Chapter 9 Text 16-19

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Chapter 9Text 16-19

• Krsna is everything and
• thus cause of all causes.

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Text 16

• ahaà kratur ahaà yajïaù
• svadhäham aham auñadham
• mantro 'ham aham eväjyam
• aham agnir ahaà hutam
• But it is I who am the ritual, I the sacrifice,
  the offering to the ancestors, the healing herb,
  the transcendental chant. I am the butter and the
  fire and the offering.

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3 kinds of worshipers

• Others who are still lower, 1) he who worships
  himself as one with the Supreme Lord, 2) he who
  concocts some form of the Supreme Lord and
  worships that, and 3) he who accepts the
  universal form, the viçvarüpa of the Supreme
  Personality of Godhead, and worships that.

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Three classes of worshipers

• Those who worship themselves as the Supreme Lord,
  thinking themselves to be monists, are most
  predominant.
• The second class includes the worshipers of the
  demigods, those who by imagination consider any
  form to be the form of the Supreme Lord.
• Third class includes those who cannot conceive of
  anything beyond the manifestation of this
  material universe.

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All these are lower class of worshipers of
Supreme and not Mahatmas.