SB 4.29.85
Devanāgarī
अध्यात्मपारोक्ष्यमिदं मयाधिगतमद्भुतम् । एवं स्त्रियाश्रम: पुंसश्छिन्नोऽमुत्र च संशय: ॥ ८५ ॥
Text
adhyātma-pārokṣyam idaṁ mayādhigatam adbhutam evaṁ striyāśramaḥ puṁsaś chinno ’mutra ca saṁśayaḥ
Synonyms
adhyātma—spiritual;pārokṣyam—described by authority;idam—this;mayā—by me;adhigatam—heard;adbhutam—wonderful;evam—thus;striyā—with a wife;āśramaḥ—shelter;puṁsaḥ—of the living entity;chinnaḥ—finished;amutra—about life after death;ca—also;saṁśayaḥ—doubt.
Translation
The allegory of King Purañjana, described herein according to authority, was heard by me from my spiritual master, and it is full of spiritual knowledge. If one can understand the purpose of this allegory, he will certainly be relieved from the bodily conception and will clearly understand life after death. Although one may not understand what transmigration of the soul actually is, one can fully understand it by studying this narration.
Purport
puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etaṁ tayor mitho hṛdaya-granthim āhuḥ ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair janasya moho ’yam ahaṁ mameti
( Bhāg. 5.5.8 )
Everyone comes to this material world attracted to sense gratification, and the hard knot of sense gratification is the attraction between male and female. By this attraction one becomes overly attached to the material world in terms of gṛha-kṣetra-suta-āpta-vitta — that is, home, land, children, friends, money and so forth. Thus one becomes entangled in the bodily conception of “I” and “mine.” However, if one understands the story of King Purañjana and understands how, by sexual attraction, Purañjana became a female in his next life, one will also understand the process of transmigration.
SPECIAL NOTE: According to Vijayadhvaja Tīrtha, who belongs to the Madhvācārya sampradāya, the first two of the following verses appear after verse 45 of this chapter, and the remaining two verses appear after verse 79.