Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.2.11-12. How to Enjoy and Serve Simultaneously
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Invocation and verse recitation
Om namo bhagavate vāsudevāya, oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Om namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Vasudevaya, Nārāyaṇaṁ namaskṛtya naraṁ caiva narottamam, devīṁ sarasvīṁ vyāsaṁ tato jayam udīrayet.
Vyasam, Tato Jaya Mudira, Nachti praje su, nitam Bhaga se va ja, nitamba se. Śrīmad-bhāgavate mahāpurāṇe Bhavati naštiki, so Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Mahāpurāṇa, Canto 10, Chapter 2, Prayers by the Demigods, Text 11 and 12.
kurvanti, statani, Vijaya Vaishnavit Chākum, Chandika, Krishna Madave kanjakiti narayani isani Sara iti ambika iti cha Kumuda chandika Krishna, Kumuda chandika Krishna Krishna. Madave keticha, Madavika, Madaveti, Mayanayanisani, Mayana Rayanisani Saradeti, Saradeetamikiti chait, Saradeetam bikamit, kumoda chandika krishna chandika krisham Madavekanja kiti chayanaisani, Sara de Piketicha Namadheni Kurvantis Thananicha Narabhuvi Durgiti Badrakali Vijaya Vaishnaviticha Namadhyani Namadhani different names kurvanti Will give stanani in different places. Cha also naraha persons interested in material enjoyment. Bhvi on the surface of the globe. Durgaiti. The name Durga, Badrakali, Badrakali, the name Badrakali, Vijaya, Vijaya, the name Vijaya Vaishnavi iti Vaishnaviti the name Vaishnavi Cha also Kumuda The name Kumuda Chandika The name Chandika Krishna the name Krishna Madavi the name Madavi Kanyaka iti the name kanjaka oh kanyakumari cha Cha also Maya the name Maya Narayani The name Narayani Ishani the name Ishani Ishani Sharada the name
Sharada it is thus ambika the name ambika it also
Translation and purport on Maya's names
cha and translation and purport by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Lord Krishna blessed Maya Devi by saying in different places on the surface of the earth, people will give you different names such as Durga, Bhadrakali, Vijaya, Vaishnavi, Kumuda, Chandika Krishna Madavi Kandyaka Maya Narayani, Isani, Sarada and Ambika. Purport.
Because Krishna and his energy appeared simultaneously, people have generally formed two groups. The Shaktas and the Vaishnavas. And sometimes there is a rivalry between them.
Especially those who are interested in material enjoyments, the Shaktas. Shaktas. And those interested in spiritual salvation and attaining the spiritual kingdom are Vaishnavas.
Because people are generally interested in material enjoyment, they are interested in worshipping Maya Devi, the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Vaishnavas, however, are Shuddha Bhaktas, or pure bhaktas.
Because Hare Krishna Mahamantra indicates worship of the Supreme Lord energy, Harā. Vaishnavas pray to the energy of the Lord for the opportunity to serve the Lord along with his spiritual energy.
Thus Vaishnavas all worship such deities as Radha Krishna, Sita Rama, Lakshminarayana, and Rukmini Dvarakadhisha. Whereas Durga Shaktas worship the material energy under different names.
The names by which Maya Devi is known in different places have been listed by Vallabhachari as follows. In Varanasi, she is known as Durga. In Avanti, she is known as Bhadrakali. In Orissa, she is known as Vijaya.
And in Kulahapura, nowadays Kolapur. She is known as Vaishnavi or Mahalakshmi. The representatives of Mahalakshmi and Ambika are present in Bombay. In country known as Kamarupa, she is known as Chandika.
In northern India, Uttar Pradesh, she is known as Sarada and then Kanya Kumari as Kanyaka. Thus she is distributed according to various names in various places.
Srivijayat Vaja Tirtapada and his Padaratnava Litika has explained the meaning of different representations. Maya is known as Durgā because she is approached with great difficulty.
As Bhadrā because she is auspicious, and Kālī because she's deep blue. Because she is the most powerful energy, she is known as Vijayā. Because she is one of the different energies of Viṣṇu, she is known as Vaiṣṇavī.
