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August 11 Talking about “We have also come down from Vaikuntha some millions and millions of years ago
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. November 18 Talking about Each JIVA-SOUL is 10,000th the size of a tip of hair IN OUR dimension of awareness
Quote Each JIVA-SOUL is 10,000th the size of a tip of hair IN OUR dimension of awareness November 01 Each JIVA-SOUL is 10,000th the size of a tip of hair IN OUR dimension of awarenessEach JIVA-SOUL is 10,000th the size of a tip of hair IN OUR dimension of awareness within the maha-tattva and impersonal aspect of the BrahmajyotiSrila Prabhupada - “So when someone asks, when did we come into contact with the material nature?” The answer is that we have not come into contact. By the influence of the material energy we THINK that we are in contact. Actually we are not fallen. We cannot be fallen. We have simply created a situation. Rather, we have not created a situation; Krishna has given us a situation. Because we wanted to imitate Krishna, Krishna has given an opportunity: “All right. You want to imitate? You want to be an imitation king on the stage’- Tokyo in 1972 Srila PrabhupadaIn the Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta the nitya-baddha condition of the marginal living entity is clearly described in the following quotes - "Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "My dear Rūpa, please listen to Me. It is not possible to describe devotional service completely; therefore I am just trying to give you a synopsis of the symptoms of devotional service" Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya 19.137
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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. |
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. 
It must be clearly understood that without the bodily provision supplied by Maha-Vishnu, the nitya-baddha jiva-s’akti or jiva tattva consciousness has no form and instead resembles a living seed or spark of consciousness that originates from its genuine bodily source (nitya-siddha-svarupa or rasa perpetual body) in Goloka-Vrndavana or the Vaikuntha planets.
One first enters the mahat-tattva due to activating their nitya-baddha lower consciousness with non Krishna conscious thoughts, dreams and desires. Therefore the nitya baddha jiva-tattva consciousness is a manifestation of desires that require activity but cannot be active until Maha-Vishnu gives the nitya-baddha consciousness a bodily form within the blue-print of His mahat-tattva (material creation) creation.
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.
origin of jiva soul
The 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)
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QUANTUM PHYSICS OR THE SCIENCE OF POSSIBILITIES. UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSAL CREATION.
“The perpetual Kingdom of Radha and Krishna (above in the red lotus flower and unlimited expansions of Vishnu and Lakshmi in the surrounding yellow planets) is made up of personalities (marginal) with eternal devotional bodies, where as the maha-tattva (material universe) and its impersonal escape, is nothing other than the rebellious dreams of just a few of those eternal personalities. Such non-Krishna conscious dreams are contained in outward etheral or biological vessels (or in an impersonal inactive liberated state) that both belong to and are part and parcel of the maha-tattva, which is a dark impermanent cloud where the four-armed expansion of Krishna, the dreaming Maha-Vishnu and his wife Maya devi resides, as shown above” Always chant Hare Krishna!” – Pradyumna Swami
Chapter one
The Kingdom of God (Krishna) is an Eternal Personal Active Loving Devotional Place of unlimited pastimes that is ever lasting and never aging, the atma-vigraha transcendental body (the soul’s real spiritual Krishna Conscious self and form) is always engaged in the personal unlimited varieties of pastimes and relationships serving Krishna - nitya-siddha means - eternally actively established as ones Krishna Conscious devotional form. This is 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 going on within unlimited pastimes that are illimitably active. In this way, lila-rasa, or the mellows of ones personal pastime with Krishna, can change in the Spiritual Universe in ways that can only be understood as one genuinely awakens their ‘old’ and original Krishna Consciousness, and even then, once established back as their Krishna Conscious real self or atma-jiva-vigraha body, the way Krishna’s perpetual Kingdom is forever disclosed may still be inconceivable and remain a mystery. In other words, even though one has an original nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha or atma-jiva body, even that active body can appear in diverse behavioural ways and outward appearance according to rasa (pastimes with Krishna and His devotees).
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 cannot fall down, it is possible one can enter a trance like consciousness and forget that unique form and consciously fall 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.
A crude example of understanding the parodox of the eternal liberated state (nitya-siddha) and the eternally conditioned state (nitya-baddha) similtaniously 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.
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 unlimited 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. This also 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 everlasting reality due to our forgetfulness and fantasies that create our dreaming secondary consciousness that transmits one to the material universe or nitya-baddha condition of existence.
In a simple way of trying to understand this, all of us dream when we sleep, similarly just like those dreams one has in their biological body, the non-Krishna Conscious illusionary dreams and thoughts manifest a separate dreaming version of the self. A crude example of this is 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 when one is unaware of their real original identity and form (The atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body).
