Superior energy must be utilized for Krishna's pleasure, not for personal sense gratification and exploitation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 1 — April 30, 1970, Los Angeles 700430IP-LOS ANGELES [27:29 Minutes] Iso-01_700430IP-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate [Īśo Invocation] īśāvāsyam idam sarvaṁ yat kiñca jagatyāṁ jagat tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā mā gṛdhaḥ kasya svid dhanam [Īśo mantra 1] kurvann eveha karmāṇi jijīviṣec chataṁ samāḥ evaṁ tvayi nānyatheto 'sti na karma lipyate nare [Īśo mantra 2] asuryā nāma te lokā andhena tamasāvṛtāḥ tāṁs te pretyābhigacchanti ye ke cātma-hano janāḥ [Īśo mantra 3] anejad ekaṁ manaso javīyo nainad devā āpnuvan pūrvam arṣat tad dhāvato 'nyān atyeti tiṣṭhat tasminn apo mātariśvā dadhāti [Īśo mantra 4] tad ejati tan naijati tad dūre tad v antike tad antar asya sarvasya tad u sarvasyāsya bāhyataḥ [Īśo mantra 5] yas tu sarvāṇi bhūtāny ātmany evānupaśyati sarva-bhūteṣu cātmānaṁ tato na vijugupsate [Īśo mantra 6] yasmin sarvāṇi bhūtāny ātmaivābhūd vijānataḥ tatra ko mohaḥ kaḥ śoka ekatvam anupaśyataḥ [Īśo mantra 7] sa paryagāc chukram akāyam avraṇam asnāviram śuddham apāpa-viddham kavir manīṣī paribhūḥ svayambhūr yāthātathyato 'rthān vyadadhāc chāśvatībhyaḥ samābhyaḥ [Īśo mantra 8] [03:20] Who will explain? Karandhara Prabhu, you will explain? First or second. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
[pause] Which one? Karandhara: Second verse? Prabhupāda: Yes, any one, if you can... Whatever you have realized, you can say, without seeing the book. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam [Īśo mantra 1]. Yes... Karandhara: Everything animate or inanimate in this world is controlled and owned by Kṛṣṇa. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is described that there are two types of energies of Kṛṣṇa: parā prakṛti and aparā prakṛti, the superior energy and the inferior energy.
The inferior energy is made up of the gross elements earth, air, fire, water and ether, and the subtle energy, or the subtle material elements, are the sky..., excuse me, mind, intelligence and false ego. These make up the parā prakṛti, or the inferior energy of the Lord. But the living entities, they are the superior energy of the Lord. They are aparā prakṛti; and henceforth, due to their illusion, due to their misconception, they are trying to lord it over the parā prakṛti, uh, uh, aparā prakṛti, the inferior energy of the Lord, and they have become entangled. They have become covered by these gross elements. So when one is realizing who the source of the energies..., of all these energies are, who are the proprietor, who are the controller of the energy, then by the Lord's mercy, the Lord being the controller of all these energies, that entity can become free from the covering, from the influence of the material energy, and can resume his natural constitutional position as superior energy and function and exist on that platform in realization of both energies and his relationship with the supreme energy of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. One should not..., one should only accept that which is set aside for him, that which is needed.
The lusty desire to gain more, to acquire more—this lust, this perversion, this misunderstanding is exactly what enamors the living entity, the parā prakṛti, in the inferior energy, aparā prakṛti. So when one can come to this understanding, that everything is controlled, everything is owned by the Supreme Lord, and that he has no proprietorship, then he can give up this false sense of "mine" and "I" and realize that the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, He is the controller, He is the owner, and can once again regain his blissful, natural state, sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ [Bs. 5.1]. [07:06] Prabhupāda: Hmm. Why a living entity is superior energy? Can anyone explain?
Why living...? Yes? Stand up. Devotee (1): Well, it is stated that the living entity, or the jīva soul, belongs to the jīva-tattva, that categoristic..., falls into that categoristic of the Lord's energy. He is...
Spark... Prabhupāda: No, the question is why the living entity is called superior energy? That is the question. The material..., matter—earth, water, air, fire, sky—the inferior energy; and why the living is called superior energy? Who can explain?
Yes? Stand up. Devotee (2): Well, the individual living entities are all part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: The part and parcel, this material energy also, part and parcel. Because energy... Devotee: It's separated. Material energy's separated, whereas the superior energy... Prabhupāda: Separated, and this also, living entities also separated, in this sense.