Text 13] Purafijana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life 1299

improve the temporary living conditions but that he cannot avoid the
pangs of birth, old age, disease and death. These are under the control of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the agency of material nature.
A foolish person cannot understand this simple fact. Now people are very
busy trying to find petroleum in the midst of the ocean. They are very
anxious to make provisions for the future petroleum supply, but they
do not make any attempts to ameliorate the conditions of birth, old age,
disease and death. Thus not knowing anything about his own future life, a
person in ignorance is certainly defeated in all his activities.

TEXT 13
TIANA TRIAS |
Gat TeaTSe: ges ISeaTNe 1231

yavanoparuddhdyatano
grastayam kala-kanyaya

puryam prajvara-samsrstah
pura-palo ’nvatapyata

yavana—by the Yavanas; uparuddha—attacked; dyatanah—his abode;
grastayam—when seized; kala-kanyaya—by the daughter of Time; puryam—
the city; prajvara-samsrstah—being approached by Prajvara; pura-palah—the
city superintendent; anvatapyata— become also very much aggrieved.

TRANSLATION

The city’s superintendent of police, the serpent, saw that the citizens
were being attacked by Kalakanya, and he became very aggrieved to see his
own residence set ablaze after being attacked by the Yavanas.

PURPORT

The living entity is covered by two different types of bodies—the gross
body and the subtle body. At death we can see that the gross body is
finished, but actually the living entity is carried by the subtle body to
another gross body. The so-called scientists of the modern age cannot see
how the subtle body is working in carrying the soul from one body to
another. This subtle body has been figuratively described as a serpent, or
the city’s police superintendent. When there is fire everywhere, the police
superintendent cannot escape either. When there is security and an absence
