Last Day in Vrindavan

Recently while here in Vrindavan I emailed one of my students in the USA. He wrote me back expressing how happy he was to be hearing from me while I am here in Vrindavan. While I expressed my appreciation for his sentiment very much, since indeed there is no place like Vrindavan in all the three worlds, it was also my duty to point out to him that by serving the order of the spiritual master we are always in Vrindavan, no matter where we may externally situated here in this material world. Anywhere that we are fully absorbed in Krishna consciousness that place becomes transformed into Vrindavan. Vrindavan is that deathless place where the eternal, unlimitedly sweet pastimes of Lord Sri Krishna are going on in an ever-expanding variety of mellows. Those who are fully surrendered to Lord Krishna are forever associating with Lord Sri Krishna in those wondrous adventures even while maintaining their existence here in this material world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Sri Vrindavan Dhama The Sacred Land of Lord Sri Krishna

Sri Vrindavan Dhama The Sacred Land of Lord Sri Krishna

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Physical, Quantum, and the Spiritual Levels

At the physical level the world is solid, liquid or gas, as we perceive at a point of time.

At the quantum level I realize that all are energy waves which keep moving all the time.

And at the spiritual level I am trying to understand that all are one and the same that exist all the time everywhere. What does this mean?

Sunil

Answer: You Missed the Fourth Level

There is a fourth level which you missed, the level of Bhagavan realization. On this highest level of consciousness we find simultaneous, inconceivable oneness and two-ness. Everything is two in the sense that the entire existence is composed of Krishna and His expanded energy. And everything is one in the sense that Krishna's expanded energy is also Krishna being nothing more than Krishna Himself in an expanded form. The difference between the expanded energy and the original form is the original Krishna maintains the living beings, who are His expanded energy, while they are being maintained by Him.

This is confirmed as follows in the Katha Upanishad:

nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām
eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān

"There is one supreme eternal conscious being amongst the plural eternal conscious beings. The difference is that He is maintaining them while they are being maintained by Him."

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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