Text 5] Fundamental Principles of Material Nature 1069
Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is not subject to them. In other
words, the energy emanating from the Supreme Personality of Godhead
cannot act on Him; it acts on the conditioned souls who are covered by
the material energy. The Lord is the father of all living entities because He
impregnates material energy with the conditioned souls. Therefore, the
conditioned souls get bodies created by the material energy, whereas the
father of the living entities is aloof from the three modes.

It is stated in the previous verse that the material energy was accepted
by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in order that He might exhibit
pastimes for the living entities who wanted to enjoy and lord it over the
material energy. This world was created through the material energy of
the Lord for the so-called enjoyment of such living entities. Why this
material world was created for the sufferings of the conditioned souls is a
very intricate question. There is a hint here in the word lilaya, which means
for the pastimes of the Lord. The Lord wants to rectify the enjoying
temperament of the conditioned souls. It is stated in Bhagavad-gita that
no one is the enjoyer but the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This
material energy is created, therefore, for anyone who pretends to enjoy.
An example can be cited here that there is no necessity for the govern-
ment’s creation of a separate police department, but because it is a fact
that some of the citizens will not accept the state laws, a department to
deal with criminals is necessary. There is no necessity, but at the same
time there is a necessity. Similarly, there was no necessity to create this
material world for the sufferings of the conditioned souls, but at the same
time there are certain living entities known as nitya-baddha who are
eternally conditioned. We say that they have been conditioned from time
immemorial because no one can trace out when the living entity, the part
and parcel of the Supreme Lord, became rebellious against the supremacy
of the Lord.

It is a fact that there are two classes of men—those who are obedient to
the laws of the Supreme Lord, and those who are atheists or agnostics,
who do not accept the existence of God and who want to create their own
laws. They want to establish that everyone can create his own laws or his
own religious path. Without tracing out the beginning of the existence of
these two classes, we can take it for granted that some of the living entities
revolted against the laws of the Lord. Such entities are called conditioned
souls, for they are conditioned by the three modes of material nature.
Therefore the words gunair vicitrah are used here.

In this material world there are 8,400,000 species of life. As spirit souls,
they are all transcendental to this material world. Why, then, do they
