SB 4.28.20
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TEXT
प्रबोधयति माविज्ञं व्युषिते शोककर्शिता ।
वर्त्मैतद्गृहमेधीयं वीरसूरपि नेष्यति ॥ २० ॥ prabodhayati mavijnam
vyusite soka-karsita
vartmaitad grha-medhiyam
vira-sūr api nesyati
prabodhayati-gives good counsel; ma-unto me; avijnam-foolish; vyusite-at the time of my being away; soka-by aggrievement; karsita-being aggrieved and thus dried up; vartma-path; etat-this; grha-medhiyam-of household responsibilities; vira-sūḥ-the mother of great heroes; api-although; nesyati-will she be able to execute.
TRANSLATION
King Puranjana continued thinking how, when he was in a state of bewilderment, his wife would give him good counsel and how she would become aggrieved when he was away from home. Although she was the mother of so many sons and heroes, the King still feared that she would not be able to maintain the responsibility of household affairs.
PURPORT
At the time of death King Puranjana was thinking of his wife, and this is called polluted consciousness. As Lord Krsna explains in Bhagavad-gita:
mamaivamso jiva-loke
jiva-bhūtaḥ sanatanaḥ manaḥ-sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati "The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind." (Bg. 15.7)
The living entity is, after all, part and parcel of the Supreme Spirit, Krsna. In other words, Krsna's constitutional position and the living entity's constitutional position are the same qualitatively. The only difference is that the living entity is eternally an atomic particle of the Supreme Spirit. Mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhūtaḥ sanatanaḥ. In this material world of conditional life, the fragmental portion of the Supreme Lord, the individual soul, is struggling due to his contaminated mind and consciousness. As part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, a living entity is supposed to think of Krsna, but here we see that King Puranjana (the living entity) is thinking of a woman. Such mental absorption with some sense object brings about the living entity's struggle for existence in this material world. Since King Puranjana is thinking of his wife, his struggle for existence in the material world will not be ended by death. As revealed in the following verses, King Puranjana had to accept the body of a woman in his next life due to his being overly absorbed in thoughts of his wife. Thus mental absorption in social, political, pseudo-religious, national and communal consciousness is cause for bondage. During one's lifetime one has to change his activities in order to attain release from bondage. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita.
yajnarthat karmano 'nyatra
loko 'yam karma-bandhanaḥ tad-artham karma kaunteya mukta-sahgaḥ samacara "Work done as a sacrifice for Visnu has to be performed, otherwise work binds one to this material world. Therefore, O son of Kunti, perform your prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way you will always remain unattached and free from bondage." (Bg. 3.9) If we do not change our consciousness in this life, whatever we do in the name of social, political, religious or communal and national welfare will be the cause of our bondage. This means we have to continue in material, conditional life. When the mind and senses are engaged in material activities, one has to continue his material existence and struggle to attain happiness. In each and every life, one is engaged in the struggle to become happy. Actually no one in this material world is happy, but the struggle gives a false sense of happiness. A person must work very hard, and when he attains the result of his hard work, he thinks himself happy. In the material world people do not know what real happiness is. Real happiness is to be attained by transcendental senses.
yatroparamate cittam
niruddham yoga-sevaya yatra caivatmanatmanam pasyann atmani tusyati sukham atyantikam yat tad
buddhi-grahyam atindriyam vetti yatra na caivayam sthitas calati tattvataḥ yam labdhva caparam labham
manyate nadhikam tataḥ yasmin sthito na duḥkhena gurunapi vicalyate tam vidyad duḥkha-samyoga- viyogam yoga-samjnitam "In the stage of perfection called trance, or samadhi, one's mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga. This is characterized by one's ability to see the self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the self. In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact." (Bg. 6.20-23)
Thus real happiness must be appreciated by one's transcendental senses. Unless one is purified, the transcendental senses are not manifest; therefore to purify the senses one must take to Krsna consciousness and engage the senses in the service of the Lord. Then there will be real happiness and liberation.
It is stated in Bhagavad-gita:
sariram yad avapnoti
yac capy utkramatisvaraḥ grhitvaitani samyati vayur gandhan ivasayat "The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another, as the air carries aromas." (Bg. 15.8)
If the wind passes over a garden of roses, it will carry the aroma of roses, and if it passes over a filthy place, it will carry the stench of obnoxious things. Similarly, King Puranjana, the living entity, now passes the air of his life over his wife, a woman; therefore he has to accept the body of a woman in his next life.
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