And because she enjoys the material world and gives facilities for material enjoyment, she is known as Kumudā. Because she is very severe to her enemies,
the Asuras, she is known as Caṇḍikā, and because she gives all sorts of material facilities, she is called Kṛṣṇa.
In this way, the material energy is differently named and situated in different places on the surface of the globe.
Sila Prabada kicha namadhyani kurvanti stanani cha narabhuvi Durgati Badrakali Vijayāvaiṣṇavitīca Kumudacaṇḍikā Kṛṣṇa Mādhavī Kanyaketi Māyā Narā Nīṣāṇī Śāradā and Viketīca.
Lord Krishna blessed Maya Devi by saying in different places on the surface of the earth people will give you different names such as Durgā, Bhadrakālī, Vijayā, Vaiṣṇavī, Kumudā Caṇḍikā, Kṛṣṇa Mādhavī Kanyakā, Māyā, Nārāṇī, Īśānī, Śāradā and Ambikā.
Namo vaḥ kṛṣṇa-kṛṣṇāya bhaktaye śrī-mataye bhaktaye veṇaḥ vāsudevāya namaste 'stu rāṣṭre 'smin gurave namaḥ śrī- Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Prabhupādānanda, Śrī Advaita Gadādhara, Śrīvāsādi-
gaura-bhakta-vṛnda, Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Hare Hare Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Hare Rāma Rāma Ājānu- lambita-bhujaḥ kanaka-kāvadāto saṅkīrtanaika-pitarau kamalāyatākṣau viśvambharau dvija-varau yuga-dharma-pālau vande jagat-priya-karau karuṇāvatārau
Following Krishna's orders and receiving blessings
Krishna. So Lord Krishna is giving orders and blessings to Maya Devi. First he gives, he gave her order to transfer Balarāma from the womb of Devakī Mātā to Rohiṇī Mātā.
And here in this verse he is giving the blessings to Māyādevī.
It's basically the philosophy behind this is that we should all follow the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and blessings is attached. Blessings will come automatically.
We shouldn't be too much after the blessings. We should be after the service this desire to serve should be very strongly established in our heart. And Krishna will give blessings. He is ready to give blessings.
He is very kind and he is very benevolent. He is actually eager to give blessings to anyone who serves him. So here He gives very generous and very amazing blessings to Mayadevi.
First of all, He is in great ecstasy, chants your names. He actually glorifies Māyādevī. And Śrīla Prabhupāda, he explains in the purport in the beginning
that Krishna and his energy appeared simultaneously, and therefore, people generally form two groups. And Vallabhācārya in his Subodhīni-ṭīkā to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, he explains that by Bhagavatam, he explains that by
chanting the names of Mayadevi, chanting the names of his energy, Krishna shows his closeness to her. There is a very close and intimate relationship between God and His energy.
And therefore, Prabhupāda mentions that even in Hare Krishna mantra there is Hara and Hari. And they are even almost called the same.
So there is a great tendency among people to separate the energy from the energetic source. And if we see around the globe,
how people worship God or worship His energy, we can see that either they try to worship God, separating Him from His energy.
Like in so-called monotheistic religions of the world, great monotheistic religions, they're very much afraid of even mentioning His energy.
They're saying He is supreme, He is, you know, and we should only worship God, not anyone else. Don't worship anyone else.
There is only one God, you should worship Him, and you know, if you even mention somebody who is close to Him, you are a heretic. Like in, you know, we know in Muslim religion, they're very paranoid
and particular that you know you cannot, you know, there is only one God. He is the only worshipable object, nobody else is worshiped.
And on the contrary, there are many religions who have the leniency or tendency to worship the energy. By monotheistic religions, the followers of monotheistic religions, they are condescendingly
Extremes of complete renunciation and enjoyment
called pagans and, uh, yeah, and they worship energy of the Lord in many different forms, uh, under well not always understanding the connection with the Lord.
