Delivering All of the Fallen Souls of this World

The compassion of the great Vaisnava acharya Prahlada Maharaja is unfathomable. He said that he does not want to go back to Godhead unless he can take all of the suffering souls of this material world along with him. Just see how unlimited is the compassion of Krishna's pure devotee! He is not thinking of his own liberation. His only concern is how all the fallen, conditioned souls of this material world can be liberated. Such an unlimitedly compassionate devotee of the Lord does not have to be concerned about his own liberation because he is already a fully liberated soul even if he is still living here in this material world. Krishna is the personal property of such an inconceivably compassionate Vaisnava.

Prahlada Instructs His Classmates

Prahlada Instructs His Classmates

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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: How Could We Fall From the Spiritual World?

Today my friend me asked this question, and this question is really always difficult to define to non devotees:

In the spiritual world, we are full of knowledge and full of bliss. So how can we desire for material enjoyment? How can we come under the influence of maya or illusion while we are in the spiritual world?

Sanjay

Answer: Misuse of Free Will

If it were not for free will, we would be just be robots. We would not be persons. Since Krishna does not want to associate with robots, He wants to associate with people, He endows us with free will to leave Him at any time, if that is what we desire. We cannot be under the influence of maya or illusion in the spiritual world because it is not present there. Thus when we manifest the desire to try to enjoy separately from the Lord, we are already in the material world without even as much as a nanosecond's delay.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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