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Instructions by Mahārāja Pṛthu
843
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu very clearly enunciated that the followers of Lord Buddha's philosophy are  nāstikas  or atheists because of their denial of the authority of the  Vedas , He considered the Śaṅkarites, who wanted to establish Vedic authority by trickery and who actually followed the Māyāvāda philosophy of Buddha's school, to be more dangerous than the Buddhists themselves. The Śaṅkarite philosophers' theory that we have to imagine a shape of God is more dangerous than denial of the existence of God. Notwithstanding all the philosophical theorizing by atheists or Māyāvādīs, the followers of Kṛṣṇa consciousness rigidly live according to the injunctions given in  Bhagavad-gītā , which is accepted as the essence of all Vedic scripture. In  Bhagavad-gītā  it is said:
yataḥ pravṛttir bhūtānām yena sarvam idam tatam sva-karmaṇā tam abhyarcya siddhim vindati mānavaḥ.  (Bg. 18.46)
This means that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original source of everything, as described in the  Vedānta-sūtra  ( janmādy asya yataḥ ). The Lord Himself also confirms in  Bhagavad-gītā ,  aham sarvasya prabhavo : "I am the origin of everything." The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original source of all emanations, and at the same time, as Paramātmā, He is spread all over existence. The Absolute Truth is therefore the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and every living being is meant to satisfy the Supreme Godhead by performing his respective duty ( sva-karmaṇā tam abhyarcya ). Mahārāja Pṛthu wanted to introduce this formula amongst his citizens.
The most important point in human civilization is that while one engages in different occupational duties, he must try to satisfy the Supreme Lord by the execution of such duties. That is the highest perfection of life.  Svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya samsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam : by discharging one's prescribed duty, one can become very successful in life if he simply satisfies the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The vivid example is Arjuna. He was a  kṣatriya , his duty was to fight, and by executing his prescribed duty he satisfied the Supreme Lord and therefore became perfect. Everyone should follow this principle. The atheists who do not are condemned in  Bhagavad-gītā , in the Sixteenth Chapter, by the following statement:  tān aham dviṣataḥ krūrān samsāreṣu narādhamān  (Bg. 16.19). In this verse it is clearly said that persons who are envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are the lowest of mankind and are very mischievous. Under the regulative principles of the Supreme, such mischievous persons are thrown into the darkest region of material existence and are born of  asuras  or atheists. Birth after