But the tendency is like this, and when you worship the Lord alone without his energy, then inevitably there will be emphasis in your religious practice on a complete renunciation.
Because the Lord, He is there, He is alone, nobody is around Him, He is Almighty, so everything else is just not worthy of our attention.
And this extreme renunciation, which sometimes is manifested in different forms of Christianity, actually is very in one sense repulsive cause it's not natural.
These extreme forms of renunciation are not really natural and spontaneous. And therefore, people ultimately reject these fanatical forms of religion which insist to emphasize the worship of Lord alone without his energy.
And on the contrary, we can see that those people who have the tendency, like Prabhupada he mentions here, Shaktas, those who have the leniency towards Lord's energy, they ultimately neglect the Lord.
Like the Shaktas, they say that, you know, it's the great Shakti who Who is the origin of everything, and Lord Vishnu, Lord Brahma, and even Lord Shiva, and they just born from the great Shakti.
The Shaktas they have this very amazing theory that Shakti is supreme and you know it's that Shakti alone somehow or other gave birth to the male principle.
Somehow or other she managed to create the male principle without the help of the main male principle. Where in reality it doesn't really happen.
So but they have this theory or have this philosophy that there is one great Shakti and this great Shakti she produces all these male gods but ultimately she is supreme and all these male gods there
uh her uh how to say this her uh how you call this henpecked uh husbands henpecked henpecked husbands she has many husbands and they all have henpecked. You know, that's their tendency.
And the implication of this tendency, as Prabhupada mentions here, the Shaktas, they have very strong tendency to enjoy the energy. Why do they worship the energy of the Lord not completely selflessly?
They worship the energy of the Lord with a very clear purpose. They want to enjoy the energy of the Lord. And trying to enjoy the energy of the Lord, they are separating her from the energetic source.
They prefer not to see the connection of the real enjoyer of the energy. You know, the tendency or the philosophy behind this, the psychology behind this.
You know, if I want to enjoy the energy, I have to somehow rather push away the real enjoyer of the energy, the Supreme Lord. And therefore, we have this two groups of people:
one are extreme renunciates, or they emphasize renunciation which is not natural.
But ultimately, the other group of people also bring about a very strange sort of philosophy of enjoyment in this world which is which is ultimately not natural. Why it is not natural?
Because if we emphasize or we live the life of complete enjoyment, then it will give rise to all sort of perverseness.
And ultimately it's not even healthy, you know, to live this sort of life which people who enjoy the energy or try to enjoy the energy. And therefore this energy punishes them. It's amazing, you know.
The implication of this verse is very grave. That when you try to worship the energy alone without the connection, without understanding your connection with the Supreme Lord, then the energy will punish such worshipers.
Those people who hope to enjoy the material energy by worshiping her alone without her connection with the Supreme Lord, they become the objects of her punishment.
It is depicted in the story of Jada Bharata in the fifth canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam when these dacoits who were worshippers of Bhadrakālī of this ferocious form of Durga Devi tried to sacrifice Jaḍā-bharata to her then she very nicely reciprocated with
their worship. So that's what she did. She came out from her mūrti and chopped uh their heads according to the name of Chandi, which is given in this verse.
So that's another ridiculous tendency to try to enjoy the material energy without the connection.
And therefore, the proper way of worshiping the energy of the Lord is by understanding the connection between the energy and the Supreme Lord. And there is definitely the energy of the Supreme Lord is worshipable.
There is no doubt about it. Krishna Himself proclaims this. He says, people will worship you and He. That's his blessings. Krishna is not against worship of the material energy.
But He wants also us to understand this close connection between him and the energy of the Lord.
Functions of Maya Devi in material world
So energy of the Lord plays a very important role. The material energy of the Lord, why Krishna gives these blessings, is because material energy of the Lord has two basic functions, two vritis.
Two basic functions of the material energies Avidya Shakti and Vidya Shakti. There are two aspects of material energy and one is the bewildering Shakti.
Mayadevi has this bewildering Shakti or bewildering influence in the minds of people. She is glittering. And the glow of your majesty attracts people.
