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Quote “We have also come down from Vaikuntha some millions and millions of years ago “We have also come down from Vaikuntha some millions and millions of years agoSrila Prabhupada – “We have also come down from Vaikuntha some millions and millions of years ago." - Lecture on Bhagavad-gita on August 6, 1973
In the Spiritual Sky exists Krsna’s Supreme Planet Goloka Vrndavana surrounded by the Vaikuntha Planets established in the ‘eternal present’ where there is no past or future that has the side effect of permeance and eternal youth where nothing perishes and reality is permanent
Also existing sometimes in the Spiritual Sky, taking up 25% of ‘eternity’ is the mahat tattva or material creation where there is no ‘present’, only past and future that has the side effect of decay and impermanent where ‘reality’ is only temporary.
The following book gives details and the final proof, as clearly explained by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, that all jiva/souls or marginal living entities are originally (Which means eternally when referring to the Kingdom of God), are actually serving Krishna perpetually, as their full devotional bodily form, right at this very moment.
However, presently, due to the free will and choice all marginal living entities have, some have chosen to forget their real eternal vigraha (form) svarupa (devotional body) that is always present in Krsnaloka, just like one forgets their present biological body while dreaming.
This means all living entities have an imperishable bodily form called ‘svarupa’ which is the full potential and expression of their character eternal present in Goloka even if they are ‘dreaming or thinking’ they are in the material creation (mahat tattva).
Many have laughed when told their existence in the material world is just the dream state they have created.
However, if they care to read Prabhupada’s books, they will find it is ALL their dream ONLY EXPERIENCED by 'entering' unlimited dream identities or vessels within the dreams of Maha Vishnu –
Srila Prabhupada – “This material creation is the spirit soul's dream. Actually all existence in the material world is a dream of Mahā-Viṣṇu, as the Brahma-saḿhitā describes –
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta - “This material world is created by the dreaming of Mahā-Viṣṇu. The real, factual platform is the spiritual world, but when the spirit soul wants to imitate the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is put into this dreamland of material creation”. 4.29.83.http://vedabase.net/sb/4/29/83/en
Srila Prabhupada - “Everything happening within time, which consists of past, present and future, is merely a dream. This is the secret in understanding in all the Vedic literature.” SB. 4.29.2b.
Srila Prabhupada - “Of course, everyone has a particular relationship with the Lord, and that relationship is evoked by the perfection of devotional service. But in the present status of our life, we have not only forgotten the Supreme Lord, but we have forgotten our eternal relationship with the Lord”. Bhagavad-Gita, Introduction
Srila Prabhupada - “Every living being. has a particular relationship with the Lord eternally, That is called svarupa. By the process of devotional service, one can revive that svarupa, and that stage is called svarupa-siddhi—perfection of one’s constitutional position. Bhagavad-Gita, Introduction. .”
Srila Prabhupada - “We have an intimate relationship with the Lord, and because we are all qualitatively one . . . the whole purpose of Bhagavad-gita is to revive our sanatana occupation, or sanatana dharma, which is the eternal occupation of the living entity “. Bhagavad-gita, Introduction. .
Srila Prabhupada - “The Lord descends to reclaim all of these fallen, conditioned souls to call them back to the sanatana eternal sky so that the sanatana living entities may regain their eternal sanatana positions of eternal association with the Lord.” Bhagavad-gita, Introduction. Srila Prabhupada – “In his original state, there is no doubt of enjoyment; therefore, that is his real state.” Bhagavad-gita, 13.21, purport.
Srila Prabhupada – “Originally everyone (all marginal living entities) is nitya-siddha (eternally liberated)” Srimad-Bhagavatam Class 7.9.4– Mayapur, February 18, 1977
Srila Prabhupada - “Originally everyone is nitya-siddha. nitya-siddha krsna-bhakti ’sadhya’ kabhu naya sravanadi-suddha-citte karaye udaya. Every living entity originally nitya-siddha, ". Srimad-Bhagavatam Class 7.9.4– Mayapur, February 18, 1977
Srila Prabhupada - "So to go to Krishna means you will have to acquire your original, spiritual body. The spiritual body is already there, but we are now covered by this material body". by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Germany, June 22, 1974
Srila Prabhupada - "As living spiritual souls we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our consciousness has now become polluted by the material atmosphere." (Original Hare Krsna album)
Srila Bhaktivinoda Takura - “However, because of contact with matter, the imprisoned soul loses the memory of his original spiritual form in Vaikuntha. . . material rasas are perverted reflections of the soul's original spiritual rasas.” Prema-pradipa, p. 83
Srila Prabhupada – “We have also come down from Vaikuntha some millions and millions of years ago." - Lecture on Bhagavad-gita on August 6, 1973
Srila Prabhupada – “This material creation is the spirit soul's dream. Actually all existence in the material world is a dream of Mahā-Viṣṇu, as the Brahma-saḿhitā describes –
· “This material world is created by the dreaming of Mahā-Viṣṇu. The real, factual platform is the spiritual world, but when the spirit soul wants to imitate the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is put into this dreamland of material creation”. 4.29.83.http://vedabase.net/sb/4/29/83/en
Srila Prabhupada – “Existence in the impersonal Brahman is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness. Those who are in the Brahman effulgence, they are also in the fallen condition. So there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition”. - Letter, June 13, 1970.
Srila Prabhupada said to me in the Sydney Temple room in early 1973, when he came in while I was cleaning. Srila Prabhupada had started ecstatically laughing when he saw I had put paintings of the Pancha tattva and Krsna and Balarama on the step of his Vyasa chair – “That’s not where the Lord goes”.
Then after a short silence he added,
“Soon you will understand, try to understand also YOUR real bodily form is ALWAYS in Vaikuntha” then continued laughing at where I put these paintings while I cleaned the walls. At the time I realized the importance at what he said. It was many, many years later when the ‘origin of the jiva’ debate AGAIN started (Actually that debate started in 1972 and ended with Prabhupada’s words to me, at least as far as I was concerned on this subject, in 1973).
During the 1990s, I wondered what everyone was arguing about because Prabhupada has made it very clear that ALL marginal living entities have come down from Vaikuntha to the material world, not as their Svarupa body, but rather as a jiva baddha dream protrusion. The misleading book ‘Not even the leaves fall from Vaikuntha’ plus the teachings of both Srila Narayana Maharaj and Srila Sridar Maharaj, who I have heard both speak on this subject, are, with all due respect, NOT the teachings that Srila Prabhupada gave us on this subject.
This why I am so strongly convinced that presently we are only dreaming while our real bodily self actually NEVER leaves Goloka. Frankly, I do not care what anyone says on this subject, as I have already proven on so many threads on the Internet. Many people, including several sannyasis and guru’s, have called me all kinds of names like ‘sleep avadi’ to ‘dream avadi’ however, due to that personal intimate wonderful personal association with my Spiritual Master His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada in 1973, with all humility, no one can ever take away from me what he said or convince me otherwise. 6月7日 Origin of the jiva soul now correctly understoodTHE SECRET VEDIC BOOK OF ORIGINS FINALLY RELEASED TO THE WORLD FOR ALL TO SEE. Quantum physics or the science of possibilities revealed on the highest level. The mysterious origin of the soul is now within our grasp of understanding. Gods/Krishna's creation of the Krishna Conscious Spiritual Sky and the mostly non-Krishna conscious material creation (mahat-tattva) situated in one corner of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti facilitated by the dreaming Maha-Vishnu expansion of the Godhead.
The following book is a concluding confirmation as clearly explained by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, that the jiva/souls (all of Gods/Krishnas’ subsidiary, marginal living beings or all living entities) manifests originally and perpetually as a body (vigraha) servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krishna (The Supreme Vigraha or Bodily Form) that can never vacate from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha (the perpetual Kingdom of God/Krishna) as their perpetual rasa (devotional mood) bodily serving Krishna.
In a Nectar of Devotion lecture given on October 23, 1972, in Vrndavana, India, Srila Prabhupada explains:
“We should be always ready to offer respect to all, not only devotees, but everyone. Everyone! Why? Because every living entity is originally a devotee of Krishna. But circumstantially, being covered by the coat of Maya, he’s playing like demon. But his original nature is a devotee of Krishna. Jivera svarupa haya nitya krsnera dasa. Everyone is eternally servant of Krishna. But being influenced by Maya, when he gets this body, given by Maya...Prakrtih kriyamananih gunaih karmani sarvasah, when he conducted by the three gunas of maya, he thinks himself otherwise.”
In a lecture on the Bhagavad-gita given in London on August 6, 1973, Srila Prabhupada further explains:
“We have also come down from Vaikuntha some millions and millions of years ago”
The Jiva-soul: Its Origin, Nature, And Potentialities
The beautiful Srimad Bhagavatam teaches us that the perpetual Kingdom of Radha and Krishna, known as Krishna-Loka or Goloka-Vrndavana, is the original source of all creation and all living entities. This central planet further radiates an effulgence that encircles the Goloka-Vrndavana Planet with the imperishable Vishnu-Loka or the Vaikuntha Planets, where Krishna’s innumerable (countless) expansions of Vishnu and Lakshmi reside, along with their infinite number of devotee’s (known as Krishna’s marginal potency or individual bodily servants) takes up 75% of the immortal Spiritual Sky or total creation. Krishna’s planet is centered above in the red lotus flower and surrounded by unlimited expansions of Vishnu and Lakshmi in their surrounding yellow Vaikuntha planets.
Both these transcendental abodes are made up of living vigraha (bodily) all-attractive conscious beings, individual entities, who are the bodily radiance of Krishna, serving the Supreme Vigraha Lord Krishna or His Lord Vishnu Expansions as their own infinitesimal vigraha bodies. It is also very important to understand in our present impersonal mundane religious and technological world, that all of us are originally individual perpetual bodily personalities; we are collectively and independently Krishna’s marginal potency in our everlasting original vigraha bodily position serving Krishna. Just like one cannot separate the Sun from the sunrays, the marginal living beings and Krishna are never separated. That analogy can be misleading because we certainly in no way resemble a spark or ray of sunlight and Krishna is certainly not a blazing Sun.
Krishna has an eternal bodily form and so does all of His marginal radiance of countless individual personalities.
Unfortunately many in various so-called Hindu and Vaishnava sects in India cannot understand this fact due to being polluted by Impersonalism. Through the teachings of Srila Prabhupada, we can understand we are collectively and independently Krishna’s marginal potency in our everlasting original bodily position serving Krishna. Being marginal means we can choose to remain as we really are as our full Krishna Conscious svarupa body, or consciously drift from that body and enter the material creation, not as our eternal devotional body, but as a conscious projection that creates its own counterfeit bodily forms facilitated by the creator of the material creation, Maha-Vishnu.
No material energy (Maha-Maya) can exist in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha; therefore it is impossible to forget Krishna, so how does one fall down? The simple answer is they choose to leave, Srila Prabhupada explains that the tendency is there with all nitya-siddha devotees, because of being marginal energy of the Lord, to either stay with Krishna or reject him due to independent desires. Srila Prabhupada goes on to explain that actually no-one falls down because their svarupa body never leaves Goloka-Vrndavana and that that only ‘think’ they are fallen or ‘dream’ they are fallen but in perpetual reality one can never fall down.
This understanding of ‘vigraha’ (bodily form) is the highest realization of how all marginal living entities perpetually and originally existed – sat-cit-ananda-vigraha. Krishna’s marginal potency or the nitya-siddha-svarupa or sat-cit-ananda-vigraha devotee’s can never fall down as their original bodily devotional self because of the perpetual uninterrupted nature of the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky that is set in the eternal present beyond the concept of past and future (75% of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti). In one corner of the painting above, one can see the less significant and smaller mahat-tattva unpreserved cloud, also in that Spiritual Sky. This dark cloud is the perishable material universe divided by past, present and future time zones existing in unlimited dimensions of sub-space (where ethereal vessels for both heavenly and hellish planets exist) universes and secular (biological worlds like our own planet) is only 25% of creation.
Unfortunately there are some Vaishnava schools of thought who teach that the soul emanates from the brahmajyoti, which they foolishly claim, is living and growing from within itself. They claim that within the brahmajyoti is the source and impersonal origins of all marginal living entities that come to exist due to their equilibrium being somehow disturbed with the purpose of causing original activity to begin (a very vague impersonal statement), claiming that from non-differentiation in the Brahmajyoti, demarcation or separation from the Brahmajyoti begins and from there they have to work their way to Goloka that has never previously been seen by them. They finally believe that once reaching Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, it is impossible to again fall down into the mahat-tattva unless they enter the mahat-tattva for Krishna Lila.
The fact is what they actually believe in and preach to others is nonsense Impersonalism because they do not understand they have a permanent original body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha from where their present nitya-baddha deluded dreaming consciousness originates.
Many advanced Vaishnava’s in various sects’ including some Gaudiya Vaishnavas and even some ISKCON devotees wrongly claim that from a plain or bare sheet of uniform consciousness their individual consciousness grows and comes into existence. Such Impersonalism goes against the teachings of Srila Prabhupada and denies the true facts of ones origins which are from ones marginal Krishna Conscious nitya-siddha-svarupa body that is always in the perpetual Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky and can never fall down as previously explained.
One only thinks they are fallen or dreams they are fallen, but actually their svarupa body never falls down. Rather it is ones independent non-Krishna conscious thinking and ones self absorbed ‘dreaming’ thoughts of grandeur that transfer ones awareness of their surroundings to the restricted mahat-tattva as Srila Prabhupada has clearly explained.
This restricted conscious awareness or the dreaming condition of the marginal nitya-siddha-svarupa living entity is called the marginal nitya-baddha sub-consciousness. Mayavadis or Impersonalist cannot understand this simple explanation of what is really going on in Krishna’s/Gods creation. The Impersonalist understanding today is rampant and affecting many Vaishnava sects who wrongly believe that the jiva/soul becomes conscious after originally ‘falling out’ of the Brahmajyoti and then ‘somehow’ becomes endowed with free will.
The ‘Impersonalist Brahmajyoti-origin believers’ also incorrectly believe the nitya-baddha jiva/souls have never previously seen Krishna however, their Impersonal understanding obstructs them from understanding that long, long, long before entering the Impersonal Brahmajyoti or Brahma-sayujya or tatastha individual dormant consciousness, they had first chose to extend from their nitya-siddha-svarupa body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, their nitya-baddha sub-conscious desires and non-Krishna conscious dreams that first enter the mahat-tattva creation of the dreaming Maha-Vishnu, going on for millions upon millions of births until eventually reaching that Impersonal Brahmajyoti aspect of ones nitya-baddha consciousness that is called the jiva-tatastha.
The Impersonal Brahmajyoti effulgence is simply creations of the marginal living entities lower-self or nitya-baddha non-devotional consciousnesses that originates from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti and ultimately originate as the fully developed svarupa living entity that IS the magnificent effulgence emanating/surrounding Krishna. (How this happens will be clearly explained over the next few chapters). So the correct meaning of the word marginal means one can choose to either be on the side of exploitation (nitya-baddha sub-conscious dreaming position that can only exist in the mahat-tattva) or always remain as ones nitya-siddha-svarupa Krishna Conscious body in Goloka on the side of perpetual dedication and devotion to Krishna.
Srila Prabhupada - “Because he falls down from Brahma-sayujya (tatastha-s’akti, Impersonal Brahmajyoti or Brahman consciousness condition of the life force), he thinks that may be his origin, but he does not remember that long, long, long, long ago before that even, he was with Krishna”.
Srila Prabhupada – “Originally we have a direct personal relationship with Krishna in the spiritual world. But when we want to take Krishna’s position, we therefore put ourselves into a dreaming state due to our non-Krishna conscious choices. In this dreaming state, we enter the mahat-tattva dream of Maha-Vishnu that is a real but a perishable reality that exists in a temporary state in one corner of the Spiritual Sky, Brahmajyoti or creation”.
Srila Prabhupada - “We forget our actual position and thus are free to act out our desire and dreams in our attempts to become the supreme enjoyer. These mistaken self centered choices or non-Krishna conscious dreams are characterized as being “fallen” from our position in the spiritual world but actually we are not fallen, we are simply in a dreaming consciousness that originates from our nitya-siddha body, those dreams are called the nitya-baddha or materially conditioned consciousness”
Srila Prabhupada clearly explains that in Vaikuntha beyond mundane time and space that governs the mahat-tattva, we are not fallen, we are simply dreaming from our nitya-siddha body, those dreams are called the nitya-baddha consciousness.
THE DREAMING MAHA-VISHNU AND HIS MAHAT-TATTVA UNIVERSES Maha-Vishnu above is lying down resting and dreaming within His mahat-tattva creation. His dreams facilities the dreaming marginal living entities when they choose to ignore their perpetual Krishna Conscious nitya-siddha-svarupa body, therefore, more or less, their separation from Krishna is compared to a dream that is temporary but very real. In this way the marginal beings withdrawals deep within their own sub-consciousness that takes them to the mahat-tattva creation of Maha-Vishnu and forgets their perpetual nitya-siddha-svarupa-rasa beautiful body that is eternally serving Krishna. · Nitya means always eternally positioned. · Siddha means the imperishable perfection of ones marginal constitution or eternally liberated. · Svarupa means one's perpetual own form, shape or body. · Rasa means the best, finest and most important part of ones existence which one performs eternally from the highest position of selfless service to Krishna and His devotees, this essence of ones marginal constitution that allows the freedom of choice also eternally enriches ones rasa relationship with Krishna to reciprocate and never ever stands still. The freedom of choice Krishna gives all marginal beings allows them to surrender unconditionally over and over again by eternally expanding their loving devotion moods within unlimited relationships in an atmosphere that is eternally in the present, beyond the mundane time that can only exist in the mahat-tattva. This is the absolute reason Krishna gives choose to the marginal living entities. Unfortunately the ability in choosing how to please Krishna can also be misused which in a sad way gives authenticity to Krishna granting free will in the first place to all His marginal living entities. To choose either ones full potential nitya-siddha-svarupa original self, or choose the sub-conscious secondary nitya-baddha non-Krishna conscious dream state. The marginal living entities position of ‘choice’ allows one to therefore increase ones love for Krishna or forget Krishna and ones svarupa body altogether and instead takes shelter in the indefinite or shadowy nitya-baddha sub-conscious dreaming condition that can only exist as the jiva-tattva etc within the mahat-tattva. · Nitya means always eternally positioned. · Baddha means eternally conditioned by NON-Krishna conscious desires and dreams of greatness that can only be fulfilled within the mahat-tattva (material creation) by Maha-Vishnu. The nitya-siddha-svarupa body and the nitya-baddha lower sub-conscious dreaming condition are part and parcel of all individual marginal beings or emanations radiating from Krishna as His Brahmajyoti effulgence. Just like every body has a shadow, every marginal nitya-siddha-svarupa devotee has a marginal nitya-baddha-sub-conscious condition only activated into existence by choosing to no longer stay with Krishna. It’s just like darkness is initiated by choosing to turn of the light in your house. This simply means all marginal living entities have the choice to accept whom they really are in the light serving Krishna as their nitya-siddha svarupa body or rasa body, or drift off into an egocentric dream of darkness where they ignore that eternal svarupa body. The nitya-baddha dreaming consciousness that enters the mahat-tattva or material creation emanates from 25% of the marginal nitya-siddha beings in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha who choose to ignore their nitya-siddha higher perpetual Krishna Conscious bodily self and opt for the sub-conscious nitya-baddha lower dreams created by their non-Krishna Conscious desires. In this way ones dreaming consciousness enters the dark cloud in the Spiritual Sky called the mahat-tattva. It must be made clear that all ‘life’ that enters the mahat-tattva originates from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, such ‘life’ that enters the mahat-tattva is the nitya-baddha consciousness (jiva-tattva, jiva-s’akti/ jiva-bhutah, jiva-prakriti etc) that originates as the sub-conscious condition of the nitya-siddha-svarupa devotees or marginal living entities. In other words the mahat-tattva is simply the place where the marginal living entities go when they choose to drift off into a non-Krishna conscious dream. In this way the marginal living entities in their nitya-baddha dreaming spasmodic consciousness, enters the dreams of Maha-Vishnu within the perishable and impermanent mahat-tattva and in the process, forgets the higher self of their marginal personality (nitya-siddha-svarupa body) What does marginal mean? To create the reality of free will and loving devotion that never ever remains stagnant in bliss or just being ‘assimilated’ into the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm as a loving android of Krishna’s, the marginal living entities are all created with two-fold levels of consciousness. The nitya-siddha-svarupa consciousness is in the form of an eternal rasa Krishna Conscious body where the choice is always there to forever increase ones devotion to Krishna however, to make that choice factual and a genuine exchange of love rather than a mechanical mindless response, there is also the ability in all marginal living entities to choose their non-Krishna lower nitya-baddha condition of their marginal personality. This is why all living marginal entities in Vaikuntha can ‘consciously’ fall down from their perpetual body in Goloka-Vrndavana or Vaikuntha simply because of the way Krishna created all marginal living beings - with free will that makes ones love for Krishna real instead of mechanical. After first choosing to extend ones consciousness from their rasa body and enter the mahat-tattva and them eventually surrender to a pure devotee of Krishna with the desire to be assimilated in total inactive bliss and become an atom at Krishnas lotus feet, is not only selfish but is Impersonalism!! Such desires is denying ones original rasa body or original position from whence their rebellious desires or nitya-baddha consciousness originated from in Goloka. The fact is the only way to enter the mahat-tattva or material creation is to ‘consciously’ fall down from their svarupa body in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha portion of the Spiritual Sky.
The mahat-tattva dark cloud is where Maha-Vishnu is in a deep dreaming state; His dreams hold mostly the mistaken dream realities and desires of the marginal beings while in their nitya-baddha lower self. The nitya baddha sub-conscious condition of the marginal living entity is the rebellious dreams, thoughts, desires and impersonal escape of just a few (25%) of those eternal nitya-siddha-svarupa or atma-vigraha devotees. Krishna’s marginal potency or living entities all have a two-fold aspect to their existence.
The highest and original constitution of the marginal energy is bodily form known as vigraha that is the embodiment of sat (eternity) cit (full knowledge) ananda (always blissful) in the service of Krishna. This bodily condition of the marginal beings is the full expression of their potential that is called -
Nitya-siddha-svarupa One’s Krishna Conscious eternally positioned unique original personal bodily relationship with Krishna as an eternal servant that is without end in Goloka-Vrndavana, even if one has sub-consciously turned their back on Krishna to experience existence through their lower nitya-baddha sub-conscious self transmitted as non-Krishna conscious desires or thoughts, that are clothed by ethereal and eventually biological bodies by Maha-Vishnu within His mahat-tattva, ones original svarupa body is always in Goloka.
On the other hand the marginal nitya-siddha devotional beings also have a secondary condition or nitya-baddha consciousness that can enter the dark cloud (mahat-tattva) situated in one corner of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti. The reason why the lower self or nitya-baddha consciousness enters the mahat-tattva or material creation is due to their desires not to be with Krishna as their devotional form or nitya-siddha-svarupa body.
Such disloyal dreams, thoughts and desires are projected or transmitted as a ‘secondary consciousness’ (nitya-baddha) to that dark perishable cloud or mahat-tattva temporary material manifestation where they are then given counterfeit bodily material forms (ethereal and biological vessels) by the creator of that perishable place of the dreaming, Maha-Vishnu.
