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them are truth, satya; there is no validity to the expression brahma
satyam jagan mithyd. The world is not false.

Jfidnis reject this world, and foolish persons accept this world as
reality, and in this way they are both misguided. Although the body is
not as important as the soul, we cannot say that it is false. Yet the body is
temporary, and only foolish, materialistic persons, who do not have full
knowledge of the soul, regard the temporary body as reality and engage
in decorating this body. Both of these pitfalls—rejection of the body as
false and acceptance of the body as all in all—can be avoided when one is
fully situated in Krsna consciousness. If we regard this world as false, we
fall into the category of asuras, who say that this world is unreal, with no
foundation and no God in control (asatyam apratistham te jagad Ghur
anisvaram). As described in the Sixteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita,
this is the conclusion of demons.

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tvatto ’sya janma-sthiti-sarnyaman vibho
vadanty anihad agundd avikriyat
tvayisvare brahmani no virudhyate
tvad-dsrayatvdd upacaryate gunaih

tvattah—are from Your Lordship; asya—of the entire cosmic
manifestation; janma—the creation; sthiti—maintenance; sarhyaman—
and annihilation; vibho—O my Lord; vadanti—the learned Vedic schol-
ars conclude; anihdt—who are free from endeavor; agundt—who are
unaffected by the modes of material nature; avikriyat—who are
unchanging in Your spiritual situation; tvayi—in You; iSvare—the
Supreme Personality of Godhead; brahmani—who are Parabrahman,
the Supreme Brahman; no—not; virudhyate—there is a contradiction;
tvat-dsrayatvat—because of being controlled by You; upacaryate—