This separate reality or lower conscious self that is existent but perishable is called the jiva-bhutah non-Krishna conscious active condition of awareness, that is transferred and exists as individual consciousness within the impermanent realms of the material universal dream under the jurisdiction of Krishna in His Mahan-Vishnu form. 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 Vishnulokas 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 maha-tattva is a real and takes up a quarter of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti. The difference between the Vaikuntha’s and the maha-tattva is the Vaikuntha’s are imperishable while the maha-tattva, except for Maha-Vishnu and His plenory expansions, are perishable and everything their goes through a cycle of creation and annihation or decay and re-construction. Also within the maha-tattva exists a phenomena left over from the presents of the embodied jiva-bhutah consciousness when enthralled in transitory decomposing biological vessels. This fossilized remains is Krishna’s inferior energys that make up the suns, moons, solar systems, galaxies and universes within the maha-tattva. On the other hand, within the Goloka-Vrndavan/Vaikuntha realm, everything is living and has eternal form, therefore Krishna’s inferior energies (lifeless matter) does not and cannot exist there. This understanding of the ‘dreaming’ is real but temporary and in no way are exactly like the dreams one has in their biological body, although they are similar.
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.
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. They cannot understand there are two different forms of reality, ones real while the other is also real, but temporary.
The real eternal aspect 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.
Also the 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 temporary.
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 maha-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 ?) within the maha-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 maha-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 His Maha-Vishnu expansion whose dreams are the temporary material universe which are simultaneously the dreams originating from the atma-vigraha bodies as the lower conscious self, while forgetful of that Krishna Conscious body.
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.
Nothing just happens by chance in our material impermanent universe (maha-tattva), everything is constructed and built for the expressions of consciousness that are the desires of ones lower self where one no longer wants to serve Krishna but rather carve out their own existence within the universe of the dreaming (the maha-tattva). In this way ones lower self jiva-bhutah consciousness seeks out happiness by trying many different ethereal or biological bodily garments on, only for the outer covering of the ethereal container to decay and become part of the lifeless (Krishna’s inferior energies).
Srimad Bhagavatam 11.22.56: -
For one who is meditating on sense gratification, material life, although lacking factual existence, does not go away, just as the unpleasant experiences of a dream do not.
Srila Prabhupada: - ‘One may object that if Lord Krishna insists that material life is false, then why should one endeavour to stop it? The Lord therefore explains here that although not factual, material life stubbornly continues for one addicted to sense gratification, just as a frightening dream continues for one merged in sleep. The word avidyamana, "not existing," means that material life is based on mental concoction, in which one thinks, "I am a man," "I am a woman," "I am a doctor," "I am a senator," "I am a street sweeper" and so on. A conditioned soul (jiva-bhutah) enthusiastically performs his activities based on the imaginary identification with the biological body. Thus although the jiva-bhutah exists and the biological body exists, the false identification with the biological body does not exist. Material life, based on a false idea, has no factual existence.
After one awakens from a dream, the dim reflection of the dream may linger in one's memory. Similarly, one engaging in the devotional service of the Lord may be troubled sometimes by the dim reflection of sinful life. One should therefore become strong in Krishna consciousness by hearing the Lord's instructions to Śrī Uddhava.
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.22.57
Therefore, O Uddhava, do not try to enjoy sense gratification with the material senses. See how illusion based on material dualities prevents one from realizing the self.
Srila Prabhupada: - Everything that exists is the potency and property of the Supreme Lord and meant to be used in His loving service. Seeing material objects as separate from the Lord and thus meant to be possessed and enjoyed by oneself is called vaikalpikam bhramam, the illusion of material duality. When selecting one's personal object of enjoyment, such as food, clothing, residence or vehicle, one considers the relative quality of the object to be acquired. Consequently, in material life one is in constant anxiety, trying to acquire the most excellent sense gratification for one's personal pleasure. If one realizes everything as the property of the Lord, however, he will see everything as meant for the Lord's pleasure. He will feel no personal anxiety, because he is satisfied simply to be engaged in the Lord's loving service. It is not possible to exploit the property of the Lord and at the same time advance in self-realization. End of quotes
When the jiva-bhutah dream conscious becomes manifest due to forgetfulness of Krishna, Krishna also accompanies the dreaming consciousness, not in His original Atma-Vigraha form who resides in Goloka-Vrndavana, but in His Maha-Vishnu expansion who is also dreaming.
In the Vedas there is clear information that the original person in each of the billions upon billions of inconsequential material universes is Brahma, some have four heads others have ten heads while others may have twenty heads etc. Each of the Brahma’s ethereal body originates from an equal amount of Garbhodakasayi Vishnu’s body within those billions upon billions of globes originating from the pours of Maha-Vishnu, which is all part of His dream within the finite (yet infinite) maha-tattva (real but subject to decay), as all ready explained. The third expansion of Maha-Vishnu is Karanadakasayi Vishnu, an expansion of Garbhodakasayi Vishnu, who is also known as the Paramatma whom accompanies all jiva-bhutaha’s entering the maha-tattva from the surrounding perpetual Spritual Sky as transmitted consciousnesses. Such dreaming consciousness originates from perpetual atma-jiva-vigraha body that is eternally Krishna Conscious. Maha Vishnu within the maha-tattva or dark cloud within the Spiritual Sky, is an expansion of infinite number of Vishnu’s in the Vaikuntha’s who each have their own Vishnuloka planet and each have a paticular name like Narayana, Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha etc. All are them are expansions of the original God or Supreme Personality Sri Krishna Caitanya who resides in His Goloka-Vrndavana Planet that is the centre of all creation.
