Adi-tita, Chapter 5 425

TRANSLATION

Maya has two varieties of existence. One is called pradhana or prakrti. It supplies
the ingredients of the material world.

PURPORT

Mayd, the external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is divided into
two parts. Mdyd is the cause and the ingredient of the cosmic manifestation. As the
cause of the cosmic manifestation she is known as mdyd, and as the agent supplying
the ingredients of the cosmic manifestation she is known as pradhdna. An explicit
description of these divisions of external energy is given in Srimad-Bhagavatam
(11.24.1-4). Elsewhere in Srimad-Bhdgavatam (10.63.26) the ingredients and cause
of the material cosmic manifestation are described as follows:

kalo daivarh karma jivah svabhavo
dravyarh ksetrarh prana atma vikarah

tat-sanighato bija-roha-pravahas
tvan-mayaisé tan-nisedharh prapadye

“O my Lord! Time, activity, providence and nature are four parts of the causal
aspect [mdyd] of the external energy. The conditioned vital force, the subtle mate-
rial ingredients called the dravya, and material nature (which is the field of activity
where the false ego acts as the soul), as well as the eleven senses and five elements
(earth, water, fire, air and ether), which are the sixteen ingredients of the body—
these are the ingredient aspect of mdyd. The body is generated from activity, and
activity is generated from the body, just as a tree is generated from a seed that is
generated from a tree. This reciprocal cause and effect is called maya. My dear
Lord, You can save me from this cycle of cause and effect. | worship Your lotus
feet.”

Although the living entity is primarily related to the causal portion of mdyd, he
is nevertheless conducted by the ingredients of mdyd. Three forces work in the
causal portion of mdyd: knowledge, desire and activity. The material ingredients
are a manifestation of mdyd as pradhana. \n other words, when the three qualities
of mdyd are in a dormant stage, they exist as praksti, avyakta or pradhdana. The word
avyakta, referring to the nonmanifest, is another name of pradhana. \n the avyakta
stage, material nature is without varieties. Varieties are manifested by the pradhana
portion of maya. The word pradhdna is therefore more important than avyakta or
prakrti.

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jagat-karana nahe prakrti jada-riipa
Sakti saficariya tare krsna kare krpa
