Prabhupada, Vrndavana, March 18, 1974: […] So the Mayavadi philosophers, they do no know that “Suppose, even I get free, so where shall I go?” He thinks, “I shall be free in the sky.” Just like impersonalism, sky is impersonal. So if suppose a bird is given freedom, but he flies in the sky, will he be happy? No. That also he’ll not be happy. Then he’ll again think of that, “It was better to remain in the cage. Now what is the value of my, this freedom? I’m not happy.” And again go back to the cage. You will see in India. There is a bird, falcon. The man who keeps that bird in the cage, sometimes he takes it to the open field, and he opens the door, and the bird walks, sometimes flies. He is given freedom. Then again the man makes “ts-ts-ts-ts”, he says like that, and the bird comes again within the cage. You’ll see. If you have seen, those who are Indian. But he thinks that, “I have been given freedom now. But where shall I go? Where shall I go? I have to eat.” So he again comes back: “Better to live within this cage.”
So Mayavadi’s position is like that. We are sure that we are going to Krishna. But they have no Krishna. Therefore they again come to this material world. Aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah patanty adhah [SB 10.2.32]. Patanty adhah anadrta-yusmad-an… Because they have no shelter, therefore they’ll come back again within this material world. Because in the impersonal feature they cannot remain many days. You get freedom from the cage, but if you do not get to eat something, how long you’ll live? Therefore they prefer again to come to the cage. That falcon… Because they have no other way. Therefore this Mayavada philosophy, voidism, impersonal philosophy, is not very good. You cannot remain impersonal or in void because your position is…, because you are living entity, because you are part and parcel of the supreme living entity, Krishna. Krishna is anandamayo ’bhyasat. He is always full of jubilation. So you also, being part and parcel of Krishna, you also want jubilation. But how you can get jubilation, how you can be jubilant in the sky, in the zero? This is the difference between Mayavada philosophy. Therefore you cannot be happy even by getting free from this encagement, material world, and if you place yourself in impersonalism and voidism, that will not help you. Try to understand it. That will not help you.
So therefore you have to go back to home, back to Krishna, where there is everything variety, spiritual varieties. You can play with Krishna. You can dance with Krishna. You can talk with Krishna.
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Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.1.3
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Vrndavana, March 18, 1974
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