The difference between the nitya-siddda-svarupa body and the nitya-baddha sub-conscious state is the nitya-siddha is perpetually a transcendental Krishna Conscious bodily form where as the nitya-baddha consciousness has no bodily form until it is provided one by Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Understanding the true origins of all living entities This book is based on the teachings of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on Krishna Consciousness. The difference between mental speculation and philosophical speculation is backing up ones realizations with quotes from Srila Prabhupada who is my eternal Spiritual Master. Unless one engages in philosophical speculation, just how will one formulate relevant questions to place before their guru and search through his teachings for correct meaning and understanding? Therefore the difference between philosophical and mental speculation is conclusions based on Srila Prabhupadas teachings (books, tapes and letters) that is handed down to our society in the 21st Century, giving the correct meaning and translations of all previous Acharayas, further more, as Srila Prabhupada has said, no other books are necessary other than his teachings. In fact, even if other Vedic texts are read or translated, that includes the six Gosvami’s, Bhaktivinode Thakura and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaja etc; such literatures are seen always through the explanations Srila Prabhupada has given us. Srila Prabhupadas' lectures, classes, morning walks, letters, tapes and books are the basis for understanding all previous Spiritual Masters. Devotees may read and translate ancient Sanskrit texts or recent Bengali and Hindu texts written by previous Acharyas however, such translations can only be properly seen through the teachings of Srila Prabhupada only and never through the teachings of others, including his godbrothers, god nephews, or even his own disciples who have gone outside of his teachings and have become polluted with contradictory views to the ‘Personal teachings’ of Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada has said on many occasions that everything we need to know is in his teachings and there is no need to read any other literature. The purpose of this, as Srila Prabhupada clearly explained, is to protect the sincere seeker of truth from the vague interpretations and apparent contradictions from other groups or camps polluted by their Impersonal belief that we all originated from the Brahmajyoti. All teachings of Impersonalism, Srila Prabhupada instructed his disciples, must be avoided. Srila Prabhupada is the 32nd Bonafide Spiritual Master in a line of disciplic succession that goes all the way back to Krishna. Srila Prabhupada has single headedly, unlike his godbrothers and even previous Acharayas, Sadu’s and Babajis spread the teachings of Lord Krishna and Sri Caitanya Maha Prabhu to every corner of the globe. Due to his endeavours and without any help from his Godbrothers in the Gaudiya math, the chanting of Hare Krishna and the distribution of his books has reached every city, town and village around the world, where Krishna has now become a household name. Some terms will be unfamiliar to many who read this book, however such terms are just another way to empathize the fact that we always have an original svarupa body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha. The terms atma-vigraha or nitya-siddha-svarupa, jiva-atma-vigraha, jiva consciousness, or the secondary conscious state or lower-self, known of the nitya-baddha, is also known as the jiva-tattva, jiva-s’akti’ jiva-tatastha, jiva-prakriti etc depending on the conditional state of ones extended secondary consciousness one is ‘dreaming’ in. Such terms, even though unfamiliar to many of us, are just another way to empathize that we always have an original svarupa body serving Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha even if we are unaware of this fact due to our absorption in the nitya-baddha dreaming conscious condition that can only function in the mahat-tattva. The terminologies such as ‘atma-vigraha’ or ‘jiva-atma-vigraha’ are just another translation like that of German, Russian Chinese’s etc, of the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. The words atma (soul) vigraha (bodily form) is only establishing that the soul/jiva has an eternal imperishable body we call the nitya-siddha or svarupa body that is eternally Krishna Conscious in an atmosphere where no past or future exists because everything is in the perpetual present, as the Brahma Samhita teaches us. The difference between the nitya-siddda-svarupa body and the nitya-baddha sub-conscious state is the nitya-siddha is perpetually a transcendental Krishna Conscious bodily form where as the nitya-baddha consciousness has no bodily form until it is provided one by Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva
Mother Yasoda looks in to the mouth of her son Krishna and sees the entire creation of the Vaikuntha worlds as well as the mahat-tattva material creation This imperishable reality is beyond our material concept of temporary time and space. In fact the understanding in this book can only help many to further comprehend the true Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha origins of the life force or jiva-soul, instead of believing in the nonsense Brahmajyoti origins as propagated by the Buddhists, Impersonalists and other Vaishnava sects. This book also especially gives a crystal clear understanding of how the mahat-tattva (material creation) works, explaining the creator and facilitator of that ‘universe of the dreaming’; Maha-Vishnu. The imperishable Kingdom of Krishna/God (Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha) and perishable cosmic or material formation (mahat-tattva) are both Krishna’s creation. The effulgence surrounding and originating from Krishna is a bright all-pervasive living light called the Brahmajyoti as the Brahma-Samhita teaches us however, the foundation of that living light, Brahmajyoti, Spiritual Sky or the entire creation, is the unlimited marginal individual bodily atma-vigraha beings emanating from Krishnas' body as that perpetual Brahmajyoti. The living Brahmajyoti in not Impersonal, it is held together by form because Brahman or Brahmajyoti is the existence of innumerable bodily forms that are adjacent to Krishna’s Personal body or Vigraha Form. The Brahmajyoti effulgence, or all of Krishnas’ Vigraha expansions and marginal vigraha forms known as nitya-siddhas, have an eternal relationship of everlasting servitude to Krishna within either the central Goloka-Vrndavana Spiritual Sky or the surrounding Vaikunthas, or both! All marginal nitya-siddha forms are eternally subservant to Krishna and have 78% of the qualities of Krishna/God as their full potential nitya-siddha-svarupa-vigraha bodily self. Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the cause of all causes, as Srila Prabhupada has taught us from his presentation of the beautiful Srimad Bhagavatam, therefore the eternal unchanging Spiritual Sky (Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha) is where unlimited expansions of Krishna are forever joined in a relationship of loving devotion with His innumerable (countless) marginal perpetual Krishna Conscious bodily nitya-siddha forms. These bodily forms are the full Krishna Conscious potential of all marginal emanation within the imperishable timeless Spiritual Sky, Brahmajyoti or all creation. Krishna’s bodily Form and countless Vishnu Expansions, as well as His marginal potency or subsidiary vigraha devotee’s, ARE the entire source, or rather, IS the Brahmajyoti effulgence surrounding the Syamasundara form of Krishna. 6月5日 Origin of jiva soul and the complete understanding PART 2 The dreaming Maha-Vishnu
The difference between the nitya-siddda-svarupa body and the nitya-baddha sub-conscious state is the nitya-siddha is perpetually a transcendental Krishna Conscious bodily form where as the nitya-baddha consciousness has no bodily form until it is provided one by Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva.
The shadowy cloud that exists in one area of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti is just as much a mysterious phenomenon too many Sanskrit scholars as the dark holes in outer space are to modern quantum science of the 21st century that material scientists are baffled by?
Srila Prabhupada has given us the full explanation of that dark mahat-tattva cloud creation of Maha-Vishnu that exists in 25% of the Spiritual Sky, as illustrated on the cover of his beautiful Srimad Bhagavatam and in the painting above. This dark cloud (mahat-tattva) also illustrated above is where the sleeping Maha-Vishnu accommodates the mostly mistaken dreams of the marginal nitya-siddha devotees and is where their nitya-baddha consciousness goes to be material (ethereal and biological) perishable bodily form, such bodies or vessels are part and parcel of the mahat-tattva and always belong to Maha-Vishnu. He provides such costumes so that the visiting nitya-baddha consciousness or jiva-tattva can exist in the mahat-tattva and attempt to satisfy their non-Krishna conscious dreams, thoughts and desires.
So what is the dark cloud that exists in one corner of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti that the Vedas call the material creation or mahat-tattva? Also what is the marginal potency or energy that radiates from Krishna’s beautiful body?
The perishable cosmic manifestation or material creation (mahat-tattva) is simply the place where the dreaming consciousness of the marginal devotees goes when they choose to deny Krishna and the perpetual nitya-siddha-svarupa body they serve Krishna as. This inferior sub-conscious condition of the marginal nitya-siddha devotees is actually the manifestation of a secondary independent self called the nitya-baddha consciousness (sub-conscious dark side or half of the marginal living entities) The nitya-baddha dreams and desires are transferred as a life force, soul, jiva-tattva, jiva-s’akti, jiva-bhutah, jiva-prakriti etc that has substance and said to be ten thousandth the size of a tip of hair.
These conscious projections transmitted from ones own nitya-siddha body in Goloka or Vaikuntha enters the mahat-tattva first in seed form (a spiritual spark of effulgent minute substance that IS the nitya-baddha consciousness with all its thoughts and dreams of grandeur) without any bodily form or ethereal covering. The nitya-baddha consciousness does not have any bodily form, it is simply dreaming consciousness presented to the mahat-tattva as a seed, spark or effulgence emanating from Goloka.
Unlike the nitya-siddha-svarupa higher self of ones personality and identity that is eternally as a bodily form, the nitya-baddha consciousness can only be given a bodily form or vessel by Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva, until then the nitya-baddha lower self is simply a spark of living consciousness situated within the body or thoughts of Maha-Vishnu waiting to be ‘planted’ (embodied) within His mahat-tattva creation. In this way when Maha-Vishnu glances over His material creation, He impregnates the mahat-tattva with His blue print of species of life then designates those bodily ethereal and biological vessels to the visiting bodiless nitya-baddha consciousness. In this way when one first enters the mahat-tattva, Maha-Vishnu provides them first with the bodily, vessel and post of Lord Brahma. When one first enters the mahat-tattva, Maha-Vishnu provides them first with the bodily vessel and post of Lord Brahma.
The effulgence seen from the viewpoint of the mahat-tattva emanating from the Vaikunthas can also be the nitya-baddha conscious sparks or seeds entering the mahat-tattva and awaiting for Maha-Vishnu to give such ‘nitya-baddha sparks of consciousness’ bodily form. In this way the tranferral condition of consciousness is not the dormant tatastha conscious state achived after liberation from the mahat-tattva, achieved by those yogis who still deny they have a genuine transcendental body from whence they are dreaming their material existence and Impersonal escape from. The bodiless conscious condition that firsts enters the mahat-tattva in the shape of a seed or living spark, is full of dreams and desires to exploit the material creation yet has no body to fulfil those desires in until Maha-Vishnu plants them in the mahat-tattva (providing an ethereal vessels for the nitya-baddha consciousness to get around within His material creation - mahat-tattva) when he glances over the material creation. Therefore after first ‘sub-consciously’ leaving ones perpetual svarupa body in Goloka or Vaikuntha, the nitya-baddha dreaming conscious condition version of the ‘self’ passes through the intermediate state of existence (tatastha) that exists as a transitional zone between Vaikuntha and the mahat-tattva without any bodily form, awaiting for Maha-Vishnu to give reality and form to ones dreams. This secondary sub-conscious nitya-baddha version of the self manifests when one chooses to no longer remain Krishna Conscious. It is important to understand that the word marginal or subsidiary means all living entities or nitya-siddha-svarupa devotees, are Krishna’s secondary creation that is His surrounding Brahmajyoti effulgence or creation. The effulgence or marginal potency or energy emanating/surrounding Krishna, is created by Krishna with diversity that makes Krishna complete, in other word, every nitya-siddha devotee has a nitya-baddha lower self that can be activated when one no longer wants to be Krishna Conscious. For the reason of diversity and for Krishna the Supreme Lord to feel complete, all of Krishna’s marginal potency, which are all of His nitya-siddha-svarupa emanations, have their own individual two-fold consciousness or the ability to choose between their nitya-siddha Krishna Conscious original self or their nitya-baddha non-Krishna conscious counterfeit self. This means, even though everything is all the creation of Krishna, it is not some collective Borg (emotionless android assimilation) creation where everyone is assimilated into the devotional collective as a mindless servant. In fact those devotees who want to merge into body of Maha-Vishnu and just become an atom in His body are worse than the Mayavadi Impersonalists. The ultimate relationship with Krishna is not one of thoughtlessness, inactivity or mindless devotional activity; real Bhakti-yoga or devotional service is based on ever increasing thoughtful love or service one wants to do. The relation with the spiritual Master is based on reciprocation. Srila Prabhupada once said to a disciple ‘the love you give me is the love you will receive from me’ As a representative of Krishna and our guidance back to Krishna, Srila Prabhupada was simply illustrating the qualifications we need in order to re-establish our original position of servitude with Krishna that again qualifies us to re-establish our nitya-siddha-svarupa original bodily condition and fullness of consciousness (Krishna Consciousness) In this way all marginal living entities or beings (Krishna’s effulgence) do not have to remain as their original nitya-siddha-svarupa-vigraha body if they decide to choose they no longer want to be Krishna Conscious, however only 25% make this choice at a time (each time the mahat-tattva cloud appears in the Spiritual Sky) while some nitya-siddhas never ever activate their nitya-baddha lower self and enter the mahat-tattva, unless it is for Krishna Lila or pastimes. The important point made here is the nitya-siddha-svarupa devotees do not have to remain nitya-siddha-svarupa or Krishna conscious if they choose – this is what marginal means as Srila Prabhupada has explained. Marginal simply means the living entity has a two-fold ability, to choose either serving Krishna or serving the concoctions and dreams within ones sub-conscious mind. From the marginal living entities’ nitya-siddha original bodily (vigraha) source, their secondary consciousness (nitya-baddha) enters into the mahat-tattva as a dreaming conscious state called the jiva-tattva and is provided by the over Lord of the mahat-tattva, the sleeping and dreaming Maha-Vishnu, counterfeit imitation temporary bodily costumes as well as being eventually provided the yogic pathway out of the mahat-tattva incarceration to their impersonal Brahmajyoti dormant consciousness, if they choose to pursue the difficult path of Impersonalism (which is denying their svarupa body or source and origins of their projected nitya-baddha consciousness). The marginal nitya-siddhas sub-conscious ‘other self,’ or the nitya-baddha, sometimes manifests simply due to ‘choosing’ to activate that non-Krishna conscious secondary dreaming sub-consciousness, this right, even though the cause of much suffering for those who make that choice to ‘consciously’ leave Krishnas Personal association, is the endowed right of all marginal nitya-siddhas, although as the painting above illustrates, only 25% choose to get lost in their own sub-conscious dreaming nitya-baddha selfish desires. So there can naturally exist a dark shadow phenomenon within all marginal nitya-siddha beings that is simply activated by the choice to not serve Krishna. That ability to choose between light and darkness is what ‘marginal’ means. This dark shadow is called the nitya-baddha sub-consciousness and is where ones conscious awareness is restricted by their desire not to serve Krishna. Technically the activation of the nitya-baddha consciousness is the constitutional right all marginal beings. Within all marginal being is this duality of consciousness governed by the choice to serve or not serve Krishna. In this way all nitya-siddha beings have a nitya-baddha-shadow. All nitya-siddhas exist in their full constitutionally devotional unconditional position as eternal selfless humble servant of the servant of the servant of beautiful Krishna and can never fall down however, the Srimad Bhagavatam is very clear that 25% (as shown in the painting above) of all nitya-siddhas choose to activate their nitya-baddha sub-conscious dreaming condition and turn their back on Krishna and their eternal original perpetual bodily form and follow their nitya-baddha dreams that places them in the mahat-tattva or material creation. The dreaming condition of the nitya-siddhas’ in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha is just as real as the perpetual reality that exists there. In this way even though every marginal being or emanation from Krishna has an originally svarupa body, they can change that rasa bodily identity simple by dreaming of serving Krishna in different ways, a peacock, blade of grass a flower, a tree, a friend, a parent, uncle, teacher, cow herd boy, a flute, a chair Krishna sits on, a jewel on the clothing of Krishna, a gopi, etc, etc. Such understandings are very intimate and only understood as one advances in their Krishna Consciousness. In a similar way, when one stops dreaming of Krishna then those dreams manifest their existence in a separate reality that is not Krishna Conscious, this is how one enters the material creation or mahat-tattva, not as their svarupa body, but in the bodies the dream of. The individual marginal beings as their nitya-siddha-svarupa bodies are known collectively as the Brahman or Brahmajyoti living personal effulgence that surrounds and emanates from the transcendental body of Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This personal Brahmajyoti takes up 75% of all creation, where all the marginal bodily living entities display the full potential of their individuality and identity that is always Krishna Consciousness. These percentage numbers are hard to understand when there is no beginning or end to all creation however, this description is given in the Srimad Bhagavatam that gives one an idea how many stay in Goloka with Krishna and how many choose to go it alone (without personal awareness of Krishna) into the land of the dreaming or mahat-tattva. The marginal potency or energy of Krishnas’ effulgence is actually Krishnas’ nitya-siddha-svarupa-vigraha bodily servants that ARE the living lights that make up of the universe. Krishnas’ bodily effulgence, Brahmajyoti or Spiritual Sky IS their bodily Spiritual pure effulgence, originally, ultimately and unendingly. This wonderful living effulgence is simultaneously the bodily effulgence of God/Krishna and His nitya-siddha-svarupa perpetual devotees. Further more, the subsidiary or marginal nitya-siddha vigraha servants of Krishna’s entrance into the temporary material creation (mahat-tattva) are only possible from within their sub-conscious dreams (nitya-baddha conditional state) and never as their nitya-siddha-svarupa body. Such dreams are transferred as a secondary consciousness (jiva-tattva, jiva-s’akti, jiva bhutah, jiva-tatastha etc - collectively called the nitya-baddha lower self and is also the supply of consciousness that eventually can appear as the impersonal Brahmajyoti which is simply the dormant conscious condition of the nitya-baddha) It is important to remember that the ultimate source of all consciousness is the bodily effulgence of Krishna. The nitya-baddha dreaming sub-consciousness originates from ones perpetual svarupa or rasa body (nitya-siddha) in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha. This secondary dreaming conscious manifestation first possess counterfeit bodily vessels (nothing like ones permanent svarupa bodily form outside the mahat-tattva in Goloka or Vaikuntha) that are real but temporary, beginning with the ethereal body of Brahma within the material creation and then can devolve after billions of births within the mahat-tattva, to a state of inactive or dormant dreaming consciousness that is also known as jiva-tatastha consciousness.
In other words the Impersonal Brahmajyoti is simply the inactive non-dreaming secondary condition or lower reality (marginal nitya-baddha) of the marginal nitya-siddha devotees, transmitted from the fullness of their marginal svarupa or rasa-atma-vigraha body that is eternally serving Krishna in unlimited Lila’s or past times.
This secondary dreaming conscious manifestation first possess imaginary or counterfeit bodily vessels that are real but temporary, beginning with the ethereal body of Brahma within the material creation. What is the Brahmajyoti and its shadow the Impersonal Brahmajyoti? And what are the nitya-siddha devotee’s and their nitya-baddha shadow? Remember it is important to understand that the marginal potency, energy or individual nitya-siddha-svarupa servants of Krishna ARE the fully active living effulgent Brahmajyoti in their original vigraha bodily Krishna Conscious condition serving Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, where as the living Impersonal Brahmajyoti is simply the comatose sub-conscious dreaming condition (nitya-baddha) of the nitya-siddha devotee’s that eventually go on (after existing in ethereal and biological vessels within the mahat-tattva) to manifest collectively, if they continue to deny who they really are in relation to Krishna, as the collective effulgent Impersonal living Brahmajyoti or shadow of the Brahmajyoti. Therefore one must understand that the Impersonal Brahmajyoti is simply the transformation of the individual dreaming nitya-baddha sub-conscious condition of the marginal beings, that eventually (with great difficulty) find their way to the shut dormant mode of their own consciousness that is non other than the Impersonal Brahmajyoti. Only when the Impersonal jiva-tatastha dormant sub-conscious transformation occurs from the nitya-baddha material active embodied jiva-s’akti, or jiva-bhutah sub-conscious secondary condition of the marginal living entities, that ones individual conscious condition and awareness changes into the Impersonal Brahmajyoti aspect of their own consciousness. Only then can that secondary condition of the marginal living entities appear as an insignificant inactive dormant living spark of conscious transformation, due to denying that the origins of their tatastha consciousness originates from their own perpetual nitya-siddha-svarupa devotional bodily form in Goloka-Vrndavana. This dormant tatastha Impersonal aspect of the Brahmajyoti or ones own consciousness is situated between the Vaikuntha imperishable Spiritual Sky and the perishable mahat-tattva cloud also situated in the Spiritual Sky. This is the ultimate understanding of what the Brahmajyoti really is in its fullness. This is an important point to understand. Unfortunately many caste Goswami’s, brahmanas, big, big gurus, jnani’s, sadu’s and pandits who foolishly believe the origins of our consciousness (jiva-tattva) is from the Brahmajyoti (Impersonalists), instead of the correct understanding that our consciousness (jiva-tattva) originates from our perpetual individual svarupa body in Goloka-Vrndavana, will enviously criticise, ridicule and even violently threaten the real Personalist Vaishnava’s who concretely know that all of us have always been personalists, even though from time to time we choose to forget that Krishna Conscious Svarupa perpetual body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, which is the origin and source of our individual nitya-baddha consciousness whether in the mahat-tattva or the Impersonal Brahman/Brahmajyoti, Brahma-sayujya or tatastha. It is also said that the nitya-baddha shadow of the marginal nitya-siddha beings is where both the material mahat-tattva and the Impersonal Brahmajyoti come into existence. How this happens and fascilitated by Maha-Vishnu will be fully explained in this book. Chanting Hare Krishna and engaging in devotional service will protect a sincere aspiring devotee as the cobbler was protected in the story of ‘the cobbler and the jnani’ (page ?) however there are also those sincere souls who may become disillusioned if they only follow the charisma of a particular Guru, Swami or general devotee when a philosophical crisis develops due to their sentimental understanding of Vedanta. Srila Prabhupada wanted all his disciples and grand disciples etc to study his books and learn HIS teachings of Krishna Consciousness and not simply become an un-knowledgeable follower in someone else’s charismatic religious plans, "Don't think, just do what you are told prabhu may have its place in the 1970s and 80s and even today for helping some, but it is certainly not meant for everyone”, it is an old cliché that can be misused by scrupulous leaders in management that will only deny one from their own personal realizations in their attempts to advance in Krishna Consciousness and their natural Spiritual development and growth meant to be nurtured and not exploited. Therefore if you don’t want to be cheated when buying a diamond, you must have some knowledge of what a diamond is; similarly one must have some basic understanding of Spiritual life to begin with and then develop a solid understanding of Srila Prabhupadas books. I met one man in 1981 and he felt he did not know enough to get initiated, he even said to me that he wanted to see how the new Gurus in ISKCON settle in because it was only four years earlier that Srila Prabhupada had left this world. This man was intelligent enough to see that he just did not choose a Guru who was expert at imitating Srila Prabhupada, but wanted to be sure of his spiritual endeavours, after all Srila Prabhupada himself was not initiated by his spiritual master until he was thirty six years old. In this way this man felt he would not be mislead by material charisma in his humble attempt to be Krishna Conscious. Many adult aspiring devotees who did get cheated in the 1980s were clearly victims of their own naivety because they were not qualified to take initiation in the first place, they could not tell the difference between an imitation guru and a real Guru of Krishna. How is it possible to understand the complexities of the karma that leads one to an imitation instead of the real thing? Its like the story of the diamonds in India, one has to be qualified to know what a real diamond is so they do not get cheated with glass imitations. This mans wait turned out to be an intelligent choice because so many Gurus began to have difficulties in their attempts to be genuinely Krishna Conscious. He wanted to get to know his Guru and in this way, his sincere determination to wait and be certain his Guru was for real, would protect him from the dictatorial power trips, eventual fall down of those imitating Srila Prabhupada instead of humbly following him, and learn to see through those who have disguised their show of Spiritual advancement with the clever show of material charisma and opulence that had been the demise of so many sanyasis and Gurus and devotees in the past. Such deep understanding of Srila Prabhupadas books, lectures, tapes and classes would also protect one from not only those who imitated him, but also other conflicting Vaishnava theories and the dreaded Impersonalism that has severely polluted our 21st century society. One must study Srila Prabhupadas’ books; tapes, letters and interviews diligently and openly challenge anyone who contradicts those books, referring mostly to Impersonalists, Buddhists, materialists and mundane religionists. The teachings of the Spiritual Master are absolute so Prabhupadas books, tapes (that all his books are via Dictaphone anyway) lectures, classes, morning walks, interviews and letters are all as equal as each other. Why wouldn’t they be so? Srila Prabhupada warned us to not dwell too much of why and how we are here, but to get out.
On many occasions he has said that our existence in the material world is so long that it seems we have come from tatastha and then throws his transcendental insight in the equation by saying that before that we also existed in another creation of matter and before that, and before that, and before that – how far can we go back? And he finishes by saying, before that even, we were with Krishna.
The different ways of attaining jiva-tatastha consciousness
The Impersonal characteristic of ones consciousness is called the jiva-tatastha conscious state achieved AFTER the nitya-baddha consciousness becomes fed up with living in ethereal and biological vessels for millions of births. Only then after traveling through millions of ethereal and biological forms or vessels provided by Maha-Vishnu, does one’s consciousness resemble an inactive stage of consciousness called jiva-tatastha that is unaware of past, present and future.
All bodily vessels in the mahat-tattva are provided by Maha-Vishnu.
The jiva-tatastha consciousness attained by great yogis after traveling through the mahat-tattva, is a suspended dreamless timeless characteristic state of the nitya-baddha dreaming condition, but even that dreamless dormant conscious state is temporary, due to the inherent active nature of the nitya-siddha bodily origins of ones nitya-baddha jiva-tattva consciousness.
In other words, the bodiless nitya-baddha consciousness originates from ones perpetual nitya-siddha rasa body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha. There are two different tatastha conditions the nitya-baddha consciousness enters.
The nitya-baddha consciousness is the sub-conscious extension of the perpetual nitya-siddha devotee in Goloka-Vrndavana or Vaikuntha.
To reach the mahat-tattva the nitya-baddha consciousness has to first travel through the tatastha conscious condition that exists between the Vaikunthas and the mahat-tattva and is also known as the Impersonal aspect of the Brahmajyoti. This is the first connection the nitya-baddha consciousness has with the tatastha feature of individual consciousness or the Impersonal aspect of the Brahmajyoti, which is factually made up of individual nitya-baddha consciousnesses existing in the tatastha dormant conscious state.
Some nitya-baddha’s may try to remain in the tatastha condition due to seeing the implications of proceeding to the impermanent mahat-tattva of pain ans suffering and ‘sit on the fence’ being neither in the Vaikunthas or the mahat-tattva however, the choice had already been made back in Goloka or on a Vaikuntha planet and eventually, due to their desires for self glorification and dreams of grandur, proceed as the jiva-tattva seed and enter the 'thoughts' and ‘dreams’ of Maha-Vishnu awaiting for Him to embody all ones dreams and desires with billions of bodily vessels over billions of years. In this way Maha-Vishnu impregnates the nitya-baddhas or jiva-tattvas by His glance over His material creation and gives them ethereal form. In this way the nitya-baddha jiva-tattva begins its material existence of living out various non-Krishna conscious dreams and mistaken desires in different species and worlds within the mahat-tattva for trillians of years.