And because people are so attracted, they become uh blinded by this glow or this effulgence of material energy.
And she attracts them and by this uh attraction or uh by this basically illusion when they try to enjoy she gives them punishment in the form of uh in the form of material sufferings.
And at the same time, being Maya, she always says, you will enjoy very soon. You want enjoyment? No problem. Very soon you will enjoy it. Try harder.
Silla. Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura and commenting this verse, sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-sādhana-śaktir ekā chāyeva yasya bhuvanāni bibharti durgā icchānurūpam api yasya ca ceṣṭate sā govindam ādi-puruṣaṃ tam ahaṃ bhajāmi.
The verse from Brahma-saṁhitā which describes the function of Maya, sṛṣṭi-, sthiti-, pralaya-sādhana-śaktir ekā. There is only one energy of the Lord.
And this one energy of the Lord, which manifests here in this material world, śṛṣṭi, she produces this material world, sthiti, she maintains this material world, pralaya, she destroys this material world, and chāyeva yasya bhuvanāni bibharti durgā.
And this energy of the Lord, material energy of the Lord is Chaya. She is just a shadow of the spiritual energy.
The Lord has only one energy and this energy manifests in different ways and uh this Maya energy is the shadow of his spiritual energy.
Chaevayasibhuvanani bibarti durga uh uh echanurupatiyasi but uh she is only uh doing what he wants to do. The uh the actual function of the energy is to fulfill the will of her master. Ichanu Rupa.
All her endeavors, all her movements is to fulfill the desire of the Lord. So the desire of the Lord is, there are two desires of the Lord.
One desire of the Lord is to teach those foolish living entities who try to enjoy independently of Him. And Maya is perfectly doing this. Perfectly doing this.
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda, he gives a very interesting example of this. He says that what Maya does, Maya covers our consciousness.
There are two uh aspects of Maya, Avaranatmika Shakti and Prakshapatmika Shakti.
So, first of all, for those who want to enjoy independently, she following the order or desire of the Supreme Lord, she covers over our consciousness by this basically by this ignorance, uh, so that we don't understand our spiritual nature.
We forget our spiritual nature.
That's the first function of the Maya, to forget that your spirit soul and if you still think that you're the body uh you are mayadas you are still the servant of maya so that is the first function the second function is
prakshepatmika shakti or Vikshapatmika Shakti, she's projecting the consciousness of the living entity completely on this material energy. And by this projection we identify with something which we are not.
First she covers covers over our real understanding, real knowledge that we are spirit, soul, servant of the Lord, and then she gives us the material body and very nicely projects our consciousness into this material body.
And we think we are material body and we are happily enjoying this material body, jumping around, running around this material world, going to this supermarket and that supermarket to and trying to get cheap things for enjoyment.
And Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda says that these bodies which Maya gives us are like robes which the superintendent of the prison gives to the prisoners.
You know, when you enter the prison, the superintendent has, you know, special robes for the prisoners. And there is plenty of this ropes. You know, they usually have different, like, you know, special design. And they usually have the number, special number on the back.
So, and we are very proud, you know, us. I have such a nice robe. We come to the mirror and we look at this robe which Māyā Devī gave us. Whereas in reality it's just a robe of a prisoner.
It's ugly. You know, from the point of view of normal people who are dressed in a nice robe, you know, all these prisoners, they're they are completely ugly.
But prisoners think, you know, see such a nice robe I have. Very new, very fresh. It's glowing. So this is what Māyā Devī does. She's Durgā. She's she's punishing. Why she is punishing? Because Krishna wants her to punish us.
It's ultimately Krishna's will. But Krishna, he himself, you know, he distances himself a little bit. He says, you punish them, I don't want to have anything to do with this.
Krishna is actually detached from Maya because she has such an ungrateful job of punishing jīva, she is even afraid to come in front of Krishna.
When Śrīla Vyāsadeva saw in his vision all the energy for all energies of the Lord. He saw this Puruṣaṁ pūrṇam. One of the readings of this verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from the first canto.
