Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.23-4

Material Ego Entangles the Fallen Soul – Surrender to Krishna Restores Peace

📅 January 1, 1975 📍 Bombay ⏱ 32 min
The fallen soul trapped in false ego must surrender to Krishna through the guru to restore pure consciousness.
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.23-4 — January 1, 1975, Bombay 750101SB-BOMBAY [32:02 Minutes] SB-03.26.23-24_750101SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] mahat-tattvād vikurvāṇād bhagavad-vīrya-sambhavāt kriyā-śaktir ahaṅkāras tri-vidhaḥ samapadyata vaikārikas taijasaś ca tāmasaś ca yato bhavaḥ manasaś cendriyāṇāṁ ca bhūtānāṁ mahatām api [SB 3.26.23-24] [break] [01:13] "The material energy springs up from the mahat-tattva, which evolved from the Lord's own energy. The material ego is endowed predominantly with active power of three kinds—good, passionate and ignorant. From these three types of material ego the mind, the senses of perception and the organs of action and the gross elements evolve." [break]

Prabhupāda: [coughing] Hmm. mahat-tattvād vikurvāṇād bhagavad-vīrya-sambhavāt kriyā-śaktir ahaṅkāras tri-vidhaḥ samapadyata vaikārikas taijasaś ca tāmasaś ca yato bhavaḥ manasaś cendriyāṇāṁ ca bhūtānāṁ mahatām api [SB 3.26.23-24] So, the process of creation, how one after another it takes place, that is described here. So the total energy, mahat-tattva, by interaction, the begins... The moving, the pushing, begins from the vīrya, bhagavad-vīryatā. Bhagavad-vīrya-sambhavāt.

Vīrya means energy. We understand vīrya sometimes, the semina. It is something like that; not exactly the material semina, but potency or energy, spiritual energy. That is the beginning of creation. So wherefrom the creative energy begins?

That is... In the Vedic literature we understand, sa aikṣata: "Simply by glancing." Not... When there is the word vīrya, it does not mean that, as in the material world, we discharge semina by sex intercourse. It is not like that.

That vīrya, that energy, can be emanated from the Supreme Personality of Godhead any way. Therefore bhagavad-vīrya-sambhavāt. In the Brahma-saṁhitā it is said, aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti [Bs. 5.32]. Vīryatā we can understand as semina discharged from the genital.

It is not like that. Vīryatā, that vīrya, or that energy, can be emanated from any part of the body, of the transcendental spiritual body, everywhere. That is called omnipotency. So just like Lord Brahmā was born not from the womb of Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa...

Nārāyaṇa was lying down, and Lakṣmī was present. To beget Lord Brahmā, there was no necessity of taking the help of Lakṣmījī. He sprouted a lotus flower from His navel, and there was Brahmā. So everything is possible from every part of the body, transcendental body. That is spiritual body, sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1], omnipotent.

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