Text 312] The Lord Instructs Sanatana Gosvami 175

TEXT 311

‘Fite —atarifean, Scatestcat |
-THUTSTS, GUTS ‘Fage’— tA 18d |

‘Siva’ ——may4-Sakti-sangi, tamo-gunavesa
mayatita, gundatita ‘visnu’——paramesa

SYNONYMS

siva—Lord Siva; mayd-sakti-sangi—an associate of the external energy; tamah-
guna-avesa—absorbed by the quality of ignorance; mdyd-atita—transcendental
to the external energy; guna-atita—transcendental to the qualities of matter;
vispu—Visnu; parama-isa—the Supreme Lord.

TRANSLATION

“Lord Siva is an associate of the external energy; therefore he is absorbed in
the material quality of darkness. Lord Visnu is ‘transcendental to maya and the
qualities of maya. Therefore He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

PURPORT

Visnu is beyond the range of the material manifestation, and He is not within
the control of the material energy. He is the supreme independent Personality of
Godhead. This is even admitted by Sankardcarya: narayanah paro ‘vyaktat (Gita-
bhdsya). In his constitutional form, Siva is a mahd-bhagavata, a supreme devotee
of the Lord, but because he accepts maya’s association —especially the quality of
ignorance —he is not free from mdy4a’s influence. Such an intimate association is
completely absent in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu. Lord Siva ac-
cepts mdy4, but in the presence of Lord Visnu, mdayd does not exist. Consequently
Lord Siva has to be considered a product of maya. When Lord Siva is free from
maya’s influence, he is in the position of a mahd-bhagavata, a supreme devotee of
Lord Visnu. Vaisnavanam yatha sambhuh.

TEXT 312
fares “ifeqe: «pis fa fare! eta ges |
Cqataateuas Strauss: fay 1 ose y
sivah sakti-yuktah sasvat
trilihgo guna-samvrtah

vaikdrikas taijasas Ca
tamasas cety aham tridha
