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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 25]
material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.” (Bg. 4.9)
Thus after attaining full Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the devotee does not return to this material world after death. He goes back home, back to Godhead. That is the perfect stage of happiness, unblemished by any trace of distress.
TEXT 5
राजोवाच
न जानामि महाभाग परं कर्मापविद्धधीः ।
ब्रूहि मे विमलं ज्ञानं येन मुन्येय कर्मभिः ॥ ५ ॥
rājovāca  
 na jānāmi mahā-bhāga  
 param karmāpaviddha-dhīḥ  
 brūhi me vimalam jñānam  
 yena mucyeya karmabhiḥ
rājā uvāca —the King replied;  na —not;  jānāmi —I know;  mahā-bhāga —O great soul;  param —transcendental;  karma —by fruitive activities;  apaviddha —being pierced;  dhīḥ —my intelligence;  brūhi —please tell;  me —to me;  vimalam —spotless;  jñānam —knowledge;  yena —by which;  mucyeya —I can get relief;  karmabhiḥ —from the fruitive activities.
TRANSLATION
The King replied: O great soul, Nārada, my intelligence is entangled in fruitive activities; therefore I do not know the ultimate goal of life. Kindly instruct me in pure knowledge so that I can get out of the entanglement of fruitive activities.
PURPORT
Śrī Narottama dāsa Thākura has sung:
sat-saṅga chāḍi’ kainu asate vilāsa  
 te-kāraṇe lāgila ye karma-bandha-phāṅsa
As long as a person is entangled in fruitive activities, he is bound to accept one body after another. This is called  karma-bandha-phāṅsa —entanglement in fruitive activities. It does not matter whether one is engaged in pious or impious activities, for both are causes for further