Text 2] The History of the Life of Ajamila 5

parasyante krtatmanah
pravisanti param padam

“Because of their exalted position, those who are on Brahmaloka at the
time of dissolution go directly back home, back to Godhead, along with
Lord Brahma.”

TEXT 2

safroamaa = aqpafarat = ga
MSAAGAIBATTTA: FAL TAs 1 II

pravrtti-laksanas caiva
traigunya-visayo mune

yo ’sav alina-prakrter
guna-sargah punah punah

pravrtti—by inclination; laksanah—symptomized; ca—also; eva—
indeed; trai-gunya—the three modes of nature; visayah—possessing as
objectives; mune—O great sage; yah—which; asau—that; alina-
prakrteh—of one who is not freed from the clutches of méya; guna-
sargah—in which there is a creation of material bodies; punah punah—
again and again.

TRANSLATION

O great sage Sukadeva Gosvami, unless the living entity is freed
from the infection of the material modes of nature, he receives
different types of bodies in which to enjoy or suffer, and according
to the body, he is understood to have various inclinations. By
following these inclinations he traverses the path called pravrtti-
marga, by which one may be elevated to the heavenly planets, as
you have already described [in the Third Canto].

PURPORT
As Lord Krsna explains in Bhagavad-gité (9.25):

yanti deva-vrata devan
pitfn yanti pitr-vratah
