Deliverance of Mucukunda 343
This beautiful body may be nice while in the living condition, but after
death even the body of a king is eaten by an animal and therefore turns
into stool or is cremated in the crematorium and turned into ashes or is
put into an earthly grave where different kinds of worms and insects are
produced out of it.

“My dear Lord, not only do we become under the full control of this
inevitable time after death, but also while living, in a different way. For
example, I may be a powerful king, and yet when I come home after
conquering over the world I become subjected to many material conditions.
It may be that when I come back after being victorious all subordinate
kings come and offer their respects, but as soon as I enter into the inner
section of my palace, I myself become an instrument in the hands of the
queens, and for sense gratification I have to fall down at the feet of women.
The material way of life is so complicated that before taking the enjoy-
ment of material life one has to work so hard that there is scarcely an
opportunity for enjoying. And to attain the youthful condition with all
material facilities one has to undergo severe austerities and penances and
become elevated to the heavenly planets. If one gets the opportunity of
taking birth in a very rich or royal family, even then in that condition he
is always anxious to maintain the status quo and prepare for the next life
by performing various kinds of sacrifices and by distributing charity. Even
in the royal condition of life one is not only full of anxieties because of
political administration, but he is also in anxiety over being elevated to
heavenly planets.

“It is therefore very difficult to get out of the material entanglement,
but somehow or other if one is favored by You, by Your mercy only he is
given the opportunity to associate with a pure devotee. That is the be-
ginning point of liberation from the entanglement of material conditional
life. My dear Lord, only by the association of pure devotees is one en-
trapped by Your Lordship, who is the controller of both the material and
spiritual existences. You are the supreme goal of all pure devotees, and by
association with pure devotees one can develop his dormant love for You.
Therefore, development of Krsna consciousness in the association of pure
devotees is the cause of liberation from this material entanglement.

“My dear Lord, You are so merciful that in spite of my being reluctant
to associate with Your great devotees You have shown Your extreme
mercy upon me as a result of my slight contact with a pure devotee like
Gargamuni. By Your causeless mercy only have I lost all my material
opulences, my kingdom and my family. I do not think that I could have
gotten rid of all these entanglements without Your causeless mercy. Kings