Eventually after millions of births, after great difficulty and struggle, the nitya-baddha consciousness is liberated from the ethereal and biological vessels from the mahat-tattva, but still trapped in their nitya-baddha dreaming consciousness because of not understanding they have a perpetual Krishna Conscious nitya-siddha-svarupa body that is always serving beautiful Krishna way beyond the mahat-tattva and the lonely selfish impersonal tatastha condition of consciousness that they have become trapped in and further foolishly believe is their origins.
So on two occasions the nitya-baddha experience the tatastha condition of their own nitya-baddha consciousness - when they first proceed towards the mahat-tattva and when they leave it.
1. The first one is when ones dreaming nitya-baddha secondary consciousness leaves Goloka and falls to the intermediate stage of conscious transferral situated in-between the Vaikunthas and the mahat-tattva. In this way the nitya-baddha consciousness is the manifestation of desires and dreams to enjoy the material world; however the nitya-baddha first goes through the initial stage of tatastha consciousness on its way to the mahat-tattva. When the nitya-baddha consciousness exits it tatastha intermediate stage of being in-between the Vaikunthas and the mahat-tattva, driven by the desire to enjoy an existence of self-centered grandeur, it is then placed in seed form within the mind of Maha-Vishnu.
The nnitya-baddha consciousness in this stage of transformation is now called the jiva-tattva, jiva-sakti, jiva-prakriti, jiva-bhutah etc. Remember the nitya-baddha consciousness is formless and bodiless (due to only being made up of dreams, thoughts and desires) but maintains its individuality and identity due to being a sub-conscious extension of ones perpetual authentic nitya-siddha bodily form (vigraha). Only when the nitya-baddha consciousness enters the mahat-tattva, does the dreaming lower self receive a bodily ethereal vessel from Maha-Vishnu.
2. The second is when the nitya-baddha jiva-tattva becomes fed up with the temporary nature and decay of the material creation, being forced in every life to give up everything due to disease, old age and death, thus the seach for liberstion begins. Unfortunately without the guidance of a Spiritual Master, one can never truthfully know who they really are serving Krishna; therefore one foolishly seeks out the Impersonal dormant state of consciousness called by many names such as Brahma-sayja, tatastha etc, due to the ignorance of not knowing their authentic perpetual bodily source in Goloka. Tragically the ignorant nitya-baddha jiva-tattva consciousness transforms into the jiva-tatastha ‘inactive’ condition and just becomes another spiritual spark of effulgence in the Impersonal Brahmajyoti, believing it is the origins of all existence.
Nitya-baddha lower self in the Jiva-tatastha individual consciousness means ‘in-between the imperishable and perishable creations’, jiva-tatastha aspect of the nitya-baddha has no form until given a body by Maha-Vishnu in the Mahat-tattva and then becomes known as the embodied jiva-tattva, jiva s’akti, jiva-bhutah, jiva-prakriti etc. The eternal nitya-siddha svarupa body exists in blissful Krishna Consciousness outside of the maha-tattva and way beyond the tatastha Impersonal intermediate stage of conscious projection that exists in-between Vaikuntha and the mahat-tattva that is also called the Impersonal Brahmajyoti as already explained.
When ones dreaming nitya-baddha secondary consciousness is in the intermediate stage of conscious transferral situated in-between the Vaikunthas and the mahat-tattva, the nitya-baddha consciousness at this stage of beginning material life, is not a dormant consciousness but is the manifestation of material desires and dreams to enjoy the material world; however the dreaming nitya-baddha condition has to still first enters and go through the initial stage of tatastha consciousness on its way to the mahat-tattva.
Remember the nitya-baddha consciousness is formless and bodiless (due to only being made up of dreams, thoughts and desires) but maintains its individuality and identity due to being a sub-conscious extension of ones perpetual authentic nitya-siddha bodily form (vigraha). Only when the nitya-baddha consciousness enters the mahat-tattva, does the dreaming lower self receive a bodily ethereal vessel from Maha-Vishnu.
Only by the mercy of Maha-Vishnu does the jiva-tattva become clothed in bodily form (first ethereal or the subtle then further clothed by the biological vessel) so one can experience those dreams, thoughts and desires within the mahat-tattva or material creation. Even the ethereal body can appear as a spark form (some think the ethereal body is the jiva-tattva) of effulgence mistaken to be the bodiless jiva-tattva by less intelligent mystic yogis, Buddhists Jains and Impersonalists because of their ability to shape-shift their ethereal vessel and fit any bodily container from a biological tiny amebae to a large elephant or whale or even remain for millions of years in a mediative condition unaware they are still living in an ethereal body.
Only by 100% Krishna Consciousness can one become truly free from the subtle or ethereal body and reconnect back to their nitya-siddha-svarupa body in Goloka-Vrndavana or Vaikuntha. In our 21st century primitive society, 99.99% of us cannot even understand we are not the biological body, what to speak of the ethereal body. WE ALL ORIGINATED FROM GOLOKA
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the founder of the International Society or Krishna Consciousness.
Srila Prabhupada - “No one falls from Vaikuntha.” We really do not fall. We think we are fallen. But this just means we have forgotten our original situation and position"
Srila Prabhupada is very clear. Originally we have a direct personal relationship with Krishna in the spiritual world. But when we want to take Krishna’s position, we therefore put ourselves into a dreaming state due to our non-Krishna conscious choices.
In this dreaming state after we enter the mahat-tattva dream of Maha-Vishnu that is a real but a perishable reality situated in one corner of the Brahmajyoti Spiritual Sky or creation, we choose to forget our actual position and thus are free to act out our non-Krishna conscious desire and dreams within the mahat-tattva cloud in our attempts to become the centre of attraction or in our attempt to even become a supreme enjoyer. These mistaken self centered choices or non Krishna conscious dreams are characterized as being “fallen” from our position in the spiritual world, but Srila Prabhupada explains that in Vaikuntha reality, beyond mundane time and space that governs the mahat-tattva, we are not fallen and our authentic bodily self is eternally there, “We are simply in a dreaming condition” explains Srila Prabhupada.
TO BE CONTINUED Origin of the jiva soul complete understanding Part two Understanding the true origins of all living entities This book is based on the teachings of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The difference between mental speculation and philosophical speculation is backing up ones realizations with quotes from Srila Prabhupada who is my eternal Spiritual Master. Unless one engages in philosophical speculation, just how will one formulate relevant questions to place before their guru and search through his teachings for correct meaning and understanding? Therefore the difference between philosophical and mental speculation is conclusions based on Srila Prabhupadas teachings (books, tapes and letters) that is handed down to our society in the 21st Century, giving the correct meaning and translations of all previous Acharayas, further more, as Srila Prabhupada has said, no other books are necessary other than his teachings. In fact, even if other Vedic texts are read or translated, that includes the six Gosvami’s, Bhaktivinode Thakura and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaja etc; such literatures are seen always through the explanations Srila Prabhupada has given us. His lectures, classes, morning walks, letters, tapes and books are the basis for understanding all previous Spiritual Masters. Devotees may read and translate ancient Sanskrit texts or recent Bengali and Hindu texts written by previous Acharyas however, such translations can only be properly seen through the teachings of Srila Prabhupada and never through the teachings of his godbrothers, god nephews or even his own disciples who have gone over to the Gaudiya math and have become polluted with contradictory views to the ‘Personal teachings’ of Srila Prabhupada. The purpose of this, as Srila Prabhupada clearly explained, is to protect the sincere seeker of truth from the vague interpretations and apparent contradictions from other groups or camps polluted by their Impersonal belief that we all originated from the Brahmajyoti. All teachings of Impersonalism, Srila Prabhupada instructed his disciples, must be avoided. Srila Prabhupada is the 32nd Bonafide Spiritual Master in a line of disciplic succession that goes all the way back to Krishna. Srila Prabhupada has single headedly, unlike his godbrothers and even previous Acharayas, Sadu’s and Babajis spread the teachings of Lord Krishna and Sri Caitanya Maha Prabhu to every corner of the globe. Due to his endeavours and without any help from his Godbrothers in the Gaudiya math, the chanting of Hare Krishna and the distribution of his books has reached every city, town and village around the world, where Krishna has now become a household name. Some terms will be unfamiliar to many who read this book, however such terms are just another way to empathize the fact that we always have an original svarupa body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha. The terms atma-vigraha or nitya-siddha-svarupa, jiva-atma-vigraha, jiva consciousness, or the secondary conscious state or lower-self, known of the nitya-baddha, is also known as the jiva-tattva, jiva-s’akti’ jiva-tatastha, jiva-prakriti etc depending on the conditional state of ones extended secondary consciousness one is ‘dreaming’ in. Such terms, even though unfamiliar to many of us, are just another way to empathize that we always have an original svarupa body serving Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha even if we are unaware of this fact due to our absorption in the nitya-baddha dreaming conscious condition that can only function in the mahat-tattva. The terminologies such as ‘atma-vigraha’ or ‘jiva-atma-vigraha’ are just another translation like that of German, Russian Chinese’s etc, of the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. The words atma (soul) vigraha (bodily form) is only establishing that the soul/jiva has an eternal imperishable body we call the nitya-siddha or svarupa body that is eternally Krishna Conscious in an atmosphere where no past or future exists because everything is in the perpetual present, as the Brahma Samhita teaches us. This imperishable reality is beyond our material concept of temporary time and space. In fact the understanding in this book can only help many to further comprehend the true Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha origins of the life force or jiva-soul, instead of believing in the nonsense Brahmajyoti origins as propagated by the Buddhists, Impersonalists and other Gaudiya Vaishnava sects. This book also especially gives a crystal clear understanding of how the mahat-tattva (material creation) works, explaining the creator and facilitator of that ‘universe of the dreaming’; Maha-Vishnu. The imperishable Kingdom of Krishna/God (Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha) and perishable cosmic or material formation (mahat-tattva) are both Krishna’s creation. The effulgence surrounding and originating from Krishna is a bright all-pervasive living light called the Brahmajyoti as the Brahma-Samhita teaches us however, the foundation of that living light, Brahmajyoti, Spiritual Sky or the entire creation, is the unlimited marginal individual bodily atma-vigraha beings emanating from Krishnas body as that perpetual Brahmajyoti. The living Brahmajyoti in not Impersonal, it is held together by form because Brahman or Brahmajyoti is the existence of innumerable bodily forms that are adjacent to Krishna’s Personal body or Vigraha Form. The Brahmajyoti effulgence, or all of Krishnas’ Vigraha expansions and marginal vigraha forms known as nitya-siddhas, have an eternal relationship of everlasting servitude to Krishna within either the central Goloka-Vrndavana Spiritual Sky or the surrounding Vaikunthas, or both! All marginal nitya-siddha forms are eternally subservant to Krishna and have 78% of the qualities of Krishna/God as their full potential nitya-siddha-svarupa-vigraha bodily self. Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the cause of all causes, as Srila Prabhupada has taught us from his presentation of the beautiful Srimad Bhagavatam, therefore the eternal unchanging Spiritual Sky (Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha) is where unlimited expansions of Krishna are forever joined in a relationship of loving devotion with His innumerable (countless) marginal perpetual Krishna Conscious bodily nitya-siddha forms. These bodily forms are the full Krishna Conscious potential of all marginal emanation within the imperishable timeless Spiritual Sky, Brahmajyoti or all creation. Krishna’s bodily Form and countless Vishnu Expansions, as well as His marginal potency or subsidiary vigraha devotee’s, ARE the entire source, or rather, IS the Brahmajyoti effulgence surrounding the Syamasundara form of Krishna. So what is the dark cloud that exists in one corner of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti that is just as much a mysterious phenomenon too many Sanskrit scholars as the dark holes in outer space modern quantum science of the 21st century is baffled by? Srila Prabhupada has given us the full explanation of that dark cloud that exists in 25% of the Spiritual Sky, as illustrated on the cover of his beautiful Srimad Bhagavatam and called the material creation or mahat-tattva. So what is the dark cloud that exists in one corner of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti that the Vedas call the material creation or mahat-tattva? Also what is the marginal potency or energy that radiates from Krishna’s beautiful body? The perishable cosmic manifestation or material creation (mahat-tattva) is simply the place where the dreaming consciousness of the marginal devotees goes when they choose to deny Krishna and the perpetual nitya-siddha-svarupa body they serve Krishna as. This inferior sub-conscious condition called the nitya-baddha secondary manifestation of the marginal nitya-siddha devotees is actually the manifestation of independent self-centered nitya-baddha dreams and desires that are transferred as a life force, soul, jiva-tattva, jiva-s’akti, jiva-bhutah etc that has substance and said to be ten thousandth the size of a tip of hair. This conscious projection enters the mahat-tattva in seed form or consciousness without any ethereal covering and is first given the ethereal bodily clothing, vessel and post of Lord Brahma. This secondary sub-conscious nitya-baddha version of the self manifests when one chooses to no longer remain Krishna Conscious. It is important to understand that the word marginal or subsidiary means all living entities or nitya-siddha-svarupa devotees, are Krishna’s secondary creation that is His surrounding Brahmajyoti effulgence or creation. The effulgence or marginal potency or energy emanating/surrounding Krishna, is created by Krishna with diversity that makes Krishna complete, in other word, every nitya-siddha devotee has a nitya-baddha lower self that can be activated when one no longer wants to be Krishna Conscious. For the reason of diversity and for Krishna the Supreme Lord to feel complete, all of Krishna’s marginal potency, which are all of His nitya-siddha-svarupa emanations, have their own individual two-fold consciousness or the ability to choose between their nitya-siddha Krishna Conscious origin or their nitya-baddha non-Krishna conscious self. This means, even though everything is all the creation of Krishna, it is not some collective Borg (emotionless android assimilation) creation where everyone is assimilated into the devotional collective as a mindless servant. In fact those devotees who want to merge in to body of Maha-Vishnu and just become an atom in His body are worse than the Mayavadi Impersonalists. The ultimate relationship with Krishna is not one of thoughtlessness, inactivity or mindless devotional activity; real Bhakti-yoga or devotional service is based on ever increasing thoughtful love or service one wants to do. The relation with the spiritual Master is based on reciprocation. Srila Prabhupada once said to a disciple ‘the love you give me is the love you will receive from me’ As a representative of Krishna and our guidance back to Krishna, Srila Prabhupada was simply illustrating the qualifications we need in order to re-establish our original position of servitude with Krishna that again qualifies us to re-establish our nitya-siddha-svarupa original bodily condition and fullness of consciousness (Krishna Consciousness) ' In this way all marginal living entities or beings (Krishna’s effulgence) do not have to remain as their original nitya-siddha-svarupa-vigraha body if they decide to choose they no longer want to be Krishna Conscious, however only 25% make this choice at a time (each time the mahat-tattva cloud appears in the Spiritual Sky) while some nitya-siddhas never ever activate their nitya-baddha lower self and enter the mahat-tattva, unless it is for Krishna Lila or pastimes. The important point made here is the nitya-siddha-svarupa devotees do not have to remain nitya-siddha-svarupa or Krishna conscious if they choose – this is what marginal means as Srila Prabhupada has explained. Marginal simply means the living entity has a two-fold ability, to choose either serving Krishna or serving the concoctions and dreams within ones sub-conscious mind. From the marginal living entities’ nitya-siddha original bodily (vigraha) source, their secondary consciousness (nitya-baddha) enters into the mahat-tattva as a dreaming conscious state called the jiva-tattva and is provided by the over Lord of the mahat-tattva, the sleeping and dreaming Maha-Vishnu, counterfeit imitation temporary bodily costumes as well as being eventually provided the yogic pathway out of the mahat-tattva incarceration to their impersonal Brahmajyoti dormant consciousness, if they choose to pursue the difficult path of Impersonalism (which is denying their svarupa body or source and origins of their projected nitya-baddha consciousness). The marginal nitya-siddhas sub-conscious ‘other self,’ or the nitya-baddha, sometimes manifests simply due to ‘choosing’ to activate that non-Krishna conscious secondary dreaming sub-consciousness, this right, even though the cause of much suffering for those who make that choice to ‘consciously’ leave Krishnas Personal association, is the endowed right of all marginal nitya-siddhas, although as the painting above illustrates, only 25% choose to get lost in their own sub-conscious dreaming nitya-baddha selfish desires. So there can naturally exist a dark shadow phenomenon within all marginal nitya-siddha beings that is simply activated by the choice to not serve Krishna. This dark shadow is called the nitya-baddha sub-consciousness and is where ones conscious awareness is restricted by their desire not to serve Krishna. Technically the activation of the nitya-baddha consciousness is the constitutional right all marginal beings. Within all marginal being is this duality of consciousness governed by the choice to serve or not serve Krishna. In this way all nitya-siddha beings have a nitya-baddha-shadow. Generally all nitya-siddhas exist in their full constitutionally devotional unconditional position as eternal selfless humble servant of the servant of the servant of beautiful Krishna however, the Srimad Bhagavatam is very clear that 25% (as shown in the painting above) of all nitya-siddhas choose to activate their nitya-baddha sub-conscious dreaming condition and turn their back on Krishna and follow their dreams that places them in the mahat-tattva or material creation. The dreaming condition of the nitya-siddhas’ in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha is just as real as the perpetual reality that exists there. In this way even though every marginal being or emanation from Krishna has an originally svarupa body, they can change that rasa bodily identity simple by dreaming of serving Krishna in different ways, a peacock, blade of grass a flower, a tree, a friend, a parent, uncle, teacher, cow herd boy, a flute, a chair Krishna sits on, a jewel on the clothing of Krishna, a gopi, etc, etc. Such understandings are very intimate and only understood as one advances in their Krishna Consciousness. In a similar way, when one stops dreaming of Krishna then those dreams manifest their existence in a separate reality that is not Krishna Conscious, this is how one enters the material creation or mahat-tattva, not as their svarupa body, but in the bodies the dream of. The individual marginal beings as their nitya-siddha-svarupa bodies are known collectively as the Brahman or Brahmajyoti living personal effulgence. This personal Brahmajyoti takes up 75% of all creation. These percentage numbers are hard to understand when there is no beginning or end to all creation however, this description is given in the Srimad Bhagavatam that gives one an idea how many stay in Goloka with Krishna and how many choose to go it alone (without personal awareness of Krishna) into the land of the dreaming or mahat-tattva. The marginal potency or energy of Krishnas’ effulgence is actually Krishnas’ nitya-siddha-svarupa-vigraha bodily servants that ARE the living lights that make up of the universe. Krishnas’ bodily effulgence, Brahmajyoti or Spiritual Sky IS their bodily Spiritual pure effulgence, originally, ultimately and unendingly. This wonderful living effulgence is simultaneously the bodily effulgence of God/Krishna and His nitya-siddha-svarupa perpetual devotees. Further more, the subsidiary or marginal nitya-siddha vigraha servants of Krishna’s entrance into the temporary material creation (mahat-tattva) are only possible from within their sub-conscious dreams (nitya-baddha conditional state) and never as their nitya-siddha-svarupa body. Such dreams are transferred as a secondary consciousness (jiva-tattva, jiva-s’akti, jiva bhutah, jiva-tatastha etc - collectively called the nitya-baddha lower self and is also the supply of consciousness that eventually can appear as the impersonal Brahmajyoti which is simply the dormant conscious condition of the nitya-baddha) It is important to remember that the ultimate source of all consciousness is the bodily effulgence of Krishna. The nitya-baddha dreaming sub-consciousness originates from ones perpetual svarupa or rasa body (nitya-siddha) in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha. This secondary dreaming conscious manifestation first possess imaginary or counterfeit bodily vessels, beginning with the ethereal body of Brahma within the material creation and then can devolve after billions of births within the mahat-tattva, to a state of inactive consciousness that is also known as jiva-brahmajyoti or tatastha consciousness. In other words the Impersonal Brahmajyoti is simply the inactive non-dreaming secondary condition or lower reality (marginal nitya-baddha) of the marginal nitya-siddha devotees, transmitted from the fullness of their marginal svarupa or rasa-atma-vigraha body that is eternally serving Krishna in unlimited Lila’s or past times. What is the Brahmajyoti and its shadow the Impersonal Brahmajyoti? And what are the nitya-siddha’s and their nitya-baddha shadow? Remember it is important to understand that the marginal potency, energy or individual nitya-siddha-svarupa servants of Krishna ARE the fully active living effulgent Brahmajyoti in their original vigraha bodily Krishna Conscious condition serving Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, where as the living Impersonal Brahmajyoti is simply the comatose sub-conscious dreaming condition (nitya-baddha) of the nitya-siddha devotee’s that eventually go on (after existing in ethereal and biological vessels within the mahat-tattva) to manifest collectively, if they continue to deny who they really are in relation to Krishna, as the collective effulgent Impersonal living Brahmajyoti or shadow of the Brahmajyoti. Therefore one must understand that the Impersonal Brahmajyoti is simply the transformation of the individual dreaming nitya-baddha sub-conscious condition of the marginal beings, that eventually (with great difficulty) find their way to the shut dormant mode of their own consciousness that is non other than the Impersonal Brahmajyoti. Only as the Impersonal jiva-tatastha sub-conscious transformation of the nitya-baddha sub-conscious secondary condition of the marginal living entities, which IS the Impersonal Brahmajyoti aspect of their own consciousness, can that secondary condition of the marginal living entities called the nitya-baddhas, appear as an insignificant inactive living spark due to denying that the origins of their Impersonal Brahmajyoti-tatastha consciousness originates from their own perpetual nitya-siddha-svarupa devotional bodily form in Goloka-Vrndavana. This is the ultimate understanding of what the Brahmajyoti really is in its fullness. This is an important point to understand. Unfortunately many caste Goswami’s, brahmanas, big, big gurus, jnani’s, sadu’s and pandits who foolishly believe the origins of our consciousness (jiva-tattva) is from the Brahmajyoti (Impersonalists), instead of the correct understanding that our consciousness (jiva-tattva) originates from our perpetual individual svarupa body in Goloka-Vrndavana, will enviously criticise, ridicule and even violently threaten the real Personalist Vaishnava’s who concretely know that all of us have always been personalists, even though from time to time, we choose to forget that Krishna Conscious Svarupa perpetual body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, which is the origin and source of all our individual consciousnesses whether in the mahat-tattva or the Impersonal Brahman/Brahmajyoti. It is also sometimes said that the nitya-baddha shadow of the marginal nitya-siddha beings is where both the material mahat-tattva and the Impersonal Brahmajyoti come into existence. How this happens will be fully explained in this book. 3月14日 origin of jiva soulThe Jiva-soul: Its Origin, Nature, And Potentialities
The perpetual Kingdom of Radha and Krishna, known as Krishna-Loka or Goloka-Vrndavana and encircled by the imperishable Vishnu-Loka or the Vaikuntha Planets, where Krishna’s numerable expansions of Vishnu and Lakshmi reside along with their infinite number of devotee’s (known as Krishna’s marginal potency or individual bodily servants) takes up 3/4 of the imperishable Spiritual Sky or total creation. Krishna’s planet is centered above in the red lotus flower and surrounded by unlimited expansions of Vishnu and Lakshmi in the surrounding yellow Vaikuntha planets, both transcendental abodes are made up of living entities (individual bodily personalities and Krishna’s marginal potency) with eternal devotional bodies, where as the less significant and smaller mahat-tattva cloud, also in that Spiritual Sky (perishable material universe only 1/4 of creation), as well as its impersonal escape, is nothing other than the rebellious dreams, thoughts and desires of just a few of those eternal bodily personalities. Such dreams, thoughts and desires are projected or transmitted as a ‘secondary consciousness’ to the mahat-tattva or temporary material manifestation, due to their desire not to be with Krishna as their devotional form or body. It is there within that mahat-tattva cloud the projected secondary consciousness, emanating from ones original perpetual body, becomes contained by ethereal and biological vessels provided by the presiding Deity of the mahat-tattva, Maha-Vishnu. Krishna’s subsidiary or marginal living entities make Him inclusive and all pervading like the sun and the sunrays, yet both Krishna and His marginal potency always remain individual persons as those original authentic perpetual person in/as transcendental bodies that is always who they really are for eternity. In other words such spiritual bodies in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Empire are not vessels or container or a body one is housed in, no, it is not like that in the perpetual spiritual Sky because those bodies are who one really is for infinity. The energy of Lord Krishna is divided into three: para, kshetrajna and avidya. The para energy is actually the energy of the Supreme Lord Himself; the kshetrajna energy is the individual living entities or the marginal potency of Krishna that are all originally eternal bodily persons like Krishna yet always in the constitutional position of eternal servants and the enjoyed, while Krishna is the enjoyer; and the avidya energy is the material world (mahat-tattva), under the influential control of Maya-Devi, the wife of the creator of the mahat-tattva, Maha-Vishnu. Never was there a time when all the individual transcendental bodies (marginal potency, soul or atma-jiva-vigraha devotee’s) did not exist, nor in the future will such original bodies cease to be. This is confirmed as follows – ‘Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be’ - Bhagavad-Gita as it is chapter 12 text 2. Krishna is a perpetual ‘Bodily-Person’ and so are all of the individual marginal potencies that emanate/surround Him. We hear from the Vedic texts that the Supreme Brahman or Brahmajyoti exhibits Krishna’s effulgence (originates from Krishna), and therefore everything becomes illuminated. We can understand from Brahma-samhita that this Brahmajyoti, or the Brahman effulgence, emanates from the Personal body of Lord Krishna. Many Vaishnava philosophers have considered this effulgence of individuals to be Impersonal however, all ‘so-called sparks’ in Krishna’s effulgence are actually the manifestation of unlimited individual bodily-personalities that are referred to as Krishna’s marginal potency or sparks. All marginal sparks, atoms in the effulgence, potencies, energies etc are all individual bodily personalities that originally manifested as an eternally Krishna Conscious body or sat-cit-ananda-vigraha. Even the terminology ‘originally manifested’ is incorrect because there is no beginning or end to Krishna or His marginal devotee’s. One thing is cetain; all living entities who enter the dark mahat-tattva cloud in the far corner of the Spiritual Sky have all originated from the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, not as their perpetual devotional Krishna Conscious body, but rather as a transformation of consciousness caused by non-Krishna conscious desires. It is only when they (the marginal devotee’s in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha) foolishly transmit their secondary consciousness to the mahat-tattva that such knowledge of their originality is temporarily lost (although the conection to ones authentic bodily self can never be lost, only forgotten) and the disease of Impersonalism (Mayavadism) overwhelms them. In this way, when one chooses to leave Krishna's association, they also leave behind the body that they really are, and always will be, and always have been, even though their geniun bodily self is temporarily ‘consciously’ abandoned to pursue self-centered pleasures! Unfortunately the disease of believing our origins are from the Impersonal origins of 'sparks and atoms' even affects many great Vaishnava devotee’s like Srila Bhaktirakshaka Sridhar Dev Goswami Maharaja, Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja Swami, B.G. Narasingha and many others in both the Gaudiya Math and ISKCON (The Internation Society For Krishna Consciosness). Their understanding of the jiva or souls origins is simply incorrect. The fact is, we are all eternal person as a perpetual transcendental body and always have been that bodily form. We can either accept that Krishna conscious bodily origins, or we can deny that body and consciously transfer our desires, aspirations, dreams and thoughts to he mahat-tattva (impermanent material universe of self centered importance). Ultimately Krishna’s ‘marginal-potency-bodily personalities’ are the Brahmajyoti!! It is from all those perpetual bodily individuals forms (vigraha’s), who are always engaged in various pastimes with Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana or Vishnu within the surrounding Vaikuntha planets, may sometimes go on to ‘consciously’ (never as the body they are eternally, that is their true selfless devotional unique self) leave Krishna’s imperishable abode and enter the perishable mahat-tattva cloud within one corner of the Spiritual Sky in a secondary non-Krishna conscious state that automatically becomes an Impersonal phenomenon within the Brahmajyoti. Only in this way via the mahat-tattva cloud can the Impersonal Brahmajyoti temporarily exist. All the ‘individual bodily marginal sparks (vigraha’s) of the effulgence emanating from Krishna’ are actually collectively the Brahmajyoti Brahman effulgence or the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha’s bodily personalities serving Krishna. The mahat-tattva on the other hand, is also part of the Brahmajyoti, and comes into existence due to the non-Krishna conscious desires, aspirations, thoughts and dreams of the marginal living entities perpetually serving the either Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrndavana when they abandone that service. Krishna and his marginal devoteee’s are inseperible even when his marginal servants choose even when His marginal servants choose to extend their consciousness to a secondary existence away from the full potentialities of their own original devotional bodily identity. Because Krishna is the Supreme Personality of God and the cause of all causes, He anticipates such choices of His marginal energy (vigraha’s). In other words, for Krishna to be complete, the marginal potency, including their secondary transmitted consciousness, actually make Krishna the absolute-whole or simultaneously one and different (acinta-beda-beda-tattva) It is because Krishna allows individuality, He knows in advance that some will choose to reject Him and their own Krishna conscious nitya-siddha-svarupa-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha body and apt for the secondary option which is the mahat-tattva or material universe. For Krishna to be complete, He creates this secondary option via His Maha-Vishnu expansion (technically Maha-Vishnu is an expansion of Balarama who is Krishna’s brother). The mahat-tattva is created ironically out of love for His marginal vigraha devotee’s because He would rather they choice to love or serve Him than be like a slave or ‘mindless’ servant without free will. Therefore one can stay in Krishna’s Autocratic Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm if they choose, or they can ‘consciously’ enter the impermanent mahat-tattva (never as their authentic bodily form as that body is perpetually part and parcel of the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky).
