Engage your tongue in chanting Krishna's name to realize God and escape the cycle of birth and death.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Initiation Lecture — August 27, 1969, Hamburg 690827IN-HAMBURG [60:23 Minutes] Initiations_690827IN-HAMBURG Prabhupāda: ...avidyā-karma-saṁjñānyā tṛtīyā śaktir iṣyate [Cc. Madhya 6.154, quoted from Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.7.61] [“’The internal potency of the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, is spiritual, as verified by the śāstras. There is another spiritual potency, known as kṣetra-jña, or the living entity. The third potency, which is known as nescience, makes the living entity godless and fills him with fruitive activity.] This is a verse from Viṣṇu Purāṇa.
It is stated there that viṣṇu-śaktiḥ parā, "The energy of the Supreme Lord is spiritual." Energy and the energetic, they are nondifferent. Just like the sunshine is the energy of the sun globe, but the quality of sunshine and the sun globe is the same. It is not different. The sunshine is bright, illuminating, hot.
Similarly, we can understand the sun globe, the temperature may be very high, but the quality is the same. So, viṣṇu-śaktiḥ parā proktā [Cc. Madhya 6.154]. God has got one energy. That energy is spiritual energy.
And kṣetrajñākhyā tathā parā: and the same energy is manifested in another form, which is called kṣetrajña, or marginal energy, or the energy in which we living creatures are acting. Ksetrajñākhya tathā parā. And avidyā-karma-saṁjña anyā, and tṛtīyā śaktir iṣyate. And besides these energies, there is another energy, which is avidyā, ignorance.
Karma-saṁjña: and it is based on fruitive activities. Anyā means besides these two energies, spiritual energy and the marginal energy, living entities, there is another energy, which is called avidyā. Avidyā means ignorance. And karma-saṁjña: and in that energy, one has to enjoy his..., the fruit of his own labor.
This is the material world. This material world is also energy of Kṛṣṇa, or God, but here ignorance prevails. Ignorance is prominent. Avidyā, ignorance. Therefore one has to work.
Practically one hasn't got to work, but because he is..., one is in avidyā, ignorance, therefore he has to work. Avidyā-karma-saṁjña anyā tṛtīyā śaktir iṣyate. So actually, there is one energy, spiritual energy. Kṛṣṇa, or God, is the whole spirit, and the energies emanating from Him, that is also spiritual. Śaktiḥ śaktimator abhinnaḥ. In the Vedic language we understand that the śaktimān, or the energetic, Kṛṣṇa, and the energy, they are nondifferent.