The picture above is of Sri Radha and Krishna sitting on a pink lotus in the Goloka-Vrndavana Planet, far beyond the insignificant mundane material creation (maha-tattva) and past the viraj or Causal Ocean, which is outside the influence of the sleeping Maha-Vishnu, yet still within the vicinity of the maha-tattva, yet out of reach of the vaikuntha lokas.
Krishna’s Perpetual two armed Form/Body is therefore always in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha and so are His inconsequential or marginal nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha servants. It is important to try and understand here, that Krishna’s eternal servants never fall down in their eternal nitya-siddha body, however they can ‘consciously’ forget that body (their real personal form and identity). The only way to never fall down is to always serve Krishna and His devotees and never ever forget Him or them.
Even if one does turn their back on Krishna, they only fall down in a conscious dream state and never as the perpetual body they really are and whom they always will be.
It is important to understand here this ‘fall from grace’ is never a physical fall down, but rather, a conscious fall down due to forgetfulness, like wondering off in a daydream while playing sport and being so absorbed in the daydream, you forget your body and the sport you are involved in. Only in this way can ones conscious awareness fall down or be overwhelmed with self-importance and jealousy of Krishna. As previously emphasized, one never falls away from Krishna’s association in their original atma-vigraha bodily form, but in a dreaming illusionary consciousness that is transmitted to the maha-tattva and embodied in ethereal and biological posts or vessels that are eternally part and parcels of the material universe or maha-tattva. Such vessels or bodies are just like the garments in a fancy dress shop that constantly rented out (on loan) to the visiting transmitted consciousness that dare to enter the domain of mostly non-Krishna conscious dreams within the maha-tattva.
The ethereal and biological costumes (bodies) always belong to the rental agent, whom is Maha-Vishnu. Such costumes follow His script or design that simultaneously meets the desires and requirements of each of the jiva-bhutah consciousnesses renting and visiting from their original source and place in the perpetual Spiritual Sky, outside the maha-tattva. In this way, no ethereal body or biological body ever belongs to the visiting jiva-bhutah. In fact, there are an unlimited number of visiting jiva-bhutah’s who have ‘hired’ such ‘costumes’ in a past material manifestation and others will continue to rent them in future one.
This is another reason why ethereal and biological vessels are impersonal and are simply acting like a puppet on a string, under the control of the Personalities managing the maha-tattva (Maha-Vishnu and His expansions). All ethereal and biological bodies do not represent who one really is in any way!! Understanding this is extremely rare in our primitive 21st century understanding of Spirituality and Vaisnavism.
In line with the previously discussed understanding of the pre-arranged goings on within the maha-tattva, from the bigger picture, it’s all karma. If it happens, then it’s meant to happen and is part of a bigger plan where each jiva-bhutah consciousness follows the already mapped out blue print or pathway they have carved out for themselves and simultaneously prearranged by Maha-Vishnu, whom has built the holideck virtual-reality material universe for all visiting jiva-bhutah’s. Part of this plan is, if one can see a problem, is the certainty to correct it, they can therefore change and repair the problem. In this way even though everything is rearrange, still there is room for change – this is also part of Maha-Vishnu’s potency and inconceivability.
There is a way of seeing past, present and future. And that is by being no longer within the dreams of Maha-Vishnu, both Personalists (devotees of Krishna) and Impersonalists yogis can see this knowledge however, the Impersonalist fall back down into the dreams of Maha-Vishnu and again become covered with by an ethereal and eventually a biological body governed by time and forget what they have seen (every ethereal and biological vessels past present and future). In this fashion, they enter a body they already know the out come of however, because of the influence of time, ethereal, biological, mind, false ego, that are always permanent fixtures of the maha-tattva, they simply forget. Krishna showed all this to Arjuna who become fearful because he could see all the past, present and future due to being outside of the realm of the dreams of Maha-Vishnu. He saw the Universal form of Maha-Vishnu laying down and sleeping and also saw all the vast terrific and horrific dreams He is having – Arjuna was terrified.
Technically all of this is part of the often-inconceivable workings of the highly sophisticated unfolding blueprint or universal dream of Maha-Vishnu. Everything is said to be an illusion however, everything is real but temporary, and that’s the real meaning of this understanding of illusion. In this manner, even in our jiva-bhutah expanded or transmitted consciousness, we are responsible and controlled by the mysterious workings of Karma – unless Krishna intervenes, after all, it is His creation and He is not obliged to follow any rule or regulations – He can do what ever He wants that is inconceivable and beyond our understanding, even when we are our full conscious atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body.
