Text 5] Further Inquiries by Vidura 265
only, yet He is not in them.” That is the opulence of the Lord’s attachment
and detachment. He is attached to everything, yet He is detached from all.
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asraksid bhagavan visvari
guna-mayya ”’tma-mayaya
taya samsthapayaty etad
bhuyah pratyapidhasyati
asraksit—caused to create; bhagavan—the Personality of Godhead;
visvam—the universe; gunamayya—endowed with three modes of material
nature; atma—self; mayaya—by the potency; taya—by her; samsthapayati—
maintains; etat—all these; bhuyah—then again; praytapidhasyati—con-
versely dissolves also.
TRANSLATION
By His self-sheltered potency of the three modes of material nature,
the Lord has caused the creation of this universe. By her He maintains the
creation and conversely dissolves it, again and again.
PURPORT
This cosmic universe is created by the Lord for those living entities who
are carried away by the illusory thought of becoming one with Him by
imitation. The three modes of material nature are for the further bewilder-
ment of the conditioned souls. The conditioned living entity, bewildered
by the illusory energy, considers himself a part of the material creation
due to forgetfulness of his spiritual identity, and thus he becomes entangled
in material activities life after life. This material world is not for the pur-
pose of the Lord Himself, but is for the conditioned souls who wanted to
be controllers due to misuse of their God-gifted minute independence.
Thus the conditioned souls are subjected to repeated birth and death.
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