Text 34] Krsna Is the Source of All Incarnations 175

himself in the service of the Lord in his eternal constitutional position,
becoming liberated from the conditioned life. Al! this is executed by the
Lord through either His external potency or directly by the internal
potency.

TEXT 34

aaa Sat APA aed ates |
ara cafe fate ey meta Ie

yady esoparata devi
maya vaisaradi matih

sampanna eveti vidur
mahimni sve mahiyate

yadi—if, however; esa—they; uparatd—subsided; devi maya—illusory
energy; vaisdradi—full of knowledge; matih—enlightenment; sampannah—
enriched with; eva—certainly ; iti—thus; viduh—being cognizant of; mahimni
—in the glories; sve—of the self; mahiyate—being situated in.

TRANSLATION

If the illusory energy subsides and the living entity becomes fully
enriched with knowledge by the grace of the Lord, then he becomes at
once enlightened with self-realization and thus becomes situated in his
own glory.

PURPORT

Being part of the absolute transcendence, all the Lord’s forms, names,
pastimes, attributes, associates and energies are identical with Him. His
transcendental energy acts according to His omnipotency. The same energy
acts as His external, internal and marginal energies, and by His omnipoten-
cy He can perform anything and everything through the agency of any of
the above energies. He can turn the external energy into internal by His
will. Therefore by His grace the external energy, which is employed in
illusioning those living beings whe want to have it, subsides by the will of
the Lord in terms of repentance and penance for the conditioned soul.
And the very same energy then acts to help the purified living being make
progress on the path of self-realization. The example of electrical energy
is very appropriate in this connection. The expert electrician can utilize
