Mayavada–a very dangerous philosophy [Morning Walk–MP3 Audio]
They’ll talk of Krsna, so many things but they’re not devotees. Just like Kamsa. They may talk of Krsna or think of Krsna, but they don’t accept Krsna as the Supreme. Therefore they are demons. This is the test…
Prabhupada: The Mayavada is a very dangerous philosophy. It has made the whole world atheistic. Hare Krsna. Jaya. Mayavadam asac-chastram pracchanam bauddham ucyate. They cannot understand that this is a dangerous philosophy.
Yasomatinandana: He comes to the mangala arati, but then he says that you don’t have to worship Krsna.
Prabhupada: Eh?
Yasomatinandana: He comes to mangala arati, but he says to us that “You don’t have to go to worship Krsna in the temple.”
Prabhupada: But we haven’t got to learn from you. We have got better teacher than you.
Yasomatinandana: I told him like that.
Prabhupada: (chants japa) (break). They’ll talk of Krsna, so many things but they’re not devotees. Just like Kamsa. They may talk of Krsna or think of Krsna, but they don’t accept Krsna as the Supreme. Therefore they are demons. This is the test. They’ll read Bhagavad-gita, but they’ll not accept Krsna as the Supreme. And that is the demonic. mayayapahrta-jnana asurim bhavam asritah. Because they are demons, therefore their so-called knowledge is useless. Apahrta-jnana. And apparently, they seem to be very learned scholar, but there is no knowledge. There is no knowledge. This is the demonic… Just like Ravana. He was very much advanced student in Vedic literature. But he was a demon. So simply by studying Vedas one does not become out of the jurisdiction of demons. Just like Jarasandha. He was also worshiping Visnu. But he was a demon. He was a demon. His purpose was different. The yajnic brahmanas, they also could not understand Krsna. So this is the crucial test. If one does not understand Krsna and become submissive to surrender, he remains a demon, however big scholar he may be.
Indian (1): That is a division of sastra, Patel and Parsees.
Prabhupada: No, no. Don’t mention anyone. This is the general definition.
Indian (1): They were saying that you are not speaking Vedas.
Prabhupada: What do they know about Vedas? If they did know, then they should have stuck up in family life, in kupa-mandukya and grhambhara, they have. They do not know what is Vedas. Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah. Vedas means to understand Krsna. That is knowledge of Veda. In the Bhagavad-gita.
Yasomatinandana: That is the special quality of Kali-yuga, that sudra class people will take up the preaching of Vedas.
Prabhupada: Yes. And even followers of Sankaracarya… Sankaracarya does not give anyone any recognition unless he’s a sannyasi. That is the strict principle of Sankara sampradaya. They are grhamedhis and they are thinking they are advanced in spiritual consciousness. Sankaracarya does not give anyone any position unless he is in the renounced order of life.
Giriraja: (break) …sign of a great devotee is also to be always absorbed in…
Prabhupada: Yes. Therefore in their sampradaya it is a custom, as soon as he takes sannyasa, he becomes Narayana. “Namo narayana.” (laughs) That is an allurement. So this… Even one says that he is follower of Sankaracarya, but there is no meaning in it. Unless one is a sannyasi, he cannot say that he is follower of Sankaracarya. Sankaracarya took sannyasa at the age of eight years.
Indian (1): He died about thirty-nine.
Prabhupada: Yes. Thirty-two. (break) …never think what is the truth of life. Everyone. So somebody is taking sense gratification as truth of life. Somebody is taking mental speculation as truth of life. So many ways. But Bhagavata says, satyam param dhimahi. We worship the Supreme Truth. Namo bhagavate vasudevaya. The Supreme Truth. (break) …say Brahma, om. Not Rama, Krsna. No, they’ll never say. Sometimes they say, “Narayana.” That is, means thinking himself as Narayana. (laughter) Daridra-narayana, this narayana, that narayana, Swami Narayana.
Devotee: Then they want to serve Narayana.
