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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 20]
Gayā, where oblations are offered at the lotus feet of Viṣṇu in a celebrated temple. Because the Lord is thus pleased with the devotional service of the descendants, by His grace he liberates the condemned souls of forefathers who do not have gross bodies, and He favors them to again receive a gross body for development of spiritual advancement.
Unfortunately, by the influence of  māyā , the conditioned soul employs the body he gets for sense gratification, forgetting that such an occupation may lead him to return again to an invisible body. The devotee of the Lord, or one who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, however, does not need to perform such ritualistic ceremonies as  śrāddha  because he is always pleasing the Supreme Lord; therefore his fathers and ancestors who might have been in difficulty are automatically relieved. The vivid example is Prahlāda Mahārāja. Prahlāda Mahārāja requested Lord Nṛsimhadeva to deliver his sinful father, who had so many times offended the lotus feet of the Lord. The Lord replied that in a family where a Vaiṣṇava like Prahlāda is born, not only his father but his father's father and their fathers—up to the fourteenth father back—are all automatically delivered. The conclusion, therefore, is that Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the sum total of all good work for the family, for society and for all living entities. In the  Caitanya-caritāmṛta  the author says that a person fully conversant with Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not perform any rituals because he knows that simply by serving Kṛṣṇa in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all rituals are automatically performed.
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सिद्धान्विद्याधरांश्चैव तिरोधानेन सोऽमृजत्। तेभ्योऽददात्तमात्मानमन्तर्धानाख्यमद्भुतम् ॥४४॥
siddhān vidyādharāmś caiva tirodhānena so 'sṛjat tebhyo 'dadāt tam ātmānam antardhānākhyam adbhutam
siddhān—the Siddhas; vidyādharān—Vidyādharas; ca eva—and also; tirah-dhānena—by the faculty of remaining hidden from vision; saḥ—Lord Brahmā; asṛjat—created; tebhyaḥ—to them; adadāt—gave; tam ātmānam—that form of his; antardhāna-ākhyam—known as the Antardhāna; adbhutam—wonderful.