Krishna, on the other hand, can never fall or forget, yet does expand Himself as a dreaming incarnation, not only to create ‘the dreaming’ by accompanying His marginal servants while in their forgetful dreaming lower conscious self or expansion, but also to provide all the facilities they need so they can pursue their non-Krishna conscious desires.
The marginal or insignificant (small in the presents of Krishna) personalities can only consciously fall down and enter ‘the dreaming’ portion of the Spiritual Sky, which is a dark cloud in one corner of the all-pervasive living personified Brahmajyoti. This corner of the Brahmajyoti, or the quarter of the Spiritual Sky, is called the maha-tattva which is the abode of ‘the dreaming’ Maha-Vishnu and His wife Maya Devi. Through the pours on Maha-Vishnu’s skin, the material universes are created, each with a Garbhodakasayi Vishnu and a Brahma, as He breaths out and annihilated as He breaths in. Within each of the unlimited material universes, Krishna, in His Maha-Vishnu form, further expands Himself as Vishnu, Shiva and demigods headed by Brahma (33, 000,000 of them in our universe) who act like ministers with their portfolio’s in a Government under the direction of the Prim-Minster or President. They help facilitate, maintain and build the material manifestation. Lord Shiva’s duty is to also annihilate it when the time comes for the universe to be withdrawn back into the bodily pours of Maha-Vishnu. Maha-Vishnu is always there in the maha-tattva ‘causal waters’ ‘dreaming-up’ an infinite number of finite material universes.
Garbhodakasayi Vishnu Maya Devi and Brahma
Maha-Vishnu therefore manages ‘the dreaming nitya-baddha condition’ and fulfils the dreaming mistaken desires of the jiva-bhutah’s lower-self non-Krishna conscious circumstances as they live out their imaginings in total denial or memory of their original atma-vigraha body.
If the marginal individual personalities scope of influence (sakti) did not have the ability to choose by between their higher self Krishna conscious bodily form and their lower self independent non-Krishna conscious creations in the expressions of illusionary dreams, then there can be no question of love – this is why the atma-vigraha’s (ones real devotional bodily self) have a lower conscious dreaming expansion of the self manifested as the dreaming jiva-bhutah/jiva-nikaya sub-conscious state that is only activated when one is not serving Krishna.
Another way of understanding this is where there is light (Krishna consciousness), there is no darkness (material consciousness and Impersonalism) and where there is darkness, there is no light. This is the theme on Srila Prabhupada’s Back To Godhead Magazine cover
The Sanskrit word jiva-sakti means the influence of the atma-jiva or atma-vigraha while established in ones higher conscious self that manifests as selfless devotional service and also means the attribute or influence the individual jiva-bhuttah/jiva-nikaya or lower conscious self has within the material universe.
Because the atma-vigraha devotee’s are separate individual from Krishna, jiva-sakti refers to that separate identity, individuality and form as marginal. This is because living entity or atma-vigraha devotee’s constitution is a secondary independent entity from Krishna that is fully dependant of Krishna regardless of their position in reality (Vaikuntha) or illusion (maha-tattva).
What is marginal?
It is obvious that the nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha body is the higher self or marginal condition and the nitya-bhadda-jiva-bhutah consciousness is the lower self or marginal dreaming manifestation. This is explained in detail on page 146.
The word sakti means power, attribute, potency, energy, influence, control, clout, mussel, weapondary, force, vigour, liveliness, strength, effectiveness and aura of the jiva-atma-vigraha real self in the Goloka-Vrndavana Spiritual Sky or the jiva-bhutah conscious self trapped dreaming within the universe where Maha-Vishnu is also dreaming.
As already mentioned, Krishna also has a dreaming expansion of Himself called Maha-Vishnu whose dreams are the material universal creation and the dreams of the jiva-bhutah transmitted consciousness. In this way, whether one is aware of it or not, Krishna is always the only provider of everything even in their dreams because He is the cause of all causes. Krishna does not however interfere with the dreaming jiva-bhutah’s consciousness as they create their destiny within the material universe. Krishna more or less says, if you want to do your own thing, then you are responsible not Me, don’t blame Me. Those who do not understand karma and reincarnation cannot not comprehend that is ones own previous actions in a previous life that determines ones suffering and enjoyment within the material universe. Nothing happens by luck or chance.
The duty of Krishna’s dreaming Maha-Vishnu expansion is to provide the environmental conditions to assist their desires that exist under the strict laws of karma. Krishna never forces anyone to remember their real identity or body, that choice is always yours. You can wake up as ones real self in your original rasa (pastime with Krishna) or you can forget it for almost an eternity and be content living out your own desires and dreams in the material universe constantly experiencing birth, disease, old age, death and rebirth. By building your dreams, they carve your illusionary existence through many millions of life times within the material maha-tattva that is facilitated and provided by Maha-Vishnu. His dreams are your dreams.