Passerby: Jaya Ramji. Jaya Ramji. Jaya Ramji.
Prabhupada: Hare Krsna.
Devotee: Then they, then they take the philosophy, “I want to serve Narayana.”
Prabhupada: “No, I want to become Narayana.”
Devotee: Yes, then they want to serve themselves.
Prabhupada: Not “serve Narayana.” “I want to become Narayana.”
Devotee: If they are Narayana, they serve themselves. So then they serve Narayana.
Indian (1): (Hindi)
Prabhupada: (Hindi) (break) There you see the Sarasvati. Sarasvati, she asks anybody, “Do you know Krsna?” He will say, “No, I do not know…” “The Supreme Personality of Godhead.” (laughter) She… That is preaching. And she’ll collect some money and bring it to me. From the very childhood. (break) …evasam agre. That is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. “And when everything will be finished, I’ll stay.
” That is Krsna. Janmadyasya yatah. The Vedanta-sutra says that “He is the cause of creation, maintenance and annihilation.” Brahma, Visnu, Mahesvara. (break) One who takes shelter of that birth, who is not interested in this distress and happiness, he also becomes of this Mad-bhava. That verse?
Devotee: Mad-bhava yanti mam.
Prabhupada: No, no. Vita-raga-bhaya-soka, mad-bhava upagamya. Bahu… What is that? I forget now, this… Vita… Yajna… Puta. Mad-bhavam adhigacchati. Mad-bhavam means by devotional service one attains the nature of Krsna, no more interested with the material distress and material happiness. That does not affect them. That is the… That is also stated in another place of Bhagavad-gita.
mam cavyabhicarini
bhakti-yogena yah sevate
sa gunan samatityaitan
brahma-bhuyaya kalpate
He also becomes brahma-bhuta. Just like if you be in touch with the fire, then you become also warm. The quality of fire is warmth. So if you keep yourself always, constantly in touch with the fire, you also become warm. So this Krsna’s qualification, that He’s not affected by the material happiness and distress, can be attained by anyone who always keeps his association with Krsna. Is it clear?
Giriraja: Yes.
Prabhupada: Yes. (break) …prasannatma. Brahma-bhuta. That is called brahma-bhuta stage. Na socati na kanksati. This happiness and distress is the cause of socati and kanksati. Kanksati means desiring to have something. This is distress. And lamenting for something, that is also distress. Actually, this is the material position. When we haven’t got the things, we desire it. That is also distress. And when it is lost, that is also distress. But by illusion, they take it. When they get it, they think that it is happiness. This is maya. Actually, to get the things, he has to undergo so much hard… A man is given credit… Suppose he was a poor man. He has now become multi-millionaire. He is given credit. But he does not see that he has simply passed through distress. But he… By illusion, he’s thinking that he’s happy. He’s also thinking, and others also thinking, that “He has become happy.” But actually it is distress. Hare Krsna. (chants japa) (break) …people become religious not for attaining the transcendental stage, but for material benefit, dharma, the artha. Artha means material opulence, that. They… These four things: dharma artha kama moksa. And why they want artha? To satisfy their senses. Dharma artha kama… And when they’re again baffled, they want mukti, to become one with the Supreme. These are the four different tastes of the material. All, all of them are baffling and illusory. The so-called religiosity with a view to get some material profit… That comes everywhere. Just (as) in Christianity, the religion means, “O God, give us our daily bread.” Material profit, similarly, in anywhere, they go for material benefit. Therefore this kind of religion, it is also good, but it not first-class. The first-class religion is sa vai pumsam paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhoksaje, when one is awakened to the devotional service of the Lord, ahaituki apratihata, without any cause, and without being impeded. So ahaituki apratihata… That is, that stage is required. Not that “My sense gratification is not done here. Oh, let us give up this company.” That is sense gratification. (laughs)
Giriraja: (reading from Krsna Book) “According to the different associations in the three modes of material nature, the living entities are tasting different kinds of religiosity…” (break) “…kinds of…”
Prabhupada: That religiosity also different kinds: rajasic, tamasic, and sattvic, according to one’s nature. The sattvic, they worship Visnu. The rajasic, they worship the demigods. And the tamasic, they worship bhuta, preta, pisaca…
Devotee: Demons.
