Spiritual consciousness at death determines your next body; devotion alone liberates from all destinations.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: …a giant demon who could, er, I mean to say—what is called?—draw, or shove, or push the earthly planet into the water of Garbhodaka Ocean. He is not an ordinary being. But although he was very strong, just like mountain, the example is given, the mountain is broken into pieces by the thunderbolt. Everything is there in nature’s law, and by Kṛṣṇa’s arrangement.
Nature is not independent. Nature is working under the superintendence of Kṛṣṇa. Mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram [Bg 9.10]. [This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.] We may not be amazed when there is a big thunderbolt falling on the mountain and breaking into pieces.
This wonderful act is being done by nature, but behind the nature the order is of Kṛṣṇa. So whenever there is mention of an incarnation of God, Kṛṣṇa, there is specific duty. This is the specific duty. This is not possible to be done. When Lord Rāmacandra, His specific duty was to kill Rāvaṇa and to construct a bridge over the ocean, this is not possible by ordinary man.
Similarly, incarnation means something done which is not possible by anybody else. That is the test. So anyone, rascal, comes… But ordinarily, there… Because people are so poor in knowledge that any magic shown, they think this is not ordinary thing: “I cannot do it.” Little magical feats makes the incarnation. But not so… That is ordinary.
If a magician can show something, and if another person exhibits the same talent, that does not mean he has become God. Suppose if one man can walk on the ocean—that is of course not very ordinary thing—but there are many big, big ships, they are also moving on the ocean. So that does not mean one has become God. Very extraordinary work.
This is [indistinct]: to pick up the whole earthly planet from the depths of Garbhodaka Ocean. There is other reason. So in this way, every day it is… Our Bhāgavata is there, and the transliteration is there, word meaning is there—they should be read. Not that it is meant for simply selling. That we should also read. Devotee: Hm. Prabhupāda: There are so many verses.
We have taken so much pain to transliterate them, to give them word meanings and the purports, plus they must be instructed, discourses. Sanskrit, when pronounced, the vibration will create an atmosphere, nice atmosphere, Sanskrit. These are not ordinary Sanskrit; they are mantras. Every verse of Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, they are Vedic mantras.