This material nature is full of miseries 3

       Western thinkers have become gravely concerned about the extent of destruction an atomic explosion can cause. Some leaders are trying to calm the alarm with platitudes about how atomic energy is used solely for peaceful purposes, but this is another form of deception caused by daivi maya, or nature’s law.

         It is impossible for anyone to surmount the two pronged attack of daivi maya- that is, her covering potency and her throwing potency. The more we try to conquer this divine energy, the more powerfully we are defeated by her exciting us through the mode of passion and punishing us with the three –fold miseries, culminating in all devouring death. This struggle between divine energy and the evil forces is eternal. Our inability to understand the struggle has let us lament, “In the dispensation of providence, mankind cannot have any rest.”

          Despite repeatedly tasting defeat at the hand of the divine energy, the evil forces cannot understand why “Mankind cannot have any rest.” Yet in the Bhagavad Gita the supreme personality of godhead clearly explains this. At first he sternly warns the evil forces with these words, daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya duratyaya:

  “This divine energy of mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome”; and then in the next line he tells them how to overcome this divine energy, mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti te: “but those who have surrendered unto me can easily cross beyond it.”