All of Krishna’s marginal ‘sparks’ have the same bodily features like Krishna – sat-cit-ananda-vigraha. The marginal potency or sparks emanating from the whole categorically means individual bodily personalities emanating and surrounding Krishna’s Personal bodily form. Sometimes this is compared to a fire from whence those individual sparks come from. It’s only a metaphor, a allegory, a figure of speech, Krishna is certainly not a blazing fire in His Ultimate self and bodily form and neither are the marginal individual bodily personalities impersonal sparks emanating from that blazing fire. Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is often referred to as the energetic, while His marginal servants are known as the marginal energies however, in both cases the original and ultimate appearance of both Krishna (energetic) and His marginal potency (energies) are always individual bodily personalities of Master (Krishna) and servant (marginal individuals called nitya-siddha-svarupa-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha eternal devotee’s of Krishna). In other words every living entity (marginal potency) has an original devotional bodily form that is perpetually serving Krishna in unlimited pastimes within either Goloka-Vrndavana or Vaikuntha. The smaller mahat-tattva (material universes) phenomenon on the other hand is a dark perishable cloud, as shown above, that is also situated in the Spiritual Sky and surrounded by the superior Vaikuntha Planets that vastly out number the insignificant material universes within the mahat-tattva cloud. This dark impermanent cloud is a discoloration within the Spiritual Sky and is constructed for the mutinous desires, thoughts or dreams of those individuals who no longer wish to be with Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Krishna is the original Supreme Personality from whence all other individual perpetual bodily personalities (known as Krishna’s marginal potency or energy) are sustained from. Krishna also expands Himself from His Personal Goloka-Vrndavana abode and takes up residents on the infinite number of Vaikuntha planets; however Balarama, Krishna’s brother in Goloka-Vrndavana, appears as Sankarshana and is the origin of Maha-Vishnu who goes on and creates the mahat-tattva. Lord Krishna, the original Godhead and cause of all causes, firsts expands as Balarama who resides with Him in His Personal abode. It is Balarama who creates and maintains the dark cloud (mahat-tattva) that is encircled by overwhelming presents of perpetual Vaikuntha Planets. It is within the mahat-tattva, the four-armed sleeping expansion of Balarama appears. He is known as Maha-Vishnu and is accompanied by His wife Maya Devi. Together they build, administer and create the facilities to fulfil the desires, thoughts and dreams of those who no longer yearn to remain in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm and who prefer to ‘consciously’ transfer their ‘self-awareness’ or secondary conscious state (jiva-sakti or jiva-bhutah) to Maha-Vishnu’s mahat-tattva creation. One has to understand Maha-Vishnu’s appearance in the mahat-tattva with great intelligence because the material energy is also emanating from Him. Maha-Vishnu is the original source of the impermanent material energy or mahat-tattva, just as the sun is the source of the sunshine. The sunshine cannot cover the sun globe, nor can the material energy, being an emanation from of Maha-Vishnu, cover Him. Maha-Vishnu is simultaneously within and without of the mahat-tattva, He is in the three modes of material energy, but actually the three modes of material energy cannot cover Him. The highly intellectual philosophers understand this. In other words, although Maha-Vishnu appears to be within the material energy yet is never covered by it. Maha-Vishnu therefore provides the bodily vessels and their material surroundings that make the transmitted jiva-bhutah’s desires a reality however, even though it is all-real, it is also temporary and for that reason the dreams of Maha-Vishnu are considered an illusion. All non-Krishna conscious dreams or disloyal thoughts of self importance are transmitted as the jiva-bhutah consciousness (the soul or life force) and then contained in outward ethereal or biological vessels (supplied by Maha-Vishnu) or may eventually, after many, many births and deaths, become silent in an impersonal inactive un-bodied liberated state that both belong to and are only achieved after ones secondary projected consciousness has entered the mahat-tattva (the impermanent material universal creation). As explained, the non-Krishna conscious dream, seditious feelings and requirements of self-importance is expressed as a secondary conscious condition known as the jiva-bhutah consciousness which is transferred out of the imperishable Vaikuntha realm to the perishable mahat-tattva cloud phenomenon also in the Spiritual Sky. Then entire Spiritual Sky or creation is further known as the Brahmajyoti, as shown above. Once the transmitted jiva-bhutah consciousness enters the mahat-tattva cloud, it is immediately contained in outward ethereal or biological vessels that belong to and are provided from within the mahat-tattva by Maha-Vishnu, or eventually, after many, many births of trying to enjoy those bodily vessels, the transmitted jiva-bhutah consciousness may discover the existence of an Impersonal inactive outlet state of consciousness (jiva-nikaya) if they continue to deny the Krishna Conscious bodily origins of their transmitted secondary consciousness transferred to the mahat-tattva from the outside Vaikuntha realm. The Impersonal condition, only found after going through the mahat-tattva in ethereal and biological vessels, releases one from being trapped in those impermanent decaying vessels. The jiva-nikaya condition of inactive consciousness is only achieved after one is impersonally liberated from those bodies by withdrawing into a dreamless, thoughtless and desireless condition of consciousness they foolishly believe is becoming one with God and the universe. Maha-Vishnu, the Over-Lord, facilitator and provider within the mahat-tattva or material universe, does also allowthe jiva-nikaya impersonalists to merge into His body but they certainly do not become Maha-Vishnu, they simply remain dormant there until Maha-Vishnu creates the next mahat-tattva manifestation. Such dormant jiva-nikaya dormant consciousnesses eventually fall down to the jiva-bhutah condition and become again contained in ethereal and biological vessels provided by Maha-Vishnu. Both states of consciousness, namely the active embodied jiva-bhutah consciousness that is confined to ethereal and biological vessels, as well as the ‘play-acting imaginary oneness with the universe, whichis actually just an inactive condition of individual consciousness called the jiva-nikaya liberated position, are both only attained after first ‘consciously’ entering the mahat-tattva from ‘the outside surrounding Vaikuntha planets’ where ones perpetual Krishna Conscious bodily form exists. The so-called dormant jiva-nikaya dreamless condition, where ones consciousness isindividuallymerged into the ‘supposed Impersonal Brahma-sayujya or Impersonal Brahmajyotiis actually no more than just a consciously non-active place or reality within the mahat-tattva creation where ones secondary consciousness, that changes from the active jiva-bhutah condition to the inactive jiva-nikaya condition, remains dormant. This Impersonal stationary condition is not full of an unlimited number of individual ‘inactive’ jiva-nikaya, it is all those transmitted jiva-nikaya consciousnesses congregated together that are the stationary effulgent Brahma-sayujya or Impersonal aspect of the Brahmajyoti. The Impersonal Brahmajyoti is Krishna’s individual marginal perpetual bodily personalities or potency in their secondary conscious manifestation that only exists for those who travel first through the mahat-tattva. As they persist to enjoy the material universe on their own terms and ignore, not only Krishna, but also their original personal devotional bodily identity and continue to arrogantly refuse to accept the existence of Krishna and there own original body, they will continue on being embodied by ethereal and biological vessels until they become fed-up with such impermanent vessels. It is then they seek an inactive solution because their only memory of being active in a bodily form always ends in pain and suffering because they cannot see their genuine bodily origins beyond the mahat-tattva cloud. In this way the Brahma-sayujya and impersonal Brahmajyoti condition is ultimately, after first existing in those frustrating ethereal vessels covered by biological bags of bones and stool, achieved as a relief from the temporary painful nature of those vessels confined to the mahat-tattva. Finding liberation from those vessels is how the Brahma-sayujya and Impersonal Brahmajyoti manifest. This dormant secondary conscious condition of the marginal potency is transmitted as the individual sparks that is the Impersonal Brahmajyoti, Brahma-sayujya. Such dormant Impersonal consciousness can also merge into the Body of Maha-Vishnu, yet at no stage does such transmitted inactive projected consciousness loose its individuality. All these aspects of Impersonalism are actually a state of ‘motionless individual consciousness’ that can only first exist in a unmoving state after first eventually emerging or withdrawing from the confines and shackles of ethereal and biological vessels within the mahat-tattva. These Impersonal states of liberation can only be achieved after millions of births and deaths of attempting to end the ‘thought process of material desires’ that confine ones transmitted consciousness to ethereal and biological vessels that belong to and are part and parcel of the mahat-tattva. The great Impersonalist yogis struggle very hard to achieve their freedom from Karma, or attempting to shed the ethereal and biological vessels or bodies the transmitted forgetful consciousness is restricted to. If the Impersonalists do not realize their true authentic Krishna Conscious bodily origins or source from whence their consciousness originates, then the only way to be free from the ethereal and biological containers is inactivity and cessation of thoughts, desires and dreams - an extremely difficult task. Only when one no longer desires or attempt to enjoy the impermanent material universe or mahat-tattva in ethereal and biological vessels, can they then achieve the difficultly attained Impersonal liberated state by freeing themselves from karma, good and bad. It is then that the inactive jiva-nikaya consciousness individually merges either into the collective Impersonal compilation, where numerous other inactive individual jiva-nikaya consciousnesses are situated or even worse, attempt to merge into the Transcendental bodily form of Maha-Vishnu which is a most regrettable selfish ignorant act to the Vaishnava’s or Krishna’s devotees. All Impersonal aspects of existence are only made possible by first travelling through the mahat-tattva impermanent cloud when ones secondary consciousness becomes free from the ethereal and biological constraints however, even the merging into the Brahma- sayujya, Impersonal Brahmajyoti or the bodily form of Maha-Vishnu, is temporary. As already emphasized, the Impersonal Brahmajyoti or Brahma-sayujya is only attained after one first enters the mahat-tattva after being consciously transferred from their perpetual original and authentic body in Goloka-Vrndavana or the Vaikuntha’s. Such Impersonal liberation is only attained after one first ‘consciously’ abandons their original perpetual Krishna Conscious body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, and then after entering the mahat-tattva and chasing desires, dreams and thoughts of self importance and grander, further abandons the ethereal and biological vessels one has ‘consciously’ transferred too in order to achieve their independence from Krishna’s Personal association. This is what His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the founder of the International Society or Krishna Consciousness means when he says: “Because he falls down from Brahma-sayujya (impersonal liberated condition or Impersonal Brahmajyoti or Brahman), he thinks that may be his origin, but he does not remember that long, long, long, long ago before that even, he was with Krishna. This is an important revelation at a time (the beginning of the 21st century) when even so-called advanced Guru’s and Swami’s in Vaishnava traditions like the Gaudiya Math, foolishly mislead others to believe their origins are from the Brahma-sayujya, Impersonal Brahmajyoti or Tatatra-sakti. All these states of impersonal consciousness are only attained after first passing through the mahat-tattva or creation of Maha-Vishnu. Srila Prabhupada in his lectures always says that originally we were all Krishna-conscious living entities and on the Hare Krishna album He addresses a large audience with the words: "We are all originally Krishna conscious entities . . ." Srila Prabhupada further explains: - “Regarding your questions concerning the spirit soul’s falling into Maya’s influence, it is not that those who have developed a passive relationship with Krishna are more likely to fall into nescient activities. Usually, anyone who has developed his relationship with Krishna does not fall down in any circumstances, but because the independence is always there, the soul may fall down from any position or any relationship by misusing his independence. But his relationship with Krishna is never lost. Simply it is forgotten by the influence of Maya, so it may be regained or revived by the process of hearing the Holy Name . . ." Letter to Jagadish, 4.25.70 "A living entity misuses his little independence when he wants to lord it over material nature. This misuse of independence, which is called Maya, is always available. Otherwise, there would not be independence. Independence implies that one can use it properly or improperly." Srimad Bhagavatam 3.31.15 Only after many births confined to ethereal and biological containers or bodies within the mahat-tattva, does one eventually no longer desire to be ‘consciously extended’ to those bodies and contained in those impermanent vessels or bodies of suffering and despair within the smaller inconsequential mahat-tattva cloud or material manifestation. It is Impossible for such inactive consciousnesses to exist in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha domain (3/4 of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti) or within the active dreams of Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva. It must be emphasized that such an inactive state of consciousness is generally only attained after first being consciously transferred (Not in ones original genuine Krishna Conscious body because ones perpetual bodily form never leaves Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha) to the mahat-tattva cloud and only then after being active in ethereal and biological bodies for millions of births and deaths, until one becomes fed-up with those impermanent decaying bodies supplied by Maha-Vishnu in the mahat-tattva. Only then, while immersed deeply in forgetfulness of who’s one’s authentic perpetual bodily identity is outside the mahat-tattva, and the frustration with ethereal and biological vessels one has taken shelter of for so long, does one seek out the Impersonal solution. Such an inactive state of individual consciousness (jiva-nikaya) and its motionless quiescent place called the Impersonal Brahma-sayujya and the Impersonal Brahmajyoti can never exist in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti that takes up 3/4 of Krishna’s Creation. Such mysterious non-Krishna conscious impermanent realities exist only because of the mahat-tattva dark cloud that is created by Maha-Vishnu for those who do not wish to be with Krishna. Unlike the projected jiva-bhutaha relocated consciousness, the ethereal and biological vessels are eternally part and parcel of the mahat-tattva (the impermanent material universal creation). Such vessels within the mahat-tattva are only obtained after ones extended secondary consciousness first enters the mahat-tattva, which is a dark existent (real but temporary) impermanent cloud where the four-armed expansion of Balarama, (Krishna’s brother) the dreaming Maha-Vishnu, and His wife Maya Devi (an expansion of Lakshmi) resides and manages, as shown above. Unfortunately it also appears many scholars are getting Krishna’s Goloka-Vrndavan/Vaikuntha permanent Spiritual sky mixed up with Maha-Vishnu’s impermanent mahat-tattva. The biological human body is a garment provided by Maha-Vishnu that is made up of billions of other embodied jiva-bhutah’s each at different stages of evolving from a single cell through to complex organs on their path of evolving back to the biological human form. Human biological existence on the middle planetary systems is not possible without the complex existence of lower life forms. Biological life can only be sustained within the mahat-tattva have ‘feeding’ off other biological bodies; this will be fully explained in later chapters. To enter into the lower biological species in the first place, the embodied jiva-bhutah conscious had fallen (a further fall down) from the biological human platform. The biological human body is achieved (covers or further contains the ethereal vessel) after falling from the heavenly sub-space universe. The heavenly planets are achieved after one abandons their service to Krishna in the Goloka-Vrndavana, or Vishnu in the Vaikuntha’s, by consciously (not as their true bodily form and identity) leaving Vaikuntha and entering the mahat-tattva cloud as already explained. The ethereal vessels in the sub-space heavenly and hellish realms can never be proved as an existence by means of the biological human body and the secular gross material facilities surrounding the human biological body, no-matter how scientifically or technological advance our human society becomes. The five realities achieved or realized in the mahat-tattva are – 1. The transcendental abode of Maha-Vishnu, Vishnu in the Vaikuntha’s or Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana, that is only realized as one awakens from their secondary relocated consciousness and realizes whom they really are serving Krishna ‘outside’ of the mahat-tattva. 2. The sub-space subtly refined heavenly and vulgar hellish material universes where the jiva-bhutah consciousness is constrained in ethereal bodies. 3. The secular-space middle gross material universes where the ethereal vessel is further restricted in a biological container. 4. The hard and awkward liberation from both those vehicle constraints, where the jiva-bhutah amends into a ‘dormant’ transformation called the jiva-nikaya motionless consciousness which becomes (not enters) as another individual inactive consciousness (tatastra-sakti) and part and parcel of the Brahma-sayujya or Impersonal Brahmajyoti. 5. Merging (as an individual dormant consciousness) into the body of Maha-Vishnu either by choice or forced to at the time of annihilation of the material universes. Where there is life, then there is either an embodied jiva-bhutah moving those single celled biological organisms, or they may also be moved by Maha-Vishnu’s all-pervasive aspect. This happens all through the mahat-tattva, from Brahma down to the amoeba. In other words, if no embodied jiva-bhutah is available to fill those ‘posts’ within the mahat-tattva, then Maha-Vishnu expands Himself to ‘fill in the gaps’ in order to facilitate those few who have abandoned their service to Krishna by ‘consciously’ leaving their unique Krishna Conscious perpetual jivatma-vigraha body. Due to that choice, the jiva-bhutah consciousness foolishly takes shelter within the mahat-tattva dark cloud. Within this dark cloud or material manifestation, there only exists the phenomenon of decay, impermanence and forgetfulness, even on the opulent heavenly planets within the mahat-tattva where one can live in an ethereal vessel for tens of thousands of years, which is the goal of Jews, Christians, Muslims and some schools of Buddhism, the heavenly planets are only temporary. These frustrating impermanent qualities do not exist outside the mahat-tattva in the surrounding Vaikuntha Planets. To achieve the mahat-tattva, one does not have to first forget Krishna, no, that is not possible in the Vaikuntha realm, forgetfulness only comes after entering the mahat-tattva. One chooses to leave Krishna which simultaneously means they leave behind, in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, their perpetual unadulterated body that is their genuine self simply because they want to enjoy existence on their own terms without Krishna. This is only achieved through conscious projection or teleportation. (Many Vaishnava’s are not familiar with the many terminologies in this book however, if we are to correctly understand the origin of the jiva soul, then such terminologies are necessary for explaining that we all originate from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha) Due to the perpetual nature of the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha’s, ones original body is always there even if one has ‘consciously’ extend themselves to the mahat-tattva. For the purpose of allowing the choices of His marginal potency-jivatma-vigraha devotee’s, Krishna has created the mahat-tattva cloud via His Maha-Vishnu expansion. In this way, be it in the Vaikuntha’s or the mahat-tattva, Krishna is the only provider. The biological bodily garments (8,400,000 of them) cover the ethereal vessel, which contains or embodies the transmitted jiva-bhutah or jiva-sakti-secondary relocated consciousness. As already explained but needs to be emphasized, this transferred jiva-bhutah secondary consciousness originates from ones authentic perpetual bodily-self (nitya-siddha-svarupa-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha) that eternally exists in a loving servitor relationship with Krishna in either Vaikuntha or the more intimate Goloka-Vrndavana Kingdom of Radha, Krishna and Lord Chaitanya and their expansions and associates. The extension of consciousness, transmitted from ones eternal Krishna Conscious body, or ones authentic, original and genuine bodily appearance, that is often referred to as the so-called marginal sparks or atoms in the effulgence, is only transferred (as a secondary self-centered consciousness) from ones perpetual bodily self to the containments of ethereal and biological vessels in the mahat-tattva (the dreams of Maha-Vishnu) when one wants to enjoy existence separately from Krishna. This choice is given to all marginal living entities in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha (vigraha’s) because without it there can never be genuine love or service? Always chant Hare Krishna for the purpose of always remembering Krishna and to further gradually reawaken ones ‘old dormant original’ Krishna Consciousness, then these seemingly inconceivable topics can easily be understood regardless if one is a fallen rascal who previously selfishly and insensitively exploited the material world around them due to the diseased conditioned of their biological vessel, caused by the individual embodied soul’s (life force or jiva-bhutah’s entrapment within ethereal and biological containments) accumulation and crushing build-up of an overwhelming avalanche of Karmic reactions! Srila Prabhupada and Lord Chaitanya (the most merciful combination of Radha and Krishna) have come to save such delinquent souls from their accretion and devastating massive karmic backlog that is like an overpowering flood forcing one in the opposite direction to where they are trying to swim! Such souls have forgotten they have all been transferred as the jiva-bhutah consciousnesses that have emigrated to the mahat-tattva as a secondary consciousness that was originally transmitted from their authentic innovative perpetual Krishna Conscious bodily form outside of the confines of ethereal and biological vessels. Such impermanent vessels are the part and parcels of the mahat-tattva. In this way one’s eternal consciousness does not belong to the mahat-tattva or the ethereal and biological vessels one is presently housed in. Srila Prabhupada, the great pure devotee of Lord Chaitanya (the most merciful combination of Radha and Krishna) have come to save such delinquent souls and finally direct them back home back to Godhead. There are two kinds of sayujya-mukti: merging into the Brahman effulgence and merging into the personal body of the Lord. Merging into the Lord's body is even more abominable than merging into His effulgence. According to the opinion of the Mayavadi Vedantists, the living entity's ultimate success is to merge into the impersonal Brahman after being liberated from ethereal and biological vessels inside the dreams of Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva cloud. Krishna is the source of both the Personal Goloka-Vrndavana realm and the less significant Impersonal mahat-tattva cloud. The impersonal Brahman, or bodily effulgence of the Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva, is known as Brahmaloka or Siddhaloka. According to the Brahma-samhita (5.40), yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti: the material universes are generated from the bodily rays Maha-Vishnu. Some Impersonalist Yogis accept the form of Maha-Vishnu yet want to merge into the transcendental body of the Supreme Lord. That is their desire, however this is only possible within the mahat-tattva. Being the creator and facilitator of the mahat-tattva, Maha-Vishnu can easily allow many millions of living entities to merge their transmitted jiva-nikaya consciousness into His body. The origin of everything is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan, and Maha-Vishnu is his expansion within the mahat-tattva, His bodily effulgence is known as the brahmajyoti, Brahmaloka or Siddhaloka. Thus Brahmaloka or Siddhaloka is a place where the jiva-nikaya ‘inactive’ consciousness appears as sparklike and in total denial of their original authentic bodily form outside of the mahat-tattva cloud. This jivatma-vigraha bodily Krishna Conscious form is the authentic constitutional position of all of Krishna’s marginal potency or energy. Because these living entities dare to enter the mahat-tattva cloud and eventually do not wish to keep their individual existences due to the despair, frustration and suffering they experience in ethereal and biological vessels provided by Maha-Vishnu within His the dreams, they are combined individually together and allowed to remain in Brahmaloka like so many atomic particles of sunshine emanating from the sun. Such a condition of the inactive motionless transmitted conscious state is not possible outside the domain of the mahat-tattva cloud (where the perpetual Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha aspect of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti exists) 2月22日 origin of jiva soulMORE VAISHNAVA DEVOTIONAL UNDERSTANDING FROM THE SECRET BOOK OF ORIGINS.
