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Purañjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life
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PURPORT
In the material world many living entities come into contact with one another, and, increasing their attachment to a particular type of body, become related as father, husband, mother, wife, etc. Actually every living entity is a separate individual being, and it is because of his contact with matter that he comes together with other bodies and becomes falsely related. False bodies create various associations in the name of family, community, society and nationality. Actually every living entity is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but the living entities are overly engrossed in the material body. The Supreme Personality of Godhead,  Kṛṣṇa , appears and gives instructions in the form of  Bhagavad-gītā  and Vedic literatures. The Supreme Lord gives these instructions because He is the eternal friend of the living entities. His instructions are important because by them the living entity can obtain liberation from bodily engagement. As water passes down a river, many straws and grasses are carried from the shore. These straws and grasses come together in the river's current, but when the waves toss this way and that, they are separated and carried somewhere else. Similarly, the innumerable living entities within this material world are being carried by the waves of material nature. Sometimes the waves bring them together, and they form friendships and relate to one another on a bodily basis of family, community or nationality. Eventually they are thrown out of association by the waves of material nature. This process has been going on since the creation of material nature. In this regard, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thākura sings,
(miche) māyāra vaśe, yāccha bhese', 
  khāccha hābuḍubu, bhāi 
  (jīva) kṛṣṇa-dāsa, e viśvāsa, 
  karle ta' āra duḥkha nāi
"My dear living entities, you are being carried away by the waves of material nature. Sometimes you are on the surface, sometimes you are being drowned. In this way your eternal life is being spoiled. If you simply catch hold of  Kṛṣṇa  and take shelter of His lotus feet, you will once again get free from all the miserable material conditions."
In this verse the words  suhṛt  (well-wisher) and  tava  (your) are very significant. One's so-called husband, relative, son, father, or whatever can not actually be a well-wisher. The only actual well-wisher is  Kṛṣṇa  Himself, as  Kṛṣṇa  confirms in  Bhagavad-gītā :  suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām  (Bg. 5.29).