Mayavad's poisonous effect can destroy our devotional service ….....….... Nectarean Mellows
Bhagavatam describes how the living entity seated within the heart, sometimes they are under the illusion that they are god and they try to create a false doctrine on the basis of material logic. But it is impossible for the Supreme Controller of all energies to ever come under the control of His own energies. There is no logic to the mayavad philosophy to a person who has a clear common sense. However the mayavad philosophy is so strategically designed to present things through world jugglery that just by hearing it you loose the desire for devotional service. Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said even a very advance person, who had great attachment to Krsna, if he hears submissively Mayavad philosophy he will fall down. Even if you are a resident of the spiritual world, if you hear the Mayavad philosophy with an attentive heart you may fall down. Of course in the spiritual world, no one wants to hear Mayavadi philosophy, but even if that is, the power of illusory energy that is manifested in this doctrine of monism, it is so powerful. So this mayavad philosophy, due to the jugglery of words, if one hears it, even though intellectually you may be thinking oh this is all just nonsense, I don't believe it, but still in your heart it actually can have the effect of disturbing the desire to serve the Lord, if you hear it submissively. And we have actually seen that some devotees, who are not actually advanced, but who thinks they are very advanced not because they have realisations of the transcendental form of the Lord but because they have mundane scholarship, they actually read mayavad books, because mayavadis actually are tremendously, the good ones at least, they are tremendously skilled at allegories, examples and actually most of Krsna conscious philosophy and Mayavad philosophy is exactly the same as far as the laws of nature, karma and all of these other things, it is the same philosophy, its only the conclusion that is different; that ultimately God is impersonal, His form, His pastimes, His names, His devotional service are ultimately an illusion, ultimately the only thing that is real is the impersonal form Brahman and there is no variegatedness than Brahman everything is one; that is their conclusion; but on almost every level they speak the same things we do, you have to give up sense gratification, the body consisting of the five gross elements and three subtle elements must be transcended; so therefore the examples that they give are often in time very pertinent to our own explanation of philosophy; so sometimes people read books to get this type of information. However it is explained by Srila Sanatana Goswami, even if you have a very, very fresh cow milk, if it is touched by the lips of a serpent, it has a poisonous effect; you may not taste the poison, it may taste like very nice milk; however the poison is there and you will not know until later; at first if you drink this milk you feel very nourished and strong and you see it is not so bad, it taste good, I am strong, full of energy, ready to go out and do my service but after some time without your intellectual understanding the poisonous effect will start to act. What is the poisonous effect of Mayavad philosophy? Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu explained the poisonous effect is it disturbs your service attitude, gradually we don't want to be servants anymore, we want to be an enjoyer, we want to be a lord, our faith in the path of real bhakti is destroyed and it may take many, many births to take it back.
H H Radhanath Swami Maharaj
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