SB 1.10.22 (1964)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 22
Sa evam bhuyo nija virya choditam Swa jiva mayam prakritim sisrikshatim Anama rupatmani rupanamani Vivitsamano anusasara sastrakrit.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Sa—He, Evam—thus, Bhuyo—again, Nija—own personal, Virya—potency, Choditam—performance of, Swa—own, Jiva—living being, Mayam—external energy, Prakritim—unto the material nature, Sisrikshatim—while re-creating, Anama—without any mundane designation, Rupatmani—forms of the soul, Rupanamani—and form names, Visvitsamana—desiring to award, Anusasara—entrusted, Sastrakrit—the compiler of revealed scripture.
TRANSLATION
He the Personality of Godhead again desiring to give name and forms to His parts and parcels the living entities, entrusted them under the guidance of material nature by His own potency when the material nature is empowered to re-create.
PURPORT
The living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord. They are of two varieties namely the Nityamukta and Nityabaddha. The Nityamuktas are eternally liberated souls and they are eternally engaged the reciprocation of transcendental loving service to the Lord in eternal abode beyond the manifestive mundane creations. But the Nityabaddha or eternally conditioned souls are entrusted to His External energy Maya for rectification of their rebellious attitude towards the Supreme Father. Nityabaddhas are eternally forgetful of their relation with the Lord as parts and parcels. They are bewildered by the illusory energy as products of matter and thus they are very busy in the matter of making plans in the material world for becoming happy. They go on merrily with the plans but by the will of the Lord both the plan makers and the plans are annihilated at the end of certain period as above mentioned. This is confirmed in the Bhagwat Geeta as follows:-
"Oh the son of Kunti, when the period of a Kalpa (the duration of life of Brahma as above mentioned) is ended all the living entities do merge unto My nature and again when the time of creation is ripe, I begin creation by the agency of My external energy." (B.G. 9/7)
The word bhuyo indicates again and again that is to say the process of creation, maintenance and annihilation is going on per pertually by the external energy of the Lord. He is the cause of everything. But the living beings who are constitutionally the parts and parcels of the Lord and are forgetful of the sweet relation, are given chance again and again to get rid of the clutches of the external energy. And to revive his (the living being's) consciousness the revealed scriptures are also created by the Lord. Vedic literatures are the guiding directions for the conditioned souls for becoming free from the repetition of this creation and annihilation of the material world and the material body.
The Lord says in the Bhagwat Geeta "this created world and the material energy are under My control. Under the influence of the Prakriti automatically they are created again and again and this is done by Me through the agency of My external energy." (BG 7.14)
Actually the spiritual spark living entity has no material name or form. But in order to fulfil his desire to lord it over the material energy by material forms and names they are given the chance of such false enjoyment and at the same time they are given the chance of understanding the real position through the revealed scriptures. The foolish and forgetful living being is always busy in the matter of false form and false names. The modern nationalism is the culmination of such false names and false forms. They are mad after the false name and form. The form of body obtained under certain conditions is taken up as factual and the name also taken as such bewilders the conditioned soul for misusing the energy in the name of so many "isms". The scriptures however supply them the clue of understanding the real position but they are reluctant to take lessons from the scriptures created by the Lord in terms of different place and time. For example the Bhagwat Geeta is the guiding principle for every human being but by the spell of material energy they do not take care to carry out the programmes of life in terms of the Bhagwat Geeta. Srimad Bhagwatam is the post-graduate study book of knowledge after one has thoroughly understood the principles of the Bhagwat Geeta. Unfortunately they have no taste for them and therefore they are under the clutches of Maya for repetition of birth and death.