Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 7.29-30
Misconceptions Can Obstruct Kṛṣṇa Consciousness
“The impersonalists, fruitive workers, false logicians, blasphemers, nondevotees and lowest among the student community are very expert in avoiding the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, and therefore the inundation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot touch them.”
What the purport teaches
- Those described in the translation expertly avoid the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. By avoiding it, they remain untouched by its inundation.
- Impersonalists consider the material world false and cannot understand how it can be used in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They mistake spiritual variety for material variety.
- Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is spiritual and beyond material illusion. Yet Māyāvādī philosophers regard Him as an ordinary human being when He appears personally or as a devotee.
Try this today
Write down this teaching and read it slowly: “Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is spiritual and beyond material illusion.”
Ask yourself
What assumptions might keep me from understanding Kṛṣṇa as spiritual and beyond material illusion?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.