Srila Prabhupada was FULLY EMPOWERED to deliver fallen souls who did even an iota of service! If you read ONE WORD of his books, Srila Prabhupada said, that that can make you Krsna conscious! NO ONE can do this is except an extremely exalted person, like God Himself. Miracles surrounded Srila Prabhupada, who always moved with grace and beauty and willful awareness.
He was like Krsna! Never demanded, but set good example, encouraged, chastised rascaldom, but never demanding,. One voluntarily accepted service, then the standard was expected. No automatic, it is always voluntary service out of devotion, not for pay nor power, which can ruin a devotee, sometimes.
His only concern at all times was how to distribute the mercy, to those around him and to all. He wasted no time, but his thoughts were always the well-being of Krsna's servants, so he acted as the anchor, the captain of all our ships, the mercy-bringer, servant of the fallen servant.
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Vedas describe a deluding energy, like a god, but not God, rather the warden, master of the material prison house. Her duty is to pin the rebellious souls down with three-fold miseries, and to keep them in delusion, away from their Krsna-conscious spiritual selves, the better to enslave us while we try to be God. She creates endless desires and false identification, or karma characters, for the seperatist souls to try to enjoy themselves seperate from the Will of Govinda, Krsna. This almost-insurmountable conditioning program, to protect the spiritual worlds from envious persons, is named Maya. This idea of Satan etc though roughly factual, is small potatoes compared to Maya, who rules the whole universe of rebellious souls, including ourselves perhaps...? It is possible to surrender to the Supreme Lord, Godhead Sri Krsna, and thus be reinstated in his Divine Kingdom and spiritual law, and be freed from the prison controls.