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To think, “! am American,” “I am Russian,” ete. is our
discasc, and is due to forgetfulness of our eternal nature as
spirit soul. Unfortunately, under the spell of illusion, every
embodicd creature is satisfied with his present material body.
Even the worm in the stool is thinking, “Il am all right.”
Despite so many disadvantages and miscrics, 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 matcrial cncagement.
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” matcrial life of
sense gratification. So we sce yoga and meditation teachers
advertising that they will improve one’s material facilitics. They
overlook the fact that climination of sense gratification is the
first step in the standard yoga or transcendental system. His Di-
vine Grace Srila Prabhupada does not encourage unrestricted sense
gratification, or the belicf that one is God, or that God is
impersonal or void. He is passing on, as t ts, the information
from Vedic literature, that the Supreme Personality of Godhead
is a Person and that devotional service unto Ilim is the perfection
of all purificatory processes. Lord Krsna in Bhagavad-gita is
recognized as the Supreme Lord, and S1i[sopanigad confirms the
Personality of Godhead as the anti-material Supreme Controller
and the only Enjoyer. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaklivedanta Swami
Prabhupada is teaching surrender to Krsna, the Supreme Lord.
Srila Prabhupada is the living example of the saintly person
pointed to in all Vedic literature who ts personally free from all
material contamination and active in spiritual understanding. He
is the Krsna conscious personality who is so dear to Krsna, who
understands that the highest welfare is not to pose oneself as the
friend of humanity, but to teach that God or Krsna 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
