Cross material darkness only by serving Krishna's lotus feet with unwavering devotion and unflinching vows.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Sannyāsa Initiations — October 22, 1972, Vṛndāvana 721022IN-VRNDAVAN [23:07 Minutes] Initiations_721022IN-VRNDAVAN Prabhupāda: ...comes from fire, smoke is not acceptable, but fire is acceptable. Similarly, although this māyā, material world, is coming from Kṛṣṇa... Mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate [Bg. 10.8], Kṛṣṇa says. Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo, mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate.
Sarvaṁ pravartate means māyā is also coming from Kṛṣṇa. That is a fact. The same example: smoke is coming from fire, but we require fire, not the smoke. This is required.
We don't require the māyā's internal energy which disturbs seeing Kṛṣṇa. There are so many examples: Just like cloud. Cloud is the production of the sun, sunshine. When the sunshine is very strong it evaporates water from the sea, and the air is evaporating from the cloud. That is scientific observation and experiment.
But by the cloud, the sun is covered. [break] We cannot see the sun. Similarly, this māyā is creation of God, mama māyā, Kṛṣṇa says. Daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā.
But this māyā covers the living entity so that the living entity forgets his eternal relationship with Kṛṣṇa. Mama māyā duratyayā. That is just like we have got experience by flying in the sky, the jets, they penetrate the clouds and travel above the clouds, there is immense sunshine. There is no more covering. Similarly, we have to come above the māyā to the transcendental position, and then we are in the sunshine; there is no more restriction. So long we remain under the cloud we are covered; we cannot see the sun properly.
Neither the people can utilize the sunshine properly. Similarly, if we remain within the control of this māyā, then we cannot understand Kṛṣṇa as God. Then we cannot understand God. We have to transcend the position of cloud, or fog; then our life is successful, and that is devotional service. If you remain constantly engaged in devotional service of Kṛṣṇa, māṁ ca 'vyabhicāreṇa, bhakti-yogena yaḥ sevate...
We have got so many [indistinct] for serving Kṛṣṇa; if you always remained engaged in the service of Kṛṣṇa, then there is no question of māyā's entering. That is the transcendental position. māṁ ca vyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena yaḥ sevate sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate [Bg. 14.26] Simply uttering ahaṁ brahmasmi, that is not our goal, "I am Brahman." Actually I am spirit soul, part and parcel of the Supreme Soul. Mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ. All jīvas are part and parcel of God, Brahman, part of Brahman, as the spark of fire is also fire.