Transcendental Community Building

The greatest need in the world right now is transcendental community building. Such community building must start at the individual level with individuals interacting with individuals purely on the basis of pleasing God without any tinge of selfishness or egotism. As long as we act on a self-centered platform we will never be able to build genuine community. It is only when we act on the basis of the God-centered conception that we can begin to build actual community. All we really have to do to save the world is to build individual relationships with each other purely on the basis of pleasing God without any tinge of self-centeredness. If such pure relationships can be established, they will naturally attract more and more individuals. Genuine spiritual community will be established and such a community will expand like wildfire quickly spreading to engulf the entire human society. The key to making this happen is the purity of the individual relationships. If such community can be thus established, a new era of peace and prosperity will quickly engulf the entire globe.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Technical Terms

It's wonderful to read your nectar everyday. I have a question regarding the actual meaning behind primary manifestation, secondary manifestation, expansion, incarnation, plenary portion etc. For example in the following sloka or verse:

pañca-tattvātmakam krsnam
bhakta-rūpa-svarūpakam
bhaktāvatāraḿbhaktākhyam
namāmi bhakta-śaktikam

"I offer my obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, Krishna, who is nondifferent from His features as a devotee, devotional incarnation, devotional manifestation, pure devotee and devotional energy."

Similarly in many other places I encounter these technical terms but not able to comprehend what are the similarities or differences between them.

Kindly please enlighten me in this regards.

Hariharan

Answer: Features of the Lord

The different features of the Lord are as follows:

1. Devotee-- bhakta-rūpa: Krishna Himself in the form of a devotee, i.e. Lord Caitanya, the original Personality of Godhead
2. Devotional incarnation-- svarūpakam: Lord Caitanya's first expansion, Lord Nityananda
3. Devotional manifestation-- bhakta-avatāram: Lord Caitanya's incarnation, Sri Advaita Acarya
4. Pure Devotee-- bhakta-ākhyam: the Lord's pure devotee, Srivasa
5. Devotional Energy-- bhakta-śaktikam: Śrī Gadādhara, who represents the internal energy of the Lord for the advancement of pure devotion.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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