Text 27] Instructions by Maharaja Prthu 843

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu very clearly enunciated that the followers of
Lord Buddha’s philosophy are nastikas or atheists because of their denial
of the authority of the Vedas, He considered the Sarikarites, who wanted
to establish Vedic authority by trickery and who actually followed the
Mayavada philosophy of Buddha’s school, to be more dangerous than the
Buddhists themselves. The Sarikarite 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
Mayavadis, the followers of Krsna consciousness rigidly live according to
the injunctions given in Bhagavad-gita, which is accepted as the essence of
all Vedic scripture. In Bhagavad-gita it is said:

yatah pravrttir bhutanam yena sarvam idam tatam
sva-karmana tam abhyarcya siddhim vindati manavah. (Bg. 18.46)

This means that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original source
of everything, as described in the Vedanta-sutra (janmddy asya yatah). The
Lord Himself also confirms in Bhagavad-gita, 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 Paramatma, 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-karmana tam
abhyarcya). Maharaja Prthu 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.
Svanusthitasya dharmasya sanisiddhir hari-tosanam: 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 ksatriya, 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-
gita, in the Sixteenth Chapter, by the following statement: tan ahami dvisatah
kriéran sanisdresu naradhaman (Bg. 16.19). In this verse it is clearly said that
persons who are envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are the low-
est 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