He saw Puruṣaṁ pūrṇam means Krishna with all his energy. And separately he saw Maya. Why is it said that he saw separately Maya?
Is it not enough to say that he saw Puruṣaṁ pūrṇam? Which means the Purusha, the original male principle, with all his energies.
No, because Maya has a very special function and because directly Krishna has nothing to do with her. Even though she is īcchānurūpa-bhāvayā ca ceṣṭate, she is following his orders and she is doing whatever he tells you. And here he says, you know, I'll give you these blessings. People will worship you in different places under different names, but ultimately
Krishna himself distances from Māyā.
You know like in the palace, usually there is a good cap and a bad cap. When they want you to do something, there is somebody who is bad and he presses you very hard and he is very harsh to you and he punishes you.
And there is somebody who is nice to him, who is next to him, and he is nice to you and he says, no, no, no, you are actually you are really nice. So Krishna he distances himself from this function of punishing us.
But ultimately it's his design. We have to understand that Krishna He teaches us.
He is kind, but He understands that we're so foolish that we will never be able to understand anything unless uh unless we are in this school of hard knocks. What is Maya? What is this material world?
This is the school of hard knocks. It's nothing else. It's a really hard school, but why do we need it?
Sometimes people they become you know bitter and they say, you know, what kind of God he is, why there is so much sufferings.
There's so much suffering only because there is so much foolishness. You know, and those who are not so foolish, they suffer less.
Krishna gave all these scriptures and he in these scriptures he explains how you should behave in this world.
And if you strictly follow the scriptures, the rules of the scriptures, how to deal with this material energy, that the sufferings are minimized.
All the sufferings in this material world because people are so foolish and is in their foolishness they're trying to go out of the boundaries. We can enjoy in this material world. There is no doubt about it.
But there is strict boundaries within which we can enjoy. We can enjoy sattvic food, no problem. But if we try to enjoy some other food, there will be problems.
We can enjoy fruits and vegetables and uh you know the enjoyment is the natural uh the natural side product side product side effect of uh of this but uh if with if the enjoyment becomes uh the primary goal,
If we only try to maintain ourselves to serve the Lord, the enjoyment will come. The sex enjoyment is there. It's natural in one sense. If we know the purpose of the sex and do it in a proper way, sex is not bad.
Krishna himself says that he is the sex according to dharmaviruddho kāmaḥ smi. I'm Kama according to the religious principles. And the side effect of this is enjoyment. No problem. Krishna is not miserly.
He gave us plenty of enjoyment even in this material world. But he also gave us the boundaries.
And he says very clearly that if we transgress these boundaries and somehow or other by foolishness will make the enjoyment as our primary goal. As we make the goal of our life as the enjoyment in this material energy, we will suffer.
And this is the lesson which we will have to understand. Simple lesson, very natural lesson. God is very fair. He's not unfair, he's not cruel. He just wants us to become very clear about this.
Yes, you can enjoy in this material world, but this is not the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to serve. The meaning of life is to realize your potential fully, completely, in the service of the Lord.
And then enjoyment will come. And actually, Śrīla Prabhupāda says that Krishna wants us to enjoy in the spiritual world. He wants us to share his enjoyment.
He doesn't want us to suffer in this material world by pretending that we can be independent. Because the energy is not independent.
Proper use of free will by jivas
And we are the energy of the world. In this material world, uh, we jīvas and the material energy they have peculiar differences. The material energy is uh uh both energies.
Energies are always asvatantra. They always dependent on the Lord. Energy have to understand its proper position. The only one who is independent is the Lord Himself. He is puruṣa. He is independent and joy.
We are asvatantra. He is svatantra, we are asvatantra. But the peculiarity of us as jīva-śakti is that we have the independent will. Our will is independent. We're given a minute portion of Krishna's icchā-śakti.
Krishna has this icchā śakti. He has his svatantratā, He has his independence and his icchā Shakti is there, his desire. So his energy usually fulfills all the desires of the Lord.
Icchanurupa api yasi rachesya. She is anurupa according to his icha. His will is supreme even in this material world.
