The universes within the material energy are called Devīdhāma, and within Devīdhāma the predominating Deity is Viṣṇu, who is assisted by Brahmā and Śiva. Devīdhāma is controlled by three modes, namely goodness, passion, and ignorance. Viṣṇu is the incarnation of goodness, Brahmā of passion, and Śiva of ignorance. Brahmā creates, Viṣṇu maintains, and Śiva destroys the material creation. The material creation comes into being by the will of the Lord, and it is again annihilated by His will. But although the universes of the material energy are thus created and annihilated, the planets in Haridhāma are ever existent.
The conditioned living entities, who wish to enjoy and not serve, are given a chance within Devīdhāma to seek liberation. Some of them enter Haridhāma, some of them enter Maheśadhāma, and some of them remain within Devīdhāma. Maheśadhāma is the marginal place between Haridhāma and Devīdhāma. The impersonalists who want to merge into the existence of the Transcendence are placed within Maheśadhāma. Those who want to remain within the planetary systems of the material universes do so on various planets, but those who want to go outside the material energy can enter Haridhāma and go either to the various planets there or directly to Kṛṣṇaloka.
The system of  bhakti-yoga  makes one eligible to enter Haridhāma, the system of  jñāna-yoga  makes one eligible to enter Maheśadhāma and the system of  karma-yoga  obliges one to remain in Devīdhāma and repeatedly be born and die, changing his material covering according to the standard of  karma  he performs. ■
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