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Mother Pārvatī Curses Citraketu
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thus into different conditions of bondage. Sometimes, by knowledge, the living entity is given liberation. In sattva-guṇa and rajo-guṇa, he is subjected to happiness and distress.
PURPORT
The question may be raised why the living entities are situated in different conditions and who has arranged this. The answer is that it has been done by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, without anyone's help. The Lord has His own energies ( parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate ), and one of them, namely the external energy, creates the material world and the varieties of happiness and distress for the conditioned souls under the supervision of the Lord. The material world consists of three modes of material nature —  sattva-guṇa ,  rajo-guṇa  and  tamo-guṇa . By  sattva-guṇa  the Lord maintains the material world, by  rajo-guṇa  He creates it, and by  tamo-guṇa  He annihilates it. After the varieties of living entities are created, they are subject to happiness and distress according to their association. When they are in  sattva-guṇa , the mode of goodness, they feel happiness, when in  rajo-guṇa  they are distressed, and when in  tamo-guṇa  they have no sense of what to do or what is right and wrong.
TEXT 22
न तस्य कश्चिद्दयितः प्रतीपो
न ज्ञातिबन्धुर्न परो न च स्वः।
समस्य सर्वत्र निरञ्जनस्य
सुखे न रागः कुत एव रोषः ॥२२॥
na tasya kaścid dayitaḥ pratīpo
na jñāti-bandhur na paro na ca svaḥ
samasya sarvatra nirañjanasya
sukhe na rāgaḥ kuta eva roṣaḥ
na —not;  tasya —of Him (the Supreme Lord);  kaścit —anyone;  dayitaḥ —dear;  pratīpaḥ —not dear;  na —nor;  jñāti —kinsman;  bandhuḥ —friend;  na —nor;  paraḥ —other;  na —nor;  ca —also;  svaḥ —own;  samasya —who is equal;  sarvatra —everywhere;  nirañjanasya —