Category:Thinking of One's Wife
Theme Analysis
The moment of death is the critical juncture that determines the soul's next destination. Śrīla Prabhupāda frequently cites the Vedic axiom that whatever one thinks of at the time of death, one attains in the next life. A specific application of this law is the case of a husband who is overly attached to his wife. If a man dies thinking of his wife—worrying about her protection or lamenting the loss of her company—he develops the consciousness of a woman and consequently accepts a female body in his next birth. The primary scriptural example given is King Purañjana, whose intense attachment to his queen led to his rebirth as the princess Vaidarbhī. This highlights the subtle danger of material affection, where even a "good" family life can become a cause of bondage if it distracts one from Kṛṣṇa at the crucial moment of passing.
- The Law of Last Thoughts: The state of mind at the moment of death determines the next body. Thinking of a wife leads to a female form.
- The Case of King Purañjana: A vivid allegory from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam where a powerful king becomes a woman in his next life due to dwelling on his wife's welfare at his deathbed.
- The Trap of Attachment: Ironically, a chaste and obedient wife can increase a husband's material attachment, making it harder for him to let go at the end of life.
- The Illusion of Security: The thoughts of "my wife, my children, my home" provide a false sense of security that is shattered by death.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Thinking of One's Wife at the Time of Death.
Pages in category "Thinking of One's Wife"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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- A chaste woman becomes a very obedient wife. This causes a husband to become attached to his wife, and consequently he thinks of his wife very much at the time of death. This is a very dangerous situation, as is evident from the life of King Puranjana
- Agnidhra, however, his senses unsatisfied, was always thinking of his celestial wife, and therefore in his next life he was born in her celestial planet
- Ajnana-sambhavah: such a consciousness awakens in ignorance - thinking of someone as "my son", "my wife ", "my lover", and "my friend" in this material world
- Although King Puranjana was engaged in thinking of his wife and children, death did not wait for him. Death does not wait for any man; it will immediately carry out its duty
- Although King Puranjana was overly absorbed in thoughts of his wife and thus became a woman, he took birth in the family of a king due to his previous pious activities
- At the end of life one worries about how his wife will be protected and how she will manage the great family responsibilities. In this way a man usually thinks of his wife before death
- At the time of death a materialist thinks of his wife and children. He is absorbed in thinking of how they will live and who will take care of them after he leaves. Consequently he is never prepared to give up his body
- At the time of death King Puranjana was thinking of his wife, and this is called polluted consciousness
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- Even if one lives in the most abominable condition, he still thinks himself happy with his wife, children, friends and relatives
- Everyone is thinking that "My family, my wife, my children, my nation, my community, that is everything. What is Krsna?" This is the greatest illusion imposed by maya. But nobody will able to give you protection
- Everyone is thinking, "I am very comfortable at home. I have got my wife. I have got my children. I have got my bank balance. I have got so many things. I have got my nation, community. I am secure. I am secure." Why he is thinking like that?
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- I am an old man - seventy-two years old. I have been away from my family during the last fourteen years. Yet sometimes I also think of my wife and children. This is quite natural. But that does not mean I have to go back. This is knowledge
- If one thinks of his wife instead of Krsna at the time of death, he will certainly not return home, back to Godhead, but will be forced to accept the body of a woman and thus begin another chapter of material existence
- If someone is too attached to his wife, naturally he thinks of his wife at the time of death, and in his next life he takes the body of a woman
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- Since King Puranjana is thinking of his wife, his struggle for existence in the material world will not be ended by death
- Since King Puranjana thought of his wife at the time of death, he attained the body of a woman in his next birth
- Since Puranjana is thinking of his wife and children and is overly engrossed in thoughts of his wife, he will accept the body of a woman
- Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities by thinking, "This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this house; I am the husband of this wife." These are the dualities of delusion. BG 1972 purports
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- The body is finished, but we have to accept another body out of the 8,400,000 forms. In this way, our life is going on, but we are thinking in terms of wife, children, and so forth. This is all illusion
- There is no necessity of thinking wife as impediment to Krishna Consciousness. While I am living you should act according to my instructions & there is no question of impediment