QUANTUM PHYSICS OR THE SCIENCE OF POSSIBILITIES. UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSAL CREATION. ‘The perpetual Kingdom of Radha and Krishna takes up 3/4 of the imperishable Spiritual Sky (above in the red lotus flower and unlimited expansions of Vishnu and Lakshmi in the surrounding yellow planets) is made up of personalities (Krishna’s marginal living entities) with eternal devotional bodies, where as the mahat-tattva (material universe) and its impersonal escape (only 1/4 of creation), is nothing other than the rebellious dreams, thoughts and desires of just a few of those eternal personalities. Such non-Krishna conscious dreams or rebellious thoughts of self importance are contained in outward ethereal or biological vessels (or in an impersonal inactive liberated state) that both belong to and are part and parcel of the mahat-tattva (the impermanent material universal creation), which is a dark existent impermanent cloud where the four-armed expansion of Krishna, the dreaming Maha-Vishnu and His wife Maya Devi resides and manages, as shown above
Always chant Hare Krishna and these seemingly inconceivable topics can easily be understood regardless if one is a fallen rascal who previously selfishly and insensitively exploited the material world around them due to the diseased conditioned of their biological vessel, caused by the individual embodied soul’s (life force or jiva-bhutah’s entrapment within ethereal and biological containments) accumulation and crushing build-up of an overwhelming avalanche of Karmic reactions! Srila Prabhupada and Lord Chaitanya (the most merciful combination of Radha and Krishna) have come to save such delinquent souls and finally direct them back home back to Godhead.
Once there was an old man and a young boy who were travelling with a donkey. The young man was leading the donkey and the old man was riding on the donkey. When they passed through a small village, some of the townspeople yelled abuse, "Look at this old man taking advantage of this poor young boy! What a rascal!" After they had passed through the village, the old man said, "We had better swap over, otherwise they will abuse us in the next village." So then they swapped with the old man leading and the young boy riding. But in the next village also they got criticized, "Look at this selfish boy, taking advantage of his grandfather. He should let the old man ride on the donkey." So then they both got off and led the donkey, but in the next village the people yelled out, "Look at these two stupid people! They have a donkey, but they are choosing to walk instead!" Then the old man concluded, "Actually, it doesn't matter what you do, people will always be critical. Pradyumna Swami
The Kingdom of God (Krishna) is an Eternal Personal Active Loving Devotional Place of unlimited pastimes that is forever lasting and never aging. The atma- (self)-jiva- (soul)-vigraha (unending form) transcendental body (the soul's real spiritual Krishna Conscious self and form) can never fall down to the material universe.
The natural eternal constitutional position of ones 'real bodily self' (atma-jiva-vigraha Krishna Conscious bodily form) is forever engaged in an infinite number of pastimes and relationships serving Krishna. Nitya-siddha, or our eternal constitutional marginal condition of servitude or loving selfless unconditional devotion to Krishna, is the ultimate, natural and original perpetually active Krishna Conscious committed devotional selfless state of our real bodily form or self.
Our atma-jiva-vigraha perpetual Krishna Conscious body represents what permanence, perpetual and eternity means – no beginning, no end and never decays or changes yet at the same time there are always unlimited transcendental changes and devotional adjustments going on within unlimited pastimes that are illimitable active in the present, beyond the concept of past and future, birth or death.
The Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha (the supreme imperishable Kingdom of God) feature of the Spiritual Sky exists in the majority of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti (3/4 of the creation). It is a place where past and future does not exist because everything there is imperishable and exists always in the eternal presents beyond our material understanding of time and space.
Only within a dark cloud (1/4 of creation) that is also existing in Spiritual Sky (Known as the maha-tattva or material universe) does impermanence, past, present, future, birth, death, suffering, impermanence and forgetfulness exist and always moving in cycles, i.e., the cycle of birth and death, the cycle of Yugas or ages, the cycle of the climatic seasons etc. These qualities of decline and regeneration do not exist within the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm. Only Lila-rasa or the mellows of ones personal pastime with Krishna eternal exists there in diverse behavioural ways of outward manifestations (relationships) according to rasa (pastimes with Krishna and His devotees) that never needs regeneration because it never ages or fades.
The atma-jiva-vigraha devotee’s are sometimes referred to as marginal spiritual sparks and Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead however, both are distinct as individual Persons, atma-vigraha’s or Purushas meaning “Individual Persons" with bodily form in the sense of a conscious spirit. Both God (Krishna) and the individual spirits (atma-jiva-vigraha devotee’s) are purushas, but Krishna is the Adi (Original, exemplary) Purusha, Parama (Highest) Purusha, and the Purushottama (Best of the Purushas or atma-vigraha bodily personalities), and Krishna the Supreme Atma-Vigraha or Purushas.
The finite atma-jiva-vigraha devotee’s are always subservant to Krishna or His various expansions including Maha-Vishnu who is the provider and facilitator of the material manifestation or mahat-tattva. Krishna is their provider in all aspects of existence even when they ‘consciously’ (or transmitted consciousness that is called the jiva-bhutah or jiva-sakti) choose to leave Vaikuntha and enter the material universe or mahat-tattva where Maha-Vishnu provides the ethereal and biological vessels that facilitates the jiva-bhuta’s or jiva-sakti’s non-Krishna conscious desires. In the Vedas and Puranas all Persons in the Godhead are distinct individuals with perpetual bodily form that is the real identity of the ‘so-called’ spiritual spark, so for Vaishnavas, it is not difficult to understand the eternal personal existence of the finite jivatmas (atma-vigraha devotee’s) in relationship to the infinite Deity Paramatma (Lord Krishna).
Such Lila’s or pastimes although, can change in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha feature of the Spiritual Universe in ways that can only be understood as one genuinely re-awakens their 'old' and original Krishna Conscious bodily identity from the confines of ethereal and biological vessels ensnared within the material universe (maha-tattva). And even then, after withdrawing from the dream of Maha-Vishnu (the Over-Lord and facilitator of the maha-tattva) and giving up the ethereal and biological containers at their root cause, which is the desire to enjoy separately from Krishna, can one again take up their original position in the Kingdom of God (Krishna).
Along these lines ones projected jiva-bhutah consciousness is eventually withdrawn or again re-established back as ones Krishna Conscious real self or atma-jiva-vigraha body as the dust of material desires are cleared from the mind and replaced with memories of ones real self serving Krishna. Even then, when re-established as ones real self, the ways of Krishna's devotional perpetual Kingdom will always be inconceivable and remain a mystery.
In other words, even though one has an original nitya-siddha-svarupa-atma-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha or atma-jiva body, still the entire creation will remain a forever expanding creation, not with living entities (atma-jiva-vigraha devotees) for they have always been and there was never a time when they did not exist. The forever-expanding creation is due to the forever expanding pastimes of Krishna and His expansions that will always eternally remain a mystery.
Srila Prabhupada states in his teachings of Lord Chaitanya referring to the living entity (jiva-bhutah consciousness) entrapment in the material manifestation (mahat-tattva): -
‘The living entity is eternally part and parcel of God, when he is liberated from the impermanent material manifestation; he revives his original, eternal, part-and-parcel bodily identity. The realization of aham brahmasmi ("I am not this material body") does not mean that the living entity loses his identity. At the present moment a person may consider himself to be matter, but in his liberated state he will understand that he is not matter but spirit soul, part of the infinite. To become Krishna conscious or spiritually conscious and to engage in the transcendental loving service of Krishna are signs of the liberated stage’.
Every living entity has an original nitya-siddha-svarupa-sat-cit-ananda-atma-vigraha body they can realize if they are Krishna Conscious, or can never realize when not Krishna Conscious. The meaning of these Sanskrit words is: -
Nitya-siddha - Everyone (all living entities or the marginal potency of Krishna) has a perpetual nitya-siddha higher self or Krishna conscious body that can never fall or leave Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha. The fall down (forgetting Krishna) state is not a bodily plunge, it is a conscious descend downwards to the lower self or unconscious dream setting where one’s ‘thoughts’ enters and creates the holographic dimension of the material delusional universe.
Nitya-siddha refers to ones original Krishna Conscious body or higher personified self personified that is always there in bodily form in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha (Gods Kingdom) even when ones dreaming jiva-bhutah consciousness, or lower self is projected into the material universe of dreams, or further transformed into the jiva-nikaya stage or non-dream state that happens after the embodied jiva-bhutah becomes frustrated with the impermanent nature of its material hallucinations, that, from the viewpoint of the Vaikuntha’s, are no more real than a mirage in a desert. However on this absolute level, all dreams, hallucinations, thoughts and mirages are real but temporary because the maha-tattva or material universe does temporarily exist in the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti.
Eventually the jiva-bhutah’s ethereal and biological containments that trap the transmitted life force or secondary consciousness in the material-interactive condition of existence in the maha-tattva, withdrawals from the confines of those bodily vessels and the dreams of Maha-Vishnu, withdrawing to the jiva-nikaya inactive non-ethereal, biological and material condition. This is just another change of consciousness, altering one illusion for another, an active sub-consciousness (material activities), to an inactive sub-consciousness (Impersonal Brahman or Brahmajyoti that exists outside the dreams of Maha-Vishnu but still within the confines of the maha-tattva.). They are both an illusion (real but temporary) and only exist in sub-conscious dreams transmitted from the Nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha body to the maha-tattva as either the jiva-bhutah or jiva-nikaya condition while totally unaware of the atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body. Due to the nature of eternal time and the permanence of the Spiritual universe or Personal Brahman or Brahmajyoti, past, present, future, space and time that can only exist within the mahat-tattva cloud within the Spiritual Sky, are amalgamated as an everlasting event with no beginning or no end. Everything in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha eternally happens in the present. This confirms that ones original atma-jiva-vigraha body is always in Goloka-Vrndavana, even if one is sub-consciously off somewhere else in some imaginary dream.
That dream world or non-Krishna conscious mahat-tattva is the material universe and comes under the phenomena of past, present, future, time, space, ethereal vessel, biological vessels, impermanence, forgetfulness, birth, disease, old age, death
Siddhasvarupa - One’s Krishna Conscious unique, original and servitor personal relationship with Krishna that is eternally in Goloka-Vrndavana even if one has turned their back on Krishna and experience existence through their lower self as the sub-conscious transmission of non-Krishna conscious desires or thoughts, where one imagines themselves as many different forms with many personalities, still their real transcendental state of Krishna Consciousness and relationships with Krishna, His internal plenary individual expansions and His devotee’s (other nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha’s) is always in Goloka-Vrndavana, regardless if ones dreaming consciousness has entered the abstract universe of shadows known as the material universe. It is therefore clear that ones original eternal relationship is always with Krishna, even while one is dreaming other things and has forgotten their atma-vigraha body from where the illusionary dreams are transmitted. One can only be re-awakened, after previously ‘choosing to deliberately leaving Goloka-Vrndavana’, when one is again Krishna Conscious. It is impossible to understand whom one really is in Krishna Lila (pastime) while still absorbed in the sub-conscious-jiva bhutah or jiva-nikaya projected hallucinations.
· Sat - Krishna Conscious eternity beyond time and space, past, present and future.
· Cit - Krishna Conscious Knowledge. · Ananda - Krishna Conscious bliss.
· Atma - (soul’s higher self, personality and individuality) – Krishna Conscious self, identity, and personality (also atma can mean jiva however, in this thesis, the jiva (soul’s lower self) is the sub-consciousness of the full conscious atma (the souls higher self) and is called the jiva-bhutah that is the transmitted dreaming consciousness that creates the material illusion. The non-Krishna Conscious jiva-bhutah-sub-consciousness only exists when one is not Krishna Conscious, just as darkness cannot exist when the light is on.
· Vigraha - Soul’s Krishna Conscious eternal form and is the atma’s individual eternal identity and personality
Ones inability to remember Krishna while trapped in the jiva-bhutah sub-consciousness is due to attachment to the lower self. This addiction to counterfeit bodies and identities are shaped by the jiva-bhutah-sub-conscious determination to satisfy their self-interest of being determined to enjoy like Krishna, replacing service to Krishna with service to the imaginary self. In this way, the shadow of the Krishna Conscious atma-jiva-vigraha body becomes that imagined self and is called the jiva-bhutah-sub-conscious non-Krishna conscious condition. This shadow of ones self is only interested in pursing self-centered sensual gratification (lower-self addicted to ethereal, biological and material life or non Krishna conscious dreams) that creates what we call the material universe where one can forget Krishna for almost an eternity if they want.
The Brahmajyoti or Brahman is held together by form and is the entire creation where Goloka-Vrndavana, the Vaikuntha’s (imperishable) as well as the mahat-tattva (perishable) exist. What anyone does within the maha-tattva, it is like acting out a role in a play
Generally nitya-siddha among Vaishnava's means one never falls to the conditioned living entity stage, known as the jiva-bhuta non-Krishna dreaming conscious condition, which is the sub-conscious lower self (nitya-baddha or eternally conditioned state) that is oblivious to their full Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body in Krishna's perpetual Kingdom.
The lower conscious self (jiva-bhutah) is always in the nitya-baddha condition of comatose consciousness that can only actively manifest within the perishable material universal dream. Therefore, more or less, their understanding is correct however, even though the nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha bodies never fall down from Krishna's Personal Kingdom, the introverted dreaming conscious state 'within' which is called the nitya-baddha-jiva-bhutah, can be generated as consciousness from ones real self or nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha bodily form. Even though ones original body can never fall down from Krishna’s perpetual Kingdom, it is possible, due to free will, one can enter a trance like insignificant (real but temporary) consciousness and forget that unique blissful nitya-buddha form and ‘consciously fall’ (not as ones uninterrupted bodily form) to the nitya-baddha eternally conditioned state. This is similar to forgetting the biological body while sleeping and dreaming. In simple terms, the atma-vigraha body, or higher conscious awareness in the form of ones real bodily form serving Krishna in the Kingdom of God, is eternally liberated (nitya-siddha) and can never fall down, where as the lower conscious self, manifested as a multiple dreaming bodily identities and forms within the material universe or maha-tattva, is eternally conditioned (nitya-baddha) and is always in that state.
Every living entities original individual bodily devotional form (marginal potency of the Lord) in Krishna's Abode is always eternally there because of the perpetual and imperishable nature of His Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky or Abode. This clearly means all of us have an eternal individual form and relationship that is always with Krishna in His everlasting Abode that is forever there and has always been there.
Even though from time to time, we maybe consciously unaware of this everlasting fact of creation due to our selfishness and egocentricity that create our independent dreaming secondary consciousness that is transferred to the material universe, or nitya-baddha forgetful condition of impermanent existence.
This is not difficult to understand if you chant the Hare Krishna Maha-mantra, the recommended sacrifice for this age of Kali-yuga. The various Vedic texts tell us that the Kingdom of Krishna is an eternal active place of boundless pastimes where nothing perishes. Everything in Krishna’s Abode is always eternally there because of the perpetual and imperishable nature of His Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky or Abode.
As already mentioned and must be constantly emphasised, this means all of us have an eternal form and relationship that is always with Krishna in His everlasting Abode that is forever there and has always been there, even though from time to time, we are consciously unaware of this unending reality due to our forgetfulness and fantasies that create our mirage like insignificant secondary consciousness (real but temporary) that transmits ‘the thoughts one wants created’ to the material universe in the jiva-bhutah condition consciousness known as the nitya-baddha proviso of existence within the maha-tattva (material universe). In a straightforward way of trying to understand this, all of us dream when we sleep, similarly to the dreams we have in our biological body or vessel. The non-Krishna Conscious thoughts, convictions or ‘dreams’ manifest a separate dreaming version (that is real but temporary) of the self. Keep in mind on the absolute level, unlike the mundane biological level; ones thoughts or dreams are as real as their atma-jiva-vigraha body, with a major difference, such counterfeit bodily creations and their surroundings are temporary and therefore cannot exist within the same space that all their perpetual bodies exist in (namely Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha).
In this way such temporary creations or thoughts are expelled from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha perpetual aspect of the Spiritual Sky by ones own selfish independent desires and transferred to a far distant place in the Spiritual Sky set aside for such temporary thoughts, creations or desires. This place of ‘the dreaming’ is called the maha-tattva.
A crude example of how one selfishly desires to be served like Krishna, instead of serving Him, causing one to be bewildered and thus consciously falling from their perpetual body into a secondary forgetful state of consciousness, is when one is awake in their biological body, or when one is dreaming in that body, it is still the same ‘self’ existing on two completely different levels of consciousness at the same time. One embodied in the biological body, the other as dreamed up fantasies that the body is dreaming that appear real while they are sleeping. In a comparable way, ones dreams or thoughts as the secondary jiva-bhutah consciousness create a separate reality within the maha-tattva (material universe) that is real but temporary. In this way the thoughts of ones lower self are unlike the illusionary unreal dreams one has while their biological body is sleeping, that are illusionary and not real. This is only an analogy and it does not mean the biological understanding of dreaming causes our existence in the material universe.
There is a difference, ones dreams within Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha are non different from reality or actions. However if one has non-Krishna Conscious thoughts, dreams or desires, they cannot experience those thoughts, desires or dreams in the perpetual Kingdom of Krishna. To experience such self-centered dreams and desires their consciousness is extended to the maha-tattva or material universe. In this way, ones secondary consciousness (jiva-bhutah) is transferred to within the confines and restrictions (being contained in ethereal and biological vessels) of maha-tattva when one is unaware of their real original identity and form (The atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body).
Another way of understanding the paradox of the eternal liberated state (nitya-siddha) and the eternally conditioned state (nitya-baddha) simultaneously existing at the same time, is within a large building the basement is always at the bottom and the penthouse suite is always at the top. When one is in the penthouse, that does not mean the basement does not exist, it is always there at the bottom of the building. In the same way, both the nitya-baddha and nitya-siddha condition exists eternally and at the same time, it just depends on which condition of consciousness one is in. The nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha condition is one's real Krishna conscious bodily form, while the nitya-baddha condition is illusion and the concoctions of non-Krishna conscious desires.
The Srimad-Bhagavatam also tell us that the Kingdom of Krishna is a timeless energetic abode of boundless pastimes where nothing ever perishes which confirms one has an eternal body that is always there. Everything in Krishna's Abode is always everlastingly there because of the uninterrupted and enduring nature of His Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky or domicile. As already explained, this means all of us (all marginal living entities) have an eternal shape, form, body and connection that is forever with Krishna in His everlasting Abode which is infinitely eternal even though from moment to moment, we may choose to consciously deny of this everlasting reality due to our desire to experience existence separate from Krishna.
Only then, after that choice is made, does forgetfulness enter the equation where ones fantasies of independent grandeur is created by our dreaming secondary consciousness that transmits one to the material universe (maha-tattva) or nitya-baddha forgetful condition of existence as the jiva-bhutah teleported conscious condition.
In a familiar way, when one is awake in their biological body, or when that body is asleep and one is dreaming, it is the same 'self' existing on two completely different levels of consciousness, one as the biological body, the other as dreamed up fantasies that appear real while they are dreaming. In a similar way, ones dreams or thoughts create a separate reality that is real but temporary (unlike the illusionary unreal dreams one has while their biological body is sleeping) and only exists within the maha-tattva cloud that is the creation of Maha-Vishnu. Ones consciousness is only transferred there when one is unaware (due to self centered desires) of their real original identity and form (The atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body). A rudimentary illustration of this is when one is alert in their biological body, or when that body is sound asleep and dreaming, it is the matching 'self' that is active on two completely diverse echelon of awareness, one as the biological body, the other as hallucination or flights of the imagination that emerge as authentic and real while one is identifying with their biological dreaming thoughts. In a comparable way as previously explained, ‘ones dreams or thoughts from the absolute level create a separate reality that is real but temporary’. Such thoughts therefore are not hallucinations because on this level they are real. Keep in mind that on the absolute level thoughts, dreams and actions are all equal however, thoughts or dreams that are not Krishna conscious cannot stay in the Vaikuntha realm and they are therefore transferred (not as ones perpetual nitya-siddha-svarupa-atma-vigraha-body) to the maha-tattva or material universe as transmitted consciousness or the non-Krishna conscious lower-self.
This separate reality or lower consciousness is an extension of one’s-self (atma-jiva-vigraha) and is real yet subject to forgetfulness and bewilderment due to the desire to be away from Krishna and no longer depend directly on Him through pure unalloyed unconditional loving devotional service. Ones consciousness then falls to the conditional state of consciousness called the jiva-bhutah non-Krishna conscious active state of awareness. In this state one still depends on Krishna via His Maha-Vishnu expansions however, they are mostly unaware of this fact and foolishly believe they directly and alone create their existence and destiny within the confines of the maha-tattva or material universe. This ‘individual lower self’ is transferred to the maha-tattva and exists as trapped consciousness within ethereal and biological bodies within the impermanent reality of the maha-tattva or ‘material universal dream that is under the jurisdiction of Krishna's Brother Balarama in His Maha-Vishnu form’. The material universes’ within the mahat-tattva are the dreams of the sleeping Maha-Vishnu.This jiva-bhutah state of consciousness can again further transform to the jiva-nikaya inactive condition of awareness, also within the theatre of Maha-Vishnu's material illusionary universe or apparition, which is a dark cloud of 'the dreaming' that is in one corner of Krishna's Personal Spiritual Creation or Brahmajyoti. This Brahmajyoti/Brahman is effulgence full of unlimited individual devotees as their real body serving on unlimited Spiritual Planets, called Vishnuloka’s that surrounds/emanates from the body of the Supreme Lord in His Personal Abode called Goloka-Vrndavana Planet.
Insert Painting of a Cowherd boy who turns his back on KRISHNA only for a moment. The inattentive thoughts of the cowherd boy devotee as his nitya-siddha eternally liberated body makes him not only forget Krishna, but also forget his cowherd boy perpetual nitya-siddha-atma-jiva-vigraha body he serves Krishna as. Like in a conscious trance or dream of amnesia, the non-Krishna desires force one to follow the directions of those thoughts as the jiva-bhutah consciousness and transforms into the dreaming illusion trapped in ethereal and biological bodies within material existence and experience repeated birth, disease, old age and death (the nitya-baddha eternally conditioned conscious state).
Even though similar to the dreams one has in their biological body, the dreams transmitted by ones real bodily self (atma-vigraha) are real because the mahat-tattva is a real and takes up a quarter of the Personal Creation, Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti. The difference between the Vaikuntha's and the mahat-tattva is the Vaikuntha's are imperishable while the mahat-tattva, except for Maha-Vishnu and His plenary expansions, are perishable and everything their goes through a cycle of creation and annihilation or decay and re-construction.
Also within the mahat-tattva, exists a phenomenon left over from the presents of the embodied jiva-bhutah consciousness when enthralled in transitory decomposing biological vessels. These fossilized remains, or the accumulation and build-up of matter (all matter devoid of life is the left over phenomenon from the presents of life) accumulates and expands as lifeless universes of death (fossilized matter) that the embodied jiva-bhutah attempts to mould into their home or abode. This ‘matter’ is therefore Krishna's inferior energies making up the impermanent suns, moons, solar systems, galaxies and universes within the maha-tattva. In contrast, within the Goloka-Vrndavan/Vaikuntha realm, everything is living, permanent and has eternal form, therefore Krishna's inferior energies (lifeless matter) does not and cannot exist there in Goloka-Vrndavan/Vaikuntha. This understanding of the 'dreaming' as real is a crucial realization because of the Mayavadi belief it is all illusion. The word sarva-gata ("life is everywhere") means the living entities, or rather the jiva-bhutah consciousness; take shelter after being contained in ethereal and biological, just about anywhere that can support life within the mahat-tattva however, as previously explained, there are barron planets where only lifeless matter exists. Modern science cannot understand what is barron and what isn’t. For example, on the Moon and the Sun exist heavenly realms that our biological body cannot see. In fact the biological body and its technological material extensions, like the Hubble Telescope or the Electron Microscope, cannot view the sub-space universe where ethereal vessels, that contain the jiva-bhutah consciousness, exist.
