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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Just like those who are revolutionary, do not care for the state laws, they are sometimes killed or sometimes put into the prison house. That means those who are not voluntarily surrendering to Kṛṣṇa, they are put into the prison house. They are forced to surrender. Forced to surrender. They'll be forced. Just like you cannot become . . . you are not free, either outside the prison house or inside the prison house. But when you think that you have become free . . . vimukta-māninaḥ. Vimukta-māninaḥ, falsely thinking that, "I have now become liberated." Aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ (SB 10.2.32). But the intelligence is not very clear. This is last snare of māyā. When one thinks that, "I am God. I have become God," that is the last snare of māyā. That is also māyā.
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[[Vanisource:721129 - Lecture BG 02.25 - Hyderabad|721129 - Lecture BG 02.25 - Hyderabad]]
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The theory that Kṛṣṇa becomes covered, that is nonsense. How Kṛṣṇa can be covered? Kṛṣṇa cannot be covered. He is the controller of the māyā. And we are controlled by the māyā. That is the difference. Kṛṣṇa, māyādhīśa, and we are māyādhīna. Adhīna. We can become free. Exactly the same example that when our eyes are covered by the cloud, we cannot see the sun, although the sun is there.

So if some way or other . . . we have got very good experience nowadays by flying in the airship. As soon as the airship goes above the cloud, you have got immense sunlight. Immense sunlight. And practically, the jet planes, they go seven miles above the surface and there is no cloud. The cloud is down.

Similarly, you can go also above māyā. You can transcend māyā and see Kṛṣṇa always. That is possible. How? Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]]). You simply surrender to Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa will arrange that you are no more under māyā. Simple process. You just become, as Kṛṣṇa demands, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]).

This is sanātana-dharma. Because we are, after all, servant of Kṛṣṇa, but artificially we are trying to become master of this material . . . of this world. We are therefore sent here. Just like those who are revolutionary, do not care for the state laws, they are sometimes killed or sometimes put into the prison house. That means those who are not voluntarily surrendering to Kṛṣṇa, they are put into the prison house. They are forced to surrender. Forced to surrender. They'll be forced.

Just like you cannot become . . . you are not free, either outside the prison house or inside the prison house. But when you think that you have become free . . . vimukta-māninaḥ. Vimukta-māninaḥ, falsely thinking that, "I have now become liberated." Aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 10.2.32|SB 10.2.32]]). But the intelligence is not very clear.

This is last snare of māyā. When one thinks that, "I am God. I have become God," that is the last snare of māyā. That is also māyā. How you can become God? What capacity you have got? God has created so many things. What you have created? God has shown so many things. What you have done? But still, falsely they are thinking, "I am God."

This is māyā, last snare of māyā. Because the real disease, as we have already explained, is to lord it over the material nature. Everyone is trying: "I am the lord of all I survey. I want to become lord of this universe." "I want to become minister," "I want to become president," "I want to become business magnitude." And everything fails. Then he wants to become God. That is also māyā. That is not possible.
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