Sri Paramatma Sandarbha, Part 38
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Nov 28, 2020 — CANADA (SUN) — Sad Sandarbhas by Srila Jiva Goswami
Sri Paramatma-sandarbha
Volume Three
by Srila Jiva Goswami
Anuccheda 47 – Part 1
Text 1
tad evam ananta eva jivakhyas tatasthah saktayah. tatra tasam varga-dvayam. eko vargo 'nadita eva bhagavad-unmukhah. anyas tv anadita eva bhagavat-paranmukhah. svabhavatas tadiya- jnana-bhavat tadiya-jnanabhavac ca.
Thus the Lord's marginal potencies, who are called the individual spirit souls are limitless in number. Still, they may be divided into two groups: 1. the souls who, from time immemorial, are favorable to the Supreme Lord, and 2. the rebellious souls who, from time immemorial, are averse to the Supreme Lord. This is because one group is aware of the Lord's glories and the other group is not aware of them.
Text 2
tatra prathamo 'ntaranga-sakti-vilasanugrhito nitya- bhagavat-parikara-rupo garudadikah. yathoktam padmottara-khande tri-pad-vibhuter lokas tu ity adau bhagavat-sandarbhodahrte. asya ca tatasthatvam jivatva-prasiddher isvaratva-kotav apravesat.
The first group consists of Garuda and the other eternal associates of the Lord, These devotees take shelter of the Lord's internal potency and enjoy pastimes with Him. They reside in the spiritual world, which will be described in the Bhagavat- sandarbha (anuccheda 78) where the following words of Padma Purana, Uttara-khanda are quoted:
"Countless blissful spiritual planets are in the spiritual sky, which is three fourths of the entire creation."
Thus, although the nature of the individual souls is on the borderline of the nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the individual souls do not enter that nature. Thus they remain different from the Lord.
Text 3
aparas tu tat-paranmukhatva-dosena labdha-cchidraya mayaya paribhutah samsari. yathoktam hamsa-guhya-stave sarvam puman veda gunams ca taj-jno na veda sarvajnam anantam ide iti.
The other individual souls, the rebellious souls who are averse to the Supreme Lord, become conquered by the illusory potency maya and must live in the material world. They are described in the following words of the Hamsa-guhya Prayers (srimad- Bhagavatam 6.4.25):
"But the living being, because of his spiritual nature, can know his body, then life airs, the senses, the elements, and the sense objects, and he can also know the three qualities that form their roots. Nevertheless, although the living being is completely aware of them, he is unable to see the Supreme Being, who is omniscient and unlimited. I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto Him."
Text 4
ekadase ca bhayam dvitiyabhinivesatah syat ity adi.
The rebellious individual spirit souls averse to the Supreme Lord, souls who must then reside in the material world, are also described in these words of srimad-Bhagavatam (11.2.37):
"When the living entity is attracted by the material energy, which is separate from Krsna, he is overpowered by fear. Because he is separated from the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the material energy, his conception of life is reversed. In other words, instead of being the eternal servant of Krsna, he becomes Krsna's competitor. This is called viparyayo 'smrtih."
Text 5
yathoktam vaisnave
taya tirohitatvac ca.
saktih ksetrajna-samjnitah sarva-bhutesu bhupala
taratamyena vartate. iti.
The rebellious souls averse to the Lord and thus residing in the material world are also described in these words of sri Visnu Purana (6.7.63):
"The living entity, covered by the influence of nescience, exists in different forms in the material condition. O king, he is thus proportionately freed from the influence of material energy, to greater or lesser degrees."
Text 6
tad-varga-dvayam evoktam sri-vidurenapi
tattvanam bhagavams tesam
katidha pratisankramah tatremam ka upasiran
ka u svid anuserate. ity anena.
The two groups of individual souls are hinted in these words of sri Vidura (srimad-Bhagavatam 3.7.37):
"Please describe how many dissolutions there are for the elements of material nature and who survives after the dissolution to serve the Lord while He is asleep."
Text 7
tatra paramesvara-paranmukhanam jivanam suddhanam api tac- chakti-visistat paramesvarat sopadhikam janma bhavati. tac ca janma nijopadhi-janmana nija-janmabhimana- hetukadhyatmikatvavastha praptir eva.
The rebellious pure spirit souls averse to the Lord thus take birth in a material body. When the body is thus born, the bewildered soul thinks he is born. He thinks that his existence begins at that point.
Text 8
tad etad ahuh
na ghatata udbhavah prakrti-purusayor ajayor
ubhaya-yuja bhavanty asu-bhrto jala-budbuda-vat tvayi ta ime tato vividha-nama-gunaih parame
sarita ivarnave madhuni lilyur asesa-rasah
The Personified Vedas describe the birth of these rebellious souls in these words addressed to the Supreme Personality of Godhead (srimad-Bhagavatam 10.87.31):
"Neither material nature nor the soul who tries to enjoy her are ever born, yet living bodies come into being when these two combine, just as bubbles form where water meets the air. And just as rivers merge into the ocean or the nectar from many different flowers blends into honey, so all these conditioned beings eventually merge back into You, the Supreme, along with their various names and qualities."
Text 9
prakrtais traigunyam. purusah suddho jivas tayor dvayor apy ajatvad udbhavo na ghatate. ye casu-bhrta adhyatmika-rupah sopadhayo jiva jayante. te tat-tad-ubhaya-sakti-yuja paramatmanaiva karanena jayante. prakrti-vikara-pralayena supta-vasanatvat suddhas tah paramatmani lina jivakhyah saktayah srsti-kale vikarinim prakrtim asajya ksubhita- vasanah satyah sopadhikavastham prapnavantya eva vyuccartantity arthah.
Here the word "prakrtih" means "the three modes of material nature", "purusah" means "the pure spirit soul". Because neither the individual souls nor the material world of the three modes are ever born, the verse declares, "na ghatata udbhavah" (they are not born). "Asu-bhrtah" means "the souls who take birth in material bodies", the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself causes these two potencies (the potency that is the individual soul and the potency that is the material energy) to take birth. When the various transformations of matter finally destroy the material world, the potencies known as the pure individual souls, their material desires now dormant, enter the Supreme Personality of Godhead. However, when the material world is created again, these souls become attracted to the various transformations of matter. Their material desires thus aroused, they again take birth in material bodies. That is the meaning of this verse.
Text 10
etad abhipretyaiva bhagavan eka asedam ity adi trtiya- skandha-prakarane
This is also described in the following words of srimad- Bhagavatam (3.5.23):
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all living entities, existed prior to the creation as one without a second. It is by His will only that creation is made possible and again everything merges in Him."
