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In Satyaloka the inhabitants are fully cognizant of Vedic wisdom, and thus

the mystic cloud of material energy is cleared. Therefore they are known as

the Vedas personified. Such persons, being fully aware of knowledge both

mundane and transcendental, have no interest in either the mundane or

transcendental worlds. They are practically desireless devotees. In the

mundane world they have nothing to achieve, and in the transcendental world

they are full in themselves. Then why do they come to the mundane world?

They descend on different planets as messiahs by the order of the Lord to

deliver the fallen souls. On the earth they come down and do good to the

people of the world in different circumstances under different climatic

influences. They have nothing to do in this world save and except reclaim

the fallen souls rotting in material existence, deluded by material energy.

 

============ REF. SB 1.19.23

 

Sometimes the Personality of Godhead descends Himself; otherwise, He

deputes His confidential servants to do this act of kindness. All the

messiahs-saints who have come before or who will come in the future to

preach the transcendental message of the kingdom of Godhead-are to be

understood as the most confidential servants of the Personality of Godhead.

Lord Jesus Christ appeared as the son of Godhead, Muhammad introduced

himself as the servant of Godhead, and Lord Caitanya presented Himself as

the devotee of Godhead. But whatever may be their identity, all such

messiahs were of the same opinion about one thing. They preached unanimously

that there is no peace and prosperity in this mortal world. All of them

agreed that we have to go to a separate world, where peace and prosperity

have their real being. We have to search out our eternal peace and

prosperity in the kingdom of God, which is a place other than this mortal

world. Even such messiahs and reformers as Lord Buddha

 

============ REF. MoG 1: Transcendental Knowledge

 

 

 

 

 

Prabhupada: Yes. Because from God's side there is always an attempt to make

the people right. As soon as they're wrongly directed, some messenger comes

like Jesus Christ or Buddha or, before Him, Lord Krsna. So what we are

preaching that is not new. It is God consciousness. And all the great

messiahs they came. But the thing is that people are changing in their

different education mentalities. So we have to present things in such a way

that intelligent person can accept the old teachings in the western

countries. Like Lord Jesus Christ... Either they're not being followed or

they're not properly understood because in London I saw hundreds of churches

are vacant.

 

============ REF. Interview -- July 20, 1972, Paris

 

 

 

 

 

Pusta Krsna: This is off the record, but one may ask if someone like Christ

or Moses was not mentioned amongst the mahajanas, present some sort of

religion...

Prabhupada: No, mahajana there is in Christian messiahs. There is mahajana.

And later on, after Christ, there was so many other. Saint Matthew, Saint

Thomas, like that. Mahajana is mentioned there. How can you say there is no

mahajana? Mahajana means who is strictly following the original religion.

That is called mahajana. Or who know the things as they are. They are called

mahajana. And that means parampara system. Just like Arjuna. Arjuna is

learning Bhagavad-gita directly from Krsna. He's mahajana. So you learn from

Arjuna. And after hearing Bhagavad-gita, as Arjuna acted, as Arjuna

understood Krsna, you follow that. Then mahajano yena gatah sa panthah. Then

you are following the mahajana. You are on the real path. Just like we are.

Here it is said, mahajana, Svayambhu. Svayambhu means Brahma, Lord Brahma.

So our, this sampradaya, Gaudiya sampradaya, is Brahma-sampradaya. And

Svayambhu, Narada. Narada is also in the brahma-sampradaya. And Sambhu, Lord

Siva, he is also mahajana. He has got his sampradaya, Rudra-sampradaya. And

similarly, Sri-sampradaya. So all these sampradaya we must follow.

Sampradaya vihina ye mantras te nisphala matah. If you do not belong to

sampradaya, mahajana, then you are useless. You cannot concoct any religious

system. So either you be Christian or Hindu it doesn't matter. You have to

follow the mahajana. If a Christian says, "I don't believe in St. Thomas,"

what kind of Christian he is? Similarly, it doesn't matter who is a maha...

But real mahajana is he who is strictly following the principle as

enunciated by God. That is religious system. Otherwise there is no religion.

There is no question of religion. It is simply concoction. Mano-dharmi,

mental speculator. Mental speculation is not religion. Religion is the order

of Krsna and one who follows that order, he is religious. That's all.

 

 

============ REF. Answers to a Questionnaire from Bhavan's Journal -- June

28, 1976, Vrndavana