Prabhupada: Demons. You’ll see the Mohammedans, they worship the tomb. And Christian also, they worship the tomb. They offer wreath on the tomb. So tamasic. What is there in the tomb? But because they’re tamasic, they’re worshiping like that. And this, this so-called incarnation worship is also tamasic. By tamasic, in darkness they accept somebody as incarnation, and they worship. This is tamasic.
Devotee: Srila Prabhupada?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Devotee: If someone said to us that “You are worshiping samadhi,” what is the answer?
Prabhupada: Samadhi, we are offering respect to the acaryas. Yes. Not that we are simply worshiping samadhi. We are worshiping Krsna also, side by side. It is not that… Then samadhi worship is finished. That is acarya. Acarya is, although worshiped as the Supreme Lord, but the Lord is also worshiped. And these Mayavadis, they give up the worship of Lord. So therefore they are Mayavadis. In Mayavadi temple you’ll find the picture of the guru and not the picture of Krsna. I have seen in Surat, one temple of “Rama.” There is no Rama. Guru is Rama. That’s all. Guru brahma, (Hindi) (break) …caittya-guru, because he has merged into the existence of Lord, he has become Lord. “Merging-Lord. Daridra-narayana, merging-narayana.” This is…
Devotee: The Jains have the same kind of philosophy also.
Prabhupada: Everyone. All philosophies, they are more or less Mayavada. All Mayavada. Different types of Mayavada philosophy. Therefore they should be discarded. Hare Krsna. Thank you very much. What you are, all students?
Students: Yes. (indistinct)
Prabhupada: Eh?
Student: (indistinct)
Prabhupada: You have seen our temple?
Student: Not seen your temple.
Prabhupada: So? You are not interested in Krsna philosophy?
Indian man (2): That’s right. They are very interested.
Prabhupada: The… Every young boy, or even young child… Kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha. And that is the instruction of Prahlada Maharaja. He was a five years old child, and he was teaching his class friends Krsna consciousness. So in that teaching he said… The other children, they said, “Why you are teaching this Krsna consciousness? Let us play.” So he answered, “No, no, my dear friends.” Kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha. This science, Bhagavad-dharma, should be learned from the very beginning of life. That is Vedic culture. Brahmacaris, they were living at the place of guru and learning this science. That is Vedic culture. (break) …boys of Europe and America, they are accepting this Vedic culture. Why you are keeping aloof? What is the reason?
Indian man (2): They are praying, but not showing.
Prabhupada: I do not follow.
Satsvarupa: They are praying, but not showing.
Prabhupada: Oh. So they are showing only?
Indian man (2): No, no, no. It is not only showing.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Indian man (2): That means “We pray at home.”
Prabhupada: Pray at home?
Indian man (2): Yeah.
Prabhupada: Secretly?
Indian man (2): Not secretly. Just before others.
Prabhupada: Hm. That’s all right. If you are praying, it is all right. But our proposal is that you have to understand the science. Prayer is very good, but if one offers prayer after knowing the science, that is very good.
Indian man (2): So we are also giving the knowledge about the science, science of Krsna philosophy.
Satsvarupa: We…?
Devotee: Are we giving the knowledge?
Devotee (2): Giving knowledge about science.
Prabhupada: Oh.
Yasomatinandana: He means material science.
Prabhupada: Material science? No, no, I am talking of Krsna science.
Indian man (2): About the existence of God?
Prabhupada: Not only existence.
