7 types of people who besides Mahatmas also approach the Lord

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The Lord tells Arjuna that those who are purely in Krsna consciousness and

do not know anything other than Krsna are called mahatma; yet there are

other persons who are not exactly in the position of mahatma but who worship

Krsna also, in different ways. Some of them have already been described as

the distressed, the financially destitute, the inquisitive, and those who

are engaged in the cultivation of knowledge. But there are others who are

still lower, and these are divided into three: (1) he who worships himself

as one with the Supreme Lord, (2) he who concocts some form of the Supreme

Lord and worships that, and (3) he who accepts the universal form, the

visvarupa of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and worships that. Out of

the above three, the lowest, those who worship themselves as the Supreme

Lord, thinking themselves to be monists, are most predominant. Such people

think themselves to be the Supreme Lord, and in this mentality they worship

themselves. This is also a type of God worship, for they can understand that

they are not the material body but are actually spiritual soul; at least,

such a sense is prominent. Generally the impersonalists worship the Supreme

Lord in this way. The second class includes the worshipers of the demigods,

those who by imagination consider any form to be the form of the Supreme

Lord. And the third class includes those who cannot conceive of anything

beyond the manifestation of this material universe. They consider the

universe to be the supreme organism or entity and worship that. The universe

is also a form of the Lord.

 

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