Pure Love for Krishna
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intendent, Durga, is just like a shadow indication of the Supreme Lord. The sun works just like the eye of the Supreme Lord. Brahma works just as reflected light of the Supreme Lord. In this way, all these demigods, and the external energy herself, Durgadevi, and different departmental directors are servants of the Supreme Lord in the material world.
In the Spiritual World there is another energy, the superior spiritual energy, or internal energy, which acts under the direction of Yogamaya. Yogamaya means the internal potency of the Supreme Lord. She also works under direction, but in the Spiritual World. When the living entity puts himself under the direction of this Yogamaya instead of Mahamaya, the result is that he becomes gradually, causelessly, a devotee of Krishna. On the other hand, those who are after material opulence and the advancement of material happiness put themselves under the care of the material energy, Mahamaya, or under the care of material demigods such as Lord Shiva and others. In the  Srimad Bhagwatam  it is found that when the Gopis of Vrindaban desired to have Krishna as their husband, they prayed for the gratification of their desire before the spiritual energy, Yogamaya. And in the  Shapta Shati  it is found that King Shurath and another merchant of the name Samadi, wanted opulence of material existence according to their material mode of Nature—and they worshipped Mahamaya. Therefore, one should not mistakenly equalize Yogamaya and Mahamaya.
There is no difference between the Holy Name of the Supreme Lord and the Supreme Lord Himself. Because the Lord is on the Absolute platform, there is no difference between His Name and Himself. There are different Names of the Supreme Lord, such as Paramatma, the Supersoul, Brahman the Supreme Absolute, Shristikarta the Creator, Narayan the Transcendental Lord, Rukminiraman the husband of Rukmini, Gopinath the Enjoyer of the Gopis, and Krishna. The Lord has different Names, and they have different purposes. When one understands the Supreme Lord as the Creator, He is different from the aspect of the Lord as Narayan. Some of the Names of the Lord as the Creator are the conception of the materialistic men. One cannot fully realize the essence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by understanding the name of the Creator, because this material creation is the function of the external energy of the Supreme Lord. Such a conception of God includes only the external feature of the Supreme Lord.
Similarly, when we call the Supreme Lord  Brahman , we cannot have any understanding of the six full opulences of the Supreme Lord. In the Brahman realization of the Supreme Lord there is no realization of His six opulences