Text 20] Purarijana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life 1307

tad-artham karma kaunteya
mukta-sangah samdcara

“Work done as a sacrifice for Visnu has to be performed, otherwise work
binds one to this material world. Therefore, O son of Kunti, perform your
prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way you will always remain
unattached and free from bondage.” (Bg. 3.9) If we do not change our
consciousness in this life, whatever we do in the name of social, political,
religious or communal and national welfare will be the cause of our bondage.
This means we have to continue in material conditional life. When the
mind and senses are engaged in material activities, one has to continue his
material existence and struggle to attain happiness. In each and every life,
one is engaged in the struggle to become happy. Actually no one in this
material world is happy, but the struggle gives a false sense of happiness.
A person must work very hard, and when he attains the result of his hard
work, he thinks himself happy. In the material world people do not know
what real happiness is. Real happiness is to be attained by transcendental

senses.
yatroparamate cittam

niruddham yoga-sevaya
yatra caivatmanatmanam
pasyann atmani tusyati

sukham adtyantikam yat tad
buddhi-grahyam atindriyam
vetti yatra na caivayam
sthitas calati tattvatah

yam labdhvd cadparam labham
manyate nadhikam tatah

yasmin sthito na duhkhena
gurunapi vicalyate

tam vidyad duhkha-samyoga-
viyogam yoga-samjnitam

“In the stage of perfection called trance, or samadhi, one’s mind is com-
pletely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga. This
is characterized by one’s ability to see the self by the pure mind and to
relish and rejoice in the self. In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless
transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcendental senses.
Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this
