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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 7]
sādhv etad vyāhṛtam vidvan nātma-māyāyanam hareḥ ābhāty apārtham nirmūlam viśva-mūlam na yadbahiḥ
sādhu—as good as it should be; etat—all these explanations; vyāhṛtam—thus spoken; vidvan—O learned one; na—not; ātma—the self; māyā—energy; ayanam—movement; hareḥ—of the Personality of Godhead; ābhāti—appears; apārtham—without meaning; nirmūlam—without basis; viśva-mūlam—the origin is the Supreme; na—not; yat—which; bahiḥ—outside.
TRANSLATION
O learned sage, your explanations are very good, as they should be. Disturbances to the conditioned soul have no other basis than the movement of the external energy of the Lord.
PURPORT
A living entity's unlawful desire to become one with the Lord in every respect is the root cause of the entire material manifestation, for otherwise the Lord has no need to create such a manifestation, even for His pastimes. The conditioned soul, under the spell of the external energy of the Lord, falsely suffers many unfortunate incidents in material life. The Lord is the predominator of the external energy,  māyā , whereas the living entity is predominated by the same  māyā  under the material condition. The false attempt of the living entity to occupy the predominating post of the Lord is the cause of his material bondage, and the conditioned soul's attempt to become one with the Lord is the last snare of  māyā .
TEXT 17
यश्च मूढतमो लोके यश्च बुद्धेः परं गतः । तात्रुभौ सुखमेघेते क्लिश्यत्यन्तरितो जनः ॥१७॥
yaś ca mūḍhatamo loke yaś ca buddheḥ param gataḥ tāv ubhau sukham edhete kliśyaty antarito janaḥ
yaḥ—one who is; ca—also; mūḍhatamaḥ—the lowest of the fools; loke—in the world; yaḥ ca—and one who is; buddheḥ—of intelligence; param—transcendental; gataḥ—gone; tau—all of them; ubhau—both; sukham—