Text 13] The Lord Begs Charity from Bali Maharaja 63

the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the chief of all living en-
tities? He certainly never takes birth or dies. Ajo ‘pi sann avyayatma
(Bg. 4.6). Both the Lord and the living entity exist as unborn and inex-
haustible personalities. Thus Hiranyakasipu’s conclusion that Visnu was
dead was wrong.

As indicated by the words yato navartate puman, there is certainly a
spiritual kingdom, and if the living entity goes there, he never returns to
this material world. This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (4.9):
tyaktva deharn punar janma naiti mam eti so ’rjuna. Materially speak-
ing, every living entity dies; death is inevitable. But those who are
karmis, jfidnis and yogis return to this material world after death,
whereas bhaktas do not. Of course, if a bhakta is not completely perfect
he takes birth in the material world again, but in a very exalted position,
either in a rich family or a family of the purest brahmanas (sucinarn
Srimatam gehe), just to finish his development in spiritual consciousness.
Those who have completed the course of Krsna consciousness and are
free from material desire return to the abode of the Supreme Personality
of Godhead (yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama). Here
the same fact is stated: yato ndvartate pumdn. Any person who goes back
home, back to Godhead, does not return to this material world.

TEXT 13

quaiey Taare efearq |
AMAT WeIEATATT LT: 118 3A

vairanubandha etavan
amrtyor iha dehindm

ajridna-prabhavo manyur
aham-manopabrmhitah

vaira-anubandhah—enmity; etavdn—so great; dmrtyoh—up to the
point of death; iha—in this; dehindm—of persons too involved in the
bodily concept of life; ajidna-prabhavah—because of the great in-
fluence of ignorance; manyuh—anger; aham-mana—by egotism;

upabrmhitah—expanded.
