The Mayavadi Philosophers Are Converted
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In all the Vedic literature, such as  Bhagavad Gita  and  Vishnu Purana , there is innumerable evidence for this distinction between the energy and the Energetic. In  Bhagavad Gita , Seventh Chapter, 5th verse, it is clearly stated that earth, water, fire, air and sky are five principal gross elements of the material world. Mind, intelligence and false ego are elements of the subtle matter. The whole material Nature is considered to be divided into these eight elements, which are the inferior quality of Nature. Another name for this inferior quality of Nature is  Maya , or illusion. Beyond these eight kinds of inferior Nature there is another superior quality of Nature, which is called  Paraprakriti . That  Paraprakriti  is the living entity, and the entities are found all over this material world. The purport is that the Supreme Lord is the Absolute Truth, the Energetic, and that He has energy also. That energy, when not properly manifested, or when covered by some shadow, is called  Maya Shakti . The cosmic manifestation is a product of that covered  Maya Shakti .
The living entities are factually beyond this covered inferior energy. The living entities have their pure spiritual existence, and their pure identity, and they have their pure mental activities. And all of them are beyond the manifestation of this cosmic world. The living entity, his mind, his intelligence, and his identity are beyond the range of this material world, but when he enters into this material world by his desire to lord it over matter, then his original mind, intelligence, and body become covered by the material energy. When he is again uncovered from these material or inferior energies, he is called liberated. And when he is liberated he has no false ego, but his real ego comes again into existence.
Foolish mental speculators think that after liberation even the identity is lost, but that is not so. Because we are eternally part and parcel, the living entity, when liberated, revives his original, eternal part-and-parcel identity.  Aham Brahmasmi  (I am not this body) does not mean that I lose my identity. At the present moment I say that I am matter, but in my liberated state I will understand that I am not matter, I am spirit soul, as part of the infinite. So to become Krishna conscious or spiritually conscious and to be engaged in this loving transcendental service of Krishna is the sign of the liberated stage.
In the  Vishnu Purana , Sixth Chapter, 7th verse, it is very nicely and clearly stated: “The energy of the Supreme Lord is divided into three:  Para ,  Kshetrajna  and  Avidya .”  Para  energy is actually the energy of the Supreme Lord; the  Kshetrajna  energy is called the living entities; and the  Avidya  energy is called this material world, or  Maya . It is called  Avidya , or ignorance, because under the spell of this material energy one forgets his actual position and his relation-