Śrī Bhṛgu Muni Said…
…My dear Lord, all living entities, beginning from the highest, namely Lord Brahmā, down to the ordinary ant, are under the influence of the insurmountable spell of illusory energy, and thus they are ignorant of their constitutional position. Everyone believes in the concept of the body, and all are thus submerged in the darkness of illusion. They are actually unable to understand how You live in every living entity as the Supersoul, nor can they understand Your absolute position. But You are the eternal friend and protector of all surrendered souls. Therefore, please be kind toward us and forgive all our offences.
Bhṛgu Muni was conscious of the scandalous behavior exhibited by each and every one of them, including Brahmā and Lord Śiva, in the sacrificial ceremony of Dakṣa. By mentioning Brahmā, the chief of all living entities within this material world, he wanted to state that everyone, including also Brahmā and Lord Śiva, is under the concept of the body and under the spell of material energy—all but Viṣṇu. That is the version of Bhṛgu. As long as one is under the concept of the body as self, it is very difficult to understand the Supersoul or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Conscious that he was not greater than Brahma-, Bhṛgu included himself in the list of offenders. Ignorant personalities, or conditioned souls, have no choice but to accept their precarious condition under material nature. The only remedy is to surrender to Viṣṇu and always pray to be excused. One should depend only on the causeless mercy of the Lord for deliverance and not even slightly on one’s own strength. That is the perfect position of a Kṛṣṇa conscious person. The Lord is everyone’s friend, but He is especially friendly to the surrendered soul. The simple process, therefore, is that a conditioned soul should remain surrendered to the Lord, and the Lord will give him all protection to keep him out of the clutches of material contamination. (S.B.4.7.30 The Sacrifice Performed By Dakṣa)
Śrī Nārada-Pañcarātra
Second Rātra, Chapter 1, Text 36
Lord Śiva says to Nārada Muni:
iyaṁ durgā tava puro – viṣṇu-māyā sanātanī
anayā mohitāḥ sarve – kṛṣṇa-bhaktaṁ vinā mune
O sage, Durgā, who is now standing in front of you, is the eternal energy of Lord Viṣṇu. Apart from the devotees of Lord Viṣṇu, all others are bewildered by her power of illusion.
I agreed that is true but we must focus all our energies in krsna consciousness because KC is our eternal akarma while the happiness in the material world is just a break from the suffering through karma vikarma etc…even the demigods are in illusion through different levels and great sages have problems to control the karma because even a man of knowledge is forced by nature to act accordingly to his present guna and karma but small step in krsna consciousness can make one free from the greatest fear therefore we never given up the only way that can make us free through krsna consciousness by controlling the false ego by using our small indipendence in krsna services otherwise one can become a fool number one by misusing his free will completely for maya sukaya. agtacbsp ys haribol
“Everything is there”. Srila Prabhupada
Dear prabhus.
Please accept my humble obeisance’s all glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Just like all living entities have their own individual eternal personal relationship with Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead, just like all living entities have a personal individual eternal relationship with Paramatma or Supersoul, we all have a personal individual relationship
with Srila Prabhupada through his books. He will relate to each one of us on an individual level through the heart. Anything we need to know or to experience to make our lives and the lives of everyone on Earth perfect he will reveal to us including how to deal with the BBTs illegal ongoing book changes. Srila Prabhupada was well aware of what the future held for ISKCON the BBT and the GBC regarding the Hare Krishna movement and his and Krsna’s books so don’t for a moment think that the situation we all face has not been covered in his books. All the advice and strategies we need to fight the illegal book changes by the BBT are in his original pre 1978 books get to them!
Ys Hasti Gopala Dasa
For the full page of quotes that these were taken from see: http://adi-vani.org/articles.php?articleId=52
“I have given you TLC, WHAT NEED IS THERE TO READ CAITANYA CARITAMRTA TRANSLATED BY SOMEONE ELSE. You are right to stop such reading.” SPL (VI 1987) Govinda das 20/01/70”
Devotee: “Srila Prabhupada when you’re not present with us, how is it
possible to receive instructions? For example, in questions that may
arise…”
Srila Prabhupada: “Well the questions are answ… answers are there in my books.” SPC (BBT 1991) Los Angeles 13/05/73
“There is nothing new to be said. Whatever I had to say, I have already said in my books. Now you must try to understand it and continue with your endeavours. Whether I am present or not does not matter.” SPC (BBT 1991) Vrndavan 17/05/77
“If I depart there is no cause for lamentation. I will always be with you through my books and orders. I will always remain with you in that way.” BTG (BBT 1977) December 1977
Srila Prabhupada: “So in my absence you read the books. What I talk, I have written in my books. That’s all.”
Indian Man (2): “Personally, we think more greater.”
Srila Prabhupada: “That’s all right. But still, you can associate with me by reading my books.”
SPC (BBT 1991) Toronto 07/08/75
Prabhupadas complete lectures that cover this topic and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FskBI4NZtI&list=PL4iyYu76IW5MuGy3l2DlcOtmE8RqqKQOM
Pamho agtacbsp, so lord brahma,siva are guru how is possible that they are in illusion SRI MOHINI MURTI make siva to lose semen once by showing to all the sadhu that siva was in maya he didn’t care about parvati and ganesh by running to catch MOHINI MURTI, Lord brahma also had to leave his body once because of the material contamination,the main point of our philosophy is the sublime ACINTYA BHEDA ABHEDA TATTVA PHILOSOPHY OF SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU that everything is krsna and simultaneously different from krsna so HE make DHRUVA MAHARAJ ,SRI NARADA MUNI WORTHY FROM NOTHING BECAUSE HE CAN USE HIS ENERGIES AS HE LIKE THAT’S THE PROOF THAT EVERYTHING IS KRSNA AND SIMULTANEOUSLY DIFFERENT FROM HIM ,so we are not surprised to hear that great personalities like lord brahma and siva are in illusion and many people in India worship them as God. Anyway DEVAKI PARAMANANDA KRSNA VANDE JAGAT GURU every morning we offer our obeisance to LORD VASUDEVA THE ABODE OF LIVING ENTITY and the real guru .agtacbsp ys haribol