So this is a chance. This Kumbhamela is a chance to get opportunity of mahat-seva. Mahat-seva dvaram ahur vimukteh. Many... Of course, it is Kali-yuga. There are so many so-called mahatmas in dress for earning livelihood. That kind of mahatma is not required. Mahatma is also described in the Bhagavad-gita: sa mahatma su-durlabhah. Actually we have to associate with such mahatma who is su-durlabhah, not very easily obtainable. And who is that su-durlabhah mahatma? That is also described.

So... And this line of devotional service is seva, service. Ultimately we are all servants, but in the absence of being mahatma, we are serving maya. Service is there. We cannot become master. That is not possible. Jivera svarupa haya nitya krsna dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. So there are two things: Krsna and maya, light and shadow. If you don't serve Krsna, then you have to serve maya. And those who are serving maya in the name of Krsna, they are called Mayavadi. Actually, they are serving maya, but they say that they have become liberated. Vimukta-maninah. They are described as vimukta-maninah. Maninah means one who is not actually the thing, but falsely one is thinking that "I am liberated. I have become equal with Narayana." They are called vimukta-maninah. Actually that is not the fact. So we shall be very careful to avoid this kind of mahatmas who are thinking themselves as Narayana, equal to Narayana, or sometimes they claim greater than Narayana. So we shall be very careful. This Mela, there are so many so-called mahatmas. But the symptom of mahatma is described in the Bhagavad-gita: bhajanty ananya-manaso. That is the qualification. And to become devotee of Krsna, it is not at all difficulty. There is no difficulty. Anyone can become. Mam hi partha vyapasritya ye 'pi syuh papa-yonayah [Bg. 9.32]. Even lowborn, they can also take shelter of Krsna, and what to speak of... Kim punar brahmanah punya bhakta rajarsayas tatha [Bg. 9.33]. If actually qualified brahmanas, they take shelter, what to speak of... Their progress is very quick. Punya. Without punya background, sukrti, nobody can take birth in the family or society of brahmanas.

So brahmana... First of all, we have to become pure brahmana.

There are many forms of Visnu-tattva. Ramadi-murtisu kala-niyamena tisthan [Bs. 5.39]. He's expanded in many forms: Rama, Nrsimha, Varaha... There are so many incarnation of Visnu-tattva. They're all one. Advaitam acyutam anadi ananta-rupam. So Visnu-tattva, worshipable, or Krsna-tattva, worshipable. And to pin our staunch faith in Visnu, we should discuss about Visnu-tattva and not Visnu-tattva (?). That is called siddhanta. Siddhanta boliya citte na kara alasa: "Don't be lazy to discuss about siddhanta." Iha haite krsne lage sudrdha manasa: "The more you discuss the thesisnot thesis; the factual presentation of Visnu-tattva, maya, and jiva-tattva, sakti-tattvathen it will be clear what is Krsna." Krsna is the origin of everything. Aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate [Bg. 10.8]. We should try to understand this fact, that Krsna is the origin of everything, and if we take to Krsna consciousness... Krsne bhakti kaile sarva-karma krta haya. If you become Krsna conscious, then your all other duties automatically... The same example, as we have given: If you pour water on the root of the tree, then all other duties are automatically done. There is no question of separate attempt-philanthropy, philosophy and nationalism, this "ism," that "ism." We have discovered so many things and diversion of the real duty. That we shall have to concentrate. That is siddhanta.

So mayavadi-bhasya sunile haya sarva... [Cc. Madhya 6.169]. For kanistha-adhikari, to avoid this Mayavadi philosophy that "Everyone is God. I am God. You are God..." This is atheism. It is cheating atheism. One class of atheism is Sunyavadi: "There is no God." That we can understand, that he is atheist. "There is no God." He publicly declares, "We don't believe in God." But the Mayavadis are dangerous because they say that there is God, but without any formno head, no leg. If you make "no, no, no," then where is...? It becomes zero ultimately. Go on making "no, no""No head, no tail, no hand, no..." So what remains? So this is another trick for saying there is no God. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said that this class, who gives the negative definition of God"Not this, not this, not this, not this"the Mayavadi, Maya... They say, "Not this. This is maya." So this Mayavadi, they are greater atheist.