Ethereal bodies, also known as ghostly bodies, subtle bodies or Brahma-bhutahs, can be viewed by some embodied jiva-bhutah’s on the secular plateform contained in their biological vessel nonetheless, they can never prove what they personally sense through anything biological or such bodies gross material surroundings.
Philip Adams is a journalist in Australia and he has offered $1000,000 to prove the existence of Ghosts. For the reasons explained above, no-one will win that million dollars because nothing biological or the material dimension that biological container functions in can prove the existence of the sub-space world. Technocally the jiva-bhutah can exist anywhere however the vessel the transmitted consciouisness has been contained in within the mahat-tattva cannot survive everywhere, especially the biological vessel. Keep this in mind when reading the following quote from Bhagavad-gītā
TRANSLATION
This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting; present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.
PURPORT
All these qualifications of the atomic soul (referring to size) definitely prove that the individual soul is eternally the atomic particle of the spirit whole, and he remains as small as an atom with an eternal bodily form eternally, without change. The theory of monism is very difficult to apply in this case, because the individual soul is never expected to become one homogeneously. After liberation from material contamination or mahat-tattva, the atomic soul (jiva-nikaya transmitted consciousness) may prefer to remain as a spiritual spark in the effulgent rays of the Supreme Personality of Godhead on the outer edges of the mahat-tattva, but the intelligent souls or jiva-bhutah consciousness will re-enter back into the spiritual planets to again associate with the Personality of Godhead in their original bodily form. The word sarva-gata ("all-pervading") is significant because there is no doubt that living entities are all over God's creation. They live on the land, in the water, in the air, within the earth and even within fire. The belief that they are sterilized in fire is not acceptable, because it is clearly stated here that the soul cannot be burned by fire. Therefore, there is no doubt that there are living entities also in the sun planet with suitable bodies to live there. If the sun globe is uninhabited, then the word sarva-gata — "living everywhere" — becomes meaningless.
The Vaishnava’s say the mahat-tattva or material universe (the dreams of Maha-Vishnu) is real but temporary and that's why the material universe is referred to as an illusion. It appears for a time then disappears. In other words, in a million years from now Melbourne or Sydney will seem as if it never existed. The same principle applies to the biological vessels our consciousness possesses. Such a fading of reality does not exist in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm. This is the difference between ones dreams in their biological body and the overview dreaming of the transmitted jiva-bhutah consciousness that has entered the maha-tattva and possessed ethereal and biological vessels. The problem is, due to the power of Maya Devi's sakti, they both seem as real as each other.
The other three quarters of the Spiritual Sky, unlike the maha-tattva, never decays and is a perpetual real place of unlimited relationships with the two-armed form of Krishna on His central Goloka-Vrndavana planet, or the four-armed Lord Vishnu on the surrounding Vishnuloka Planets (also there are more names of Vishnu or God than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on all the planets within all the universe's that exist within the Mahat-tattva).
The Impersonalist yogis, jnani's or Impersonalist philosophers are known as Mayavadi's, they see the universe as unreal and a dreaming illusion. Their understanding is incorrect. The Vaishnava's see the material dream in a completely different way than the Mayavadi's, who offensively believes Krishna is also part of their illusionary dream.
The Impersonalists and Mayavadi’s cannot understand there are two different forms of reality, ones real (the Vaikuntha’s that they cannot perceive because they have no love or devotion to Krishna) while the other is also real (the mahat-tattva or material universe), but temporary. The bona fide eternal dominion of Krishna's Personal creation is the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti where Krishna's marginal nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha devotees serve in Goloka-Vrndavana and the Vaikuntha planets and not within the maha-tattva as some ‘Hindu’ sects believe. Why worship the form of Maha-Vishnu whose duty it is to directing the fallen souls (transmitted jiva-bhutah consciousness) to the labyrinth or ethereal and biological bodies (path ways) so they can express their freedom to exist in a non-Krishna conscious condition? Why not just worship Krishna the creator of Maha-Vishnu?
Also within the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti exists a dark cloud known as the maha-tattva (material universes), this place is real but subject to decay and is therefore transitory. In this book the word 'dream' is used to describe the secondary fallen non-Krishna conscious condition of the atma-jiva-vigraha when transmitted as consciousness (jiva-bhutah) to the mahat-tattva.Even on the impermanent heavenly planets within the maha-tattva, ones thoughts and dreams are as real as ones actions however, on our middle earthly planet, it is not like that due to the gross biological containment, which is a further layer of energy, generated by the jiva-bhutah consciousness within the maha-tattva, that covers the ethereal (subtle body) vessel and suppresses ones ability to manifest thoughts or dreams as actions.
The subtle body is the original incasement of the jiva-bhutah 'dreaming' consciousness when first entering the maha-tattva or material universe. This ethereal body only subsists within the heavenly and lower planetary systems (Explained in more detail on page 342) within the mahat-tattva. Both bodies are considered shekels covering the jiva-bhutah consciousness, which is originally transmitted from ones innovative position and individual body within Krishna Lila (on the perpetual Spiritual planets). In this way of thinking, the material universe is the invented figment of the non-Krishna Conscious self that is transmitted as thoughts of selfish dreams to the mahat-tattva (inferior energies or the place where lifeless matter exists) when one's consciousness is no longer Krishna Conscious, or aware of their own Krishna Conscious body.Although only similar to one's dreaming creations while the biological body is sleeping, the jiva-bhutah phantasm becomes their new self, transmitted as a dreaming hallucination to that dark cloud in the Spiritual sky that is under the jurisdiction of the dreaming Maha-Vishnu. This place within one corner of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti is for those who deny their original Krishna Conscious bodily self and live within their own dream creations. In this eternally condition state (nitya-baddha), one is unable to distinguish reality from illusion due to being unable to remember their real perpetual bodily origins in the dynamic blissful active Krishna Conscious service in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Kingdom.
This is how forgetfulness of Krishna transports one consciously (not one's perpetual body) into the impermanent 'dream' universe managed not directly by Krishna, but by Maha-Vishnu who is an expansion of Balarama, the Brother of Krishna (the first plenary expansion of Krishna). In this way Maha-Vishnu's dreams within the maha-tattva are simultaneously the ‘imaginings or non-Krishna conscious thoughts or dreams’ that originate from ones perpetual atma-jiva-vigraha body. These non-Krishna conscious dreams or thoughts manifest as their lower conscious self while forgetful of Krishna and their unending nitya-siddha-svarupa-atma-jiva-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha body (the real self). It is important to understand the fact that ones original body or self never leaves Krishna's ceaseless Abode, the only way to enter the maha-tattva, where Maha-Vishnu is dreaming-up the material manifestation, is through ones own non-Krishna conscious dreams or thoughts. Such thoughts project one as their lower non-Krishna conscious self-known as the jiva-bhutah and possibly later as the impersonal jiva-nikaya consciousness as already explained.
Nothing just happens by chance in our material impermanent universe (maha-tattva); everything is constructed and built for the expressions of transmitted consciousness and is already in place for the visiting jiva-bhutah. The maha-tattva or material universe already has a blue print directory that will meet the requirements of anything the jiva-bhutah's can imagine, dream-up or think of. If they can imagine a certain situation, then it is possible. It may take a long time to achieve that desires, but it is possible – anything is possible within the maha-tattva. That is also why Krishna also expands himself as Lord Shiva. It is also why there are billions upon billions of material universes within the mahat-tattva. It therefore seems it is due to the 'out of control imagination’ of the jiva-bhutah's (only a minority dare come to the material universes) that cause the material universe to be extremely variegated and vast however, everything is already known by Maha-Vishnu. He has already created every path they could ever imagine. Maha-Vishnu has also created the heavenly planets, middle planets and hellish planets in the mahat-tattva via His different expansions and jiva-bhutah representatives known as demigods. Collectively they provide the facilities in the mahat-tattva for the visiting jiva-bhutah or jiva-sakti consciousness that is transmitted to the ‘these dream temporary realities’ of Maha-Vishnu as already explained.
On the heavenly planets the embodied jiva-bhutah’s or souls are convinced they are in a spiritual atmosphere or reality because of intense pleasure that seems to go on forever. On this elevated realm ones dreams and thoughts are the same as reality. In other words thinking is on the same level as actions. This trait they brought with them from outside the mahat-tattva in the greater Vaikuntha aspect of the Spiritual Sky. When one ‘dreams’ on this platform in the heavenly planets or in the Vaikuntha’s in ones perpetual bodily form, one should not think they are on the same level as the dreams one has in a biological vessel because they are not the same as explained above. Due to forgetfulness and the intoxication of self centered heavenly pleasures, performed in a clever display of artificial selflessness, the embodied jiva-bhutah consciousness (contained in an ethereal vessel provided by Maha-Vishnu) on the heavenly planets have set themselves up at the center of everything as a King, demigod, sadhu, swami, husband, society leader, president etc, instead of Krishna. There is a fine line between real selfless dedication to ones Spiritual Master and Krishna and deceitful selflessness that is designed to win followers adoration, opulence, respect and worship. This is why one has to be a qualified aspiring devotee in order to choose carefully a correct Guru or Sannyasi in ISKCON or outside of ISKCON in the present Vaishnava communities of the 21st century so not to be cheated. In the 1980’s many where cheated because they were not qualified disciples. The intoxicating effect of the heavenly planets makes one believe they are their forever, even though one can remain there for hundreds of thousands of years, the embodied jiva-bhutah consciousness cannot stay there and eventually one falls down from there to lower heavenly realm or to the earthly secular realm where the ethereal container is further covered by a biological vessel. The embodied jiva-bhutah, due to the perpetual bodily source of its transmission outside the mahat-tattva, begin their existence attempting to live in the present however, unlike the Vaikuntha realm of the Spiritual Sky, that is perpetually in the present without time, past and future,
The transmitted embodied jiva-bhutah consciousness that enters that dark cloud (mahat-tattva) within the Spiritual Sky cannot exist on that perpetual level outside the mahat-tattva due to ones non-Krishna conscious desires. Everything within the dreams of Maha-Vishnu inside the mahat-tattva is under the hex of impermanence, time, past, present, future and karma. The rest of the Spiritual Sky, Vaikuntha’s or Brahmajyoti that surround Krishna Supreme and central planet of Goloka-Vrndavana, is not effected with past and future due to their permanent nature. The embodied jiva-bhutah consciousness becomes so conditioned by its independent existence within the confines of the mahat-tattva that as soon as the already embodied jiva-bhutah falls to secular world of biological vessels, the conditioned soul or jiva-bhutah by now is completely conditioned to believe they are the bodily containers they are confined to. In this way one can live their existence without any concern or belief in God.
All bodily vessels and their surrounding realities are provided by maha-Vishnu according to the desire, dreams, thoughts, wishes, needs and requirements of the transmitted jiva-bhutah or jiva-sakti consciousness. The jiva-bhutah’s ethereal and biological body is provided by Maha-Vishnu to forget Krishna or God if they desire however, there are also many demigod, Vaishnava and aspiring devotee ethereal and biological vessels also within the dreams of Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva.Unfortunately most ethereal and biological vessels are provided by Maha-Vishnu to forget Krishna or God if that is what they want.
Why would Maha-Vishnu sanction this?
This means all the ‘biological human bodily vessels’ of atheist or agnostic scientists, politicians etc are created by Maha-Vishnu due to facilitate their desires, requirements and karma. The embodied jiva-bhutah’s who choose live their ‘dreams’ in the 21st century and not believe in a God but believe in technology is also sanctioned by Maha-Vishnu. What ever their desire then Maha-Vishnu will facilitate it as long as they deserve it through the results of karma. In fact, if one wants to forget Krishna for an almost eternity, then He will facilitated that as well!
Why would Maha-Vishnu allow that?
Maha-Vishnu provides ‘everything’ for the embodied jiva-bhutah consciousness after entering His dreams within the mahat-tattva. Keep in mind the jiva-bhutah consciousness has been transmitted from outside the mahat-tattva from the origins of that transmission which is their perpetual atma-jiva-vigraha body. Once embodied within the mahat-tattva both good and bad is provided by Maha-Vishnu. Every ethereal and biological vessel from the greatest demons to the preeminent saints has been provided by Maha-Vishnu to meet the desires and karma of all those who choose to enter His domain. He provides all costumes or suites so one can live out their desires separate from Krishna or even to be a rare devotee of Krishna in His domain.
Why does Maha-Vishnu even facilitate the suffering bodies and hellish planets?
Ironically it is out of love Maha-Vishnu (representing ultimately Krishna) creates all the ethereal and biological vessels as well as their material surroundings in the heavenly, secular and hellish worlds. Krishna therefore provides what ever the rebellious souls (jiva-bhutah consciousness’s) desire out of love because he does not force them to love Him and does not force them, his marginal potency, to serve Him. This is why the mahat-tattva exists; Krishna does not ‘assimilate’ His marginal atma-vigraha devotees as automaton servants. In the perpetual Vaikuntha Spiritual planets and even in Goloka-Vrndavana, there is always choice. Krishna knows this and has therefore created an alternative universe in one corner of the Spiritual Sky (mahat-tattva managed by His brother’s (Balarama) expansion Maha-Vishnu) for those who choose not to stay with Krishna as their original bodily self. In that alternative universe of duality and impermanence, Balarama, through His Maha-Vishnu form, further creates the ethereal and biological vessels that always exist in the mahat-tattva always ready for those who choose to ‘do their own thing without Krishna’. In this way, whether they know it or not, the transmitted jiva-bhutah consciousness is never alone because everything around them, including the body or vessel they are in, is provided by Maha-Vishnu.
Always existing means those vessels are there in blueprint waiting to be activated by a visiting jiva-bhutah consciousness after being transmitted from their perpetual bodily identity and body in either Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrndavana. All ethereal and biological bodies or vessels are simultaneously provided by Maha-Vishnu and at the same time activated by the desires, dreams and thoughts of the visiting jiva-bhutah consciousness. It is therefore a fact of the mahat-tattva manifestation that the bodily vessel one is presently in has been the vessel of many, many other jiva-bhutah’s in the restricted time and space of the mahat-tattva manifestation.
This is how great devotee’s can see past present and future that is often mention in the Vedas They see all the mahat-tattva’s past, present and future from outside of the mahat-tattva. Nothing is new because it is continuously happening, in fact every aspect of every movement of every step along the extensive twisting pathway of each ethereal and biological vessel or bodies development from birth to its death is always suspended in that moment in time like an existing maze or labyrinth within the mahat-tattva for the jiva-bhutah consciousness to pass through. This is not to be confused with ‘eternal reoccurrence’ because nothing is reoccurring since everything is already eternally known and put in place by Maha-Vishnu who already knows past, present and future.
The paradox here is it all exists at the same time and it all doesn’t exit at the same time – depending on where you are viewing the mahat-tattva.
From the outer surface of the mahat-tattva, outside the dreams of Maha-Vishnu, one is above the territory of time, impermanence, past, future and forgetfulness. Their full knowledge allows them to see the phenomenon of past, present and future in the mahat-tattva all in the present, the only reality outside the mahat-tattva.
In the alternative material universes (mahat-tattva)
The jiva-bhutah is simply chasing their desires, which are simultaneously the script or blue print already mapped out by Maha-Vishnu. He is the seer of past, present and future. In our material impermanent universe (mahat-tattva); everything (ethereal, biological and material) is constructed and built for the expressions of the individual transmitted consciousness that emanates from ones perpetual bodily form from the Vaikuntha’s. The maha-tattva is already assembled and already in place for the visiting jiva-bhutah from its very beginnings to its ends. It is possible to see past, present and future in the maha-tattva because from the view point of the Vaikuntha’s one can see, if Krishna invites them like He did with Arjuna, one can the entire duality of the maha-tattva or the universal form or the workings of Maha-Vishnu. The mahat-tattva or material universe already has a blue print directory that will meet the requirements of any non-Krishna conscious or even partly Krishna conscious desires the jiva-bhutah's can imagine, dream-up or think of. Every conceivable desire has an ethereal and biological vessel on hand for their purchase already in place. Nothing can exist without Krishna creating it, as the Bhagavad-gita says ‘not a blade of grass moves without His sanction’. All ethereal and biological vessels viewed from outside the mahat-tattva, or from the over-view picture from the Vaikuntha’s are seen like one sees a maze or a labyrinth made of hedges from a aeroplane in the sky, seeing every phase of the winding path of the labyrinth or maze. Maha-Vishnu has already put everything in place so the transmitted jiva-bhutah consciousness can experience what ever it is they desire. If they can imagine or dream-up a certain situation, then it is possible. Remember, on the absolute level thoughts, dreams and actions are not different from each other.
That is why there are billions of material universes within the mahat-tattva.
It therefore seems it is due to the 'out of control imagination of some jiva-bhuta' (only a minority dare come to the material universes) that cause the material universe to be extremely variegated and vast however, everything is already known by Maha-Vishnu, He has already created everything in His dreams. The visiting jiva-bhutah’s simply are attracted to an already created ethereal and biological body that equals their desires and karma. How karma (ones own actions and their reactions) unfolds and traps the jiva-bhutah consciousness is practically impossible to map out however, everything is seen clearly from the Vaikuntha realm that is beyond the time and space of the mahat-tattva.
The jiva-bhuta is simply chasing their desires, which are simultaneously the script or blue print already mapped out by Maha-Vishnu. He is the seer of past, present and future.
Maha-Vishnu is an expansion of Lord Balarama. Maha-Vishnu's duty and obligation is to fulfil the desires of ones lower-self that only exists when one denies their Krishna Conscious atma-jiva-vigraha body in Goloka-Vrndavan/Vaikuntha. Maha-Vishnu makes possible for the 'thoughts, imaginings, desires and dreams' of ones lower self to be fulfilled into a reality (real but fading) that is only possible within the maha-tattva. It is only there the rebellious souls (jiva-bhutah's) can carve out their own destiny within the material universe built by their thoughts and regulated by karma that are also simultaneously the dreams of Maha-Vishnu. In this way ones lower self (jiva-bhutah consciousness, life force or soul) seeks out happiness by trying many different ethereal or biological bodily garments on, only for the outer biological covering of the ethereal container to eventually decay and become part of the lifeless (Krishna's inferior energies) material universe. 1月29日 origin of jiva soul NECTARINE REALIZATIONS FROM THE SECRET BOOK OF ORIGINS
1月19日 Talking about Origin of the jiva soulQuote Origin of the jiva soul 10月27日 The jiva-soul does not originate from the Brahmajoyti or some impersonal all-pervasive light. THE SECRET BOOK OF ORIGINS.
QUANTUM PHYSICS OR THE SCIENCE OF POSSIBILITIES. UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSAL CREATION. INTRODUCTION “Because the Kingdom of God is an Eternal Personal Active Loving Devotional Place that is ever lasting and never aging, the atma-vigraha bodies are always there – Nitya-siddha means — eternally established. This is what permanence, perpetual and eternity means – no beginning, no end and never changing (although līlā-rasa — the mellows of a pastime, can change in the spiritual universe). Generally nitya-siddha means one never falls to the sub-conscious lower self or dream state. The nitya-siddha personality, identity and form refer to ones original Krishna Conscious body that is always there, even when ones dreaming (jiva-sub-consciousness) lower self is in the material universe. ALL those who choose to forget Krishna and enter the forgetful temporary material universe of the sub-conscious lower self, have an original nitya-siddha body. Every living entity has an original nitya-siddhasvarupa-sat-cit-ananda-atma-vigraha body they realize if they are Krishna Conscious, or cannot realize when not Krishna Conscious”. The Secret Book Of Origins CHAPTER ONE
The following quotes are from His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the founder of the ISKCON Movement (The International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
Srila Prabhupada: - “We never had any occasion when we were separated from Krishna. Just like one man is dreaming and he forgets himself. In dream he creates himself in different forms: now I am the King discussing like that. This creation of himself is as seer and subject matter or seen, two things. But as soon as the dream is over, the 'seen' disappears. But the seer remains. Now he is in his original position”.
Srila Prabhupada: - “Our separation from Krishna is like that. We dream this body and so many relationships with other things. First the attachment comes to enjoy sense gratification. Even with Krishna desire for sense gratification is there. There is a dormant attitude for forgetting Krishna and creating an atmosphere for enjoying independently. Just like at the edge of the beach, sometimes the water covers, sometimes there is dry sand, coming and going. Our position is like that, sometimes covered, sometimes free, just like at the edge of the tide. As soon as we forget, immediately the illusion is there. Just like as soon as we sleep, dream is there”.
Srila Prabhupada: - “We cannot say therefore that we are not with Krishna. As soon as we try to become Lord, immediately we are covered by Maya. Formerly we were with Krishna in His Lila or sport. But this covering of Maya may be of very, very, very, very long duration; therefore many creations are coming and going. Due to this long period of time it is sometimes said that we are ever-conditioned. But his long duration of time becomes very insignificant when one actually comes to Krishna consciousness. Just like in a dream we are thinking very long time, but as soon as we awaken we look at our watch and see it has been a moment only. Just like with Krishna’s friends, they were kept asleep for one year by Brahma, but when they woke up and Krishna returned before them, they considered that only a moment had passed”.
Srila Prabhupada: - “So this dreaming condition is called non-liberated life, and this is just like a dream. Although in this material calculation it is a long, long period, as soon as we come to Krishna consciousness then this period is considered as a second. For example, Jaya and Vijaya. They had their Lila with Krishna, but they had to come down for their little mistake. They were given mukti, merging into the Brahma-sayujya (Impersonal Brahmajoyti) after being killed three times as demons. This Brahma-sayujya mukti is non-permanent”.
Srila Prabhupada: - “Every living entity wants pleasure, but Brahma-sayujya is minus pleasure. There is eternal existence only. So when they do not find transcendental bliss, they fall down to make a compromise with material bliss. Just like Vivekananda founded so many schools and hospitals. So even Lord Brahma, he is still material and wants to lord it over. He may come down to become a germ, but then he may rise up to Krishna consciousness and go back to home, back to Godhead. This is the position”.
Srila Prabhupada: - “So when I say Yes, there is eternal Lila with Krishna, that means on the evidence of Jaya-Vijaya. Unless one develops full devotional service to Krishna, he goes up only up to Brahma-sayujya but falls down. But after millions and millions of years of keeping oneself away from the Lila of the Lord, when one comes to Krishna consciousness this period becomes insignificant, just like dreaming”.
Srila Prabhupada: - “Because he falls down from Brahma-sayujya, he thinks that may be his origin, but he does not remember that before that even he was with Krishna. So the conclusion is that whatever may be our past, let us come to Krishna consciousness and immediately join Krishna. Just like with a diseased man, it is a waste of time to try to find out how he has become diseased, better to spend time curing the disease”.
Srila Prabhupada: - “On the top of the tree there is a nice tal-fruit. A crow went there and the fruit fell down. Some panditas, big, big learned scholars saw this and discussed: the fruit fell due to the crow agitating the limb. No, the fruit fell simultaneously with the crow landing and frightened the crow so he flew away. No, the fruit was ripe and the weight of the crow landing broke it from the branch, and so on and so on. What is the use of such discussions? So whether you were in the Brahma-sayujya or with Krishna in His Lila, at the moment you are in neither, so the best policy is to develop your Krishna consciousness and go there, never mind what is your origin. Brahma-sayujya and Krishna Lila--both may be possible, but when you are coming down from Brahma-sayujya or when you are coming down from Krishna Lila, that remains a mystery. But at the present moment we are in Maya's clutches, so at present our only hope is to become Krishna conscious and go back to Home, back to Godhead. The real position is servant of Krishna, and servant of Krishna means in Krishna Lila. Directly or indirectly, always we are serving Krishna’s Lila”.
Srila Prabhupada: - “Even in dream. Just like we cannot go out of the sun when it is daytime, so where is the chance of going out of Krishna Lila? The cloud may be there, it may become very grey and dim, but still the sunlight is there, everywhere, during the daytime. Because I am part and parcel of Krishna, I am always connected. My finger, even though it may be diseased, remains part and parcel of my body. Therefore, we try to treat it, cure it, because it is part and parcel. So Krishna comes Himself when we forget Him, or He sends His representative”.
