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point of liberation by dint of severe penances and austerities, they are
sure to fall down again into material existence, for they do not take
shelter at Your lotus feet.” The impersonalists cannot reach the
Vaikuntha planets to become associates of the Lord, and therefore, ac-
cording to their desires, Krsna gives them sdyujya-mukti. However,
since sa@yujya-mukti is partial mukti, they must fall again to this material
world. When it is said that the individual soul falls from Brahmaloka,
this applies to the impersonalist.

From authoritative sources it is learned that Jaya and Vijaya were sent
to this material world to fulfill the Lord’s desire to fight. The Lord also
sometimes wants to fight, but who can fight with the Lord but a very con-
fidential devotee of the Lord? Jaya and Vijaya descended to this world to
fulfill the Lord’s desire. Therefore in each of their three births—first as
Hiranyaksa and Hiranyakasipu, second as Ravana and Kumbhakarna,
and third as Sisupala and Dantavakra—the Lord personally killed them.
In other words, these associates of the Lord, Jaya and Vijaya, descended
to the material world to serve the Lord by fulfilling His desire to fight.
Otherwise, as Maharaja Yudhisthira says, asraddheya ivabhati: the state-
ment that a servant of the Lord could fall from Vaikuntha seems un-
believable. How Jaya and Vijaya came to this material world is explained
by Narada Muni as follows.

TEXT 36

MART STI
THAT AA: GAT FSS TESA |
TATA TEAR | IATA 1136 I

$ri-na@rada uvaca
ekada brahmanah putra
visnu-lokam yadrechaya
sanandanddayo jagmus

caranto bhuvana-trayam

Sri-naradah uvaca—Sri Narada Muni said; ekada@—once upon a time;
brahmanah—of Lord Brahma; putréh—the sons; visnu—of Lord
Visnu; lokam—the planet; yadrcchaya—by chance; sanandana-
