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[[Category:Forgetfulness]]
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[[Category:Relationship with God]]
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[[Category:Maya the Illusory Energy]]
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[[Category:Three Modes of Material Nature]]
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<h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3>
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Forgetfulness of that eternal relation is called maya or illusion. This illusory energy of Godhead is conducted under three modes of nature under the name of mundane goodness, passion and ignorance. The whole material world is the creation of the external illusory energy of Godhead and the living entities who forget the eternal relation with Godhead are so to say entrapped by Maya to undergo a conditional life under the modes of Nature.
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[[Vanisource:510622 - Letter to R. Prakash written from Allahabad|510622 - Letter to R. Prakash written from Allahabad]]
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With reference to my personal interview with your honor, I beg to introduce myself as an humble disciple of His Divine Grace Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj of Sreedham Mayapore at Nadia the holy birth place of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu the divine inaugurator of Sankirtan movement.

In the spiritual line of disciplic succession from Sree Brahmaji who was first transcendental student of the Vedas down to my spiritual master as above mentioned, the Vedic culture is aimed at reestablishing the eternal relation of living entity with the Absolute Truth of Whom the living entities are but parts &amp; parcels.

Forgetfulness of that eternal relation is called maya or illusion. This illusory energy of Godhead is conducted under three modes of nature under the name of mundane goodness, passion and ignorance. The whole material world is the creation of the external illusory energy of Godhead and the living entities who forget the eternal relation with Godhead are so to say entrapped by Maya to undergo a conditional life under the modes of Nature.

Out of eighty four lakhs of varieties or species of life there are only four lakhs varieties of human being. Out of these varieties of human being those who can acquire the [Text Missing] qualities of goodness out of the three modes of nature, can also realize the proper self which is not the product of material world.

The Vedic culture determines the standard of social upliftment in terms of the degree of [Text Missing] self-realization and as such the social division was estimated accordingly in terms of goodness (intelligence and higher learning), passion (martial spirit to lord it over the world), passion-cum-ignorance (the spirit of productivity) and ignorance (the spirit of passive acceptance of being controlled by the laws of material nature).

According to Vedic scriptures the present age is called Kali-yuga and almost all human beings are now degraded to the standard of the mode of ignorance and therefore the greater number of population are subjected to the pangs of the threefold miseries of material existence in the most horrible manner.
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