Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.59

taih sprishtā vyasavah sarve

nipetuh sma puraukasah

tān ānīya mahā-yogī

mayah kūpa-rase 'kshipat

SYNONYMS

taih — by those (fiery arrows); sprishtāh — being attacked or being touched; vyasavah — without life; sarve — all the demons; nipetuh — fell down; sma — formerly; pura-okasah — being the inhabitants of the above-mentioned three residential airplanes; tān — all of them; ānīya — bringing; mahā-yogī — the great mystic; mayah — Maya Dānava; kūpa-rase — in the well of nectar (created by the great mystic Maya); akshipat — put.

TRANSLATION

Attacked by Lord Śiva's golden arrows, all the demoniac inhabitants of those three dwellings lost their lives and fell down. Then the great mystic Maya Dānava dropped the demons into a nectarean well that he had created.

PURPORT

The asuras are generally extremely powerful because of their mystic yogic power. However, as Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad-gītā (6.47):

yoginām api sarveshām

mad-gatenāntarātmanā

śraddhāvān bhajate yo mām

sa me yuktatamo matah

"Of all yogīs, he who always abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all." The actual purpose of mystic yoga is to concentrate one's attention fully on the Personality of Godhead, Krishna, and always think of Him (mad-gatenāntarātmanā). To attain such perfection, one must undergo a certain process — hatha-yoga — and through this yoga system the practitioner achieves some uncommon mystic power. The asuras, however, instead of becoming devotees of Krishna, utilize this mystic power for their personal sense gratification. Maya Dānava, for example, is mentioned here as mahā-yogī, a great mystic, but his business was to help the asuras. Nowadays we are actually seeing that there are some yogīs who cater to the senses of materialists, and there are imposters who advertise themselves as God. Maya Dānava was such a person, a god among the demons, and he could perform some wonderful feats, one of which is described here: he made a well filled with nectar and dipped the asuras into that nectarean well. This nectar was known as mrita-sanjīvayitari, for it could bring a dead body to life. Mrita-sanjīvayitari is also an Āyur-vedic preparation. It is a kind of liquor that invigorates even a person on the verge of death.

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