What is God, first of all. He must exist. Otherwise, where there is question of “What is God?” So what is the nature of God, what is our position, what is our relationship with God, what is our duty, and what is the goal of life, these things are very thoroughly discussed in Bhagavad-gita. So if we understand Bhagavad-gita very nicely, then we understand the whole science of God. Hare Krsna. (break) …that Krsna comes, descends personally, to settle up the contention whether God is person or imperson. So even the Krsna’s presence cannot convince these Mayavadis, poor fund of knowledge, that Krsna, the Supreme Lord is person.
Giriraja: (reading:) “Somehow people can understand the different incarnations of Your Lordship, but they are puzzled to understand the eternal form of Krsna with two hands, moving among human beings exactly like one of them.”
Prabhupada: (break) …them, the form is meant for killing them, chastising them. Therefore dangerous. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam.
So for the nondevotees the form is very dangerous. Sada pasyanti yoginah. Yogis, they concentrate their mind on the lotus feet of Krsna. That is real yoga. (break) …boat, he crossed over.
samasrita ye pada-pallava-plavam
mahat-padam punya-yaso murareh
bhavambudhir vatsa-padam param padam
padam padam yad vipadam na tesam
This is the process.
Mahamsa: This sloka is… Where is that sloka, Prabhupada?
Prabhupada: It is in the Tenth Canto. Bhavambudhir vatsa-padam. Just like this ocean, if it becomes a small pit, then don’t require a big ship to cross over. You just… Like this. It can be reduced. By Krsna’s desire, it can be done so. Just like at the present moment… Formerly, people used to go to London from India, from Bombay, at least, in fifteen days. Now it doesn’t take even fifteen hours. It takes only nine hours. How it has been reduced? Because there is a process to reduce. Similarly, the supreme spiritual process is like that. It can be reduced to any quantity. Ani… This is called anima-siddhi. It can be expanded also, to the greatest length. Mahima-sakti. All-powerful means not that “I cannot do, I cannot, I can do this only.” No, anything He can do. That is all powerful. Anima, laghima, mahima. Just like all these big, big planets, they are floating in the sky. This is called laghima, weightless, no weight. Those who are going to the moon planet, they are finding out weightlessness. How it has become weightless? Such a big, huge… Just this planet. With so many seas and mountains and cities and buildings. But it is floating. That’s a fact. It is floating like a swab. How it is floating? You can say something nonsense, but the actual fact is this.
Mahamsa: You give the example in Nectar of Devotion…
Prabhupada: Yes.
Mahamsa: …that when the…, dead bodies will sink in the water, but a live, when the body has life, it can float on water. So when Krsna enters…
Prabhupada: Yes, yes.
Mahamsa: …impregnates…
Prabhupada: Yes.
Mahamsa: …material nature, it can become weightless.
Prabhupada: Yes. A dead body immediately goes down in the water, but a living body floats. So this is the example, that because vistabhyaham idam krtsnam ekamsena sthita. Because Krsna enters this material world as Garbhodakasayi Visnu, as Ksirodakasayi Visnu, therefore it floats. Just like this airplane. It is floating so long the pilot is there. If the pilot is not there, it will not float, however good machine it may be. It will not float; it will come down. These are the ex… (break) …soul, the spiritual spark, even in minute quantity, it can float the heaviest matter. This is the conclusion. (break) …so high and if the pilot is killed some way or other, no more floating, come down.
Mahamsa: So this laghima siddhi is also being attained by the material scientists?
Prabhupada: Huh?
Mahamsa: This is also a siddhi, that they can invent a plane…?
Prabhupada: Yes. To some extent. By material arrangement… The yogis can do still more. Without any material machine, they can float. They can walk on the water, becomes light. (break) …man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru. This is the process. (break) …colleges, the students are being educated that there is no God. And they expect good behavior from them. And when they set fire in the bus, that is… “The students are so dangerous now.” But you have made them dangerous. The educational system. They are protesting against the existence of God. (break) …so-called swamis. And they are also accelerating, “yes, no more. There is no God. Why you are searching God anywhere? There are so many gods loitering in the street. They are God.” That is the statement of Vivekananda. “Why you are finding out, trying to find out God elsewhere. These are Gods.” (break) …if required, one may come, very easily, one may take some time. But we should go on preaching.
