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Śrī Īśopaniṣad points out that one who worships the demigods and attains to their material planets still universe is covered by the gigantic material elements; it is just like a coconut covered by a shell and Since its covering is airtight, the darkness within is dense, and therefore the sun and the moon are Outside the universe is the vast and unlimited brahma-jyotir expansion, which is filled with Vaikuṇṭha-lokas The biggest and highest planet in the brahma-jyotir is Kṛṣṇaloka, or Goloka Vṛndāvana, where the Supreme
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Nor do they know that Kṛṣṇa has His eternal form with its transcendental qualities of eternal bliss and The dependent demigods and great sages imperfectly consider Him to be a powerful demigod, and they consider But the devotees of Kṛṣṇa, by dint of their surrendering unto Him and their unalloyed devotion, can know that He is the Absolute Person and that everything emanates from Him.
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nor the great sages know My origin or opulences, for in every respect I am the source of the demigods and Thus Kṛṣṇa is the origin of the powers delegated to demigods, great sages and mystics. Although they are endowed with great powers, these powers are limited, and thus it is very difficult
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not to bother with any destination within this dark material universe, but to try to get out of it and There are many pseudo worshipers who become religionists only for the sake of name and fame. Such pseudo religionists do not wish to get out of this universe and reach the spiritual sky. The atheist directly denies the existence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the impersonalists Those who are running after other planets are certainly persons, and if the Lord can run faster than
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Those who are engaged in the worship of demigods enter into the darkest region of ignorance, and still
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Those who are engaged in the worship of demigods enter into the darkest region of ignorance, and still
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The Lord states that as soon as one reaches Him by devotional service – which is the one and only way to approach the Personality of Godhead – one attains complete freedom from the bondage of birth and words, the path of salvation from the material clutches fully depends on the principles of knowledge and In this way they pass as spiritual masters and devotees of God. They ignore the Vedic injunction ācāryopāsana – “One must worship the ācārya” – and Kṛṣṇa’s statement
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Many philosophers and great ṛṣis, or mystics, try to distinguish the Absolute from the relative by their definitions lead one to create a concept of one’s own; thus one imagines that the Absolute must be formless and Such negative qualities are simply the reversals of relative, material qualities and are therefore also
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highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and
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material bondage entirely to attain permanent relief on the spiritual plane, where eternal bliss, life and Rather, we must worship the Absolute Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, who is all-attractive and who can
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The ignorant pseudo religionists and the manufacturers of so-called incarnations who directly violate The question is how to obtain real and permanent life.
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With their advanced consciousness, human beings are naturally inclined to travel in outer space and to In this way one can reach the moon planet, the sun planet and even Brahmaloka, the topmost planet in