If You Want to Live Forever

Eternal, youthful, all-blissful existence is your divine birthright, but you have now lost it. If you would like to regain it, all you have to do is engage your mind, speech, and body in those thoughts, words, and deeds that were originally natural for you. This training will revive your original, eternal identity. This art is learned from the bona fide spiritual master, that person who is fully situated in his spiritual identity and can thus teach you how to do the same.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version: 

Question: We Fell from the Lord's Pastimes or Brahman?

Did we fall to this material world from having a spiritual personality and spiritual form in the Lord's eternal pastimes in the spiritual sky? Or did we fall to his material world from from an impersonal formless existence in the impersonal Brahman?

S.F. 

Answer: We Gave Up the Lord's Association

Lord Caitanya has very nicely answered this question when He was instructing Santana Goswami. He states:

jivera svarupa haya-krsnera nitya-dasa

"The constitutional position of the living entity is that he is the eternal servant of Lord Sri Krishna." 

Therefore it is not possible for the living entity to have originally been impersonal. And besides that Srila Prabhupada states that there is no question of falling down from Brahman because Brahman is itself a fallen position. Prabhupada also mentions that through the process of Krishna consciousness we regain our old original transcendental body. So, if originally before falling into this material existence we had a spiritual body, it is clearly indicated that we did not originate in the impersonal Brahman, because in that impersonal Brahman no one has a spiritual body. Spiritual body means that we originated in the pastimes of the Supreme Lord. Our present material body means that we misused our minute independence and fell into this material existence.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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