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Answers by Citing the Lord's Version
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In his pure consciousness, however, there is no such misconceived dream, and in that pure conscious state the living entity does not forget that he is never the Lord, but that he is eternally the servitor of the Lord in transcendental love.
TEXT 2
बहुरूप इवाभाति मायया बहुरूपया । रममाणो गुणेष्वस्या ममाहमिति मन्यते ॥ २ ॥
bahu-rūpa ivābhāti māyayā bahu-rūpayā ramamāṇo guṇeṣu asyā mamāham iti manyate
bahu-rūpaḥ—multiforms; iva—as it were; ābhāti—manifested; māyayā—by the influence of the exterior energy; bahu-rūpayā—in multifarious forms; ramamāṇaḥ—enjoying as it were; guṇeṣu—in the modes of different qualities; asyāḥ—of the external energy; mama—mine; aham—l; iti—thus; manyate—thinks.
TRANSLATION
The illusioned living entity appears in so many forms which are offered by the external energy of the Lord, and the encaged living entity, while enjoying in the modes of material nature, misconceives, thinking in terms of “I” and “mine.”
PURPORT
The different forms of the living entities are different dresses offered by the illusory external energy of the Lord according to the modes of nature desired to be enjoyed by the living being. The external material energy is represented by her three modes, namely goodness, passion and ignorance. So even in the material nature there is a chance of an independent choice by the living entity, and according to his choice the material energy offers him different varieties of material bodies. There are 900,000 varieties of material bodies in the water, two million vegetable bodies, 1,100,000 worms and reptiles, one million forms of birds, three million different bodies of beasts, and 400,000 human forms. Altogether there are 8,400,000 varieties of bodies in different planets of the universe, and the living entity is traveling by so many transmigrations according to different modes of enjoying spirit within himself. Even in one particular body the living entity changes from childhood to boyhood,