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entities of the marginal potency maintain their individuality. Thus although the energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead interact within the cosmic manifestation, each keeps its separate individual existence. Merging in the material or spiritual energies, therefore, does not involve loss of individuality. According to Śrī Rāmānujapāda's theory of  viśiṣṭādvaita , although all the energies of the Lord are one, each keeps its individuality ( vaiśiṣṭya ).
Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya has tried to mislead the readers of  Vedānta-sūtra  by misinterpreting the words  ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt , and he has even tried to find fault with Vyāsadeva. All the codes of the  Vedānta-sūtra  need not be examined here, however, since we intend to present the  Vedānta-sūtra  in a separate volume.
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পরিণাম-বাদে ঈশ্বর হয়েন বিকারী ।
এত কহি ‘বিবর্ত’-বাদ স্থাপনা যে করি ॥ ১২২ ॥
pariṇāma-vāde īśvara hayena vikārī eta kahi' 'vivarta'-vāda sthāpanā ye kari
SYNONYMS
pariṇāma-vāde —by accepting the theory of transformation of energy;  īśvara —the Supreme Lord;  hayena —becomes;  vikārī —transformed;  eta kahi' —saying this;  vivarta —illusion;  vāda —theory;  sthāpanā —establishing;  ye —what;  kari —do.
TRANSLATION
“According to Śaṅkarācārya, by accepting the theory of the transformation of the energy of the Lord, one creates an illusion by indirectly accepting that the Absolute Truth is transformed.
PURPORT
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ţhākura comments that if one does not clearly understand the meaning of  pariṇāma-vāda , or transformation of energy, one is sure to misunderstand the truth regarding this material cosmic manifestation and the living entities. In the  Chāndogya Upaniṣad  it is said,  san-mūlāḥ saumyemāḥ prajāḥ sadāyatanāḥ sat-pratiṣthāḥ  ( Chā. U. 6.8.4 ). The material world and the living entities are separate beings, and they are eternally true, not false. Śaṅkarācārya, however, unnecessarily fearing that by  pariṇāma-vāda  (transformation of energy) Brahman would be transformed ( vikārī ), has imagined both the material world and the living entities to be false and to have no individuality. By word jugglery he has tried to prove that the individual identities of the living entities and the material world are illusory, and he has cited the examples of mistaking a rope for a snake or an oyster shell for gold. Thus he has most abominably cheated people in general.
The example of misunderstanding a rope to be a snake is mentioned in the  Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad , but it is meant to explain the error of identifying the body