When fallen into terrible misfortune or when enjoying great prosperity, the understanding of a person, chief of the Bhojas, undergoes changes. In one and the same person, want of wisdom, the understanding becomes different at different times. Understanding which at one time is good becomes quite the opposite at another time.
व्यसनं वा महाघोरं समृद्धिं चापि तादृशीम्। अवाप्य पुरुषो भोज कुरुते बुद्धिवैकृतम्॥ एकस्मिन्नेव पुरुषे सा सा बुद्धिस्तदा तदा। भवत्यकृतधर्मत्वात् सा तस्यैव न रोचते॥