Srila Prabhupada: - “Awakening or dreaming, I am the same man. As soon as I awaken and see myself, I see Krishna. Cause and effect are both Krishna. Just like cotton becomes thread and thread becomes cloth, still, the original cause is cotton. Therefore, everything is Krishna in the ultimate sense. When we cannot contact Krishna personally, we contact His energies. So there is no chance to be outside Krishna’s Lila. But differences we see under different conditions. Just like in the pool of water and in the mirror the same me is reflecting, but in different reflections. One is shimmering, unsteady, one is clear and fixed. Except for being in Krishna consciousness, we cannot see our actual position rightly; therefore the learned man sees all living entities as the same parts and parcels of Krishna. Material existence is impersonal because my real personality is covered. But we should think that because I am now covered by this clay, I am diseased, and we should think that I must get to business to get myself uncovered, not wonder how I got this way. Now the fruit is there, take it and enjoy, that is your first business. God is not bound by cause. He can change; He is the Cause of all Causes. Now don't waste your time with this "Kaka taliya nyaya," crows and tal-fruit logic."
Srila Prabhupada tells us clearly we were originally with Krishna in His Lila or pastime and for devotees to except this fact and get on with the job of spreading Krishna consciousness.
The following is the explanation of our original position to help the Impersonalists and neophyte devotees, who still stubbornly believe we all originate from the Brahma-sayujya (Brahmajoyti) to understand our original position as our Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body.
The full meanings of the Sanskrit words Atma (soul’s perpetual individual higher self) Vigraha (souls higher eternal form or body) – Both are the Krishna Conscious self, identity, constitution and personality (also atma can mean jiva however, in this thesis, the jiva (soul’s lower self) is the sub-consciousness transpositional state of the full conscious atma (the souls higher self) that transmits the dreaming material illusion. The non-Krishna Conscious sub-consciousness only exists when one is not Krishna Conscious).
Atma-vigraha: - The reason why the Sanskrit words atma-vigraha is used is due to the closest Sanskrit words that reveal oneself in their full Krishna Conscious identity. The words ‘ātma-lińgam’ also means real form of the self but that form is on Brahma Loka or Satyaloka, and is an ethereal form that is part of the material universe - Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.2.28. The proper use of the word is mukta-lingam — lingam, the transcendental self and mukta mean liberation, refers to ones original Krishna Conscious body and form (atma-vigraha) they eternal serve Krishna as in Goloka-Vrindavan, which is the Eternal Kingdom of God way beyond Brahma Loka (Satyaloka) which is part of the impermanent illusionary dreaming universe.
These are just a few meanings of the Sanskrit word jiva. The Sanskrit word jiva has around 170 different meanings according to the way the word is used. The word lingam generally means form but, like other Sanskrit words, can have multiple meaning.
For example, the jiva means soul or living entity in English however, is that the soul in the Spiritual universe in its eternal Krishna Conscious personal form, or the soul in the material dreaming impermanent universe in its non Krishna conscious Impersonal form? Or can it mean both?
Krishna is also referred to as the Super-soul (Supreme Jiva) and the maintainer of all other individual jivas. Jīva-kalām – Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, from whom all living entities expand. Jīva-bhūta-ātma-bhūte - who is the life and the Supersoul.
In this thesis the jiva-atma has two meanings: -
1. Jiva-atma means the individual spirit soul (spirit in this thesis means full Krishna Consciousness active devotion (higher self), which is the atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious spiritual (devotional) body. The higher consciousness is also called the Jīva-tattva, which is the true original position of the living entities as always a person serving Krishna (atma-vigraha’s) Sadā ātma-sthaiḥ means those who are situated in eternity as persons.
Jiva-atma (jiva – souls, atma – self) in this thesis will refer to the sub-consciousness (lower self), a transmitted non-Krishna conscious State of mind blocking out all awareness of the real self which is further called the atma–vigraha full-Consciousness (the always Krishna Conscious bodily form) in this thesis and the source of the translocated jiva-atma or jivatma. Therefore it is the jiva-sub-consciousness, while forgetful of Krishna and who they themselves are, creates the illusionary material non-Krishna Conscious universe where the sub-conscious jiva is obviously absorbed in ‘lowers self’ non-Krishna conscious illusions or dreams. These jiva-sub-conscious imaginative thoughts are also known as the Jīva-lokaḥ, or the conditioned soul trapped in the material world.
The jīva-śakti also can have two meanings: -
The jīva-śakti or tatastha-sakti (lower self) marginal potency as the formless ‘non-spiritual’ sparks of living atomic particles (in this thesis the English word Spiritual means pure Krishna Conscious active personal devotional service) the jīva-śakti lower self, is neither active in the Spiritual universe due to its sub-conscious creation of the non-Krishna conscious material universe, nor active in the material universe either.
Question - So where has the sub-conscious forgetful state of the atma-vigraha body gone?
Answer - Because the Kingdom of God is an eternal personal active loving devotional place that is ever lasting and never aging, the atma-vigraha bodies are always there – nitya-siddha means — eternally established. This is what impermanence and eternity means. Generally nitya-siddha means never falls to the sub-conscious lower self or dream state. In this thesis nitya-siddha refers to ones original Krishna Conscious state. ALL those who choose to forget Krishna and enter the forgetful temporary material universe of the sub-conscious lower self. Every living entity has an original nitya-siddhasvarupa-sat-cit-ananda-atma-vigraha body they realize if they are Krishna Conscious, or cannot realize when not Krishna Conscious.
Question - So how does the individual atma-vigraha fall down from Krishna’s loving service?
Answer - The answer is simple, it doesn’t because that atma-vigraha body is eternal and is the real identity and personality of you and me.
Question - So why am I now in the material universe living in a biological body that gets diseased, grows old and dies, forcing me to go through the pain and delusion of rebirth and forgetfulness?
Answer - In Goloka Vrindavan there is always free will and choice otherwise there can be no question of voluntary loving Krishna. The original constitutional position of the living entity is a person and that identity and personality is the form and body called the atma-vigraha, not in the form, it is ones original appearance! Krishna is the Supreme Atma-Vigraha Body and maintainer of all His Spiritual creation. Now if one chooses to forget Krishna or attempts to enjoy like Krishna, the Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body is no longer viable for their new separate desires of expression. A good example is when one is in the light, they see their own body and the associates of that body, but as soon as the light is turned off, they no longer see their body or the associates of that body. Their body and Krishna’s perpetual Kingdom id there but they are unable to see reality due to the darkness. In this way as soon as we forget Krishna, we forget ourselves and we are left to wonder the darkness of our imagination. That imagination is desires of grandeur that we call the material universe. Krishna is so kind that even being in the darkness of the material illusion, that is called the jiva-sub-consciousness or lower self in this thesis, is also sanctioned and managed by Him.
Question - So why is it said we are an atom of effulgence or spiritual spark?
Answer - One can appear as that deceptive inactive state of sub-conscious oneness, or an individual spark of light because they are no longer interested in creating counterfeit ethereal and biological temporary bodily identities and personalities. Such a state of non-participation with the sub-conscious active thought, desires dreams, is due to the frustration of impermanence that governs the material universal darkness, as well as its Impersonal so called liberation state of ‘non-thought’. Such illusions are due to a long, long; long ago desire to enjoy autonomously from Krishna, where one has forgotten their true Spiritual Personal atma-vigraha origins. The sub-conscious illusions blocks ones appreciation of their real Krishna Conscious individual self (atma-vigraha body). This state of sub-conscious inactiveness one escapes to in an attempt to be liberated, borders the sub-conscious material active impermanent state called the tatastha-sakti. The idea that this state of sub-consciousness originally appears as ‘an individual atomic unconscious spark’ is only believed by less intelligent devotees who foolishly believe this impersonalism is the original source of the jiva-soul, or, for the Impersonalist Yogis and Mayavadis can appear as an ‘all pervasive bright light’, however both are an illusion manufactured in the darkness of their own sub-consciousness (remember when the light is turned out you no longer see your body or the associates of your body) within the deep shadows of forgetfulness of Krishna, where one forgets they are a atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body, not as a Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body because they are already and always was and will be that personal individual body! Only in the deep darkness of ones ignorant sub-consciousness does one appear to exist as a spiritual spark or an atom of effulgence. The material universe and the Impersonal Brahmajoyti is also the dream of the Maha-Vishnu expansion of Lord Krishna, Lord of the Universe and all the atma-vigrahas, who facilitates the mistaken desires of those who choose to forget Krishna and simultaneously themselves and exist in but a shadow of there real self. Explained in more detail later
The Impersonal Brahmajoyti, a concoction of the jiva-sub-consciousness, is not a Spiritual place because there is no devotion to Krishna in that inactive state where the jiva-sub-consciousness imagines itself existing as a vibrating spark of living impersonal light when not active in its material hallucinations of various ethereal and biological bodily vessels and their sub-conscious imagined surroundings. This jiva-sub-conscious illusion is also known as the Jīva-lokaḥ, or the conditioned soul trapped in the material world. Jīva-gatim — the true nature of the living entity. Even without any knowledge of God (Krishna) or our own real eternal individual bodily Spiritual form, we are still all eternally connected to our perpetual body in Gods Kingdom, even while we are transmitting our forgetful dreams within the material universe or non-active-dreams within the Brahmajoyti. Jīva-śakti can also refer to the higher self but is generally a Sanskrit word used to describe the lower self, or the conditioned state of existing in the ‘darkness’ or ‘shadow of ones self’ or ‘the jiva-sub-conscious dream’, which is the material impermanent universe that includes its Impersonal counterfeit motionless liberation of suspension of thought into the ‘Personal Brahmajoyti’ unreal replication, opposite or shadow called the Impersonal Brahmajoyti, which is the silhouette of the real Personal Brahmajoyti. Explained more clearly on page 53). The following is adapted from the Veda Hare Krishna planetarium index explaining correctly the origin of jiva-atma-sub-consciousness (that dreams of material existence) as a split non-Krishna conscious personality originating from the Krishna Conscious perpetual atma-vigraha body: - This painting represents the two different conscious levels of the living entity – The Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha higher self and the non-Krishna Conscious jiva-atma lower self or sub-consciousness
‘I am therefore the atma-vigraha part and parcel and eternal servant of the Lord. My nitya-siddhasvarupa, spiritual body, is similar in form to any of the jiva-atma however, can created various ethereal and biological bodies identities and forms in the material world that have absolutely no resemblance to my real atma-vigraha body. But it is of the same quality as myself yet on a level of un-consciousness that is unaware of Krishna or the body my original body I serve Krishna as. Although I could stay here eternally in Lord's loving company in Goloka-Vrindavan and participate in His Lila (pastime), I decided to explore the material universal dream world created by my forgetful sub-consciousness thus beginning my journey... The Lord does not interfere with my free will by preventing me from leaving Him but is unlimitedly happy when I return to Him again:
"Having attained me [Svarupa], a friend more dear than life, as if He had not seen me for a long time, taking my hand in His lotus hand, asking me wonderful questions, bringing happiness to all the people of Vraja, and walking as gracefully as an elephant, the handsome Lord entered the village of Vraja." (Brhad-bhagavatamrta 2.6.76, by Sanatana Goswami)
"After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection." (BG 8.15)
The Kingdom of God, or the transcendental world of sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss and all living entities original have form and body) is the abode of the Supreme Lord Krishna in Goloka Vrindavan and His expansion Vishnu in His unlimited eternal forms. The authentic Personal Brahman or Brahmajoyti is the Vaikuntha’s and their inhabitants surrounding the transcendental body of Lord Krishna in the Bona Fide Perpetual Personal Universe where all life is individual and has an eternal body.
The Personal authentic Brahman or Brahmajoyti is form and held together by form. The comatose withdrawn multi personality unconscious version of the Brahmajoyti is Impersonal and, just as that sub-consciousness is the shadowy silhouette of the atma-vigraha spiritual body in Goloka-Vrindavan, the Impersonal Brahmajoyti is the demarcated or shadow of the Personal Brahmajoyti in the sub-conscious dream. This exists at the edge of the material universe where material desires and thoughts exist as a non-dreaming state, where ones sub-consciousness not only originally consciously walked away from its own full consciousness or body serving Krishna, but have now, deep within their sub-conscious dream, have now also walked away from the dreamed-up bodily creations, opting for a total sub-conscious shut down that the ‘sub-consciousness has deluded itself to be an eternal state of liberation, but, just as the material universe is temporary, so is this impersonal imaginary escape into the impersonal sub-conscious version of the Brahmajoyti.
Eventually the sub-consciousness comes out of their non-dreaming state because it is the nature of life to be fully active, be it in the fully conscious state in Goloka-Vrindavan, or the sub-conscious state in the material universe. Activity and personal form is the original nature and appearance of the soul.
The material universe in this thesis is the sub-conscious dream of the full conscious atma-vigraha body. It is said the effulgence of the Impersonal Brahmajoyti is very bright but that brightness cannot be compared the pure personal selfless loving (devotional) brightness surrounding Krishna’s Personal Body where all the atma-vigraha’s reside and who ARE that brilliance AS their perpetual bodily selves. Is this proper understanding of Personalism getting through? The Impersonal Brahmajoyti is part of the illusionary dreaming sub-consciousness projected simultaneously by the sleeping Maha-Vishnu expansion of Krishna, and those who have forgotten Krishna and the original perpetual body they serve Krishna with. Krishna’s Maha Vishnu expansion makes the material universe possible and always accompanies the forgetful jiva-sub-consciousness.
The Impersonal Brahmajoyti is a bogus illusionary isolated inactive imaginary cessation of sub-consciousness, mistaken as liberation, which is also temporary, like the material universe that the contaminated active‘sub-consciousness’ is trying to break out from. Real liberation is to re-establish ones original pure personal active Krishna Consciousness, as their original fully conscious awake self (atma-vigraha body)
The jiva-sub-consciousness takes this path because they are unable to see and recognize Krishna and there real self, form and body as already explained. Nor do they want to continue existing in the active material universe. Atma-jiva also means marginal potency that is the original eternal never-ending Krishna Conscious form
jīva-rūpa — the identity of the living entity (higher self) that is the original eternal never ending Krishna Conscious form (atma-vigraha) and refers to the Spiritual devotional (Krishna Conscious unending universe free from impermanence, birth, death, disease, old age and death) where the jīva-rūpa — the identity of the living entity has eternal form (atma-vigraha) serving Krishna. The higher consciousness is also called the Jīva-tattva, which is the true original Personal position of the living entities always personally serving Krishna (atma-vigraha’s) Therefore in this thesis, the atma-vigraha’s ‘lower self’ is called the dreaming jiva-sub-consciousness. This lower self or sub-conscious dream state is also called ‘the conditioned living entities’. While absorbed in the conditioned unconscious state, they are unaware of their real fully Krishna conscious bodily form.
A crude example of understanding what is explained here is, when one sleeps at night, they dream of so many places, and of having so many different personalities and identities in those sub-conscious dreams. While in such a deep sub-conscious dream state, one forgets their biological body from whence they are dreaming from. In the same way, the entire temporary material vast universe is nothing other than the dream of the real self or body (atma-vigraha)
"It is not possible to be disconnected, but it is possible to be covered". – Srila Prabhupda - Srimad Bhagavatam commentary to 3.25.13, Bombay, April, 1974
"Upon attaining the goal of the Supreme Soul, He serves in his own personal luster and color and in his own personal form of bliss. At that time, the jiva again attains his imperishable form, completely uncovered and free from impediment". - Pada-ratnavali commentary to Srimad Bhagavatam 8.24.48
Srila Prabhupada in his purport on this verse further adds: -
‘Therefore the purpose of human life is to purify oneself of this contamination so that one can regain his spiritual form and not undergo this cycle of birth and death. The recommended process of decontamination is devotional service to the Lord. There are various processes for self-realization, such as karma, jñāna and yoga, but none of them is equal to the process of devotional service - The living entity should become purified and regain his svarūpa, his original identity
Srila Prabhupada also further says in the purport of Bhagavad-Gita as it is Chapter 2 - text 28
“The material body has no factual existence in relation to the eternal soul. It is something like a dream. In a dream we may think of flying in the sky, or sitting on a chariot as a king, but when we wake up we can see that we are neither in the sky nor seated on the chariot”.
"Each and every living entity is originally attached to a particular type of transcendental service, because he is eternally the servitor of the Lord". - Srimad Bhagavatam 3.9.11, purport
When the light of loving devotional service to Krishna is turned on, one sees that all the ‘sub-conscious’ shadows of ones real self (atma-vigraha body) in the form of ethereal bodies and unlimited biological bodies within the material manifestation are originally all devotees of Krishna. When the light of loving devotional service is turned off by selfishness and forgetfulness of Krishna, one is left in the darkness of that material universal dream where they no longer see or remember Krishna or their own original transcendental body they serve Krishna as.
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Chapter one part 2
“The real meaning of the word Internet is: - ‘the linking up of ones projected speculative relayed conscious thoughts, derived from ones valid bodily identity and profile, and then relayed, via ones Computer, X-Box, Play Station or Nintendo, facilitating the connection to ones thoughts to an extensive array of computer networks, web pages, destinations and virtual games without really going anywhere.
The real explanation of the jiva (soul’s lower self) sub-consciousness: - ‘is the non-Krishna Conscious disseminated nescience thoughts relayed from ones atma - [self-soul] and vigraha –[body] full Consciousness (higher self) without being aware that this transmutation of consciousness to sub-consciousness has taken place. The sub-conscious jiva is the transpositional state of the atma-vigraha body. The jiva- sub-consciousness is an illusion created by one who chooses to forget Krishna.
A further meaning of the word Internet is ‘the linking up of ones projected transmitted consciousness with extensive realms, networks and destinations without really going anywhere. In the case of the atma-vigraha body in Goloka-Vrindavan, it is the forgetfulness of Krishna that instigates instantly the further absentmindedness of oneself (atma-vigraha bodily personality) simultaneously. The non-Krishna Conscious thoughts, in modern scientific terminology, becomes the virtual internet (transmitted consciousness) super-highway (the material universe) that creates the many bodies and places for the transmitted jiva-soul-consciousness to live out extended non-Krishna Conscious dreams.
The sub-consciousness (jiva, atma or soul) is unaware of its original perpetual atma-vigraha bodily form that is facilitating and transmitting the virtual illusionary reality (via the jiva (sub-consciousness) as the material impermanent universe. When the sub-consciousness (jiva) begins it transformation back to its full consciousness body (atma-vigraha), the nescience jiva consciousness is disseminated by the effulgent personal atma-vigraha full bodily consciousness.
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabupada, says on the top of his Back to Godhead Magazine - Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience. Light represents the higher self and nescience represents the lower self, as soon as there is light, the nescience or darkness disappears.
Technically there is no structure to the individual jiva sub-consciousness (soul’s lower self) in its manifestation within the illusionary abstract world of the material universe because it is only an extensive state on non-Krishna (God as He is known with His Personal name) Conscious dreaming, originating from the atma – vigraha form (soul’s higher bodily individual self that is eternally serving God) yet having no memory of that form while in the sub-conscious darkness of the lower self.
The jiva-sub-consciousness is in effect, illusionary transmitted dreaming consciousness originating from a personal foundation, yet unaware of its eternal bodily source were one is always blissfully Krishna Conscious in their full constitution, unaffected by the influence of the temporary material universal dream (Maya). How this apparent contraction is possible will be explained in the thesis.
There are two aspects of ones eternal consciousness; one personified as an eternal body, the other personified as temporary dreams.
2. Ones full consciousness (atma, the souls higher self means Krishna Conscious self. Vigraha means individual Krishna Conscious form that is always absorbed in serving Krishna (God) and his devotees in the Kingdom of God Known as Goloka-Vrindavan in the Sanskrit Vedas.
3. Ones sub-consciousness (jiva, the individual souls lower self) existing as transmitted sub-consciousness dispersed from the atma-vigraha full consciousness self and body as a non Krishna Conscious ambience to the material universe.
As ones jiva-sub-consciousness (soul) moves towards (serving Gods Personal body) Krishna Consciousness, a transmutation begins to take place, the jiva-sub-consciousness sets in motion its return journey and begins to dissipate or transform back as its original full Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha perpetual body (higher self) beyond this temporary material universe, that is governed by forgetfulness, suffering, birth, disease, old age and death.
The jiva-sub-conscious (lower self) trapped in the material universe, is always in the non-Krishna Conscious state (eternally conditioned while spellbound in the material dream) just as the Fully Krishna Conscious state is always in the fully Conscious perpetual devotional appearance of the atma-vigraha body (eternally liberated in the Kingdom of God) when fully aware of its higher self.
In other words, as one begins to understand they have a higher self beyond their present biological body and the material universe, that devotional knowledge will disseminate the nescience of the lower self sub-conscious illusions and identity that presently seem real.
Just like when the light is on, not only can one see their own body, but they also see those they are associating with. In conclusion, when the light of devotion and Knowledge is out, due to forgetfulness of Krishna (God), one can no longer be them-selves or know their real form always serving Krishna (God) in His eternal Personal Universe where birth, disease, old age and death do not exist.
The jiva-sub-conscious is always in the non-Krishna Conscious state (eternally conditioned) just as the Fully Krishna Conscious state is always the atma-vigraha body (eternally liberated) In other words, in ones full consciousness, the effulgence of the atma-vigraha bodily personification of that consciousness disseminates the nescience of the jiva-sub-conscious lower self illusions.
In this thesis the atma-vigraha is the full consciousness and the jiva is the illusionary sub-consciousness however, for those who view the atma (soul) and the jiva (soul) as the same, then it can be said that the full conscious jiva is the higher self and Krishna Conscious, while the sub-conscious jiva is the lower self and always in trapped ethereal, biological consciousness in the material world. The purpose of Lord Krishna-Caitanya’s Sankirtan Movement in our present age of Kali-yuga is withdrawal from the sub-consciousness to the fully conscious through the process of Chanting Hare Krishna.
In the presents of Krishna’s Perpetual Spiritual Universe, Goloka-Vrindavan (the Kingdom of God), the only reality is that bliss eternal abode. In comparison, the impermanent material universe is nothing other than a flickering frustrating dream. All individuals in Krishna’s abode that chooses not to remain Krishna Conscious create their-own dream-state existence and enter the dark sub-conscious real of the eternal existence. It is that extended separated sub-consciousness we call the jiva.
All jiva’s (the sub-conscious state of the atma-vigraha) originate from a personal Krishna Conscious individual body called atma (the soul or jiva’s higher self) vigraha (form) The fleeting material universe, created by the sub-conscious jiva, is nothing other than an fleeting illusion. The jiva-sub-consciousness, trapped in the material universe, is always trying to break through that illusion. The sub-conscious-jiva’s intrinsic nature is to believe it has a spiritual origin, even though unaware of what that spiritual origin is. The jiva-sub-consciousness has no idea they have a higher consciousness self-existing as an eternal devotional person. Instinctively the jiva sub-consciousness is always reminded they originate, (even though the jiva-consciousness has forgotten or trying to forget), from a Perpetual universe where everywhere is full of individual life and form devoid of impermanence, suffering, birth, disease, old age or death. This is why religion is inherent in all cultures.
The search for paragons is always inherent in human nature, for the reason that the material world is not the real home of the jiva-consciousness, intrinsically every jiva instinctively knows this, even when covered by ignorance and forgetfulness.
One, who has reached the human species, after transmigrating through the lower species of life, can have these emotions of curiosity, if their human body has sufficient brain substance? Such embodied jiva’s will always know something is not quite right and become philosophers, poets, writers, scientists and astronomers in their quest to find out the truth and purpose of the life and the universe. As those emotion becomes more intense, the search for self realization begins and if it is intensely sincere, you do not even have to look for a Krishna Conscious Guru or Spiritual Master because he will find you. To be precise, that intense inbuilt search will come across the path of a Spiritual Master because whether one remembers or not, Krishna is always within them.
The meaning of illusion is non-Krishna (God) Conscious desires and thoughts that appear real but temporary in the material world created by the sub-conscious mind unaware of their atma-vigraha bodily source.
Such sub-conscious dreams fade away and disappears in due course, just like the dreams one has at night. Such non-Krishna dreams are figments of the imagination (sub-consciousness) manifested as the temporary material universe.
The jiva (life force, soul or living entity existing as the sub-conscious non-Krishna conscious lower self distinct from the Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body or real self) existing in the material universe, is simply ‘the dreaming sub-consciousness forgetful state of the full consciousness’ moulded by NON-Krishna Conscious thoughts, desires and eventually karma. We call that sub-consciousness, originating or transmitted from its eternal self and form, the life force or soul in English in its lower self-manifestation.
That’s why words such as life force, living entity, soul and even jiva are vague with impersonal connotations
The Srimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavat Purana - vedanta) calls this transmitted life force, the jiva consciousness, and explains how the jiva (soul) enters the impermanent material universe, originating from an eternal perpetual universe where everything is alive with personality and form that never decays or fades away. It is from the individual Krishna Conscious body existing in the Kingdom of God (Goloka-Vrindavan), the jiva-sub-consciousness originates and projects an illusionary existence that is the material universe.
The way this happens is due to non-Krishna Conscious thoughts that have a simultaneous two fold effect –
1. The higher self that is always aware of their full consciousness and eternal body due to being Krishna Conscious
2. The lower self, existing in the sub-conscious mind unaware of their full consciousness and eternal bodily form.
As soon as one forgets Krishna and serving His blissful form, one’s forgetfulness enters into their sub-conscious realm where one not only forgets Krishna, but they also forget their own body and become absorbed in their own non-Krishna Conscious dreams through the sub-conscious medium (jiva-soul.) The consequences of forgetting Krishna and ones real eternal Krishna Conscious atma- (self) vigraha- (form) body, is an imagined universe separated from Krishna and ones real self and form. The material universe (dream) is nothing other than generated fading thoughts that create unlimited bodily vessels, made provisional because of the capricious nature of the jiva soul sub-consciousness.