Indian (3): No, exactly. We should not do anything…
Prabhupada: No. (break) …American, rude. That is my experience. He may not agree with my philosophy. (break) …the reason is that they are not poverty-stricken. Yes. When one becomes poverty-stricken, his all good qualities become null and void. Daridra-dosa guna-rasi nasi. Our country is now poverty-stricken. Therefore we have lost our all good qualities. (break) …loss is that we have lost our culture, original Vedic culture. That is the greatest loss. When the culture was that one man was trying to kill one cow, and immediately Maharaja Pariksit wanted to take step against him. Now just see how much that culture has gone down. Here ten thousand, twelve thousand cows are being killed regularly under government management. You see. (break) …for stopping cow-killing.
Indian (3): But even then they don’t listen.
Prabhupada: No. Even Gandhi refused. Gandhi was approached by the… “Mahatmaji, you can stop this cow-killing.” He replied, “How can I stop? It is their religion.” Just see. (break) …krsi go-raksya-vanijyam vaisya-karma svabhava-jam. This is the duty of the vaisyas.
Indian (3): Killing of the cow, there is no…
Prabhupada: Eh? (break) But who supplies the cow to us?
Indian (3): They are Hindus.
Prabhupada: They are Hindus. (break) …travelling with a Mohammedan. At that time there was no Second Class, Inter Class or Second Class I was. So that Mohammedan gentleman, when he called for that food supply, so he was asking very… “Is there any meat, cow’s flesh?” “No, no, sir. No, sir.” “That’s all right.” (end)
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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Hare Krishna Prabhu
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Please accept my humble obeisances
Is it also harmful if followers of a mayavadi goru are singing using dhol, loudspeaker, etc and the sound is entering our ears? Is the sound of their musical instruments also harmful?
I have one more question. Is there mayavada in Ramcharitamanas also? Certainly they consider Nirakar as original and form of the Supreme Lord as secondary but I’m not sure about mayavada. What does Prabhupada say about it Prabhu? I’m asking this only because in my village in one temple Ramacharitamanas plays in loudspeaker in very loud noise for 4 hours everyday. Even in Brahma muhurt it plays very loudly and so I stay in Lord Krishna’s room and listen to Prabhupada in earphone. I called police one day when they were loudly glorifying their mayavadi goru using loudspeaker. But Police does not act at all even though use of loudspeakers is restricted in my state. I’m only praying to Lord Krishna that they don’t start playing it all day as they were doing a year ago whenever there is electricity.
Hare Krishna
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Hare Krishna Aman
Yes. It is not good. But what can we do? We have to tolerate so many things in Kali-yuga. How can we stop them. All we can do is go on with our Krishna conscious business and preach. And by the power of the chanting of Hare Krishna, the distribution of Srila Prabhupada’s books and prasadam, gradually the people will wake up to this Mayavadi nonsense and will not support the Mayavadis any more. But in the meantime we just have to tolerate it… Avoid it if possible but if not possible we have to tolerate…
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
Hare Krishna Madhudvisa Prabhuji!
Dandavat Pranam
Please tell me how to kick out these mayavadi dogs from India? I want to do this!
Hare Krishna Aman
Yes. We want to do that. Kick out the mayavadis. That is Srila Prabhupada’s mission, Srila Bhaktsiddhantas mission, Lord Caitanya’s mission.
The mayavadis will be kicked out when the pure devotees are powerfully preaching Lord Caitanya’s sankirtan movement all over the world. The power is in the sankirtan. Sankirtan is the congregational chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra and the distribution of Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental books. Actually the distribution of Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental books is the brhad-mrdanga, the greater mrdanga.
So the greatest sankirtan is the distribution of Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental books.
So do that. Become a pure devotee of Krishna yourself by strictly following the four regulative principles, chant at least 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna mantra every day and read Srila Prabhupada’s books at least 1-2 hours a day and distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books and try to gather together a sankirtan party, find some other like-minded young men and together form a sankirtan party and chant Hare Krishna and distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books.
