Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
The Lord helps the falling living entity glide down to the lowest point, just to give him the chance to see if he is happy by misusing his independence.
Almost all the conditioned souls who are rotting in the material world are misusing their independence, and therefore five kinds of nescience are imposed upon them.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 3.12.3
All material resources are offered to the living entity for his peaceful living and for the discharge of the duties of self-realization in conditioned life. But due to false identification, the conditioned soul becomes entrapped by the sense of false ownership of the property of the Supreme Lord. It is evident from this verse that Brahma himself is a creation of the Supreme Lord, and the five kinds of nescience which condition the living entities in material existence are creations of Brahma. It is simply ludicrous to think the living entity to be equal with the Supreme Being when one can understand that the conditioned souls are under the influence of Brahma's magic wand.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 3.12.2
Notes:
Five Kinds of Nescience
- tamisra, rebellious rejection of the Lord’s service;
- andha-tamisra, considering death to be the ultimate conclusion;
- tamas, ignorance of one’s position as a jiva;
- moha, the illusory bodily conception of life;
- maha-moha, attachment for material enjoyment
cloud the pure spiritual consciousness of the jiva. The sole cause of why the jiva becomes either liberated or conditioned lies in
the proper or improper use of his minute independence.
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