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normal abode of theirs. This mundane world is the abode
of Maya or the condemned, limiting potency of the Supreme
Lord. This has been manifested by that Maya, who is the
shadow of the Internal Potency of the Supreme Lord. Since
the bonded souls inhabited in this mundane world of Maya
have accepted the phenomenal qualities of Maya as their
own, their real character has been eclipsed and covered by
the Mayik qualities which has created a conditioned nature
of the jiva-souls. Because of this conditioned nature obtained
from Maya the transcendental jiva-soul acquires a mixed
character and all its sentient faculties are conducted here
under external conditionings. The faculty of transcendental
knowledge of the jiva-souls gets degraded in to a mixture of
sentient and non-sentient principles due to the association
of inanimate world, and gets converted and presented as
the mind of the jiva-souls. This mixed principle of mind
when influenced by the variegatedness of Maya provides the
answers of the different questions assuming the ego of the
soul, these answers will naturally become conditioned and
multifarious.”

“The answers given by the different jiva-souls are invariably
influenced by their associations of different behaviors,
culture, clothing, food habits, language, line of thought,
etc., in accordance with the location of this world wherein
they live. In this way natural variegatedness is always
visualized according to the variation of time, space, and

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