1250 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 27

TEXT 4

VA «TARA ARTA
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aaa att aga wt a
amisfinga a fis 1 TT Uv I

sayana unnaddha-mado maha-mana
maharha-talpe mahisi-bhujopadhih

tam eva viro manute param yatas
tamo-’bhibhitto na nijam param ca yat

Sayanah—lying down; unnaddha-madah—increasingly illusioned; maha-
manah—advanced in consciousness; maha-arha-talpe—on a valuable bed-
stead; mahisi—of the Queen; bhuja—arms; upadhih—pillow; tam—her; eva—
certainly; virah—the hero; manute—he considered; param—the goal of life;
yatah—from which; tamah—by ignorance; abhibhiittah— overwhelmed; na—
not; nijam—his actual self; param—the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
ca—and; yat—what.

TRANSLATION

In this way, increasingly overwhelmed by illusion, King Purafijana,
although advanced in consciousness, remained always lying down with his
head on the pillow of his wife’s arms. In this way he considered woman to
be his ultimate life and soul. Becoming thus overwhelmed by the mode of
ignorance, he could not understand the meaning of self-realization, of his
self, or of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

PURPORT

Human life is meant for self-realization. First of all one has to realize his
own self, which is described in this verse as nijam. Then he has to understand
or realize the Supersoul or Paramatma, the Supreme Personality of God-
head. However, when one becomes too much materially attached, he takes
a woman to be everything. This is the basic principle of material attach-
ment. In such a condition, one cannot realize his own self or the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. In Srimad-Bhagavatam it is therefore said: mahat-
sevam dvaram ahur vimuktes tamo-dvaram yositam sangi-saigam (Bhag.
5.5.2). If one associates with mahatmas, or devotees, his path of liberation
