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'''Theme Analysis''' | |||
Māyāvādī philosophy is fundamentally flawed because it is based on the envious and impossible desire to become the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Śrīla Prabhupāda repeatedly warns that although Māyāvādīs may perform severe austerities and strictly follow spiritual principles, their ultimate conclusion is a product of material illusion. They deny the eternal, transcendental form of the Lord, considering His incarnations to be products of material nature and His Deity forms to be mere idols. Because they cannot accept the Supreme Lord's multifarious energies, their philosophical debates remain on the kindergarten level. They selectively read texts like the Śarīraka-bhāṣya simply to confirm their false prestige and illusion that they are God. True perfection, however, is not found in vainly attempting to usurp the position of the supreme enjoyer, but in becoming godly by surrendering as His eternal, loving servant. | |||
* '''The Ultimate Illusion:''' The core disease of the Māyāvādīs is the desire to become the Supreme Lord. Despite severe penances, this false pride keeps them bound by material nature. | |||
* '''Denial of the Lord's Form:''' Māyāvādīs do not believe God has a factual, spiritual form. They imagine temporary forms for the sake of worship, a concocted system known as pañcopāsanā. | |||
* '''Misjudging the Descent of God:''' When the Absolute Truth descends, Māyāvādīs foolishly think He is forced by the material modes of nature. They view His Deities as idols and His historical pastimes as mere stories. | |||
* '''Kindergarten Philosophy:''' Because they completely deny the existence of the Lord's varied energies, Māyāvādī philosophical speculation is considered sub-standard and superficial. | |||
* '''Envious Deafness:''' Driven by envy of the Personality of Godhead, Māyāvādīs are barred from understanding pure scriptures like Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. They only read commentaries that flatter their false ego. | |||
* Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:The Mayavadis Are Trying to Become God, But That is Impossible|The Mayavadis Are Trying to Become God, But That is Impossible.]] | |||
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Theme Analysis
Māyāvādī philosophy is fundamentally flawed because it is based on the envious and impossible desire to become the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Śrīla Prabhupāda repeatedly warns that although Māyāvādīs may perform severe austerities and strictly follow spiritual principles, their ultimate conclusion is a product of material illusion. They deny the eternal, transcendental form of the Lord, considering His incarnations to be products of material nature and His Deity forms to be mere idols. Because they cannot accept the Supreme Lord's multifarious energies, their philosophical debates remain on the kindergarten level. They selectively read texts like the Śarīraka-bhāṣya simply to confirm their false prestige and illusion that they are God. True perfection, however, is not found in vainly attempting to usurp the position of the supreme enjoyer, but in becoming godly by surrendering as His eternal, loving servant.
- The Ultimate Illusion: The core disease of the Māyāvādīs is the desire to become the Supreme Lord. Despite severe penances, this false pride keeps them bound by material nature.
- Denial of the Lord's Form: Māyāvādīs do not believe God has a factual, spiritual form. They imagine temporary forms for the sake of worship, a concocted system known as pañcopāsanā.
- Misjudging the Descent of God: When the Absolute Truth descends, Māyāvādīs foolishly think He is forced by the material modes of nature. They view His Deities as idols and His historical pastimes as mere stories.
- Kindergarten Philosophy: Because they completely deny the existence of the Lord's varied energies, Māyāvādī philosophical speculation is considered sub-standard and superficial.
- Envious Deafness: Driven by envy of the Personality of Godhead, Māyāvādīs are barred from understanding pure scriptures like Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. They only read commentaries that flatter their false ego.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Mayavadis Are Trying to Become God, But That is Impossible.
Pages in category "God and Mayavadis"
The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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- Although the Lord is described and accepted by great personalities, acaryas and sages, the Mayavadis still do not appreciate Him
- Although the Mayavadis have undergone penances, austerities - very strictly they follow the principles of spiritual life - but because they are under maya, at the end they are thinking that "I am God, Purusa," the same disease, purusa
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- In many instances they (the Mayavadis) were checked by the government, arrested and punished. In Orissa, Thakura Bhaktivinoda punished a so-called incarnation of Visnu who was imitating the rasa-lila with young girls
- In their philosophical discussions the Mayavadis deny the existence of the Supreme Lord's multifarious energies. Such sub-standard debates are indeed on the kindergarten level
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- Mayavada philosophy cannot trace the energy of the Supreme Lord back to its source, but all Vedic literatures give evidence of the Supreme Lord's various energetic manifestations
- Mayavadis and atheists accept the forms of the Deities in the temple of the Lord as idols, but devotees do not worship idols. They directly worship the Personality of Godhead in His arca incarnation
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- The envious Mayavadi cannot have access to the Bhagavatam, but those who are really anxious to get out of this material existence may take shelter of this Bhagavatam because it is uttered by the liberated Srila Sukadeva Gosvami
- The Mayavadi cannot think beyond this material experience, and thus he denies the Lord's ability to sleep within the water
- The Mayavadi philosophers accept the all-pervading feature of Parabrahman, but when Parabrahman, or the Supreme Lord, appears, they think that He appears under the control of material nature
- The Mayavadis accept the description of the pastimes of the Lord as stories, but actually they are not stories; they are historical facts
- The Mayavadis are envious of the Personality of Godhead despite Sripada Sankaracarya's admission that Narayana, the Personality of Godhead, is above the material creation
- The Mayavadis are trying to become God, but that is impossible. Let them try to become godly. Godly means "servant of God." That will make them perfect
- The Mayavadis do not actually believe in the form of the Lord, but for the sake of worship they imagine some form to be God. Generally they imagine a form of Visnu, a form of Siva, and forms of Ganesa, the sun-god and Durga. This is called pancopasana
- The Mayavadis, who are not in agreement with the existence of the Lord, can be classified in two groups, exemplified by the impersonalist Sankarites of Varanasi and the Buddhists of Saranatha
- The reason (the Mayavadi Vedantists read only one commentary named Sariraka-bhasya but not Vaisnava Vedanta-bhasyas) is that they want to read something that will confirm their illusion that they are God