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very kindly presented these literatures to awaken the conditioned soul to
his senses. Unfortunately, at the present moment the conditioned souls are
guided by demons who do not care to read the Vedic literatures. Although
there is an immense treasure house of knowledge, people are engaged in
reading useless literature that will give them no information on how to get
out of the clutches of māyā. The purpose of the Vedic literatures is explained
in the following verses.
Text 123: The forgetful conditioned soul is educated by Kṛṣṇa through the
Vedic literatures, the realized spiritual master, and the Supersoul. Through
these, he can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is, and
he can understand that Lord Kṛṣṇa is his eternal master and deliverer from
the clutches of māyā. In this way one can acquire real knowledge of his
conditioned life and can come to understand how to attain liberation.
Purport: Being forgetful of his real position, the conditioned soul may take
help from śāstra, guru, and the Supersoul within his heart. Kṛṣṇa is situated
within everyone’s heart as the Supersoul. … As the śaktyāveśa-avatāra
Vyāsadeva, Kṛṣṇa teaches the conditioned soul through Vedic literatures.
Kṛṣṇa externally appears as the spiritual master and trains the conditioned
soul to come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. When his original Kṛṣṇa consciousness
is revived, the conditioned soul is delivered from the material clutches. Thus
a conditioned soul is always helped by the Supreme Personality of Godhead
in three ways: by the scriptures, the spiritual master and the Supersoul within
the heart. The Lord is the deliverer of the conditioned soul and is accepted
as the Supreme Lord of all living entities.

(d) Lord Caitanya’s descent
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.9 p: The Lord is very kind to the forgetful souls.
He therefore comes Himself and leaves behind necessary instructions and
also sends His good sons as representatives to call all the conditioned souls
back to Godhead. Recently, within the memory of everyone, Lord Caitanya
also appeared for the same purpose: to show special favor to fallen souls of
this age of iron industry.
Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.223 – 226: Advaita Ācārya was always
absorbed in thoughts of how to deliver the fallen souls of the entire world.
“The entire world is full of nondevotees,” He thought. “How will they
be delivered?” Determined to deliver all the fallen souls, Advaita Ācārya
decided to cause Kṛṣṇa to descend. With this vow, He began to offer Ganges
water and tulasī leaves to worship the Lord. Similarly, Haridāsa Ṭhākura
chanted in his cave on the bank of the Ganges with the intention to cause