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This is the disease. This is called material disease. One is infected by the prakrta-guna. The prakrta-guna... Guna means quality, mode. So prakrta means this material prakrti, and spiritual means aprakrta. There are different stages of knowledge: pratyaksa, paroksa, aparoksa, adhoksaja, aprakrta. One has to go step by step. General knowledge means pratyaksa, whatever you perceive by the senses. That is called pratyaksa. And the knowledge which you receive from authorities, that is paroksa. Then aparoksa, realization. Then adhoksaja. Adhoksaja means knowledge which beyond your perception. But there is source of knowledge, adhoksaja. Therefore God's another name is Adhoksaja. Adhah. Adhah means subduing, bring under subjugation. Adhah-krta, aksaja. Aksaja means the knowledge directly perceived by the senses. Aksa means eyes and aksa means atukya(?). So any knowledge within the alphabets, ABCD, that is called aksaja. And the knowledge which is beyond that, that is called adhoksaja. And beyond the adhoksaja knowledge there is aprakrta. Aprakrta knowledge.

So the prakrta-guna. So long we are in this material world, infected by the material qualities, sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna, that is prakrta life, not aprakrta. You have to go step by step. So our Krsna consciousness is adhoksaja, far beyond this prakrta knowledge, prakrta-guna. The highest position of prakrta or material life is the standard of brahminical qualities. But that is also prakrta. That is not aprakrta. That is also not the Brahman realization. Brahma janatiti brahmanah. That is also the highest stage of prakrta, glimpse of the light. But one has to become free from the prakrta envelopment. Prakrta-gunaih. Our present position is we are infected by the prakrta-guna. Some of them are infected by the sattva-guna; some of them are infected by the rajo-guna; some of them are infected by tamo-guna. So long one is infected by the tamo-guna and rajo-guna, his position is very abominable, rajas-tamas. One has to become at least on the sattva-guna, the brahminical qualification. Then spiritual knowledge can be realized, prakrta-guna.

So Kapiladeva proposes to His mother... Kapiladeva is Bhagavan. We have explained several times, bhaga means opulence and van means one who possesses. So what is that opulence? Aisvarya, richness. Aisvaryasya samagrasya. One who is possession, one who has in his possession all the wealth. All the wealth... We have several times explained this. Nobody can claim... Except Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, nobody can claim, "The all the wealth within this universe belongs to me." Nobody can say. But Krsna can say. Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram: [Bg. 5.29] "I am the proprietor of all the lokas, of all the planets." We become proprietor a few thousands of years, and there are so many difficulties. And He's the proprietor of the whole universe. That is also very little estimation, because Krsna says,

Krsna says that "By My one plenary portion I'm possessing or controlling the innumerable universes." We have no information of one universe. Universe, that is also, we cannot estimate. But the innumerable universes are estimated to give us some glimpse of knowledge. In the Brahma-samhita,

There is one feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is called Maha-Visnu. That Maha-Visnu, that is the origin of this material creation. So Maha-Visnu is in sleeping condition. So in sleeping condition, with the breathing, universes are coming. And when it is inhaled the whole universe is annihilated, dissolved. So this is only one portion. There are many devidences(?).

So you cannot claim to become Bhagavan so cheaply. Bhagavan is different thing. One who is devotee of Bhagavan, he knows something about Bhagavan. And the other rascals, they claim Bhagavan -- simply ludicrous. Only the rascals can accept another rascal as Bhagavan. It is not so easy.