280 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 7

sadhv etad vyahrtam vidvan
natma-mayayanam hareh
abhaty apartham nirmulam
vigva-miilam na yadbahih

sadhu—as good as it should be; etat—all these explanations; vyahrtam—
thus spoken; vidvan—O learned one; na—not; atma—the self; maya—cnergy ;
ayanam—movement; hareh—of the Personality of Godhead; abhati—
appears; apartham—without meaning; nirmulam-—without basis; visva-
mulam-—the origin is the Supreme; na—not; yat— which; bahih— outside.

TRANSLATION

O learned sage, your explanations are very good, as they should be.
Disturbances to the conditioned soul have no other basis than the move-
ment of the external energy of the Lord.

PURPORT

A living entity’s unlawful desire to become one with the Lord in every
respect is the root cause of the entire material manifestation, for other-
wise the Lord has no need to create such a manifestation, even for His
pastimes. The conditioned soul, under the spell of the external energy of
the Lord, falsely suffers many unfortunate incidents in material life. The
Lord is the predominator of the external energy, maya, whereas the living
entity is predominated by the same maya under the material condition.
The false attempt of the living entity to occupy the predominating post
of the Lord is the cause of his material bondage, and the conditioned
soul’s attempt to become one with the Lord is the last snare of maya.

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yas ca mudhatamo loke
yas ca buddheh param gatah

tav ubhau sukham edhete
kligyaty antarito janah

yah—one who is; ca—also; mudhatamah-— the lowest of the fools; loke—
in the world; yah ca—and one who is; buddheh—of intelligence; param—
transcendental; gatah—gone; tau—all of them; ubhau—both; sukham—
