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<div class="heading">Our request is that if you at all want to understand what is God, don't go to the Māyāvādī or Śūnyavādi, but try to understand about God from God Himself.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 29, 1977, (with Oriyan translator)|Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 29, 1977, (with Oriyan translator)]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
It is not so easy to understand what is Kṛṣṇa, what is Godhead. Therefore He is personally speaking about Himself. There are many persons within this world, they are trying to understand what is God. (aside:) What is . . .? (break) When you want to study me by speculation, it is not perfect. But if I speak myself about my career, my position, then you can easily very understand (sic). So the speculator, they are thinking that "God has no form. You can imagine any form of the Lord and try to worship Him." That is speculator. (break)  . . .another type of atheism. The atheists, they say, Śūnyavādī, "There is no God." But these Māyāvādī, they say, "Yes there is God, but He has no head, no leg, no mouth, nothing." Means, indirectly, they are saying there is no God.

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu has therefore clearly said that this Māyāvādī, nirākāravādī, is more dangerous than the Śūnyavādī. Śūnyavādī, they publicly declare, "There is no God," just like modern population, that "There is no need of God." Asatyam aprathiṣṭhaṁ te jagad āhur anīśvaram ([[Vanisource:BG 16.8 (1972)|BG 16.8]]). That is also described in the Bhagavad-gītā. The atheist class, they say that "This world is asatya. There is no meaning." Asatyam jagad āhur anīśvaram. "And there is no God." We can understand that they are atheist. (break)  . . .Māyāvādī philosopher, they take the shelter of Vedic literature and indirectly, directly, they try to wipe out the existence of God. (break) The Caitanya Mahāprabhu therefore has said, māyāvādī-bhāṣya śunile haya sarva-nāśa ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.169|CC Madhya 6.169]]): "If you hear from a Māyāvādī, nirākāravādī, then you are doomed. You cannot understand about God at any time." (break) So our request is that if you at all want to understand what is God, don't go to the Māyāvādī or Śūnyavādi, but try to understand about God from God Himself. Sometimes they may say that "What is the use of understanding God? What is the necessity of understanding God?" No. That is not the right conclusion. Human life is meant for understanding God. (break)  . . .God, you may say there is no God, but there is God. There is no doubt about it.</p>
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