Text 27]
Purañjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life
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ananta-pāre tamasi magno naṣṭa-smṛtiḥ samāḥ śāśvatīr anubhūyārtiṁ pramadā-saṅga-dūṣitaḥ
ananta-pāre —unlimitedly expanded;  tamasi —in the material existence of darkness;  magnaḥ —being merged;  naṣṭa-smṛtiḥ —bereft of all intelligence;  samāḥ —for many years;  śāśvatīḥ —practically eternally;  anubhūya —experiencing;  ārtim —the threefold miseries;  pramadā —of women;  saṅga —by association;  dūṣitaḥ —being contaminated.
TRANSLATION
Due to his contaminated association with women, a living entity like King Purañjana eternally suffers all the pangs of material existence and remains in the dark region of material life bereft of all remembrance for many, many years.
PURPORT
This is a description of material existence. Material existence is experienced when one becomes attached to a woman and forgets his real identity as the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa ( naṣṭa-smṛtiḥ ). In this way, in one body after another, the living entity perpetually suffers the threefold miseries of material existence. To save human civilization from the darkness of ignorance, this movement was started. The main purpose of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to enlighten the forgetful living entity and remind him of his original Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In this way the living entity can be saved from the catastrophe of ignorance as well as bodily transmigration. As Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thākura has sung:
anādi karama-phale, paḍi' bhavārṇava-jale, taribāre nā dekhi upāya e viṣaya-halāhale, divā-niśi hiyā jvale, mana kabhu sukha nāhi pāya
“Because of my past fruitive activities, I have now fallen into an ocean of nescience. I cannot find any means to get out of this great ocean, which is indeed like an ocean of poison. We are trying to be happy through sense enjoyment, but actually that so-called enjoyment is like food that is too hot and causes burning in the heart. I feel a burning sensation constantly, day and night, and thus my mind cannot find satisfaction.”