Sri Guru Puja 2000.pdf - Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaja

yatha bhaso yatha tamah
(Bhag. - 2/9/34)
O Brahma, whatever appears to be of any value, without relation to Me,
has no reality know,. it is My illusory energy, that reflection which appears
to, be in darkness. The purport of above mentioned slok is that when we
are looking to the bimba, or (disc of the sun) at that time we can not see
the abhasa, (or pratibimba) reflected image, and tamah or darkness. Here
Lord Krsna's eternal energy (citsakti) is like Sun's disc abhasa or Lords
tatatha Sakti jiva souls are like reflected image and tamah or darkness is
Maya sakti the sadow of eternal energy. Both are connected with Lord
Srikrsna. Vyasadeva under the instructions of his spiritual master,
Naradamuni, concentrated his mind in that transcendental place of
meditation of Bhaktiyoga, thus he saw the absolute personality of
Godhead along with His external energy, which was under full control. Due
to this external energy, the jiva soul, although transcendental to three
modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus
undergoes the reactions of material miseries. So in Srimad Bhagavatgita
Sri Krishna Bhagavan (7/4, 5-12-14)said that earth, water, fire, air, sky,
mind, intelligence, and false ego all together, these eight constitute My
separated Apara Prakrti or Maya (material energies) Besides these there is
another Para Prakrti (superior energy) named jiva prakrti of mine which
comprises the living entities who are exploiting the resources of this
material, inferior nature. You know that all states of being be they of
sattvika (goodness), rajasika (passion), tamasika (ignorance) - are
manifested by My (material) energy. I am, in one sense, everything, but I
am independent. I am not under the modes of material nature, for they, on
the contrary, are within me. Deluded by the three modes, goodness,
passion and ignorance, the whole world does not know Me, who am above
the (three) modes, and am inexhaustible. These energies of Mine;
consisting of the three modes of material nature, are difficult to overcome,
but those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond them.
yatha mahanti bhutani
bhutesuccavacesv anu
pravistany apravistani
tatha tesu na tesv aham
(Bhag. - 2/9/35)
O Brahma, you should know that the universal elements enter into the
cosmos and at the same time do not enter into the cosmos. Similarly, I
myself also exist within everything created, and at the same time I am
outsider of everything.
In this third sloka of the Caturh Sloki Bhagavan Lord Narayan is explaining
"sarahasyam tadangamca" which was stated in introduction. In this
connection the Lord says: This is the secrecy that though
panchamahabhutas (five elements - earth, water, fire, air and either) are
staying in this world as its elements, still they are separate in their self.
Similarly, though the supreme lord enters into this world which is the