Text 11] Purarijana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life 1297

able, why does the living entity not want to leave? As soon as one gets a
material body, he has to work very hard to maintain it. He may engage in
different fields of activity, but whatever the case, everyone has to work
very hard to maintain the material body. Unfortunately, society has no
information of the soul’s transmigration. Because the living entity does not
hope to enter the spiritual kingdom of eternal life, bliss and knowledge, he
wants to stick to his present body, even though it may be useless. Conse-
quently the greatest welfare activity in this material world is the furthering
of this Krsna consciousness movement.

This movement is giving human society information about the kingdom
of God. There is God, there is Krsna, and everyone can return to God and
live eternally in bliss and knowledge. A Krsna conscious person is not afraid
of giving up the body because his position is always eternal. A Krsna
conscious person engages in the transcendental loving service of the Lord
eternally; therefore as long as he lives within the body, he is happy to
engage in the loving service of the Lord, and when he gives up the body, he
is also permanently situated in the service of the Lord. The saintly devotees
are always free and liberated, whereas the karmis, who have no knowledge
of spiritual life or the transcendental loving service of the Lord, are very
much afraid of giving up the rotten material body.

TEXT 11
ATAPAWAM AAT THAT: TTL: |
TAM at TC Heat Hig: Ha eG 112 II

bhaya-namno ‘grajo bhrata
prajvarah pratyupasthitah

dadaha tam purim krtsnam
bhratuh priya-cikirsaya

bhaya-namnah—of Bhaya (fearfulness); agra-jah—elder; bhrata—brother;
prajvarah—named Prajvara; pratyupasthitah—being present there; dadadha—
set fire; tam—to that; purim—city; krtsnam—wholesale; bhratuh—his
brother; priya-cikirsaya—in order to please.

TRANSLATION

Under the circumstances the elder brother of Yavana-raja, known as
Prajvara, set fire to the city to please his younger brother, whose other
name is fear itself.
