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Purañjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life
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improve the temporary living conditions but that he cannot avoid the pangs of birth, old age, disease and death. These are under the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the agency of material nature. A foolish person cannot understand this simple fact. Now people are very busy trying to find petroleum in the midst of the ocean. They are very anxious to make provisions for the future petroleum supply, but they do not make any attempts to ameliorate the conditions of birth, old age, disease and death. Thus not knowing anything about his own future life, a person in ignorance is certainly defeated in all his activities.
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यवनोपरुद्धायतनो यस्तायां कालकन्यया ।
पुर्यां यज्वारसंसृष्टः पुरपातोऽन्वतप्यत ॥१३॥
yavanoparuddhāyatano grastāyām kāla-kanyayā puryām prajvāra-samsrṣṭaḥ pura-pālo 'nvatapyata
yavana —by the Yavanas;  uparuddha —attacked;  āyatanaḥ —his abode;  grastāyām —when seized;  kāla-kanyayā —by the daughter of Time;  puryām —the city;  prajvāra-samsrṣṭaḥ —being approached by Prajvāra;  pura-pālaḥ —the city superintendent;  anvatapyata —become also very much aggrieved.
TRANSLATION
The city's superintendent of police, the serpent, saw that the citizens were being attacked by Kālakanyā, and he became very aggrieved to see his own residence set ablaze after being attacked by the Yavanas.
PURPORT
The living entity is covered by two different types of bodies—the gross body and the subtle body. At death we can see that the gross body is finished, but actually the living entity is carried by the subtle body to another gross body. The so-called scientists of the modern age cannot see how the subtle body is working in carrying the soul from one body to another. This subtle body has been figuratively described as a serpent, or the city's police superintendent. When there is fire everywhere, the police superintendent cannot escape either. When there is security and an absence