Adi-lila, Chapter 4 269

The total exhibition of these potencies is called visuddha-sattva, and this platform
of spiritual variegatedness is displayed even in the material world, when the Lord
appears here. The pastimes and manifestations of the Lord in the material world
are therefore not at all material; they belong to the pure transcendental state.
Bhagavad-gita confirms that anyone who understands the transcendental nature of
the Lord’s appearance, activities and disappearance becomes eligible for freedom
from material bondage upon quitting the present material tabernacle. He can enter
the spiritual kingdom to associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and
reciprocate the Alddini potency in transactions between him and the Lord. In the
mundane mode of goodness there are tinges of passion and ignorance. Therefore
mundane goodness, being mixed, is called misra-sattva. But the transcendental
variegatedness of visuddha-sattva is completely free from all mundane qualities.
Visuddha-sattva is therefore the proper atmosphere in which to experience the
Personality of Godhead and His transcendental pastimes. Spiritual variegatedness
is eternally independent of all material conditions and is nondifferent from the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, both being absolute. The Lord and His devotees
simultaneously perceive the A/adin7 potency directly by the power of samvit.

The material modes of nature control the conditioned souls, but the Supreme
Personality of Godhead is never influenced by these modes, as all Vedic literatures
directly and indirectly corroborate. Lord Krsna Himself says in the Eleventh
Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, sattvam rajas tama iti gund jivasya naiva me: ‘The
material modes of goodness, passion and ignorance are connected with the con-
ditioned souls, but never with Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” The Visnu
Purana confirms this as follows:

sattvadayo na santise
yatra na prakrta gunah

sa Suddhah sarva-Suddhebhyah
puman adyah prasidatu

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, is beyond the three qualities goodness,
passion and ignorance. No material qualities exist in Him. May that original person,
Narayana, who is situated in a completely transcendental position, be pleased with
us.” In the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhdagavatam, Indra praised Krsna as follows:

visuddha-sattvam tava dhadma santam
tapomayam dhvasta-rajas-tamaskam
maydadmayo ‘yam guna-sampravaho
na vidyate te ‘grahanadnubandhah

“My dear Lord, Your abode is visuddha-sattva, always undisturbed by the material
qualities, and the activities there are in transcendental loving service unto Your
feet. The goodness, austerity and penance of the devotees enhance such activities,
which are always free from the contamination of passion and ignorance. Material
qualities cannot touch You under any circumstances.’’ (Bhag. 10.27.4)
