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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 2]
purpose of your own or for the sake of a friend? Perhaps you carry them to kill the mad animals in this forest.
PURPORT
While undergoing severe penances in the forest, Āgnīdhra was captivated by the movements of Pūrvacitti, the girl sent by Lord Brahmā. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā ,  kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ : when one becomes lusty, he loses his intelligence. Therefore Āgnīdhra, having lost his intelligence, could not distinguish whether Pūrvacitti was male or female. He mistook her for a  muni-putra , the son of a saintly person in the forest, and addressed her as  muni-varya . Because of her personal beauty, however, he could not believe her to be a boy. He therefore began studying her features. First he saw her two eyebrows, which were so expressive that he wondered whether he or she might be the  māyā  of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The words used in this connection are  bhagavat-para-devatāyāḥ .  Devatāḥ , the demigods, all belong to this material world, whereas Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is always beyond this material world and is therefore known as  para-devatā . The material world is certainly created by  māyā , but it is created under the direction of  para-devatā , the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  ( mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram ),  māyā  is not the ultimate authority for the creation of this material world.  Māyā  acts on behalf of Kṛṣṇa.
Pūrvacitti's eyebrows were so beautiful that Āgnīdhra compared them to bows without strings. He therefore asked her whether they were to be used for her own purposes or for the sake of someone else. Her eyebrows were like bows meant to kill animals in the forest. This material world is like a great forest, and its inhabitants are like forest animals such as deer and tigers meant to be killed. The killers are the eyebrows of beautiful women. Captivated by the beauty of the fair sex, all the men of the world are killed by bows without strings, but cannot see how they are killed by  māyā . It is a fact, however, that they are being killed ( bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ). By dint of his  tapasya , Āgnīdhra could understand how  māyā  acts under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The word  pramattān  is also significant.  Pramatta  refers to one who cannot control his senses. The entire material world is being exploited by people who are  pramatta , or  vimūḍha . Prahlāda Mahārāja therefore said: