Madhya 8.153

TEXT 153
 
TEXT
বিষ্ণুশক্তিঃ পরা প্রোক্তা ক্ষেত্রজ্ঞাখ্যা তথাপরা ।
অবিদ্যা-কর্মসংজ্ঞান্যা তৃতীয়া শক্তিরিষ্যতে ॥ ১৫৩ ॥
visnu-saktih para prokta
ksetrajnakhya tatha para
avidya-karma-samjnanya
trtiya saktir isyate
SYNONYMS
visnu-saktih-the potency of Lord Visnu; para-spiritual; prokta-it is said; ksetrajna-akhya-the potency known as ksetrajna; tatha-as well as; para-spiritual; avidya-ignorance; karma-fruitive activities; samjna-known as; anya-other; trtiya-third; saktih-potency; isyate-known thus.
TRANSLATION
" 'The original potency of Lord Visnu is superior or spiritual. The living entity actually belongs to that superior energy, but there is another energy, called the material energy, and this third energy is full of ignorance.'
This is a quotation from the Visnu Purana (6.7.61).
[Madhya 6.154, 20.112, 24.308]

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