As Within, So Without
As within, so without. In other words, whatever consciousness you cultivate within your heart is the atmosphere that you will create or manifest in the world that surrounds you. So now decide what kind of atmosphere you would like to live in and seriously cultivate that atmosphere within your heart. In other words, if you want to live in a peaceful, God conscious or Krishna conscious environment, you must always hear about, speak about and think about Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The magic of this is that by doing so you will exert an uplifting influence on your surroundings. This practice will transform you into an empowered spiritual revolutionary empowered who is pushing back the materialistic influence of the age of Kali. You will be bringing a new era to the world, a tidal wave of pure love of God.
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According to sastra (scriptures), Vaikuntha, the spiritual world, is that place where there is no false ego and no effect of maya or illusion. So then how can a living entity in such an atmosphere become envious of Krishna's position as the Supreme and want to act independently in an attempt to dominate nature? It is understandable that one can have such a mentality in the material world because here we are covered by the three modes of material nature. But can how such a mentality be possible in the spiritual world?
Regards,
Jaswant Singh
The answer is that there is no imperfection of consciousness in the spiritual world. If one manifests an imperfection of consciousness due a misuse of his independence, he immediately finds himself in the material world. He is already in the material world.
Srila Prabhupada describes this misuse of independence in his purport to Bhagavad-gita 13.23 as follows:
"The fact is that every individual living entity is eternally part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, and both of them are very intimately related as friends. But the living entity has the tendency to reject the sanction of the Supreme Lord and act independently in an attempt to dominate nature, and because he has this tendency he is called the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord. The living entity can be situated either in the material energy or in the spiritual energy. As long as he is conditioned by the material energy, the Supreme Lord, as his friend, the Supersoul, stays with him just to get him to return to the spiritual energy. The Lord is always eager to take him back to the spiritual energy, but due to his minute independence the individual entity is continually rejecting the association of spiritual light. This misuse of independence is the cause of his material strife in the conditioned nature. The Lord, therefore, is always giving instruction from within and from without. From without He gives instructions as stated in Bhagavad-gita, and from within He tries to convince the living entity that his activities in the material field are not conducive to real happiness. 'Just give it up and turn your faith toward Me. Then you will be happy,' He says. Thus the intelligent person who places his faith in the Paramatma or the Supreme Personality of Godhead begins to advance toward a blissful eternal life of knowledge.”
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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Question: How Material Desire Can Manifest in Spiritual World?
Hare Krishna,According to sastra (scriptures), Vaikuntha, the spiritual world, is that place where there is no false ego and no effect of maya or illusion. So then how can a living entity in such an atmosphere become envious of Krishna's position as the Supreme and want to act independently in an attempt to dominate nature? It is understandable that one can have such a mentality in the material world because here we are covered by the three modes of material nature. But can how such a mentality be possible in the spiritual world?
Regards,
Jaswant Singh
Answer: Material Desire Can Only Exist in Material World
The question you have asked is often asked. People wonder, "How could someone have an imperfection of consciousness in the all-perfect spiritual world that would cause them to fall down into the material world?"The answer is that there is no imperfection of consciousness in the spiritual world. If one manifests an imperfection of consciousness due a misuse of his independence, he immediately finds himself in the material world. He is already in the material world.
Srila Prabhupada describes this misuse of independence in his purport to Bhagavad-gita 13.23 as follows:
"The fact is that every individual living entity is eternally part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, and both of them are very intimately related as friends. But the living entity has the tendency to reject the sanction of the Supreme Lord and act independently in an attempt to dominate nature, and because he has this tendency he is called the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord. The living entity can be situated either in the material energy or in the spiritual energy. As long as he is conditioned by the material energy, the Supreme Lord, as his friend, the Supersoul, stays with him just to get him to return to the spiritual energy. The Lord is always eager to take him back to the spiritual energy, but due to his minute independence the individual entity is continually rejecting the association of spiritual light. This misuse of independence is the cause of his material strife in the conditioned nature. The Lord, therefore, is always giving instruction from within and from without. From without He gives instructions as stated in Bhagavad-gita, and from within He tries to convince the living entity that his activities in the material field are not conducive to real happiness. 'Just give it up and turn your faith toward Me. Then you will be happy,' He says. Thus the intelligent person who places his faith in the Paramatma or the Supreme Personality of Godhead begins to advance toward a blissful eternal life of knowledge.”
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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