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Lord Brahma's majestic position as creator of the vast cosmic manifestation certainly must be respected by every single entity. Siva's potency is so intense that simply by his dancing the entire universe is devastated. The king of the demigods Indradeva rides his celestial elephant-carrier Airavata. Armed with his powerful thunderbolts he can easily knock off the peaks of the greatest mountains. Vivasvan the sun-god lights and heats the extensive expansions of space as he smoothly makes his route in his effulgent chariot. The goddess of fortune Laksmi-devi is so enticing that just to have her association even the most reputed gentleman will engage in the most abominable activities. See him madly struggling to have her under his control, although he's actually under hers.
There are thirty-three million demigods and they are deputed by KRSNA to see that the universe is properly facilitated. Their positions of control are far superior to the other innumerable conditioned souls. Yet all of them are trapped in temporary bodies stuck within the thick coverings of the universe.
Most beloved Srila Prabhupada, you have told us the secrets of time and space. Everyone is puzzled at the idea of life beyond, but you are showing us everything, taking us everywhere. The universal activities are so amazing and wonderful that simply by investigating these cosmic affairs one becomes aghast. But actually it's all a dream... a colossal phantasmagoria, bhutva bhutva praliyate [Bg 8.19].
"From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place, but one who attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again.
Jayate jagad-guru! Your glories are sung throughout the three worlds. You have saved us from this painful Ferris wheel-like transmigration of one body to the next, one planet to the next. Whether we are high or low, happy or distressed, in this body or that, it doesn't matter because it's all hellish. Our position now is that we are most thankful and forever indebted to you for taking us off this universal merry-go-round.
"The spiritual master is receiving benediction from the ocean of mercy. Just as a raincloud pours water on a forest fire to extinguish it, so the spiritual master delivers the materially afflicted world by extinguishing the blazing fire of material existence. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master who is an ocean of auspicious qualities."
O master, we've tried and tried and tried like imbeciles to enjoy the miragelike variegatedness of this great manifestation. We've been through it all in this lifetime and in so many millions of lifetimes before. Now finally disgusted and exhausted we are through trying. You are so munificent that you were right there just when we needed you, just when we wanted you. By your causeless mercy our cosmic dream is over. You have awakened us to the reality of KRSNA. Vasudevah sarvam iti [Bg 7.19]. There is nothing else.
Ananda dasa brahmacari / Vamsimohana dasa brahmacari / Bhakta Rick / Gunavasa dasa brahmacari / Vedanta-krt dasa brahmacari / Bhakta Rick / Jnananatha dasa brahmacari / Raṅganatha dasa brahmacari / Bhakta Ed / Carupa dasa brahmacari / Vrkodara dasa adhikari / Bhakta Tim Jvarajit dasa brahmacari / Muralimanohara dasa / Mr. Jack Prabhu Kalaksara dasa brahmacari / Bhakta Jim / Santi-devi dasi Paramatma dasa brahmacari / Bhakta David / Premamayi-devi dasi Rasavilasa dasa brahmacari / Bhakta Don / Kanya Kumari-devi dasi
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