Text 8] Mohini-marti Bewilders Lord Siva 109

prapancikataya buddhya
hari-sambandhi-vastunah

mumuksubhih parityago
vairagyam phalgu kathyate

“Things should be accepted for the Lord’s service and not for one’s per-
sonal sense gratification. If one accepts something without attachment
and accepts it because it is related to Krsna, one’s renunciation is called
yuktam vairagyam. Whatever is favorable for the rendering of service to
the Lord should be accepted and should not be rejected as a material
thing.” (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.2.255-256) The jagat should not be
rejected as mithyad. It is truth, and the truth is realized when everything
is engaged in the service of the Lord. A flower accepted for one’s sense
gratification is material, but when the same flower is offered to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead by a devotee, it is spiritual. Food taken
and cooked for oneself is material, but food cooked for the Supreme Lord
is spiritual prasdda. This is a question of realization. Actually, every-
thing is given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore
everything is spiritual, but those who are not advanced in proper knowl-
edge make distinctions because of the interactions of the three modes of
material nature. In this regard, Srila Jiva Gosvami says that although the
sun is the only light, the sunshine, which is exhibited in seven colors,
and darkness, which is the absence of sunshine, are not different from
the sun, for without the existence of the sun such differentiations cannot
exist. There may be varied nomenclature because of different conditions,
but they are all the sun. The Puranas therefore say:

eka-desa-sthitasydgner
Jyotsna vistarini yatha
parasya brahmanah Saktis

tathedam akhilam jagat

“Just as the illumination of a fire, which is situated in one place, is
spread all over, the energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Parabrahman, are spread all over this universe.” (Visnu
Purdna 1.22.53) Materially, we can directly perceive the sunshine
spreading itself according to different names and activities, but
