Chapter 9 Text 23-25

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Chapter 9Text 23-25

• Worship of other demigods and worship of Krsna.

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Text 23

• ye 'py anya-devatä-bhaktä
• yajante çraddhayänvitäù
• te 'pi mäm eva kaunteya
• yajanty avidhi-pürvakam
• Those who are devotees of other gods and who
  worship them with faith actually worship only Me,
  O son of Kunté, but they do so in a wrong way.

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Wrong way of worshiping Supreme

• Pouring water on leaves and branches.
• Serving different parts of body by serving
  stomach.Yatha mula taror.
• Bribe to officers in organization/ government and
  following the government rules.

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Text 24

• ahaà hi sarva-yajïänäà
• bhoktä ca prabhur eva ca
• na tu mäm abhijänanti
• tattvenätaç cyavanti te
• I am the only enjoyer and master of all
  sacrifices. Therefore, those who do not recognize
  My true transcendental nature fall down.

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Falling down due to ignorance

• Here it is clearly stated that there are many
  types of yajïa performances recommended in the
  Vedic literatures, but actually all of them are
  meant for satisfying the Supreme Lord.
• Less intelligent persons, however, without
  knowing this fact, worship demigods for temporary
  benefit.
• Therefore they fall down to material existence
  and do not achieve the desired goal of life.
• Akama sarva kamo va

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Text 25

• yänti deva-vratä devän
• pitèn yänti pitå-vratäù
• bhütäni yänti bhütejyä
• yänti mad-yäjino 'pi mäm
• Those who worship the demigods will take birth
  among the demigods those who worship the
  ancestors go to the ancestors those who worship
  ghosts and spirits will take birth among such
  beings and those who worship Me will live with
  Me.

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Ignorance cause of fall down

• In previous verse Krsna said, one falls down not
  knowing Krsna as the master and enjoyer of all
  the sacrifices.
• Here in this verse there is hint or information
  about spiritual planets or Krsna Loka and Srila
  Prabhupada says,Unfortunately many people have
  no information of these sublime planets where
  Kåñëa and Viñëu live, and because they do not
  know of them they fall down. Even the
  impersonalists fall down from the brahmajyoti.

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• The Kåñëa consciousness movement is therefore
  distributing sublime information to the entire
  human society to the effect that by simply
  chanting the Hare Kåñëa mantra one can become
  perfect in this life and go back home, back to
  Godhead.