Text 60 ] Purafijana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life 1357
PURPORT

In the material world many living entities come into contact with one
another, and, increasing their attachment to a particular type of body,
become related as father, husband, mother, wife, etc. Actually every living
entity is a separate individual being, and it is because of his contact with
matter that he comes together with other bodies and becomes falsely
related. False bodies create various associations in the name of family,
community, society and nationality. Actually every living entity is part
and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but the living entities
are overly engrossed in the material body. The Supreme Personality of
Godhead, Krsna, appears and gives instructions in the form of Bhagavad-
gita and Vedic literatures. The Supreme Lord gives these instructions
because He is the eternal friend of the living entities. His instructions are
important because by them the living entity can obtain liberation from
bodily engagement. As water passes down a river, many straws and grasses
are carried from the shore. These straws and grasses come together in the
river’s current, but when the waves toss this way and that, they are
separated and carried somewhere else. Similarly, the innumerable living
entities within this material world are being carried by the waves of
material nature. Sometimes the waves bring them together, and they form
friendships and relate to one another on a bodily basis of family, com-
munity or nationality. Eventually they are thrown out of association by
the waves of material nature. This process has been going on since the
creation of material nature. In this regard, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura
sings,

(miche) mdydra vase, yaccha bhese’,
khdccha habudubu, bhai
(jiva) krsna-dasa, e visvdasa,
karle ta’ dra duhkha nai
“My dear living entities, you are being carried away by the waves of
material nature. Sometimes you are on the surface, sometimes you are
being drowned. In this way your eternal life is being spoiled. If you simply
catch hold of Krsna and take shelter of His lotus feet, you will once again
get free from all the miserable material conditions.”

In this verse the words suhrt (well-wisher) and tava (your) are very
significant. One’s so-called husband, relative, son, father, or whatever can
not actually be a well-wisher. The only actual well-wisher is Krsna Himself,
as Krsna confirms in Bhagavad-gita: suhrdam sarva-bhiitanam (Bg. 5.29).
