1306 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 28
TRANSLATION

King Purafijana continued thinking how, when he was in a state of
bewilderment, his wife would give him good counsel and how she would
become aggrieved when he was away from home. Although she was the
mother of so many sons and heroes, the King still feared that she would not
be able to maintain the responsibility of household affairs.

PURPORT
At the time of death King Purafijana was thinking of his wife, and this is
called polluted consciousness. As Lord Krsna explains in Bhagavad-gita:
mamaivamso Jiva-loke
jiva-bhiitah sanatanah
manah sasthanindriyani
prakrti-sthani karsati
“The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental
parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six
senses, which include the mind.” (Bg. 15.7)

The living entity is, after all, part and parcel of the Supreme Spirit,
Krsna. In other words, Krsna’s constitutional position and the living entity’s
constitutional position are the same qualitatively. The only difference is
that the living entity is eternally an atomic particle of the Supreme Spirit.
Mamaivam§o jiva-loke jiva-bhiitah sanatanah. In this material world of con-
ditional life, the fragmental portion of the Supreme Lord, the individual
soul, is struggling due to his contaminated mind and consciousness. As part
and parcel of the Supreme Lord, a living entity is supposed to think of Krsna,
but here we see that King Purafijana (the living entity) is thinking of a
woman. Such mental absorption with some sense object brings about the
living entity’s struggle for existence in this material world. Since King
Purarijana is thinking of his wife, his struggle for existence in the material
world will not be ended by death. As revealed in the following verses,
King Purarijana had to accept the body of a woman in his next life due to
his being overly absorbed in thoughts of his wife. Thus mental absorption
in social, political, pseudo-religious, national and communal consciousness
is cause for bondage. During one’s lifetime one has to change his activities
in order to attain release from bondage. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita:

yajfiarthat karmano ’nyatra
loko ’yam karma-bandhanah
