106 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 2

happy in a place which is meant for distress cannot benefit the misguided
man because, after all, the whole universe with all its paraphernalia will
come to an end after a certain period. Then all plans of materialistic
happiness will automatically come to an end. The intelligent person there-
fore makes a plan to return home, back to Godhead. Such an intelli-
gent person surpasses all the pangs of material existence, like birth, death,
disease and old age. Actually he is happy because he has no anxieties of
material existence, but as a compassionate sympathizer he feels unhappi-
ness for the suffering materialistic men, and thus he comes occasionally
before the materialistic men to teach them the necessity of going back to
Godhead. All the bona fide dcaryas preach this truth of returning home,
back to Godhead, and warn men not to make a false plan for happiness in
a place where happiness is only a myth.

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AT AANUSASU AAT |
SUT TIT FS
TACHA G BATA SHAUNA

tato visesam pratipadya nirbhayas
tendtmanapo’nala-mirtir atvaran

jyotirmayo vayum upetya kale
vayv-dtmana kham brhad-atma-lingam

tatah—thereafter; visesam—particularly; pratipadya—by obtaining; nir-
bhayah—without any doubt; tena—by that ;atmana—pure self; apah—water;
anala—fire; miirtih—forms; atvaran—by surpassing; jyotirmayah—effulgent;
vayum—atmosphere; upetya—having reached there; kale—in due course of
time; va@yu—air; dtmand—by the self; kham—ethereal; brhat—great; dtma-
liigam—real form of the self.

TRANSLATION

After reaching Satyaloka, the devotee is specifically able to be incor-
porated fearlessly by the subtle body in an identification similar to that of
