64 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 20

Krsna; jivere—unto the conditioned soul; krpaya—out of mercy; kaila—pre-
sented; krsna—Lord Krsna; veda-purana—the Vedic literature and the Puranas
(supplements to the Vedic literature).

TRANSLATION

“The conditioned soul cannot revive his Krsna consciousness by his own
effort. But out of causeless mercy, Lord Krsna compiled the Vedic literature
and its supplements, the Puranas.

PURPORT

A conditioned soul is bewildered by the Lord's illusory energy (maya). Maya's
business is to keep the conditioned soul forgetful of his real relationship with
Krsna. Thus the living entity forgets his real identity as spirit soul, Brahman, and in-
stead of realizing his factual position thinks himself the product of the material en-
ergy. According to Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.7.5):

yaya sammohito jiva
atmanam tri-gundtmakam

paro ‘pi manute ‘nartham
tat-krtam cabhipadyate

“Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the
three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus
undergoes the reactions of material miseries.”

This is a description of mayda’s action upon the conditioned soul. Thinking him-
self a product of the material energy, the conditioned soul engages in the service
of material energy in so many ways. He becomes the servant of lust, anger, greed
and envy. In this way one totally becomes a servant of the illusory energy. Later,
the bewildered soul becomes a servant of mental speculation, but in any case
he is simply covered by the illusory energy. Out of his causeless mercy and com-
passion, Krsna has compiled various Vedic literatures in His incarnation as
Vydsadeva. Vydsadeva is a saktydvesa-avatara of Lord Krsna. He has very kindly
presented these literatures to awaken the conditioned soul to his senses. Unfor-
tunately, at the present moment the conditioned souls are guided by demons
who do not care to read the Vedic literatures. Although there is an immense
treasure-house of knowledge, people are engaged in reading useless literature
that will give them no information on how to get out of the clutches of maya. The
purpose of the Vedic literatures is explained in the following verses.