There is no such thing as a spark of life or independent disconnected jiva, atma or life force in the material universe that is separated from, or a different entity from ones real eternal nitya siddhasvarupa sat cit ananda atma vigraha personality.
· Nitya – Eternally Krishna Conscious without beginning or end. Nitya-siddha means — eternally established. This is what impermanence and eternity means. Generally nitya-siddha means never falls to the sub-conscious lower self or dream state. In this thesis nitya-siddha refers to ones original Krishna Conscious body that is always there even when ones dreaming (jiva-sub-consciousness) lower self is in the material universe.
· Siddhasvarupa – A Krishna Conscious unique, original and servitor personal relationship with Krishna that can only be awakened when one is Krishna Conscious. It is impossible to understand whom one really is in Krishna Lila (pastime) while still absorbed in the sub-conscious-jiva projected hallucinations. · Sat – Krishna Conscious eternity. · Cit – Krishna Conscious Knowledge. · Ananda – Krishna Conscious bliss. · Atma (soul’s higher self, personality and individuality) – Krishna Conscious self, identity, and personality (also atma can mean jiva however, in this thesis, the jiva (soul’s lower self) is the sub-consciousness of the full conscious atma (the souls higher self) that transmits the dreaming material illusion. The non-Krishna Conscious sub-consciousness only exists when one is not Krishna Conscious). · Vigraha (soul’s higher body form) – is the atma’s individual eternal bodily Krishna Conscious form The only difference is if one is Krishna Conscious or not Krishna Conscious. All existence in the material universe is not real because it is temporary; it is only an illusionary transmitted dream, or translocated consciousness originating from ones individual personality and form in the only reality in creation, known as Goloka-Vrindavan and the Vaikuntha Spiritual (devotional) Sky.
Another further meaning of the word Internet is: - ‘the linking up of ones projected speculative relayed conscious thoughts, derived from ones valid bodily identity and profile, and then relayed, via ones Computer, X-Box, Play Station or Nintendo, facilitating the connection to ones thoughts to an extensive array of computer networks, web pages, destinations and virtual games without really going anywhere.
The real explanation of the jiva (soul’s lower self) sub-consciousness: - ‘is the non-Krishna Conscious disseminated nescience thoughts relayed from ones atma - [self-soul] and vigraha –[body] full Consciousness (higher self) at the speed of thought without being aware that this transmutation of consciousness to sub-consciousness has taken place. The sub-conscious jiva is the transpositional state of the atma-vigraha body. The jiva- sub-consciousness is an illusion created by one who chooses to forget Krishna. The sub-consciousness (jiva) is unaware of its original perpetual atma-vigraha bodily form that is facilitating and transmitting the virtual illusionary reality (via the jiva (sub-consciousness) as the material impermanent universe. When the sub-consciousness (jiva) begins it transformation back to its full consciousness body (atma-vigraha), the nescience jiva consciousness is disseminated by the effulgent personal atma-vigraha full bodily consciousness.
A further meaning of the word Internet is ‘the linking up of ones projected transmitted consciousness with extensive realms, networks and destinations without really going anywhere. In the case of the atma-vigraha body in Goloka-Vrindavan, it is the forgetfulness of Krishna that instigates instantly the further absentmindedness of oneself (atma-vigraha bodily personality) simultaneously. The non-Krishna Conscious thoughts, in modern scientific terminology, becomes the virtual internet (transmitted sub-consciousness) super-highway (the material universe) that creates the many bodies and places for the transmitted jiva-soul-consciousness to live out extended non-Krishna Conscious dreams. The jiva-soul is ‘thought’ transmitted as the virtual Internet super highway. A crude example of this can be compared to the present hi-tech virtual reality Internet revolution. The material hallucination world to the Krishna Conscious atma vigraha IS what the Internet virtual super highway and 3.D. computer games are to the biological human body in the scientific technological age of the 21st century. Another crude example of how this works: - Today modern scientists are sending probes out into space or in medicine they are sending probes deep into the biological body, these probes become an extension of their senses but have no effect directly on their senses. In this way, they can go deep into space or deep within the biological body without really going there. This is because they have extended their influence or conscious awareness with the extensions of their sensual perception. None of the extensions carrying their consciousness are real. Or another example is telephones and the new 3 dimensional televisions that will be widely available around 2020; one can be transported to a lounge room anywhere in the world, but are they really there? Through the visual senses they will appear real and sitting in your lounge room however, it is only an illusion. They are not real in that transmitted form but they are real at the source of that transmission. Therefore not only is the transmission of the real self’s consciousness (the atma-vigraha body) is not real, neither is the form of transport real. In this way, there is no real substance to the jiva sub-consciousness, just as there is no substance to the transmitted 3D television singles broadcasted from the television studio or some computer anywhere on the planet. In this way EVERYTHING is broadcasted from Goloka-Vrindavan as the material universe by the sub-consciousness (lower self).
Due to the temporary nature of the material universe, prompted by forgetfulness, the jiva consciousness sheds a lifeless phenomenon (container), these thought-generated-containers (biological bodied) without the presents of the jiva-soul consciousness, eventually breaks down and expands the lifeless aspect of the material universe with fossilized dust, gases and sand that eventually become rocks, mountains, planets, moons, solar systems and galaxies over trillions of years however, the material universe is an ever expanding illusion. The planets that support life are shaped and molded by Brahma and his architect Visvakama.
The material dreaming universal phenomena is constantly repeated by the non-Krishna Conscious thoughts of those atma-vigrahas who have entered the dark realms of their sub-conscious mind due to forgetting Krishna and themselves. In this way, all matter comes from life. How this happens will be gradually explained in this thesis. There is no difference between desires, thoughts and actions on the absolute level. Either one is thinking of serving Krishna (serving in full consciousness) or not thinking of Krishna (selfishly existing in the darkness of their sub-consciousness).
If one chooses to not serve Krishna with every thought and action, then they disqualify themselves from living in the perpetual Goloka-Vrindavan dominion (Krishna’s Kingdom) as well as disqualifying themselves from being their full Krishna conscious genuine bodily self.
In this way, the sub-conscious mind, forgetful of their atma-vigraha body, leave the Kingdom of Krishna (God) as the transmitted dreaming sub-consciousness (jiva). Based on non-Krishna Conscious desires and thoughts, this dreaming sub-consciousness then becomes covered by its own generated ethereal body, cast by those non-Krishna Conscious desires and thoughts. Eventually the ethereal body further generates a biological body, this is where the distinction between desires, thoughts and actions begin to manifest and Karma begins to exist in the human biological form of life. The generated biological body is like a garment covering the already embodied jiva-soul. This is very difficult to understand, what is written here in ‘THE SECRET BOOK OF ORIGINS’, is how this happens and is also the correct understanding of what the jiva (life force or souls lower self) is and where it originates.
The Sanskrit word jiva in this thesis means transmitted sub-conscious dreaming thoughts that originate from its eternal individual Krishna Conscious atma- (self) vigraha- (form) everlasting body in Krishna’s abode, without being aware of that Krishna Conscious body.
· The ATMA-VIGRAHA BODY is the higher self and is always ones Krishna Conscious individual bodily form.
· The sub-consciousness: - lower self, or the illusory dream appears sometimes as an individual spark of effulgence after its attempts to enjoy in the material illusory universe, but more often imagines itself as the all-pervasive self centred oneness. (Impersonalist yogis, Mayavadis, jains and Buddhists) This deluded sub-consciousness in a psychosis of denial originates from the same atma-vigraha individual permanent bodily source; unaware of that origin that is always an independent individual bodily servant of Krishna. Just as when one dreams in their present biological body, they are unaware of that biological body from whence they are dreaming from
Lord Krishna’s eternal Kingdom is known as Goloka-Vrindavan, or the Kingdom of God. Some scholars call the atma-vigraha body, the jiva or atma soul – all are correct. However, to make this book easier to understand, the Sanskrit word JIVA refers to the transmitted forgetful sub-consciousness that emanates from the eternal and never changing Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body that is always serving Krishna (God) in Goloka-Vrindavan. The forgetful Krishna Consciousness that creates the dreamy sub-consciousness of the atma-vigraha personalities in Goloka-Vrindavan is called the televised transmitted jiva–sub-consciousness. The jiva sub-consciousness has no knowledge of it atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body and therefore goes on too create many different levels of extended sub-conscious levels within the material illusion that often exist in an impersonal shrewdness where their universe appears all one with them.
This delusion is possible because the sub-consciousness jiva is isolated within its own dreaming consciousness and can dream up anything they desire – at least in the beginning stages of their dream, before they become trapped by karma, when they enter the illusionary heavenly planets in the material creation. When one is fully awake and aware Krishna Consciousness in a selfless devotional mood, the jiva-sub-consciousness ceases to exist because of its transformation from lower self back to higher self. By failing to remember Krishna, one falls, due to forgetfulness, to the jiva-sub-conscious lower self’s thoughts and desires that reverberates sub-conscious thoughts of non-Krishna Conscious origins (desires and wishes) that broadcast the realism-dream-state-illusion of the impermanent material universe. The English word for life force, jiva, atma-vigraha, is soul or living entity. In later chapters the description of Goloka-Vrindavan and the Vishnu Planets in the Vaikunthas will also be explained. This goes into a deeper understanding and explains how ones real self (atma-vigraha) serves Krishna in unlimited ways, even when sleeping and dreaming in a Krishna Conscious atmosphere.
In this way, the dreams of the atma-vigraha are always Krishna Conscious and are never about the material universe. It is impossible to dream of the material universe in ones atma-vigraha transcendental (Krishna Conscious) body. Only the sub-consciousness, that is completely unaware of the atma-vigraha body, can dream of the material universe.
When one dreams of Krishna in the Kingdom of God in their real form (atma-vigraha), such dreams expand one’s relationship with Krishna in unlimited unique ways, then there are Krishna Conscious dreams within those dreams, on and on and on – this is how one can be a servant, a son or daughter, a friend, a parent, a lover, a bird for Krishna to enjoy, a tree, a blade of grass for Krishna to walk on, a star (all fully Krishna Conscious) in the sky for Krishna to dance under during the moon lit night, or even an enemy of Krishna in His Lila or pastime. Also Krishna Himself has unlimited expansions that allows Him to Be with every individual simultaneously and appear as other expanded personalities, such as Balarama, Radharani, Lord Rama and multi varieties of Vishnu to name a few - all at the same time. This is explained in the Caitanya Caritamrta however, these secrets of secrets can only be understood when one is fully selflessly Krishna Conscious and can never be imitated.
Brahman must be held together by form because it IS the form of Krishna and His individual servants. The Brahma Samhita and other Vedic texts are often misconstrued, depicting an impersonal origin and misconception of how and where the individual jiva (sub-consciousness) originally exists; the great Vaisnavas who gave us this transcendental text did not intend this misapprehension of Impersonal impressions. Many of us just have not gone deep enough into the real meanings of Devotion and Personalism that is the foundation of the Brahma Samhita and the Vedanta.
Text 21 of the Brahma Samhita
The same individual life jiva is eternal and is for eternity and without a beginning joined to the Supreme Lord by the tie of an eternal kinship or relationships. He is transcendental Spiritual (devotional) potency. Just as the sun is eternally associated with its rays, so the transcendental Supreme Lord Krishna is eternally joined with the atma-vigrahas personalities in their full expression of devotional individuality, which is their originally position and who they really are.
The atma-vigrahas are the infinitesimal in comparison to Lord Krishna however, the analogy of the sun and the sun-rays is only a metaphor, Krishna in his Supreme Personal top most Form is not an effulgent sun but a Supreme Person.
In the same way, the individual atma-vigrahas, (also referred to as jiva’s by scholars, though, in this thesis, the Sanskrit word “jiva” will refer to the non-Krishna Cognisant sub-consciousness of the atma-vigraha) are not atomic rays or particles surrounding the sun because they are also individual persons (atma-vigraha’s having an original bodily form). The word nitya-sambandhah is significant here meaning possessing an eternal relationship with Krishna in a spiritual (devotional) sense. The Sanskrit word para means spiritual devotion. The atma-vigraha’s (always Krishna Conscious as their real self and form) and the discharged non-Krishna sub-conscious thoughts (jiva) are simultaneously without beginning or and always joined. Unlike Krishna and the individual atma-vigraha servitors, the dreaming wide-ranging jiva sub-consciousness can appear to exist as an atomic spark of inactive consciousness, only after choosing to forget Krishna and them selves (atma-vigraha), by attempting an independent non-Krishna Conscious existence in the material universe, then further attempting to end that material active existence by switching off thoughts and entering the Impersonal Brahmajoyti, which is another creation of the jiva sub-consciousness. The independent non-Krishna Conscious projected sub-consciousness originates and is transmits thoughts as the material universe without any memory of its atma-vigraha origins and form that is always in Krishna’s perpetual abode. The jiva-sub-consciousness (soul) not only roams throughout the material impermanent universe in a variety of bodies, but may also eventually, if it stays long enough, finds its way to the Impersonal inactive deceptive Impersonal Brahmajoyti.
The word Brahmajoyti or Brahman has two meanings,
1. Impersonal Brahman, which is an illusion created by the non-Krishna sub-conscious mind (the lower self) attained after becoming frustrated and fed up with the temporary nature of the active material universe, where the jiva sub-conscious takes on the characteristics of an atomic inactive spark in a ray of effulgence however, just like the material universe, such a state of sub-consciousness is an illusion and also temporary.
2. Personal Brahman where the spiritual Krishna Conscious Personal universal active brahmajoyti exists with innumerable spiritual (devotional) planets, which are dominated by plenary expansions of Lord Krishna and inhabited by ever-liberated (Krishna Conscious) living beings (atma-vgraha bodies) that ARE the Brahman effulgence. This real meaning of the word Brahmajoyti explains that the living effulgence (individual persons) surrounding Krishna’s transcendental body. It is therefore clear that that effulgence is nothing other than unlimited eternal personalities as their Spiritual bodies serving on unlimited ever lasting devotional Vishnu Planets (Vaikuntha) where the living entities (atma-vigraha’s) in there four armed form serve Vishnu, or in any multi variety form that Lord Vishnu’s Lila calls for. After all, animal, birds, trees and stars in the sky, also exist eternally in the Spiritual Universe however these secrets can never be understood unless one is Krishna Conscious, which means always being absorbed in every deed, thought, action in the one you love the most, which is inherently Krishna for all living entities, soul’s, life force’s in their original individual Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha form. (The higher self)
The concept of a, ‘atom in the effulgent ray of Krishna’s effulgence, is Impersonal nonsense and the creation of the jiva-sub-consciousness in the non- Krishna Conscious lower self.
Just as Krishna has an eternal original bodily form, the atma-vigraha’s are also an original eternal individual bodily form that is always serving Krishna. 10月24日 The greening of the real ISKCON
The real ISKCON Spiritual movementEach of us is born into a situation we deserve and the more mature and pure ISKCON devotees realize this, more souls from the higher planets, who want to go back to Godhead and get out of this material universe, will line up and take birth within the ISKCON to re-establish their Krishna Consciousness.
It all depends on present devotees becoming purified enough to be blessed with such advanced souls instead of attracting jiva-souls only interested in material advancement decorated with religiosity.
It most importantly depends on devotees in our time at the beginning of the 21st century, becoming purified enough to be blessed with such advanced souls. If we build the Krishna Conscious Conditions that can protect their upbringing by being genuinely pure ourselves, they will come and take birth in our families.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Maharaj Prabhupad said he would have had many children if he were convinced they would be given a pure Krishna Conscious up bringing – he chose not to have children because he was disappointed with the lack of seriousness devotees and sannyasi’s had in his Gaudiya Math mission, many thought it was just an Indian religion for Indians. The fact was, the chance to develop ones Krishna Consciousness is for all embodied jiva-souls and such convictions can only truly establish Lord Caitanya’s Sankirtan Movement’
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Maharaj Prabhupad also felt advanced souls from the higher planetary systems, who wanted an easy way out of the material universe, would be reluctant to take birth at such a time in our kali-yuga, which had been previously blessed by the appearance of Lord Krishna Himself 500 years ago in the conjugal union of Radha and Krishna (The form of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu), if the mission of delivering all embodied jiva-souls from all over the world; Europe to the Americas, the African, the Chinese, the Australians, as well as all the other 8000,000 lower species of biological bodies the jiva-souls are trapped in.
It is said that the appearance in the cycles Kali-yugas’ of Lord Caitanya is extremely rare, and that our Kali-yuga is very special because many jiva-souls from the heavenly planets, as well as souls who have transmigrated through the lower species of life on this planet, have all will be given the opportunity to discover their real eternal atma-vigraha identity as they are guided back to Goloka-Vrindavan (the Kingdom of God)
The mission of Lord Caitanya given to our Western culture and revived back in India by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who sowed the seeds of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) all over the world.
Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada did take the mission of his Spiritual Master to heart and saw that ultimately all living entities all over the planet and the universe were originally all devotees of Krishna, His convictions sowed the seeds of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) all over planet. Within a mere ten years (1966-1976) his ISKCON society had became the quickest growing religion in resent history. Other religions took thousands of years to reach all corners of the globe.
It is said that the appearance in the cycles Kali-yugas of Lord Caitanya is extremely rare, and that our Kali-yuga is very special because many jiva-souls from the heavenly planets, as well as souls who have transmigrated through the lower species of life on this planet, have all will be given the opportunity to discover their real eternal atma-vigraha identity as they are guided back to Goloka-Vrindavan (the Kingdom of God)
To same this essay may be a disturbing historical perspective about how many were bullied emotionally and physiologically in the early pioneering years of ISKCON and in some cases, sexual abused. It might be also disturbing to some that such abuse and ignorance went hand in hand with the beginnings of the ISKCON Movement at a time when no-one new anything about Krishna.
It might also be disturbing to some that such abuse and ignorance goes hand in hand with the natural evolution of the conditioned embodied jiva-souls as they withdrawal from the previous violent history struggling for existence as they transmigrate through the lower species and evolving to the various barbaric human species that are the back drop and dark beginnings of the ISKCON pioneering movement that surfaced at mid way through a violent war torn the 20th century plagued with human rights abuses.
We foolishly think we are advanced! We have no idea how fallen ALL of us really are. We think we have some understanding of Spiritual life, what a joke, we are nowhere near understanding what a real Krishna Conscious devotee is! First so called ‘devotees’ must understand they are not the biological vessel they possess. It so difficult to understand we are not the biological body we occupy and even more difficult understanding that everyone we meet is not we think they are.
This is because of the built-up or backlogs of past conditioning (karma) and bad habits that had engrained and deeply riveted the embodied jiva-soul into believing ‘they are their biological vessel’
The trapped embodied jiva-soul has previously moved through millions of life times including bodies affected with the ill assets of the Kali-yuga.
This is the past conditioning from whence all new converts where delivered!!
The past must be correctly understood with a cool head and with absolute Knowledge without mundane worldly sentimentality, religiosity and commonplace ignorant justice (example: what about the inhumane slaughter of the cow) in order to understand Srila Prabhupada's mission.
Only when REAL compassionate selfless devotees learn to look beyond the biological identity and personality of the biological body, will they also understand what it means to be Krishna Conscious – only a Krishna conscious jiva-soul can see the ‘devotee’ within all biological and ethereal vessels the trapped jiva-soul is covered with. A true devotee will not see some nonsense spark of light as their origins, he will see that every jiva-soul has a unique individual eternal relationship with Krishna that can only be revealed when one is fully Krishna Conscious.
All the early pioneering struggles in ISKCON were expected. If one can understand from whence we have evolved from, then no-one should be surprised at what is really the natural violence, abuse and degradation our society really is under the surface – its not just ISKCON facing all these problems, it’s the entire human race! WHY!!? Because of the background of Kali-yuga from whence all new converts where delivered.
The past must be correctly understood with absolute Knowledge without mundane worldly emotional vengeful sentimentality, humdrum religiosity and commonplace ignorant justice (example: what about the inhumane slaughter of the cow) in order to understand Srila Prabhupada’s mission.
If we can not understand these points, then our ignorance will only lead to our ignorant limited knowledge festering angrily away and riveting us further into biological bodily identity and our present version of ISKCON will end up as another mundane worldly materially motivated religion like the Catholic Church, that many foolish devotees are using as a ‘religious’ benchmark to blend into Wester Society – Big mistake! ISKCON is not meant to be mundane like Christianity, Islam, Judaism or Buddhism because the foundations stem from a Pure Spiritual source that has no place for heavenly rewards within the material universe that other religions can only offer. Krishna is the Supreme Personality Of Godhead, which is our conviction.
We will know if we are properly following Srila Prabhupada’s teachings because if we are, then jiva-souls from the heavenly planets that want to be Krishna Conscious and ‘get out’ of the material universe, will take birth and help attract the fallen conditioned souls with their genuine transparency. Such souls will not be swallowed up by the glitter of modern science and technology as most of the raw first generation and their carer’s were. We only attract what we deserve, no more, no less.
If we want to blame ‘someone’ for our suffering, of even the children (embodied jiva-soul encased in a human child bodily form) then blame ones own Karma!
The real reason for child protection is important to understand because without Krishna Conscious protection from emotional, psychological, sexual, scientific and technological abuse and indoctrinations, advanced souls, attempting to free themselves from even the luxuries of the heavenly planets, will not take birth in ISKCON families because devotees have not attained the level of Krishna Consciousness that can protect their welfare and therefore attract such divine souls.
We only attract embodied jiva-soul who deserves the conditions we live in
Advanced souls know the quickest way back home back to Godhead is to take birth in the Kali-yuga within Lord Caitanya's Movement. They are waiting patiently until they feel it’s safe to come here and take birth. Safe from not only emotional, psychological and sexual abuse, but also the indoctrinations of modern science, technology and exposure to mundane television, movies, computer games etc which is another form of abuse because such things interferes with one trying to always remember Krishna.
This answers why there were so many difficulties during the pioneering beginnings of ISKCON. It is not a material problem; it is a Krishna Conscious problem.
The answer is simply said – we all must become selflessly Krishna Conscious, however this is also hard due to identifying with the biological vessel we are presently trapped in. This is due to the backdrop of millions of past lives struggling through the biological species of life and the past history of the human race. When that happens, the souls who take birth on this planet will bring with them an amazing level of consciousness and a new golden Age within Kali-Yuga centred on Lord Chaitanya's sankirtan movement (the congregational chanting of the Hare Krishna Mantra)
It may surprise everyone to learn that what has happened since 1966 is all part of an ‘opportunity’ to take up Lord Chaitanya’s movement in our generation, or not reach the standard and leave it to another generation in another time and place, possibly hundreds of years from now.
It is destined that somewhere in our Kali-yuga ISKCON, or the mission of Lord Caitanya. WILL be established so those embodied jiva-soul’s from the heavenly planets and those embodied jiva’s coming up through the natural biological evolution on this planet, can easily be delivered from the impermanent material universe of both our earthly planet and the heavenly planets.
In the Kali-Yuga Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON has presently 'mercifuly' attracted both low class converts with bad habits and jiva-souls 'coming up through the lower species' who take birth in ISKCON, giving them a chance to attain their 'old' original Krishna consciousness presently covered by the pollution and 'coverings' of millions of life times experiences that jacket their consciousness and the knowledge of whom their real self ('atma-vigraha body)' really was always 'originally' serving Lord Krishna. (This is more clearly explained in the Secret Book Of Origins chapter 6) Also all the jiva-souls Srila Prahupada has rekindled the gift of Lord Chaitnaya are given the opportunity to become Krishna Conscious and 'reawaken' other conditioned souls from the progressive onslaught of Kali-Yuga. In this way they are given the chance to effect other conditioned souls on this planet with their advancing purified consciousness and further attract jiva-souls who are from the higher planetary systems who want to leave the material universe and go back to Goloka-Vrindavan (the Kingdom Of God) Pure souls like Srila Prabhupada and those we only read about in the Srimad Bhagavatam in our present age of Godlessness and degradation can take birth here if devotees provide the pure foundations for their Krishna Conscious upbringing. The problem ISKCON has faced is actually expected in a pioneering movement born out of the spiritual ignorance and decay of the 20th century. The Gaudiya Math was stagnated and useless in spreading Krishna Consciousness except for one great soul, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. As ISKCON devotees become more purified, more advanced souls will feel safe to take birth and not experience the emotional, psychological and sexual abuse of that went on in the beginning of the attempted purification days of the 20th Century - as purity or Krishna Consciousness takes hold, the real ISKCON will shine throughout human society. ISKCON is above the Varna-ashrama society it will eventually establish and guide. This will only happen when devotees are Krishna Conscious beyond imitation. What has happened in the last 40 years is just part of the greening of ISKCON Aspiring to serve the Vaisnavas, sincerely Caitanya dasa |
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