Text 24] The Son of Drona Punished 345
is just like the sun, and maya or material existence is just like darkness.
Wherever there is the light of the sun, darkness or ignorance at once
vanishes. The best means to get out of the world of ignorance is suggested
here. The Lord is addressed herein as the original Personality of Godhead.
From Him all other Personalities of Godhead expand. The all-pervasive
Lord Visnu is Lord Krsna’s plenary portion or expansion. The Lord
expands Himself in innumerable forms of Godhead and living beings,
along with His different energies. But Sri Krsna is the original pri-
meval Lord from whom everything emanates. The all-pervasive feature
of the Lord experienced within the manifested world is also a partial
representation of the Lord. Paramatma is, therefore, included within
Him. He is the Absolute Personality of Godhead. He has nothing to do
with the actions and reactions of the material manifestation because He is
far above the material creation. Darkness is a perverse representation of
the sun, and therefore the existence of darkness depends on the existence
of the sun, but in the sun proper there is no trace of darkness. As the sun
is full of light only, similarly the Absolute Personality of Godhead, beyond
the material existence, is full of bliss. He is not only full of bliss, but also
full of transcendental variegatedness. Transcendence is not at all static,
but full of dynamic variegatedness. He is distinct from the material nature
which is complicated by the three modes of material nature. He is parama,
or the chief. Therefore He is absolute. He has manifold energies, and
through His diverse energies He creates, manifests, maintains and destroys
the material world. In His own abode, however, everything is eternal and
absolute. The world is not conducted by the energies or powerful agents
by themselves, but by the potent all-powerful with all energies.
TEXT 24
MCMRICCAC TO MRGIC UTS Ce
frre ea aa FA gAeraMA 112211
sa eva jiva-lokasya
maya-mohita-cetasah
vidhatse svena viryena
Sreyo dharmdadi-laksanam

sah—that Transcendence; eva—certainly; jiva-lokasya—of the conditioned

living beings; mayda-mohita—captivated by the illusory energy; cetasah—by