As already mentioned, the atma-vigraha devotee’s or the supplementary personified individual potency or energy of Krishna as their original bodily forms, have a tendency to forget Krishna from time to time and project a lower dreaming consciousness in defiance of their real devotional atma-vigraha body. This ‘lower self’ transmits them to the impermanent ethereal, biological and material manifestation. Krishna also has a dreaming expansion of Himself that is unlike the consciousness of the insignificant atma-vigraha devotees. This is like comparing the sunrays (marginal living entities or atma-vigraha bodies) to the sun (Krishna). Even though Maha-Vishnu is dreaming, He is simultaneously fully awake as the four-armed Vishnu in Vaikuntha and His original two armed, Lord Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana. The individual inconsequential atma-vigraha devotee’s are incapable of doing this, although nothing is impossible as this is Krishna’s creation, He makes the rules and He can change them when He feels fit. It is said that that the great Vaishnava devotee Naradha Muni travels also within the dreams of Maha-Vishnu in His original atma-vigraha body. Krishna is the cause of all causes and His unlimited expansions and inner circle devotees are unaffected by this change.
Krishna facilitates, creates and accompanies the fallen transmitted jiva-bhutah conscious to its desired dreaming destinations within the material universe. This duty is performed by Maha-Vishnu, whose dreams are simultaneously the transmitted jiva-bhutah’s dreams. Only when one is free from their own dreaming consciousness within the material dream (yet still unaware of their real Krishna Conscious bodily identity) can they exist out-side the realm of Maha-Vishnu’s dreams, but still dreaming (in a dreamless inactive state) within the dominion of the causal ocean where the Brahma-sayujya or Impersonal Brahmajoyti exists. The jiva-bhutah’s transformation into the dormant jiva-nikaya’s individual consciousness that merges within the Brahma-sayujya (Impersonal Brahmajyoti), can only happed when one is fed up attempting to enjoy within with the transitory frustrating ethereal and biological bodies within the always decaying material existence (inferior energy).
Maha-Vishnu’s duties include facilitating the dreaming lower forgetful consciousness of the atma-vigraha’s and directing them to their desired destination amongst the billions upon Billions of material universes (In both sub-space and secular space) that are constructed by His various representatives and demi-gods for the jiva-bhutah transmitted dreaming consciousness. The demi-gods function is to fulfil the material desires (dreams) of those who turn their back on Krishna where one simultaneously forgets their real perpetual bodily form they serve Krishna as. Maha-tattva also hosts Krishna’s pastimes and pure devotees when He appears for Lila duty within the maha-tattva.
Within the maha-tattva there are two basic realities
Maha-Vishnu’s obligation, and the role of the demigods under His jurisdiction within the maha-tattva or material manifestation, is often unpleasant due to the non-Krishna conscious desires or thoughts of those who have ‘consciously separated, spilt or divided’ from their real jiva-atma-vigraha self. This partition of consciousness means they are no longer aware of their Krishna conscious original body because they have opted to create their own existence in defiance of Krishna. In this way, ones lower non-Krishna conscious state goes through a transformation that places it within the ‘dream universe’ of Maha-Vishnu, where He and His representative demigods facilitate or build the ethereal, biological and material condition that meet the requirements of the jiva-bhutah transmitted dreaming conscious desires.
The Vishnuloka planets that are eternally maintained by the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna in His Vishnu form surround the centre of the universal Creation, which is the topmost Spiritual Planet, Goloka-Vrndavana or Krishnaloka. Krishna’s Personal universe is also known as the Personal Brahmajyoti, or just Brahmajyoti, which fills all space in every direction however; there is also a secondary universe that technically also has no beginning or end called the maha-tattva. The Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha universe is real, unchanging and timeless; the secondary universe on the other hand, is a place where ones lower dreaming consciousness temporarily resides (not as there perpetual body), but as a protracted consciousness radiated from their full consciousness or body when they forget Krishna’s interminable abode (like wondering off into a dream while ones biological sleeping body has not moved from the bed), as already explained and will always need further clarification because of our conditioned consciousness that makes us foolishly believe we are these biological bodily containers.
This secondary shadowy universe, also in the Brahmajyoti, is a real reality but temporary phenomena controlled by time, forgetfulness, envy, jealously, lust, anger, greed, the hunger for power and to be worshiped like Krishna, impermanence, flickering enjoyment, arrogance, selfishness, self righteousness, suffering, birth, disease, old age and death. This inferior (where lifeless matter exists) universal phenomenon is where the dreaming Maha-Vishnu resides who accommodates ones dreaming lower conscious dreaming self-illusions. He’s abode is an extension of Krishna’s Personal Brahmajyoti/Brahman effulgence transformed from the real reality of individual personalities serving Krishna, to the same individual personalities in their non-Krishna lower conscious illusion or dream. Like switching the light on there can be no darkness, on the other hand as soon as you switch the light out, that same space becomes darkness. In the same way this is how the personal Brahmajyoti and the Impersonal Brahmajyoti exist in the same space. It’s all bases on ones conscious awareness.
