Unalloyed Devotion 189

mithya: ‘This world is false, and Brahman [spirit] is truth.’’ We admit
this, but qualify it. As living entities, we want enjoyment. Enjoyment
means variety. It is not possible to enjoy anything without variety. Why
has God created so many colors and so many forms? In order to create
enjoyment out of variety, for variety is the mother of enjoyment.

Mayavadi philosophers, impersonalists, want to negate this variety,
but what is the result? Because they do not engage in devotional service,
they simply undertake the hard labor of austerities and penances without
achieving any permanent result. This is explained by a prayer in Srimad-
Bhagavatam (10.2.32):

ye ‘nye ‘ravindaksa vimukta-maninas
tvayy asta-bhavad avisuddha-buddhayah

aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah
patanty adho ’nadrta-yusmad-anghrayah

“O lotus-eyed Lord, those who think they are liberated in this life but do
not render devotional service to You must be of impure intelligence. Al-
though they accept severe austerities and penances and rise to the spiri-
tual position, to impersonal Brahman realization, they fall down again
because they neglect to worship Your lotus feet.”’

The human form of life is meant for reestablishing our relationship
with God and acting according to that relationship. Even in ordinary deal-
ings, one businessman who intends to do business with another must
first establish some relationship with him, and then transactions can take
place. Similarly, a husband and wife establish a relationship by marriage,
and then they live together. In a similar way, human life is meant for re-
establishing our relationship with God. The material world means forget-
fulness of this relationship. There is no Krsna consciousness in this
material world, for as soon as there is Krsna consciousness, as soon as
there is action on the basis of Krsna, it is no longer the material world but
the spiritual world.

As a woman, Kuntidevi had a relationship with two families. That was
her attachment. Therefore she prayed to Krsna to cut off these relation-
ships and free her. But after becoming free, what should she do? That is
the question. One may be employed in some business and, feeling incon-
venience, resign. That resignation may be all right, but if by resigning
one becomes unemployed and has no engagement, then what is the
value of resigning?

Those who are frustrated and confused want to negate this material
