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To think, “I am American,” “I am Russian,” etc. is our disease, and is due to forgetfulness of our eternal nature as spirit soul. Unfortunately, under the spell of illusion, every embodied creature is satisfied with his present material body. Even the worm in the stool is thinking, “I am all right.” Despite so many disadvantages and miseries, all living entities are engaged in satisfying their senses and are thinking it is all right. Therefore when the bona fide  guru  comes with the transcendental message, calling the souls back to home, back to Godhead, they do not want to come out of material encagement. Often, people prefer to be encouraged in illusion and therefore pay fees to learn that they are God or equal to God in all respects and thus “free” to go on “enjoying” material life of sense gratification. So we see  yoga  and meditation teachers advertising that they will improve one’s material facilities. They overlook the fact that elimination of sense gratification is the first step in the standard  yoga  or transcendental system. His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda does not encourage unrestricted sense gratification, or the belief that one is God, or that God is impersonal or void. He is passing on, as  it is , the information from Vedic literature, that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a Person and that devotional service unto Him is the perfection of all purificatory processes. Lord Kṛṣṇa in  Bhagavad-gītā  is recognized as the Supreme Lord, and Śrī  Īśopaniṣad  confirms the Personality of Godhead as the anti-material Supreme Controller and the only Enjoyer. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī Prabhupāda is teaching surrender to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Lord.
Śrīla Prabhupāda is the living example of the saintly person pointed to in all Vedic literature who is personally free from all material contamination and active in spiritual understanding. He is the Kṛṣṇa conscious personality who is so dear to Kṛṣṇa, who understands that the highest welfare is not to pose oneself as the friend of humanity, but to teach that God or Kṛṣṇa is the dear-most Friend Who alone is capable of alleviating the misery of each and every living entity. His Divine Grace is teaching what