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The Birth of Lord Kṛṣṇa
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them are truth,  satya ; there is no validity to the expression  brahma satyam jagan mithyā . The world is not false.
Jñānīs  reject this world, and foolish persons accept this world as reality, and in this way they are both misguided. Although the body is not as important as the soul, we cannot say that it is false. Yet the body is temporary, and only foolish, materialistic persons, who do not have full knowledge of the soul, regard the temporary body as reality and engage in decorating this body. Both of these pitfalls—rejection of the body as false and acceptance of the body as all in all—can be avoided when one is fully situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If we regard this world as false, we fall into the category of  asuras , who say that this world is unreal, with no foundation and no God in control ( asatyam apratiṣṭham te jagad āhur anīśvaram ). As described in the Sixteenth Chapter of  Bhagavad-gītā , this is the conclusion of demons.
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त्वत्तोऽस्य जन्मस्थितिसंयमान् विभो
वदन्त्यनीहादगुणादविक्रियात् ।
त्वयीश्वरे ब्रह्मणि नो विरुध्यते
त्वदाश्रयत्वादुपचयते गुणैः ॥१९॥
tvatto 'sya janma-sthiti-saṁyamān vibho
vadanty anihād aguṇād avikriyāt
tvayīśvare brahmaṇi no virudhyate
tvad-āśrayatvād upacaryate guṇaiḥ
tvattaḥ —are from Your Lordship;  asya —of the entire cosmic manifestation;  janma —the creation;  sthiti —maintenance;  saṁyamān —and annihilation;  vibho —O my Lord;  vadanti —the learned Vedic scholars conclude;  anihāt —who are free from endeavor;  aguṇāt —who are unaffected by the modes of material nature;  avikriyāt —who are unchanging in Your spiritual situation;  tvayi —in You;  īśvare —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  brahmaṇi —who are Parabrahman, the Supreme Brahman;  no —not;  virudhyate —there is a contradiction;  tvat-āśrayatvāt —because of being controlled by You;  upacaryate —