The maha-tattva is the place in creation created for those who do not want to be with Krishna. Therefore, their imagination takes them to that provisional abode Krishna has created for them that is also naturally the Brahmajyoti yet in its darkened state that appears like a dark cloud in the Spiritual Sky. The trance like dreaming consciousness of those personalities who choose to cross over into the detached temporary universe of the dreaming, existing as a dark cloud in one corner of the Brahmajyoti, always have that choice or independence to serve Krishna or forget Him. In this way, the dark cloud is real but temporary and exists in the Brahmajyoti side by side with the surrounding Vaikuntha planets, yet those souls (transferred consciousness) trapped in the dark cloud are unable to realize or acknowledge the existence of Vaikuntha or their original atma-jiva bodily form due to their non-Krishna conscious Impersonal nature.
The maha-tattva is real yet is called an illusion or dream because of its temporary nature; where as reality (the Vaikunthas) is permanent, imperishable, and always actively alive in the service of Krishna and never fades.
The dark cloud that takes up a quarter of the Brahmajyoti on the other hand, is real but impermanent, perishable and always fades in and out of existence like a mirage in the desert. The dark cloud or maha-tattva (the material manifestation) nonetheless, is still part of the Brahmajyoti, yet is already darkened due to the individual dreaming non-Krishna conscious thoughts that are transmitted there. It is only there, within the maha-tattva, such dreaming self-centered desires exist. This diseased condition infects those who choose to forget Krishna and the real bodily form they serve Krishna as. Only within the maha-tattva or material manifestation under the jurisdiction of the sleeping and dreaming Maha-Vishnu, can their introverted selfish dreaming consciousness exist. This condition of ignorance is similar (but not the same) to ones dreams and fantasies experienced as real while ones biological bodily is asleep or daydreaming. The dark cloud (maha-tattva) is where ones introverted dreaming forgetful consciousness becomes active however, the knowledge to tell the difference between dreams and reality is lost. We forced Krishna to allow us to come to this material universe, He warned us, but we came anyway. He left that choice up to us.
The ethereal and biological vessels that the jiva-bhutah consciousness possesses/creates (under the collaboration of Maha Vishnu), as well as the material energy and elements (fossilized remains) that are left over as a consequence of possessing impermanent biological bodies (inferior energy or separated [from life] energies), such lifeless matter is also under the jurisdiction of Maha-Vishnu and molded into planets, moons and suns by the demigods however, there is always a lifeless component of dust particles, rocks, gases, and even dead planets, where neither ethereal or biological life exist, within the maha tattva. Maha-Vishnu is not directly responsible for the lifeless matter aspect of the maha-tattva or material universe, the jiva-bhutah dreaming consciousness is as explained above.
When the atma-vigraha devotee’s dream in forgetfulness of Krishna and their permanent Spiritual body, Krishna also accompanies their dreaming lower consciousness by entering into a dream state with them. This expansion of Krishna dreaming is called Maha-Vishnu. Krishna, though, always remains the two armed Krishna or Shamasundara in Goloka-Vrndavana even while simultaneously expanding Himself as Maha-Vishnu. The atma-vigraha devotee’s are incapable of imitating Krishna in this way. The two-armed form Krishna is always within His original spiritual planet with His loving devotees, which resembles the whorl of a huge lotus flower called Goloka-Vrndavana. This transcendental place is the highest abode of Lord Krishna, the original Personality of Godhead. In this way, Krishna’s original planet, Goloka-Vrndavana, throws off a spiritual ray of effulgence called the brahmajyoti that is all the individual atma-vigraha devotee’s bodily personalities, oftern refered to as spiritual sparks within/as the Brahmajyoti. There are also unlimited Spiritual planets surrounding Goloka-Vrndavana where the so-called spiritual sparks (atma-jiva-vigraha devotee’s) eternally reside serving Vishnu or Krishna.
On these Vishnuloka planets they serve Krishna’s eternal four-armed Vishnu incarnation or expansion. These Brahmajoyti planets extend out to the far reaches of the Spiritual sky that also eventually includes the abode of Maha-Vishnu who residence is in one quarter of the Personal Brahmajyoti however, within Maha-Vishnu’s material cosmic dream manifestation, the whole Spiritual universe changes (except for Maha-Vishnu and His internal expansions) because, in that corner of creation within the Brahmajyoti, the Krishna Conscious nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha’s personalities, who eternally serve Krishna, cannot exist there unless the atma-vigraha devotee’s forget Krishna. That forgetfulness manifests a phenomenon from within their own bodies, that radiate’s a secondary self (nitya-baddha-jiva-bhutah condition) existing as dreams (real but temporary).