It is the sankirtan that is the weapon that will drive the mayavadi dogs away… So you have to make a sankirtan party and go out and perform sankirtan… That is the way.
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
Hare Krishna Prabhuji!
By your blessings I have started following the four regulative principles, chanting at least 16 rounds, reading Srila Prabhupada’s books at least 1-2 hours a day and offering mangala every morning at 4:30 arati, and offering bhoga to Srila Prabhupada and Radha Krishna deity sometimes…and this has given me the strength to make many devotees on my family and some people in my village and some of my friends are also chanting Hare Krishna….now I only need to buy lots of books and distribute them and keep preaching and organise sankirtan party! I want to dedicate my life to Srila Prabhupada and Lord Krishna! Dear Madhudvisa Prabhuji, please guide me to become pure devotee of Lord Krishna…I’m a soul surrendered unto you!
Hare Krishna Aman
It is very, very good news. Keep it up. You will gradually become the guru of your village. But become very much serious about becoming more Krishna conscious yourself. Get and read all of Srila Prabhupada’s books and distribute them also. Prabhupada will guide you from his books and Krishna will also guide you from within your heart. But keep on chanting at least 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna mantra every day and keep on strictly following the four regulative principles and reading Srila Prabhupada’s books.
If you keep up these things you will always be safe even though it is the nature of the material world that you will face many challenges and difficulties. But do not worry. Face the challenges knowing that Krishna will give you the strength to overcome them.
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
Hare Krishna Prabhuji!
Thanks for being so kind and giving the encouragement to me. I will always be striving to follow the standard rules and regulations and the beginning of which are the rules above mentioned by you and these are repeatedly instructed by you and I will never forget this. And I’m absolutely sure that if I follow the basic principles that are told by you repeatedly I will be able to face the challenges by your, Srila Prabhupada’s and Lord Krishna’s grace.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Hare Krishna!
ultimate knowledge is sacchidaanada. sacchidaananda is the personality(swarupa) of brahman….which means …..
sat(always present)….chit(consiousness)……anadnda(bliss) …..when you experience…..this ananda(bliss)…….that means your personality have become equal to sacchidaanada….in that state you have become sacchidaanada swarupi…..or in other words…..you have become sacchidaanada rupi brahman …..which is the ultimate knowledge….as vedas says…..
so….you yourself…..have become sacchidaanada….or YOU HAVE BECOME BRAHMAN ,which is ultimate knowledge….thats why vedas say…..prajgnam brahm….or brahman is knowledge…..and you are brahman…….(aham brahmamaasmi)……this is in breaf……the essence of jgnana yoga….
WHAT YOU SAY FOR THIS?
Yes. This is correct. We are all brahman. Not that we ‘become’ brahman. We are already brahman. Only our brahman nature is covered by maya. By chanting the Hare Krishna mantra we can uncover our original brahman nature.
But do not be confused here. We are brahman in the same way that a drop of the ocean water is salty. All the qualities of the ocean water, you can find them in a drop, but you can not say a drop of sea water is the same as the entire ocean. No. There is billions of tons of salt in the ocean, there is only one tiny grain of salt in a drop. So we are like that tiny drop with only a tiny grain of salt in it compared to the entire ocean. Krishna is like the ocean and we are like the drop. So both we and Krishna are Brahman. But there is no comparison in quantity. Krishna is like the ocean and we are like the drop…
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!
Madhudvisa dasa
THE SPIRITUAL MASTER OF THE WHOLE WORLD SRILA PRABHUPADA KI JAY
Hare Krishna!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Pranam Swamiji.
Unfortunately, the number of Mayavadis has increased now a days.They are breeding more and more particularly in India alone, the number has doubled; see, people here became very down, to achieve material desires, they worship dombs, and so called Gurus consider them as “Living God” surprisingly their petty demands got fulfilled and they are satisfied also.
