Knowing Krsna’s Energies 71

the stage of karmi or fruitive laborer, to the stage of
Jani or philosopher, to the stage of yogi or medi-
tator, but in any case one finally has to come to the
platform of bhakti, or devotional service. This is the
real evolutionary process. It is indicated in Bhagavad-
gita in this way:

bahunam janmanam ante
Jiianavan mam prapad yate
vasudevah sarvam iti
sa mahatma sudurlabhah

“After many births and deaths, he who is actually
in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to
be the cause of all causes, and all that is. Such a
great soul is very rare.” (Bg. 7.19)

Surrender to Krsna is the point; that is the aim of
life, and the bhaktas, the intelligent men of the world,
take to this stage immediately. Therefore Krsna says
that they are wise men. If, after many, many births
one has to come to this point of surrender, then why
not immediately ?

The blazing fire of material nature is supervised
by Durga. Often she is portrayed with weapons in
her hands. She has ten hands, and each holds a
different type of weapon. This indicates that she is
ruling all ten directions of this universe. She wields
the different weapons to chastise the demons. There
is one famous picture of a demon struggling with a
lion, and the goddess Durga is pulling the demon’s
hair and pushing her trident against his chest. If we
study this picture we can determine that we are the
