Mayavadi, Definition of

This is religious competitiveness at it finest. In the West, we argued with steel instead of words…

Mâyâvâdi: With this name are all adherents indicated of the two main philosophies known as impersonalism, or s’ankarism (preaching oneness of the soul with Brahman), and voidism (also known as the philosophy of nihilism).

- In the strict sense of the term not to confuse with the esoterical philosophers who express themselves indirectly and who are affirmed by Krishna as being of His love (“…The tri-kânda divided Vedas have the spiritual understanding of the Self as their subject matter but also dear to Me are the vedic seers esoterically expressing themselves in indirect terms [the ‘other gurus’]”).

- But mainly is this title used for those to whom the Absolute Truth is without a form, personality, intelligence, senses etc., and who therefore reject the existence of God as the Supreme Personality, or who think that the form and activities of the Supreme Lord would be subject to the influence of mâyâ, the deluding material energy.

- In the broader sense, retorically used as a general negative: ‘one speaking of illusion.’ Nonofficial spiritual teachers (non-âcâryas) who do not instruct by example, or who are not capable of giving one a better stability in transcendence. Narrowly defined: adherents of impersonalism (oneness, s’ankarism) and nihilism (voidism, denial of god and soul).

- Spiritual teachers outside a by the Lord enforced disciplic succession.

- Therapists and other mental healthcare people who deny Krishna, but despite of that want to give spiritual directions.

- False teachers and preachers, prophets, cheaters and/or charlatans who allure people with nice discourses, but estrange them from God and their fellow man by some or another cult. [ironic choice of words for a Hare Krishna lexicon ]

- Someone following the misery of vedic heresy of king Arhat, who “…gave up on the safe path of the religion that would ward of all fear and adopted a wrong heretic view in defiance of the vedic injunctions introducing most foolishly a concoction of His own, foreboding the beginning of the Kali-Yuga.”

- Follower of buddhism   [harsh!] “…from the Kali-age an abundance of godlessness will, those whose pure consciousness are destroyed, become almost blasphemous towards the strict brahmin and his vedic culture, the ceremonies of sacrifice and the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His devotees.”