Text 22] Mother Parvati Curses Citraketu 187

thus into different conditions of bondage. Sometimes, by knowl-
edge, the living entity is given liberation. In sattva-guna and rajo-
guna, he is subjected to happiness and distress.

PURPORT

4 The question may be raised why the living entities are situated in dif-
ferent conditions and who has arranged this. The answer is that it has
been done by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, without anyone’s
help. The Lord has His own energies (pardsya Saktir vividhaiva sriiyate),
and one of them, namely the external energy, creates the material world
and the varieties of happiness and distress for the conditioned souls
under the supervision of the Lord. The material world consists of three
modes of material nature—sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna. By
sattva-guna the Lord maintains the material world, by rajo-guna He cre-
ates it, and by tamo-guna He annihilates it. After the varieties of living
entities are created, they are subject to happiness and distress according
to their association. When they are in sattva-guna, the mode of goodness,
they feel happiness, when in rajo-guna they are distressed, and when in
tamo-guna they have no sense of what to do or what is right and-wrong.

TEXT 22
aq qe afeetta: stat
AMI WW A Tal
aa wa faa
GA ATT: FATT TI Rll

na tasya kascid dayitah pratipo

na jnati-bandhur na paro na ca svah
samasya sarvatra niranjanasya

sukhe na ragah kuta eva rosah

na—not; tasya—of Him (the Supreme Lord); kascit—anyone:
dayitah—dear; pratipah—not dear; na—nor; jfdti—kinsman;
bandhuh—friend; na—nor; parah—other; na—nor; ca—also; suah—
own; samasya—who is equal: sarvatra—everywhere; nirafjanasya—
