तानानीय महायोगी मयः कूपरसेऽक्षिपत् ॥५९॥
taiḥ spṛṣá¹Ä vyasavaḥ sarve
nipetuḥ sma puraukasaḥ
tÄn ÄnÄ«ya mahÄ-yogÄ«
mayaḥ kūpa-rase 'kṣipat
taiḥ - by those (fiery arrows); spṛṣá¹Äḥ - being attacked or being touched; vyasavaḥ - without life; sarve - all the demons; nipetuḥ - fell down; sma - formerly; pura-okasaḥ - being the inhabitants of the above-mentioned three residential airplanes; tÄn - all of them; ÄnÄ«ya - bringing; mahÄ-yogÄ« - the great mystic; mayaḥ - Maya DÄnava; kÅ«pa-rase - in the well of nectar (created by the great mystic Maya); aká¹£ipat - put.
Attacked by Lord Åšiva’s golden arrows, all the demoniac inhabitants of those three dwellings lost their lives and fell down. Then the great mystic Maya DÄnava dropped the demons into a nectarean well that he had created.
The asuras are generally extremely powerful because of their mystic yogic power. However, as Lord Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (6.47):
yoginÄm api sarveá¹£Äá¹
mad-gatenÄntarÄtmanÄ
Å›raddhÄvÄn bhajate yo mÄá¹
sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
“Of all yogÄ«s, 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, Kṛṣṇa, and always think of Him (mad-gatenÄntarÄtmanÄ). To attain such perfection, one must undergo a certain process — haá¹ha-yoga — and through this yoga system the practitioner achieves some uncommon mystic power. The asuras, however, instead of becoming devotees of Kṛṣṇa, utilize this mystic power for their personal sense gratification. Maya DÄnava, for example, is mentioned here as mahÄ-yogÄ«, a great mystic, but his business was to help the asuras. Nowadays we are actually seeing that there are some yogÄ«s who cater to the senses of materialists, and there are imposters who advertise themselves as God. Maya DÄnava 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 má¹›ta-sanjÄ«vayitari, for it could bring a dead body to life. Má¹›ta-sanjÄ«vayitari is also an Ä€yurvedic preparation. It is a kind of liquor that invigorates even a person on the verge of death.