But when we foolishly think that when we misuse our free will, this minute shakti which Lord has given to us, the shakti or ability to desire independently.
If we don't try to harmonize our desires with the desire of the Lord, then we will suffer. So the whole idea is very simple. There is only one male, that's the Lord, Krishna.
He comes in different forms and different images, but and there is energy, she is also one. There is only one energy, one Supreme Lord, one energy.
But as much as Krishna comes in different forms, his energy also takes different forms. And we are also a form of Krishna's energy. But what we should do, echanu rupa.
We should consciously, because we are given this gift of independent consciousness, we should consciously exercise our free will to become dependent on the Lord. Remaining independent. Being conscious, we are independent.
Independence is given to us by the Lord in the form of the energy of consciousness. But the proper use of this independence is to become freely according to our free will to become dependent on the Lord.
And that brings complete joy to the Lord. He is not enjoyed by the material energy because material energy is tad. Only we who are tad can enjoy the material energy which is dull. Because we are dull.
Therefore we're trying to get this dull enjoyment by being implicated in this material energy. But the Lord is not tad. He is all enjoys.
But how he enjoys, he enjoys by entering into the relationship with those particles of him who have free will. And this relationship is the real source of enjoyment both for the living entity and for the Lord Himself.
That's the highest enjoyment when we try to understand the desire of the Lord and fulfill this desire by our free will.
The Lord has enjoying our endeavors. Even though these endeavors may be very childish, but still He is enjoying.
He looks at some bhakta and he's, you know, and this bhakta is struggling, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna. But he is sincerely struggling. And Lord says, oh, such a nice jiva. Such a nice soul.
So, this, you know, when we sincerely try to manifest our emotions towards the Lord, that's the enjoyment for us, and that's the enjoyment for the Lord.
Like there is a story which happened here, Prabhupada was here, and Tamal Krishna Maharaj was reading a letter which came to Śrīla Prabhupāda from one of his disciples who was struggling with following the regulative principles.
And he was explaining how he got implicated into this māyā, into this śakti, and enjoyment in this śakti, started taking drugs again, but he's struggling, he's trying to overcome it, but again he falls victim.
And Śrīla Prabhupāda started crying. And he said: just see how he struggled for Krishna. This is how Prabhupāda saw it.
And Prabhupāda, for Prabhupāda, these emotions, even though maybe not so completely pure from his disciples, but the sort of transcendental ecstasy. Because his tears, which he manifested, was his ecstasy.
He saw the manifestation of love in this bewildered jīva. But he also saw this sincerity of purpose, this desire to serve the Lord somehow or other, even though it's so difficult.
And he was in one sense transcendentally enjoying this. So the Lord when even when we do some little endeavor to serve him, he is enjoying. Because we are trying to harmonize our free will by our free will.
Not by being forced, but by our free will to harmonize with him. And that's the way for the real life and for the real life and the real enjoyment in this material world.
Transcendental perspective on material and spiritual energies
This is what we're supposed to do. This is what we're supposed to learn. And therefore, and it's very interesting, Śrīla Prabhupāda explains in the purport that one of the one of the names of Māyā Devī is Kumuda.
And Kumuda means, literally Kumuda means, Muda means enjoyment. Kum means bad enjoyment. Somebody uh who is offers us please enjoy no problem but it's bad, it's dirty, it's not nice. So Krishna gives her blessings.
Now you're you will be called Kumuda. Bad enjoyment. for uh anyone who can understand this, you know. And but for those for those who are uh clever, for those who are uh intelligent, she's Sarada.
Saradha means the goddess of knowledge. She is Vidya Shakti. She can give you Vidya. She will give you the necessary knowledge which provides you the relief from this material world.
She's Avidya Shakti, she provides your enjoyment and suffering in this material world, but she also has another aspect of another function.
As a Vidya Shakti, she will provide you liberation and knowledge which will help you to serve the Lord. So we as Prabhupada says, we are should the Shaktas. We also enjoy or worship the energy of the Lord. How?
By trying to connect the energy of the Lord with the source of this energy. By trying to connect by serving basically the love between Radhā and Krishna.
