Your second question about falling down from the brahma-jyotir...

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"Your second question about falling down from the brahma-jyotir"

1968 Correspondence

It is not that one must fall down, but that they generally fall down.

Letter to Harer Nama -- Los Angeles 21 December, 1968:

Your second question about falling down from the brahma-jyotir is answered that it is not that one must fall down, but that they generally fall down. There is a verse in Srimad-Bhagavatam, 10th canto, 2nd chapter, verse 26, which says: "My Dear Lotus Eyed Personality of Godhead, persons who are very proud of becoming one with the brahma effulgence and thereby consider that they have become liberated are factually in a contaminated consciousness on account of the absence of devotional service unto You. Such persons may rise to a high level of spiritual understanding as far as the impersonal brahma-jyotir but on account of the lack of devotional service unto You, they generally fall down again into material contamination."