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"Mayavadis and Vaisnavas" 

The Mayavadis and the Vaisnavas both study the Vedic scriptures. While the Vaisnavas have a personal understanding of God, the Mayavadis prefer to consider God to be impersonal. While the Vaisnavas strive to become pure devotees of God, the goal of the Mayavadis is to merge with and become God. The difficulty with the philosophy of the Mayavadis is that it contradicts what Lord Sri Krishna teaches in the Bhagavad-gita. It is not logical also. If I am God, how can I ever forget that I am God? That would mean that forgetfulness is greater than God. Because the Vedas strongly establishes that God is a person the only way that the Mayavadis can support their philosophy is through completely ignoring or trying to rationalize away those verses in which God is very clearly being described as a person. Even though the Mayavadis can derive some temporary false ego satisfaction by thinking that they have become God, their so-called liberation which is completely devoid of variety becomes eventually very dull and boring. After all, how can one be satisfied in a world where there is no love, no sights, no sounds, and no tastes? Therefore the Srimad Bhagavatam states that such persons eventually fall back down to the material platform in order to satisfy their desire for enjoyment. On the other hand, the Vaisnavas, who find eternal, ever-increasing satisfaction in the unlimitedly variegated service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, can remain eternally in that liberated position. All of their natural desires for love and variety are fully satisfied in the service of the Supreme Lord.

 

(BG 5.6)

 

Taught by His Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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