Only in that independent self-centered dream (always desiring to be served instead of serving Krishna), does the jiva-bhutah dreaming consciousness hook-up with the dreams of Maha-Vishnu. In this way the jiva-bhutah dream state and the dreams of maha-Vishnu become one. The Impersonalists and Mayavardis cannot understand the chain of events that leads the individual jiva-bhutah consciousness and the dreams of maha-Vishnu to appear as one and the same. This is due to the Mayavardis not seeing the full picture of universal creation. They cannot see, believe nor comprehend the Personal perpetual Spiritual Sky outside the realm of the maha-tattva. They have no devotion to understand that the vast universe they imagine themselves to exist in, is only one quarter of the entire creation. In this way, they exist in a self-deluded impersonal universe they think is all one – I am you, you are me, and we are all together. The paradox here is the jiva-bhutahs dreams are the dreams of Maha-Vishnu. Individuality is never lost although the jiva-bhutah consciousness cannot only imagine itself as all one but can imagine itself as everyone. The material universe (maha-tattva) can be an extremely dangerious place where one can stay for almost an eternity, if they stubbornly choose not to serve Krishna and therefore rewaken their ‘old’ Krishna Consciousness – even a seeming eternity is just the blink of the eye (not even that) in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky.
Maha-Vishnu’s dreams are your reality within the Impersonal material universe. Only non-Krishna conscious dreams can transfer you, while in total forgetfulness of your real Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body, from the personal Brahmajyoti in the Spiritual Sky to the ‘dark cloud of dreaming’, which is the material and Impersonal universe that exists within the dark agitated storm cloud for those who want to live their dreams without Krishna.
Keep in mind the Personal Brahmajyoti is made up of the Vishnu planets and the atma-vigraha devotees, who are within Krishna Consciousness (Vaikuntha – nitya-siddha) and without Krishna consciousness (maha-tatva – nitya-baddha). Along these lines, the Personal effulgence surrounding this dark cloud or maha-tattva is also technically the Brahmajyoti, even in its Impersonal manifestation as materialism, the Brahma-sayajyu and the impersonal Brahmajoyti. It is all created by the secondary dreaming jiva-bhutah consciousness and transmitted from ones original self in Goloka-Vrndavan/Vaikuntha in an alliance with the sleeping Maha-Vishnu, who is ultimately an expansion of Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavan.
The dark cloud is simply a broadcast transmitted from the Personal Brahmajyoti of atma-vigraha bodies and projected or played in the holodeck of the maha-tattva that is real, but subject to forgetfulness and impermanance.
Devotee -: In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, it says that Krishna did not want us to come to this material world. If Krishna did not want us to come, why are we here?
Prabhupada: ‘Yes. You forced Krishna to allow you to come. Just like sometimes a child forces his father. Father says, "My dear son, do not do this. Do not go there." But he insists, "Oh, I must go. I must go." "All right, you go at your risk. That's all. And you suffer. What can be done?" Because you are son of God--God has got independence, full independence, almighty--therefore you have acquired the quality of your father. You have got little independence. So God does not interfere with your little independence. If you persist that "I must go and enjoy independently," so God says, "All right, you can go." This is the position. You have to take sanction. That is a fact. But when you persist, God sanctions. And you come and enjoy. Beginning from Lord Brahma down to the worms in the stool, gradually, according to your work, according to your desire, you manufacture your different types of body and enjoy and suffer. That's all. That is explained. Prakrti-stho hi bhunkte prakrti-jan gunan. And as soon as you became entangled in different types of punishment, not enjoyment but punishment.
So in this way, being punished in different types of life, when we come to the sense... That sense can come in human form of life. When we understand that "I have traveled through, in, transmigrated from many species of life, but every life I can see, not that I have forgotten. Even if I have forgotten, I can see the suffering of the cats, dogs, tiger, man, bulldog and everyone. So I had all these lives in the past. Evolutionary process, I have come to this human. So I suffered all these things. So when the question comes, "Why shall I suffer?" then the inquiry--this is called, Vedanta-sutra, athato brahma-jijnasa--the inquiry of God begins. That is human life. Yes.
Question: - Is Krishna a person God?
Prabhupada: - Yes, God is person, like you and me. You can go and talk with Him, he qualified for that pur... Nitya nitya... This is Vedic injunction. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam. God is eternal among all other eternals. We are all eternal, and God is the chief eternal. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam. We are also cognizant and God is also cognizant. The difference is that I am cognizant with a limited space and God is cognizant throughout the whole universe. But He is also cognizant. He is also person. I am also person. What is the difference? Eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman. That one maintains all these innumerable living entities. Therefore in the Bible you go and ask God give us our daily bread, He is maintaining. That is the difference between God and us. We are maintained and God is the maintainer. We are predominated and God is the predominator. That is the difference. He is a person, we are also persons, He is eternal, we are eternal, He is cognizant, we are cognizant.
