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This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is specially meant for removing this misconception of understanding God and the jīvas. So our first principle is that we have to disregard the persons who are very much anxious to establish that īśvara and Parameśvara, or the living entity and the Supreme Person, they are equal.
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So ''īśvara ''means controller, one who controls; but Parameśvara means the controller of the controller. That is explained in the ''Brahma-saṁhitā, īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ'' (BS 5.1). ''Īśvara'' . . . All of us may be ''īśvara''. I am ''īśvara'' amongst my disciples. You may be ''īśvara'' amongst your family members. But none of us is Parameśvara.

So this mistaken knowledge is very much spread at the present moment. So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is specially meant for removing this misconception of understanding God and the ''jīvas''. So our first principle is that we have to discard or disregard the persons who are very much anxious to establish that ''īśvara'' and Parameśvara, or the living entity and the Supreme Person, they are equal. We do not support this theory. It is said in the ''śāstra, yas tu nārāyaṇaṁ devaṁ'' . . .

:''yas tu nārāyaṇaṁ devaṁ''
:''brahma-rudrādi''
:''samatvenaiva vīkṣeta''
:''sa pāṣaṇḍī bhaved dhruvam''
:([[vanisource:CC Madhya 18.116|CC Madhya 18.116]])

Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, ''nārāyaṇaṁ devam'', if we equalize Him even with such demigods, such big personalities like Brahmā and Śiva, then we become a ''pāṣaṇḍī''.

:''yas tu nārāyaṇaṁ devaṁ''
:''brahma-rudrādi-daivataiḥ''
:''samatvenaiva vīkṣeta''
:''sa pāṣaṇḍī bhaved dhruvam''

Anyone, what to speak of with ordinary person, even personalities, big, big personalities like Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, if one equalize Nārāyaṇa, then he is called a ''pāṣaṇḍī''. Unfortunately, at the present moment a poor man has been equalized with Nārāyaṇa as ''daridra-nārāyaṇa''. So why one should say ''daridra-nārāyaṇa''? What is the reason? Nārāyaṇa is Lakṣmī-pati, the husband of the goddess of fortune. How He can become ''daridra-nārāyaṇa''? And where is this word in the ''śāstra'', "''daridra-nārāyaṇa''"? So in this way, people are being misled.
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