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Bhaktivedanta Leadership Newsletter

 

Responsible

 

The created beings are of many varieties, such as the demigods, human beings

and lower animals, and all of them are subject to the reactions of their

past good or bad activities. The Lord only gives them the proper facilities

for such activities and the regulations of the modes of nature, but He is

never responsible for their past and present activities. In the

Vedanta-sutra (2.1.34) it is confirmed, vaisamya-nairghrnye na sapeksatvat:

the Lord is never partial to any living entity. The living entity is

responsible for his own acts.

Bg 4.14 Purport

 

Editor's Note

 

Srila Prabhupada writes that by taking advantage of the guidance of

Superself in the form of intelligence, we can either continue to study and

to put into practice our conclusion that "I am not this body," or we can

choose to remain in the false material identification, fancying ourselves to

be the possessors and doers. Our freedom consists in orienting our desire

either toward the ignorant, material misconception or the true, spiritual

conception. We can easily attain to the true, spiritual conception by

recognizing the Superself (Paramatma) to be our friend and guide and by

dovetailing our intelligence with the superior intelligence of Paramatma.