May My Attraction Flow to Krishna

A devotee does not want to be carried away by attraction to any personality of this material world because he prefers to be absorbed in the all-attractive Krishna. Just as the Ganges river naturally flows to the sea, the devotee wants to be only attracted to that incredibly amazing supreme person, Lord Sri Krishna, who is the source of all existence. This desire of the devotee is wonderfully expressed by Queen Kunti as follows:

tvayi me 'nanya-viṣayā
matir madhu-pate 'sakṛt
ratim udvahatād addhā
gaṅgevaugham udanvati

“O Lord of Madhu, as the Ganges forever flows to the sea without hindrance, let my attraction be constantly drawn unto You without being diverted to anyone else.”
Srimad Bhagavatam 1.8.42

Queen Kunti Prays to Krishna

Queen Kunti Prays to Krishna

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Can Envy Exist in Spiritual World?

Dear Srila Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Someone from the Gaudiya Sampradaya was discussing with me on the original position of the jiva soul. She was telling me that Prabhupada’s explanation is wrong and confusing. She said that the jiva originally was in the tatastha shakti and not in the spiritual world, since in the spiritual world, there is no question of envy of Krishna and hence there cannot be fall down to the material world from the spiritual world. Hence the jiva must come from the tatastha shakti. This conversation took place when I was a beginner in Krishna consciousness. I just brushed it off my mind, since I found it to be too trivial, and I found that this person was just trying to find unnecessary faults in a great personality like Prabhupada. But now since you have mentioned this topic on the mail, I would like to ask you as to how to counter this argument?

Your servant,

Tushar

Answer: Envy Only Exists in the Material World

Countering her argument is very simple. This person is not well informed. It is she who is wrong and confused, not Srila Prabhupada. She assumes that the Lord's tatastha shakti (marginal energy) does not exist in the spiritual world. But this assumption is not correct. The jiva souls are the Lord's tatastha shakti. And since the jiva souls exist both in the material world and the spiritual world, the tatastha shakti is simultaneously present in both worlds. It's a fact that there is no envy in the spiritual world. This is why if envy of God arises in the consciousness of the living being, he is already in the material world. In other words, there is no delay not for even one yoctosecond (one septillionth of a second). Within absolutely no time when envy is there in the jiva, he immediately finds himself in this material world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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