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also by Krsna Himself, who says, aham sarvasya prabhavah: “‘] am the
source of everything.” Devotees have no problem understanding the
ultimate cause of everything, but nondevotees must face many opposing
elements because everyone who wants to be a prominent philosopher in-
vents his own way. In India there are many parties of philosophers, such
as the dvaita-vadis, advaita-vadis, vaisesikas, mimarhsakas, Mayavadis
and svabhdava-vddis, and each of them opposes the others. Similarly, in
the Western countries there are also many philosophers with different
views of creation, life, maintenance and annihilation. Thus it is un-
doubtedly a fact that there are countless philosophers throughout the
world, each of them contradicting the others.

Now, one might ask why there are so many philosophers if the ulti-
mate goal of philosophy is one. Undoubtedly the ultimate cause is one—
the Supreme Brahman. As Arjuna told Krsna in Bhagavad-gita (10.12):

param brahma param dhama
pavitram paramam bhavan
purusam Sasvatam divyam
adi-devam ajam vibhum
“You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and
purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the
primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-
pervading beauty.”’ Nondevotee speculators, however, do not accept an
ultimate cause (sarva-kdrana-kdranam). Because they are ignorant and
bewildered concerning the soul and its activities, even though some of
them have a vague idea of the soul, many controversies arise, and the
philosophical speculators can never reach a conclusion. All of these
speculators are envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and as
Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (16.19-20):
tan aham dvisatah kriiran
samsaresu naraddhaman
ksipamy ajasram asubhan
asurisv eva yonisu
