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Mayavadi Philosophy Refuted by Bhakti, Devotee Accepts Suffering as Krishna's Mercy

📅 July 9, 1976 📍 Washington DC ⏱ 20 min
Accept suffering as Krishna's mercy and continue your duty; liberation is guaranteed through bhakti and tolerance.
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Svarūpa Dāmodara: He wants to help us. He has many degrees—in chemistry, in pathology, in engineering. He said if we have an institute like this...

Prabhupāda: Hmm. Svarūpa Dāmodara: ...it would be very easy to defeat Māyāvādīs.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Because they claim that they are Vedāntists...

Prabhupāda: They are nonsense. Svarūpa Dāmodara: ...but they have no bhakti. So we are in the line of Bhaktivedanta, so he said that this is the way to counteract the so-called Māyāvādīs or Vedāntists.

Prabhupāda: They're atheist. More than atheist. They have been described by Caitanya Mahāprabhu as more dangerous than the atheist. Veda nāmāniyā bauddha haila nāstika, vedāśraye nāstikyavāda bauddha ke adhika.

[Cc Madhya 6.168]. They take the shelter of Vedas and preach atheism. Svarūpa Dāmodara: They say they do not accept what it is all said in the Vedas. They accept something and they reject something.

Prabhupāda: That is nonsense. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Sometimes they say that whatever they say must be supplemented from the Vedas. It's contradiction. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They support the proposition that in different Vedas different things are stressed, therefore...

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