Guest guest Posted March 4, 1998 Report Share Posted March 4, 1998 > Dear Sri Visnupada, > > Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. > > Please excuse me being stubborn about this matter of maya, but I > need more enlightenment on the point: > > How can a house created and built by a materialist be maya, if > "Nothing can manifest itself in the material world which is not in > Krsna" (Bg 10.5. purport)? Isn't the materialist's house just > "differently situated"(Bg 10.5. purport) compared to e.g. a Hare > Krishna center built by a devotee of Krishna - both flowing > ultimately from Krishna? > Uh, I think I answered this before. Everything is resting in Krsna as pearls are strung on a thread. But some things rest in His internal potency, like His temples, and some things rest in His external potency, such as a materialist's house. Everything comes from Krsna, but it falls within one of the three categories of His energy, internal, external and marginal. > If not so, does maya then equal to ignorance as things and creations > in maya are made by ignorant people? > Maya is ignorance of Krsna. This is one of her features. > Your servant, > Mamata devi dasi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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