, but by a combination of matter it has come into existence. Then again, when the combination is dismantled, the body will no longer exist. In the beginning it was nothing, and in the end it will be nothing. Why then should one commit sinful activities when it is manifested? It is not possible for anyone to do this unless he is rascal number one.

Some Conclusions-— These verses are very nice because they explain body consciousness in gross materialistic persons. If one is sober, he or she will consider who does this body we now inhabit , who does it belong to? In the short term, Prabhupada says it belongs to everyone because everybody shares in the matter or common property of this universe. But ultimately everything of matter belongs to Krsna. Therefore why maintain this body with sinful acts which will give us more bad karma and another body to inhabit, quite possibly not even a human one. This is a sobering instruction to us all.Here in the USA, the people, right now, are suffering tremendously. The Covid virus is  considered the third  leading cause of death, right behind heart disease and cancer. That is significant. And add to this how Maya is punishing these people with other things, like massive unemployment ,hunger, raging wildfires in California, people in the state of Iowa  have lost millions of acres of corn to a huge storm, the heat waves are killing people, schools can’t re open, millions of kids and parents are adversely affected by this fact, and the so called president is waging a battle against others who oppose his re election. In California last year there were again massive fires destroying  hundreds if not thousands of homes and properties and this president told the Homeland Security  Department of the Federal government to not give financial assistance to those in this state because they didn’t  vote for him in the previous election. Here in the state of Washington the local government has begun stockpiling warehouses of food in anticipation of food shortages so they can feed thousands of hungry people. Riots are still going on daily in the city of Seattle, and Portland Oregon over police brutality  and use of excessive force. The police budget for the year has been reduced by almost 50% voted for by the city council due to so much civil unrest. Anyway, I hate politics, and don’t get involved in at all, but it has become so bad in this country, nobody can ignore it anymore.The conclusion is that Krsna is not pleased with us anymore and is sending His material  agents of Maya to destroy and cause so much suffering to the Americans through  the above mentioned troubles-and that is just the tip of the iceberg. And its all because they have lost their way by giving up their individual pursuits of spiritual life. Srila Prabhupada gave a nice example once. When you go on a picnic and put your food down and some dog comes sniffing and wanting to eat it-you say Hut, go away. He goes away but then comes right back. You say go away again, and he goes away-for the time being.The dog has no memory,  but he follows his senses only.,so he keeps coming back. So as people lose their “memory” of God they become more animalistic or dog like. That situation is what we have right now as people are so engrossed in material advancement only, that they are losing their memory of God and what is their real business  here in this human form of life.Hare Krsnadamaghosa das
The Lord’s representative Srila Prabhupada has given us the solution to all these problems-chant the Holy Names of God, Hare Krsna Hare Rama and be happy, and all our material problems will disappear.