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and immoral material atmosphere of the cosmic world; they are always engaged
in rejecting and accepting material enjoyment. They have falsely accepted
the nonspiritual as the spiritual. As a result of this misconception they have
forgotten the spiritual, eternal Form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
His Name, Quality and Entourage. They consider the transcendental Pastimes,
Name, Form and Quality of the Supreme as a product of material Nature, and
so the Mayavadi is eternally subjected to the material miseries because of his
acceptance or rejection of material pleasure and misery.

The actual devotees of the Lord are always different from the Mayavadi
philosophers. Impersonalism cannot be a representation of eternity, blissful-
ness, and knowledge. Being situated in imperfect knowledge of liberation,
the Mayavadi decries eternity, knowledge, and blissfulness, under a miscon-
ception of materialism. They reject devotional service. Therefore they are
less intelligent men. They are unable to understand the effect of devotional
service. Their jugglery of words for amalgamating knowledge and the know-
able and the knower into one has proved their very existence as a less intel-
ligent class of men. The doctrine of by-product is the real purport of the
beginning of Vedanta Sutra. The Lord is empowered with innumerable
unlimited energies, and as such He displays the by-products of such energies
in different ways. Everything is under His control. The Supreme Controller
is called the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and He is manifested in in-
numerable energies and expansions.
