Text 30] Mother Parvati Curses Citraketu 195

srsti-sthiti-pralaya-sadhana-saktir eka
chayeva yasya bhuvandani bibharti durga

Durga—the goddess Parvati, the wife of Lord Siva—is extremely power-
ful. She can create, maintain and annihilate any number of universes by
her sweet will, but she acts under the direction of the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead, Krsna, not independently. Krsna is impartial, but
because this is the material world of duality, such relative terms as hap-
piness and distress, curses and favors, are created by the will of the
Supreme. Those who are not nadrdyana-para, pure devotees, must be dis-
turbed by this duality of the material world, whereas devotees who are
simply attached to the service of the Lord are not at all disturbed by it.
For example, Haridisa Thakura was beaten with cane in twenty-two
bazaars, but he was never disturbed; instead, he smilingly tolerated the
beating. Despite the disturbing dualities of the material world, devotees
are not disturbed at all. Because they fix their minds on the lotus feet of
the Lord and concentrate on the holy name of the Lord, they do not feel
the so-called pains and pleasures caused by the dualities of this material
world.

TEXT 30
afar: gat wae rarafa |
mmenfecis fit afracga: loll

aviveka-krtah purnso

hy artha-bheda ivatmani
guna-dosa-vikalpas ca

bhid eva srajivat krtah

aviveka-krtah—done in ignorance, without mature consideration;
purnsah—of the living entity; hi—indeed; artha-bhedah—differentia-
tion of value; iva—like; dtmani—in himself; guna-dosa—of quality
and fault; vikalpah—imagination; ca—and; bhit—difference; eva—
certainly; sraji—in a garland; vat—like; krtah—made.

TRANSLATION

As one mistakenly considers a flower garland to be a snake or
experiences happiness and distress in a dream, so, in the material
