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TEXT 37 sri-bhagavan uvaca
SYNONYMS  sri-bhagavan
uvaca--the Personality of Godhead said; kamah--lust; esah--all
these; krodhah--wrath; esah--all these; rajah-guna--the
mode of passion; samudbhavah--born of; maha-asanah--all-devouring;
maha-papma--greatly
sinful; viddhi--know; enam--this;
iha--in the material
world; vairinam--greatest enemy.
TRANSLATION The Blessed
Lord said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material
modes of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring,
sinful enemy of this world.
PURPORT When a living
entity comes in contact with the material creation, his eternal love for
Krsna is transformed into lust, in association with the mode of passion.
Or, in other words, the sense of love of God becomes transformed into lust,
as milk in contact with sour tamarind is transformed into yogurt. Then
again, when lust is unsatisfied, it turns into wrath; wrath is transformed
into illusion, and illusion continues the material existence. Therefore,
lust is the greatest enemy of the living entity, and it is lust only which
induces the pure living entity to remain entangled in the material world.
Wrath is the manifestation of the mode of ignorance; these modes exhibit
themselves as wrath and other corollaries. If, therefore, the modes of
passion, instead of being degraded into the modes of ignorance, are elevated
to the modes of goodness by the prescribed method of living and acting,
then one can be saved from the degradation of wrath by spiritual attachment.
The Supreme
Personality of Godhead expanded Himself into many for His ever-increasing
spiritual bliss, and the living entities are parts and parcels of this
spiritual bliss. They also have partial independence, but by misuse of
their independence, when the service attitude is transformed into the propensity
for sense enjoyment, they come under the sway of lust. This material creation
is created by the Lord to give a facility to the conditioned souls to fulfill
these lustful propensities, and when they are completely baffled by prolonged
lustful activities, the living entities begin to inquire about their real
position.
This inquiry
is the beginning of the Vedanta-sutras, wherein it is said, athato
brahma-jijnasa: one should inquire into the Supreme. And the Supreme
is defined in Srimad-Bhagavatam as janmady asya yato 'nvayad
itaratas ca, or, "The origin of everything is the Supreme Brahman."
Therefore, the origin of lust is also in the Supreme. If, therefore, lust
is transformed into love for the Supreme, or transformed into Krsna consciousness--or,
in other words, desiring everything for Krsna--then both lust and wrath
can be spiritualized. Hanuman, the great servitor of Lord Rama, engaged
his wrath upon his enemies for the satisfaction of the Lord. Therefore,
lust and wrath, when they are employed in Krsna consciousness, become our
friends instead of our enemies.
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