When Maya Attacks You
When maya, the Lord's illusory energy, attacks you, do not surrender to maya. Rather you should fight maya, defeat her by taking complete shelter of Krishna. If you give into maya and follow her dictates, you will remain entangled in the miserable cycle of repeated birth and death. However, if you will defy maya, by taking complete shelter of Krishna, you will regain your original, eternal identity in the unlimitedly sweet pastimes of Lord Sri Krishna in that most wondrous spiritual sky. So now what you do is up to you. It's your choice. Surrender to maya or surrender to Krishna, and reap the corresponding result.
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada .
All glories to you and Guru Mataji .
I encountered a verse that seemingly contradicts a verse in the Bhagavad-gita, and I was wondering if you could help me to understand how to reconcile these two verses.
Srimad Bhagavatam (Canto 2, chapter 2, text 27)
“In that planet of Satyaloka, there is neither bereavement, nor old age nor death. There is no pain of any kind, and therefore there are no anxieties, save that sometimes, due to consciousness, there is a feeling of compassion for those unaware of the process of devotional service, who are subjected to unsurpassable miseries in the material world.”
Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 8, verse 16)
“From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again.”
Srila Prabhupada’s translation indicates that “a-brahma-bhuvanal – up to the Brahmaloka plane”
The Bhagavatam seems to say that Satyaloka is not subject to birth, death, old age and disease. The Bhagavad-gita seems to say that it is subject to these four states. Can you shed on light on this seeming contradiction?
Always an insignificant servant
Hare Krishna
Vasudevan K
"Regarding Satyaloka, one is in the material world and one is in the spiritual world. The spiritual Satyaloka is eternal; the material Satyaloka is not, although it is so-called. Satyaloka is another name for Vaikuntha."
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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Question: How to Resolve Apparent Contradiction in Scriptures?
My dear respected Gurudeva,Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada .
All glories to you and Guru Mataji .
I encountered a verse that seemingly contradicts a verse in the Bhagavad-gita, and I was wondering if you could help me to understand how to reconcile these two verses.
Srimad Bhagavatam (Canto 2, chapter 2, text 27)
“In that planet of Satyaloka, there is neither bereavement, nor old age nor death. There is no pain of any kind, and therefore there are no anxieties, save that sometimes, due to consciousness, there is a feeling of compassion for those unaware of the process of devotional service, who are subjected to unsurpassable miseries in the material world.”
Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 8, verse 16)
“From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again.”
Srila Prabhupada’s translation indicates that “a-brahma-bhuvanal – up to the Brahmaloka plane”
The Bhagavatam seems to say that Satyaloka is not subject to birth, death, old age and disease. The Bhagavad-gita seems to say that it is subject to these four states. Can you shed on light on this seeming contradiction?
Always an insignificant servant
Hare Krishna
Vasudevan K
Answer: Two Different Satyalokas
In this connection, Srila Prabhupada explains as follows:"Regarding Satyaloka, one is in the material world and one is in the spiritual world. The spiritual Satyaloka is eternal; the material Satyaloka is not, although it is so-called. Satyaloka is another name for Vaikuntha."
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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