The Mayavadi Philosophers Are Converted 185

In all the Vedic literature, such as Bhagavad Gita and Vishnu Purana, there is
innumerable evidence for this distinction between the energy and the Energetic.
In Bhagavad Gita, Seventh Chapter, sth verse, it is clearly stated that earth,
water, fire, air and sky are five principal gross elements of the material world.
Mind, intelligence and false ego are elements of the subtle matter. The whole
material Nature is considered to be divided into these eight elements, which
are the inferior quality of Nature. Another name for this inferior quality of
Nature is Maya, or illusion. Beyond these eight kinds of inferior Nature there
is another superior quality of Nature, which is called Paraprakriti. That
Paraprakriti is the living entity, and the entities are found all over this material
world. The purport is that the Supreme Lord is the Absolute Truth, the
Energetic, and that He has energy also. That energy, when not properly
manifested, or when covered by some shadow, is called Maya Shakti. The
cosmic manifestation is a product of that covered Maya Shakti.

The living entities are factually beyond this covered inferior energy. The
living entities have their pure spiritual existence, and their pure identity, and
they have their pure mental activities. And all of them are beyond the mani-
festation of this cosmic world. The living entity, his mind, his intelligence,
and his identity are beyond the range of this material world, but when he
enters into this material world by his desire to lord it over matter, then his
original mind, intelligence, and body become covered by the material energy.
When he is again uncovered from these material or inferior energies, he is
called liberated. And when he is liberated he has no false ego, but his real ego
comes again into existence.

Foolish mental speculators think that after liberation even the identity is
lost, but that is not so. Because we are eternally part and parcel, the living
entity, when liberated, revives his original, eternal part-and-parcel identity.
Aham Brahmasmi (I am not this body) does not mean that I lose my identity.
At the present moment I say that I am matter, but in my liberated state I will
understand that I am not matter, I am spirit soul, as part of the infinite. So to
become Krishna conscious or spiritually conscious and to be engaged in this
loving transcendental service of Krishna is the sign of the liberated stage.

In the Vishnu Purana, Sixth Chapter, 7th verse, it is very nicely and clearly
stated: “The energy of the Supreme Lord is divided into three: Para, Kshetrajna
and Avidya.” Para energy is actually the energy of the Supreme Lord; the
Kshetrajna energy is called the living entities; and the Avidya energy is called
this material world, or Maya. It is called Avidya, or ignorance, because under
the spell of this material energy one forgets his actual position and his relation-
