64 Sri Isopanigad

the demigods under different circumstances, but at the same
time it is said that there is no real need for this. In the Bhagavad-
gita it is clearly stated that the results of worshiping the demigods
are not permanent. The whole material world is not permanent,
and therefore anything achieved here within the darkness of
material existence is also impermanent. The problem, then, is
how to obtain real and permanent life.

The Lord states that as soon as one reaches Him by devo-
tional service—which is the one and only way to approach the
Personality of Godhead—there is complete freedom from the
bondage of birth and death. In other words, the path of salvation,
or getting out of the material clutches, fully depends on the
principles of knowledge and detachment. And the pseudo-
religionists have neither knowledge nor detachment from material
affairs. Most of them want to continue in the golden shackles of
material bondage, under the shadow ot altruistic and philan-
thropic activities, and in the name of religious principles. By
false religious sentiments they present a makc-show of devotional
service, indulging in all sorts of immoral principles, and still
pass as spiritual masters and devotees of God. Such violators of
religious principles have no respect for the authoritative dcaryas,
the holy teachers in the strict disciplic succession; and to mislead
the people in general they themselves become so-called dcaryas,
without even following the principles of the dcaryas.

These rogues in human socicty are the most dangerous
elements and, for want of religious government, they pass on
without being punished by the law of the state. They cannot,
however, avoid the law of the Supreme, Who has clearly declared
in the Bhagavad-gita that these envious demons, in the garb of
religious propagandists, shall be thrown down into the darkest
region of hell. It is confirmed in Sri [sopanisad that the pseudo-
religionists are heading toward the most obnoxious place in the
universe after finishing with the spiritual mastership business,
which is simply for the matter of sense gratification.

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