And because this is the pure love, if we try to serve sincerely this pure love, then we are worshiping both Krishna and his energy.
And this is the ideal religious synthesis, which specifically in Lord Caitanya's teaching, which is Acintya Bhedābheda Tattva. Beda-Beda Tattva.
Only in this religion there is an ideal synthesis between the male and female without diminishing of one principle over another principle.
And that's why the philosophy of Lord Caitanya is called Acintya Bhedābheda Tattva.
Because only in this philosophy, even in other in other Vaishnava schools, even though the understanding of the relationship between the Lord and his energy is there but it's it's still little bit on the side of glorifying the Lord Himself and diminishing the role of the energy.
Only in the philosophy of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Lord and His energy are completely completely how to say this completely equal players in the līlā.
And if I understand this and try to serve līlā that's the real us of all frei will.
Understanding Maya Devi's assignment as service
Thank you very much and sorry for So there's no time for questions, so we do this.
The previous words of the Bhavanabhi Vishwapana Dikpa Pam Sajamhayam, Jaduna Bitana Yoga Maya Sramatisha. Krishna Adam Yoga and Spiritual Pensi and there are special jobs. And she did her part.
Now this verses talk about Benedict Sun. It seems that she did her part very nicely sitting on spiritual pethajogmaya with Bormanj.
And in vain Krishna also agreement vendiction that you will also Nandapatna Swodayam Nandapatnayam Abhishya you will also you also appear in the book of Madhavara.
Just you will then you will get like a stretter from my sister sister and you will get uh uh like non the least high side so on the spiritual person, this Venditi Sant, we are talking this one, we show that for Mashi on the spiritual part is just dragging her down.
So it appears that it is not vegetation. It is not promotion. But it is other like degradation or even punishment.
To make this point by some suppose a GBC chairman, chairperson calls one of his subordinate GBC and he gives a important. You accomplish this mission and then I will make you the temple commander of Chandivar temple.
And she did her part very nicely, transferring around. And then Krishna Dishedandita Kumikum It should that not be the punishment, not the reward, the creation, not the motion.
Okay, I'll try to answer your very difficult question. It's interesting, I was thinking uh before you know when I read this verse.
Just recently, we had this Navratri when people worship the energy, nine aspects of energy for nine nights. And then the serap. And this Navratri comes just before Sharadpurnima.
And Sharadpurnima, Oshvini Purnima is when Krishna says Yoga Maya Upashrithaha. He himself completely takes shelter of this yoga maya, of his energy.
So there is uh there is a connection between these two, the aspects of material energy and the spiritual energy, which is Yoga Maya. And you gave a very nice example.
And there is a even more vivid illustration of this when Srila Prabhupada came to Tamal Krishna Maharaj or called Tamal Krishna Maharaj to him. And he said, you're doing very nicely, you're doing this Radha Dhamadara party. Now you gave this up everything and go to China.
So he had a great success in America. America was, you know, and this Radhamadara party had such a such a you know great success. There were buses and so many people were joining and it was flourishing.
And Prabhupada says, no, you give this everything up and go to China. So was it promotion or was it demotion? From the material point of view, you may say that it was a promo-demotion, that he was demoted to this.
But from the spiritual point of view, Prabhupada gave him more opportunities to serve.
And Tamal Krishna Maharaj went to this strange land of China and started his China mission, which may become a very important mission for the whole ISKCON. So, in one sense, it is devotion, yes.
But Krishna also, you know, by by saying this verse, he also shows that this function of māyā in this material world through the punishment of the jīvas, but ultimately not punishment, but correcting the jīvas, straightening the jīvas is very important for him.
It's indeed, Krishna says, yeah, you are so expert. You can do so many wonderful things. So I'm giving you very difficult job. Correct all these wise jīvas. In different places. Do it.
It's maybe ungrateful, but it's very glorious in one sense. So that's a very glorious mission. So let's not undermine the importance of this mission this is China mission of Durgā Devī. Okay, thank you very much.
Śrīla Prabhupāda kī jaya!