आशापाशशतैर्बद्धाः कामक्रोधपरायणाः।ईहन्ते कामभोगार्थमन्यायेनार्थसञ्चयान्॥
āśā-pāśa-śatair baddhāḥ kāma-krodha-parāyaṇāḥīhante kāma-bhogārtham anyāyenārtha-sañcayān
Word by word
The verse says
Tied up in a hundred ropes of hope, given over to wanting and anger, they work to pile up money by crooked means, for the sake of getting what they want.
In plain words
The picture is a hundred ropes, and hope is what they are made of.
That is a strange thing to say about hope. But look at what is meant. Not trust. The hundred small expectations you are currently holding, each with a string running from it back to you.
Not one of them is heavy. Together they decide where you can stand.
Where you've felt this · with money
You are at a wedding and somebody asks what you do. You adjust the answer slightly, because the man asking knows people. You spend the next twenty minutes being a version of yourself you have built for occasions like this. Nothing dishonest gets said. On the way home you notice you are tired in a way that two hours of standing does not explain.
Going deeper
Calling hope a rope is deliberate, and it does not mean hope is bad.
The word is for expectation - the hundred small outcomes you are counting on right now. Each one attaches you to a future that has to come out a particular way. One such string is nothing. A hundred of them and your movements are no longer yours. You go where the strings allow.
The second half is sharper. Money gathered by crooked means gets mentioned, but the reason given is not greed. It is for the sake of getting what you want. The dishonesty is downstream of the appetite rather than a separate fault.
That is worth knowing about yourself. Nobody decides to become dishonest. They decide they must have something, and then the means arrange themselves quietly, one small adjustment at a time.