Spiritual Seekers Unite tinywow_Srimad Bhagavatam Text - 2.9.39 - Speaker - HG Brhat Mrdanga Das

Understanding the Illusion of Material Energy and the Process of God-consciousness

• The Supreme Personality of God, Hari, is the object for fulfilling the senses of all living entities.
• The living entities, illusioned by the material energy, worship their senses instead of engaging them in the service of the Lord.
• The purpose of the senses is to engage them in the transcendental loving service of the Lord or his devotees.
• The conditioned souls became captivated by sense enjoyment, deviating from their original purpose.
• God-consciousness aims to rectify the conditioned activities of the senses and re-engage them in the direct service of the Lord.
• The material universe is created and annihilated by the will of the Lord to give the conditioned souls a chance to return home to God.
• Devotees like Premahji, Naradaji, and Vyasaji work to reclaim the conditioned souls from sense gratification and engage their senses in the service of the Lord.
• Impersonalists make the conditioned souls and the Lord senseless, which is an improper treatment.
• The material disease is based on the process of sense gratification, and liberation involves re-engaging the senses in service to the Lord.
• The material energy, known as Maya, traps the living entities who try to lord over it but are actually under its control.
• Maya makes the living entities falsely think they are powerful and in control, while they are actually suffering and struggling.
• People seek relief from suffering through low-level activities like intoxication, illicit sex, gambling, and meat-eating, or through higher-level pious activities and pursuit of heavenly planets.

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