60 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 15
and spirit—exist eternally as potencies of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. The potent entity is the Supreme Person. Since the spiritual
energy, the living being, who is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord,
desires to enjoy this material world, the Lord gives him a chance to ac-
cept different types of material bodies and enjoy or suffer in different
material conditions. Factually, the spiritual energy, the living entity who
desires to enjoy material things, is manipulated by the Supreme Lord.
The so-called father and mother have nothing to do with the living en-
tity. As a result of his own choice and karma, the living being takes dif-
ferent bodies through the agency of so-called fathers and mothers.
TEXT 8
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aifaeatenfaartisd sar seat Beta? ICI
deha-dehi-vibhago ’yam
aviveka-krtah pura
jati-vyakti-vibhago ’yam
yatha vastuni kalpitah
deha—of this body; dehi—and the proprietor of the body;
vibhagah—the division; ayam—this; aviveka—from_ ignorance;
krtah—made; puraé—from time immemorial; jati—of the class or caste;
vyakti—and the individual; vibhdgah—division; ayam—this; yatha —
just as; vastuni—in the original object; kalpitah—imagined.
TRANSLATION
Divisions of generalization and specification, such as nationality
and individuality, are the imaginations of persons who are not ad-
vanced in knowledge.
PURPORT
Actually there are two energies—material and spiritual. Both of them
are ever-existing because they are emanations from the eternal truth, the
Supreme Lord. Because the individual soul, the individual living entity,
has desired to act in forgetfulness of his original identity since time im-
