Text 51] Purafijana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life 345
tatra piirvatarah kascit
sakha brahmana atmavan
santvayan valgund samna
tam aha rudatim prabho

tatra—in that place; piurvatarah—previous; kascit— someone; sakha—
friend; brahmanah—a brahmana; atmavan—very learned scholar; santyayan
—pacifying; valguna—by very nice; samna—mitigating words; tam—junto
her; Gha—he said; rudatim—while she was crying; prabho—my dear King.

TRANSLATION

My dear King, one brahmana, who was an old friend of King Puraijjana,

came to that place and began to pacify the Queen with sweet words.
PURPORT

The appearance of an old friend in the form of a brahmana is| very
significant. In His Paramatma feature, Krsna is the old friend of everyone.
According to Vedic injunction, Krsna is sitting with the living entity sifle by
side. According to the sruti-mantra (dv@ suparna sayuja sakhaya),the|Lord
is sitting within the heart of every living entity as suhrt, the best fiend.
The Lord is always eager to have the living entity come home, bafk to
Godhead. Sitting with the living entity as witness, the Lord gives him all
chances to enjoy himself materially, but whenever there is an opportunity,
the Lord gives good counsel and advises the living entity to abandon
trying to become happy through material adjustment and instead] turn
his face toward the Supreme Personality of Godhead and surrénder
unto Him. When one becomes serious to follow the mission of the spifitual
master, his resolution is tantamount to seeing the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. As explained before, this means meeting the Supreme Persogjality
of Godhead in the instruction of the spiritual master. This is technjcally
called vani-sevd. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakurastates in his Bhagpvad-
gita commentary on the verse vyavasayatmikd buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana
(Bg. 2.41) that one should serve the words of the spiritual master} The
disciple must stick to whatever the spiritual master orders. Simply by
following on that line, one sees the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Paramatma, appeared befome the
Queen as a brahmana, but why didn’t He appear in His original form hs Sri
Krsna? Srila Vigvanatha Cakravarti Thakura remarks that unless one ig very
highly elevated in loving the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one cgnnot
