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function of destroying all obstacles on the path of progress in the three worlds.”
(Bs. 5.50)
yac caksur esa savita sakala-grahanam
raja samasta-sura-murtir aSesa-tejah
yasyajhaya bhramati sambhrta-kala-cakro
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
“The sun, full of infinite effulgence, who is the king of all the planets and the image
of the good soul, is like the eye of this world. | adore the primeval Lord Govinda,
in pursuance of whose order the sun performs his journey, mounting the wheel of
time.” (Bs. 5.52)

All the demigods are servants of Krsna; they are not equal with Krsna. Therefore
even if one goes to a temple of the paficopasanda, as mentioned above, one should
not accept the deities as they are accepted by the impersonalists. All of them are to
be accepted as personal demigods, but they all serve the order of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Sankaracarya, for example, is understood to be an incarna-
tion of Lord Siva, as described in the Padma Purana. He propagated the Mayavada
philosophy under the order of the Supreme Lord. We have already discussed this
point in text 114 of this chapter:

tanra dosa nahi, tenho ajnakari dasa

ara yei Sune tara haya sarva-nasa
“Sankaracarya is not at fault, for he has thus covered the real purpose of the Vedas
under the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” Although Lord Siva, in
the form of a brahmana (Sankaracarya), preached the false philosophy of Mayavada,
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu nevertheless said that since he did it on the order of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, there was no fault on his part (tafra dosa nahi).

We must offer proper respects to all the demigods. If one can offer respects even
to an ant, why not to the demigods? One must always know, however, that no
demigod is equal to or above the Supreme Lord. Ekala isvara krsna, ara saba bhrtya.
“Only Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and all others, including the
demigods such as Lord Siva, Lord Brahma, goddess Durga and GaneSa, are His
servants.’ Everyone serves the purpose of the Supreme Godhead, and what to speak
of such small and insignificant living entities as ourselves? We are surely eternal
servants of the Lord. The Mayavada philosophy maintains that the demigods, living
entities and Supreme Personality of Godhead are all equal. It is therefore a most
foolish misrepresentation of Vedic knowledge.

TEXT 158
BA SAS AA Wa THN rce |
Btias AFH Cis SH TVHPScy ti sev
