You may think that you have become liberated, you have got the position of Narayana... That is all false thinking, avisuddha-buddhayah

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"You may think that you have become liberated, you have got the position of Nārāyaṇa . . . that is all false thinking, aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

So we should not think like that. You may think that you have become liberated, you have got the position of Nārāyaṇa . . . that is all false thinking, aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ. They have been addressed as aviśuddha, nonpurified, buddhayaḥ, intelligent. Not intelligent.

741117 - Lecture SB 03.25.17 - Bombay

yas tu nārāyaṇaṁ devaṁ

brahma-rudrādi-daivataiḥ

samatvenaiva vīkṣeta

sa pāṣaṇḍī bhaved dhruvam

(CC Madhya 18.116)

If anyone thinks that Nārāyaṇa is . . . or other demigods are equal to Nārāyaṇa, sa pāṣaṇḍī. He is pāṣaṇḍī, atheist.

So we should not think like that. You may think that you have become liberated, you have got the position of Nārāyaṇa . . . that is all false thinking, aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ. They have been addressed as aviśuddha, nonpurified, buddhayaḥ, intelligent. Not intelligent. Ye 'nye 'ravindākṣa vimukta-māninas tvayy asta-bhāvāt (SB 10.2.32). This is . . . why these things happen, one compares Nārāyaṇa with ordinary demigod or ordinary man? Because aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ, their intelligence is not purified. So āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ (SB 10.2.32). Such person, by severe austerities and penances, may elevate oneself to the position of Brahman. Still, āruhya kṛcchreṇa param . . . paraṁ padam means brahma-pada. Āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ patanty adhaḥ. Again he falls down. Why? Anādṛta-yuṣmad-aṅghrayaḥ: "Because they neglected to worship Your lotus feet."

So unless one becomes devotee, there is no secure position in the spiritual world. One may . . . just like a very crude example: you may have very powerful sputnik. Just like these people are trying to go the moon with powerful . . . what is called, the machine?