566 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 10
Lord is the supreme enjoyer, and the living entities are meant to assist the
Lord in His enjoyment and thus participate in the transcendental enjoy-
ment of everyone. The enjoyer and the enjoyed both participate in enjoy-
ment, but, deluded by the illusory energy, the living entities want to
become the enjoyer like the Lord, although they are not meant for such
enjoyment. The jivas or the living entities are mentioned in the Bhagavad-
gita as the superior nature or para prakrti of the Lord, and so also it is
mentioned in the Visnu Purana. Therefore the living entities are never the
purusas, or the factual enjoyers. As such, the spirit of enjoyment by the
living entity in the material world is false. In the spiritual world the living
entities are pure in nature, and therefore they are associates in the enjoy-
ment of the Supreme Lord. In the material world the spirit of enjoyment
by the living entities by dint of their own actions (karma) becomes
gradually faded by the laws of nature, and thus the illusory energy dictates
in the ear of the conditioned souls to become one with the Lord. This is
the last snare of the illusory energy. When the last illusion is also cleared
off by the mercy of the Lord, the living entity again becomes reinstated in
his original position and thus becomes actually liberated. And for this
attainment of liberation from the material clutches, the Lord creates the
material world, maintains it for some time (one thousand years of His
measurement, as is stated in the previous verse), and then again annihilates
it by His will. The living entities are therefore completely dependent on
the mercy of the Lord, and all their so-called enjoyments by scientific
improvement are crushed into dust when the Lord desires.
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OL AATTA THY TACT THAT: |
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eko nanatvam anvicchan
yoga-talpat samutthitah
viryam hiranmayam devo
mayaya vyasrjat tridha
ekah—Ile, one alone; néndtvam—varieties; anvicchan—so desiring; yoga-
talpat—from the bedstead of mystic slumber; samutthitah—thus generated;
viryam—the semina;hiranmayam—golden hue; devah— the demigod; mayaya
—by the external energy; vyasyjat—perfectly created; tridha—in three fea-
tures.
