1318 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 28

Material existence is always full of anxiety. People are always trying to
find many ways to mitigate anxiety, but because they are not guided by a
real leader, they try to forget material anxiety through drink and sex
indulgence. Foolish people do not know that by attempting to escape
anxiety by drink and sex, they simply increase their duration of material
life. It is not possible to escape material anxiety in this way.

The word pramada-sariga-disitah indicates that apart from all other
contamination, if one simply remains attached to a woman, that single
contamination will be sufficient to prolong one’s miserable material
existence. Consequently, in Vedic civilization one is trained from the
beginning to give up attachment for women. The first stage of life is
brahmacari, the second stage grhastha, the third stage vanaprastha, and the
fourth stage sannyasa. All these stages are devised to enable one to detach
himself from the association of women.

TEXT 28
THT HART TH TT TACT AAT |
wan fiat cafiea Taft Uz!
tam eva manasa grhnan
babhiiva pramadottama
anantaram vidarbhasya
raja-simhasya vesmani

tam—her; eva—certainly; manasa—by the mind; grhnan—accepting;
babhiiva—became; pramada—woman: uttama—highly situated; anantaram—
after death; vidarbhasya—of Vidarbha; raja-simhasya—of the most powerful
king; vesmani—at the house.

TRANSLATION

King Purarijana gave up his body while remembering his wife, and conse-
quently in his next life he became a very beautiful and well-situated woman.
He took his next birth as the daughter of King Vidarbha in the very house
of the King.

PURPORT

Since King Purafijana thought of his wife at the time of death, he
attained the body of a woman in his next birth. This verifies the following
verse in Bhagavad-gita:
