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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 2]
happy in a place which is meant for distress cannot benefit the misguided man because, after all, the whole universe with all its paraphernalia will come to an end after a certain period. Then all plans of materialistic happiness will automatically come to an end. The intelligent person therefore makes a plan to return home, back to Godhead. Such an intelligent person surpasses all the pangs of material existence, like birth, death, disease and old age. Actually he is happy because he has no anxieties of material existence, but as a compassionate sympathizer he feels unhappiness for the suffering materialistic men, and thus he comes occasionally before the materialistic men to teach them the necessity of going back to Godhead. All the bona fide  ācāryas  preach this truth of returning home, back to Godhead, and warn men not to make a false plan for happiness in a place where happiness is only a myth.
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ततो विशेषं प्रतिपद्य निर्मय- स्तेनात्मनापोऽनलमूर्तिरत्वरन् । ज्योतिर्मयो वायुमुपेत्य काले वाय्वात्मना खं बृहदात्मलिङ्गम् ॥ २८ ॥
tato viśeṣam pratipadya nirbhayas tenātmanāpo'nala-mūrtir atvaran jyotirmayo vāyum upetya kāle vāyv-ātmanā kham bṛhad-ātma-liṅgam
tataḥ—thereafter; viśeṣam—particularly; pratipadya—by obtaining; nirbhayaḥ—without any doubt; tena—by that; ātmanā—pure self; apaḥ—water; anala—fire; mūrtiḥ—forms; atvaran—by surpassing; jyotirmayaḥ—effulgent; vāyum—atmosphere; upetya—having reached there; kāle—in due course of time; vāyu—air; ātmanā—by the self; kham—ethereal; bṛhat—great; ātma-liṅgam—real form of the self.
TRANSLATION
After reaching Satyaloka, the devotee is specifically able to be incorporated fearlessly by the subtle body in an identification similar to that of