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Purañjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life
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worship of the Supreme Lord, is not possible for a neophyte devotee. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Thākura never advised a neophyte devotee to go to a solitary place to engage in devotional service. Indeed, he has written a song in this connection:
duṣṭa mana, tumi kisera vaiṣṇava? pratiṣṭhāra tare, nirjanera ghare, tava hari-nāma kevala kaitava
“My dear mind, what kind of devotee are you? Simply for cheap adoration you sit in a solitary place and pretend to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra , but this is all cheating.” Thus Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Thākura advocated that every devotee, under the guidance of an expert spiritual master, preach the  bhakti  cult, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all over the world. Only when one is mature can he sit in a solitary place and retire from preaching all over the world. Following this example, the devotees of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness now render service as preachers in various parts of the world. Now they can allow the spiritual master to retire from active preaching work. In the last stage of the spiritual master’s life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render  nirjana-bhajana .
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हित्वा गृहान् सुतान् मोगान् वैदर्भी मदिरेक्षणा।
अन्वधावत पाप्छ्येशं ज्योत्स्नेव रजनीकरम् ॥३४॥
hitvā gṛhān sutān bhogān vaidarbhī madirekṣaṇā anvadhāvata pāṇḍyeśaṁ jyotsneva rajanī-karam
hitvā —giving up;  gṛhān —home;  sutān —children;  bhogān —material happiness;  vaidarbhī —the daughter of King Vidarbha;  madira-īkṣaṇā —with enchanting eyes;  anvadhāvata —followed;  pāṇḍya-īśam —King Malayadhvaja;  jyotsnā iva —like the moonshine;  rajanī-karam —the moon.
TRANSLATION
Just as the moonshine follows the moon at night, immediately after King Malayadhvaja departed for Kulācala, his devoted wife, whose eyes