When I tried to make them understand that all Gurus even they have attained some spiritual height, they are not “God” they are “Guides”. But they are justifying their act, saying that In Kaliyug, God will not come in the form Lord Rama, or Lord Krishna,he will come in the form of human only. Further according to their Guru philosophy, “Aham Bramasmi” they says, God is within you, our Guru teaches you how to become God by doing meditation, your inner atma gets up, and you will merge with God. To justify their point, they give reference from Bhagvat Gita itself. “Yada Yada hi darmasya, Gala …..Sambhavami Yuge, Yuge. See…I want to give them proper reply; will you please explain Swamiji?
The Gurus they are worshipping, keeping their photos entire house, most of them are still connection with their family ie. wife, children etc. I have seen after they became famous Gurus, their financial position improved, travelling only by planes, and have costly cars, which is used by their entire family. I have mentioned this also to them, in reply they says, You offer very beautiful cloths, ornaments, etc in the temples of Lord Krishna, whom you cannot see physically, worshipping only in the form of stone, in this way, it is presented by devotees to our beloved Gurus. I do not understand their logic.
I humbly request you to clarify this Swamiji.
Hare Krishna!
Uma Sridhar
They are materialists so they want actually to worship another materialist. The do not want a real guru who will instruct them to surrender to Krishna and serve Krishna. They do not want to surrender to Krishna and they do not want to serve Krishna. So the Mayavadis say “There is no Krishna.” “You are god” “Worship yourself” “Serve yourself” And the materialists love it. It is as Srila Prabhupada often says the society of the cheaters and the cheated. The Mayavadi gurus are cheating and their disciples want to be cheated.
When did “mayavadas” said that Lord Krishna is not God?
Do read Adi Shankara’s Bhaja Govindam
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In ‘bhaja govindam’ Sankacharya, who is Lord Shiva, and who is not a Mayavadi actually, is calling his followers and disciples fools (mudha). Because they will not simply surrender to Govinda and serve Govinda. And today’s Mayavadis are still such fools because they still refuse to simply surrender to Govinda and serve Govinda.
In His commentary on the Vedanta Sutra, which is the basis of the Mayavadi philosophy, Sankaracharaya never mentions anything like bhaja govindam at all. There distorting the actual words of the Vedanta Sutra with word jugglery and illogical logic he establishes that ultimately there is no Krishna, there is no Supreme Lord, that ultimately there is only the impersonal brahman. So for his followers there is no Supreme Lord to surrender to and serve, rather they are lead to believe that they are the supreme lords themselves. And they address each other as the supreme lord ‘namo narayana…’. So Sankacharaya has presented a perversion of the Vedanta Sutra that is very attractive to the demons and that is what the Mayavadis are interested in. They have no interest at all in ‘bhaja govindam bhaja govinadm’. So Mayavadis are eternally mudhas, fools as confirmed by Sankacharaya himself…
That is why Mayavadis are so dangerous. The do not say that Krishna is not God. They accept that Krishna is God. Their deviation is very subtle. They accept that Krishna is God but they say He is a temporary manifestation of the impersonal brahman and when Krishna finishes His pastimes He again merges into the impersonal Brahman. So they say actually “Krishna is God” but at the same time they say that the appearance of Krishna in the material world and Krishna’s pastimes are all manifestations of maya… So that is why we call them ‘Mayavadis’, because they claim that the pastimes of Krishna are all manifestations of maya and in the ultimate issue there is no Krishna, only the impersonal brahman… So the Mayavadis are very dangerous. They are offering what every demon is looking for, spirituality without god. Or even better than that spirituality where you can become god yourself…
So this perverted, distorted presentation of the Vedas is very dangerous, and very attractive to the demons…. Ultimately they say there is no personal god, only the impersonal brahman. So for the Mayavadi there is no Supreme Lord to surrender to, rather they address each other as ‘namo narayana’ they address each other as the Supreme Lord…
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