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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 10]
Lord is the supreme enjoyer, and the living entities are meant to assist the Lord in His enjoyment and thus participate in the transcendental enjoyment of everyone. The enjoyer and the enjoyed both participate in enjoyment, but, deluded by the illusory energy, the living entities want to become the enjoyer like the Lord, although they are not meant for such enjoyment. The  jīvas  or the living entities are mentioned in the  Bhagavad-gītā  as the superior nature or  parā prakṛti  of the Lord, and so also it is mentioned in the  Viṣṇu Purāṇa . Therefore the living entities are never the  puruṣas , or the factual enjoyers. As such, the spirit of enjoyment by the living entity in the material world is false. In the spiritual world the living entities are pure in nature, and therefore they are associates in the enjoyment of the Supreme Lord. In the material world the spirit of enjoyment by the living entities by dint of their own actions ( karma ) becomes gradually faded by the laws of nature, and thus the illusory energy dictates in the ear of the conditioned souls to become one with the Lord. This is the last snare of the illusory energy. When the last illusion is also cleared off by the mercy of the Lord, the living entity again becomes reinstated in his original position and thus becomes actually liberated. And for this attainment of liberation from the material clutches, the Lord creates the material world, maintains it for some time (one thousand years of His measurement, as is stated in the previous verse), and then again annihilates it by His will. The living entities are therefore completely dependent on the mercy of the Lord, and all their so-called enjoyments by scientific improvement are crushed into dust when the Lord desires.
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एको नानात्वमन्विच्छन् योगतल्पात् समुत्थितः । वीर्यं हिरण्मयं देवो मायया व्यसृजत् त्रिधा ॥१३॥
eko nānātvam anvicchan yoga-talpāt samutthitaḥ vīryam hiraṇmayam devo māyayā vyasṛjat tridhā
ekaḥ —Ille, one alone;  nānātvam —varieties;  anvicchan —so desiring;  yoga-talpāt —from the bedstead of mystic slumber;  samutthitaḥ —thus generated;  vīryam —the semina;  hiraṇmayam —golden hue;  devaḥ —the demigod;  māyayā —by the external energy;  vyasṛjat —perfectly created;  tridhā —in three features.