Fwd: The Cause of Delusion

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Hare Krsna

 

 

Delusion arises from the

duality of attraction and aversion, Arjuna;

every creature is deluded

by these from birth.

But those who have freed themselves from all

wrongdoing are firmly

established in worship of me. Their actions are

pure, and they are

free from the delusion caused by the pairs of

opposites.

GITA 7:27/28

 

The real constitutional position of the living entity is

that of subordination to the Supreme Lord, who is pure knowledge. When

one is deluded into separation from this pure knowledge, he becomes

controlled by illusory energy and cannot understand the Supreme

Personality of Godhead. The illusory energy is manifested in the

duality of desire and hate. Due to desire and hate, the ignorant person

wants to become one with the Supreme Lord and envies Krsna as the

Supreme Personality of Godhead. Pure devotees, who are not so deluded

or contaminated by desire and hate, can understand that Lord Sri Krsna

appears by His internal potencies, but those who are deluded by duality

and nescience think that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is created

by material energies. This is their misfortune. Such deluded persons,

symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and

happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc.,

thinking, "This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this

house; I am the husband of this wife." These are the dualities of

delusion. Those who are so deluded by dualities are completely foolish

and therefore cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

 

Those eligible for elevation to the transcendental

position are mentioned in this verse. For those who are sinful,

atheistic, foolish and deceitful, it is very difficult to transcend the

duality of desire and hate. Only those who have passed their lives in

practicing the regulative principles of religion, who have acted

piously and who have conquered sinful reactions can accept devotional

service and gradually rise to the pure knowledge of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead. Then, gradually, they can meditate in trance on

the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the process of being

situated on the spiritual platform. This elevation is possible in Krsna

consciousness in the association of pure devotees who can deliver one

from delusion.

It is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam

that if one actually wants to be liberated he must render service to

the devotees; but one who associates with materialistic people is on

the path leading to the darkest region of existence. All the devotees

of the Lord traverse this earth just to recover the conditioned souls

from their delusion. The impersonalists do not know that forgetting

their constitutional position as subordinate to the Supreme Lord is the

greatest violation of God's law. Unless one is reinstated in his own

constitutional position, it is not possible to understand the Supreme

Personality or to be fully engaged in His transcendental loving service

with determination.