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But because we are fools, that these things are material... It will not stay. On account of ignorance, we are thinking that "This will be very nice," "This will be very nice," "This will be very nice." Kama-karmabhiḥ, creating some kama, desire, and working in that way. Therefore klisyanti. To become Brahma, that is not very easy thing. Brahma is such a big post, very qualified, highly advanced in austerities, penance. He is given... He's also a living entity. Just like in your America, you are also a citizen, and President Nixon or Ford, he's also citizen. But by dint of his ardent labor and diplomacy, this way, tha..., he has captured that post. But he's an ordinary citizen. Just like President Nixon: now he's dragged down; he's no more president. Ordinary citizen. Similarly, if you like you can also become Brahma. Kama-karmabhiḥ. (More...)

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And others, they are expansion or incarnation, visnu-tattva. In the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, the Gosvamis, they have analyzed the characteristics of Bhagavan. The first Bhagavan is Lord Brahma. Lord... Not first... First Bhagavan is Krsna, but the Bhagavan realization, the opulences realization, begins from Lord Brahma. He is jiva-tattva. Jiva-tattva means he's ordinary living being like us. If you become powerful in spiritual strength, then you can also have the post of Lord Brahma. And better than Lord Brahma is Lord Siva. And better than Lord Siva is Visnu, or Lord Narayana. And the best of all of them is Krsna, krsnas tu bhagavan svayam [SB 1.3.28]. That is the analysis of the Vedic sastra. So all sastras accept..., the Brahma-samhita and, I mean to say, other, all sastras... Krsnas tu... Even Sahkaracarya accepts: sa bhagavan svayam krsnaḥ. Sahkaracarya. He, this Mayavadi philosopher, impersonalist, he also accepts Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And all the acaryas-Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami, Nimbarka, and lately, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu-all accept krsnas tu bhagavan svayam. (More...)

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