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mistake is to believe they have achieved the highest
pinnacle of God realization. Whereas the truth is they
only experience an aspect of God’s existence which
they mistakenly believe is devoid of any relationship
to the Personality of Godhead.

To clarify this misconception of the Mayavadi
philosophers and yogis , Lord Brahma explains in the
Srimad Bhagavatam, “(Someone may say that aside
from devotees, who always seek the shelter at the
Lord’s lotus feet there are those who are not devotees
but who have accepted the different processes
for attaining salvation. What happens to them? In
answer to this question, Lord Brahma and the other
demigods said:) “O lotus eyed Lord, although non
devotees who accept severe austerities and penances
to achieve the highest position (according to their
imagination and speculation) may think themselves
liberated, their intelligence is impure. They fall down
from their position of imagined superiority because
they have no regard for Your lotus feet.” (SB 10.2.32)
Without a personal relationship with Lord Krishna,
one cannot sustain themselves eternally in the
eternal Brahman effulgence.

The Mayavadis claim that everything in the material
world is false including Krishna’s incarnation, His

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