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been seen to return. Similarly, if one enters the Vaikuntha-dhama
[pratyag-dhama], he does not return to this material world. If
there is such a place, from which, having gone, one does not
return to the miserable material condition of life, what is the use
of jumping like monkeys in the temporary material world and not
seeing or understanding that place? What will be the profit?

PURPORT
As stated in Bhagavad-gita (15.6), yad gatvé na nivartante tad

dhama paramam mama: there is a region from which, having gone, one
does not return to the material world. This region has been repeatedly

described. Elsewhere in Bhagavad-gita (4.9), Krsna says:

janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah

tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so ’rjuna

“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and
activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this
material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.”

If one can properly understand Krsna, who has already been described
as the Supreme King, he does not return here after giving up his
material body. This fact has been described in this verse of Srimad-
Bhagavatam. Pumdn naivaiti yad gatvd: he does not return to this
material world, but returns home, back to Godhead, to live an eternally
blissful life of knowledge. Why do people not care about this? What will
be the benefit of taking birth again in this material world, sometimes as a
human being, sometimes a demigod, and sometimes a cat or dog? What is
the benefit of wasting time in this way? Krsna has very definitely

asserted in Bhagavad-gita (8.15):

mam upetya punar janma
duhkhdlayam asasvatam

napnuvanti mahatmanah
samsiddhim paramam gatah
