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When the sky is clear of all clouds there is
' no longer any distinction between the portion
‘ of the sky that was covered and that which was
never covered. Similarly, when the living entity
now covered by the modes of material nature is
freed from ignorance, passion, and so-called
goodness, he becomes one with the Absolute
Truth. Such oneness is called mukti, or freedom
from the miseries of material life. There are five
i different kinds of mukti. Impersonalists prefer to
i merge into the existence of the Transcendence,
' but the personalists, or devotees, do not annihilate
their individuality, and thus the devotees of the
Lord individually enjoy spiritual variegatedness on
+ the planets of the spiritual sky.

The material sky is also the spiritual sky, but it is
covered by the modes of material nature. This
material nature is also a temporary creation of the
Lord, as the cloud is a creation of the sun. When
the cloud of the material modes is cleared off, the
material nature is said to have been annihilated.

There are two kinds of living entities, namely the

Ps conditioned and the pure. It is for the conditioned
4 living entities that the material nature is created,
‘ and the conditioned souls are put into it to become
pure, unconditioned souls. Those who become
unconditioned by devotional service enter into the
: eternal kingdom of God, and those who lose the
chance rot in dormant material conditions, some-
times manifested and sometimes nonmanifested.
Lord Sri Krsna descends to reclaim the con-
ditioned souls.a
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