And all the desires and propensities what God has got, we have also got. God has got this propensity to love Radharani. We have got also the same propensity to love another young girl or young boy. So originally it is there. Therefore in the Vedanta-sutra it is said janmady asya yatah. God means from whom everything has come. So if there is a question of love, the (indistinct) a man loving a woman and woman loving a man, that is in God. It must be there. Otherwise wherefrom it has come?
But that is pure and here it is impure on account of this material contamination. The thing is there but it is contaminated. Therefore you feel frustration. So intelligence is the why shall I remain in this contaminated position? I shall go to the pure platform. That is Krishna consciousness.
Question: - Why didn't anyone see Krishna's universal form before Arjuna? Krishna said no one has seen before Arjuna. Why is that?
Prabhupada: You become like Arjuna, you will see. First of all you become like Arjuna, friend of Krishna. Then you will see. Do you think you are as good as Arjuna? Krishna says, Arjuna addressing, that I am instructing to you my dear Arjuna, because you are my dear friend. And you are very great devotee. Bhakto 'si priyo 'si me rahasyam etad uttamam. I am speaking to you this Bhagavad-gita because you are qualified. What is that qualification? Because you are My devotee and very intimate friend. So you become also intimate friend and devotee, you will understand everything. That is our request. If Arjuna becomes a friend and devotee you can also become. Why you are losing this opportunity? That is our propaganda. You also become a friend, a devotee, and be happy and see Krishna as He is simply symbolic representation. He says everyone. Let us take this opportunity and become like Arjuna. That is perfection of life.’ End of Srila Prabhupada’s comments - Bhagavad Gita 3.27 Lecture at the Town Hall, Melbourne Australia 1974
This knowledge of ones original position as a servant of Krishna will protect one from the illusionary goings on within material existence. When sickness or death of loved one occures, it is simply the workings of karma, the jiva-bhutah consciousness moves on to another vessel in the endless search for happyness. At anytime one can be forced to vacate their biological body because the ‘bank balance’ of certain karma runs out. This knowledge of Krishna Consciousness can protect one from the ignorant, painful lamentation of a friend or relative’s death, and the illusions one’s own mind throws at one when death comes.
Question:
I am bringing to your kind consideration the case of a close acquaintance of mine. She is a lady who dearly loved and trusted her husband, but was then cruelly abandoned by him. It has caused a deep wound in her. She now finds no meaning in life. Sir, what is she supposed to do? She gets suicidal thoughts very often. Is there any meaning to her life? It would be very grateful of you, if you can please shed some light in this matter.
Srila Prabhupada: - Surrender to Krishna…Your friend should not be so disturbed. Her husband was her wife in a previous lifetime whom she cruelly abandoned. Now her former wife has taken birth and become her husband so she can get her revenge by becoming her husband and similarly abandoning her.
Instead of being disturbed, your friend now should be resolved to get out of karma-chakra, the wheel of karma, and go back to her original position in the spiritual world before she fell down into this material world by fully surrendering herself at the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krishna under the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master. Only this will make her fully happy.
Suicide will not help her. Her karma will haunt her birth after birth until she fully surrenders to Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The Impersonalist yogis, Buddhists, Jains and Mayavadis cannot enter or merge their individuality into that surrounding active living Personal Brahmajyoti, they can only enter (temporally) into the Impersonal void aspect that exists only within the maha-tattva because they do not believe in individuality. They also believe the material universe is an unreal illusion which is also incorrect. The material universe is real but temporary phenomenon.
Note: - the Personal devotional active effulgence or Brahmajyoti is not practicals of light; it is individual personalities with eternal bodily form that is always Krishna Conscious. This conversion from Personal to Impersonal happens in this way, when the Brahmajyoti, which is Krishna’s atma-vigraha devotees as well as all his various Spiritual planets, consciously alter from being aware of their Brahmajyoti-effulgent Krishna conscious atma-vigraha’s body, to denying its existence, due to turning ones back on Krishna and therefore expanding to the lower secondary dreaming conditional state of consciousness.
In this way, ones conscious position and awareness within the Personal Brahmajyoti, is transported to the dominion of the dreaming Maha-Vishnu within the dark cloud or maha-tattva. It is that secondary consciousness, that originally and eternally emanates from ones atma-vigraha or the Personal brahmajyoti effulgence, that can eventually, not just enter the Impersonal Brahmajyoti, but is an inactive living individual dreaming consciousness or shadow of the personal Brahmajyoti that is now consciously transferred into the Impersonal Brahmajyoti.
Talking about Origin of the jiva soul
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Origin of the jiva soul
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QUANTUM PHYSICS OR THE SCIENCE OF POSSIBILITIES. UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSAL CREATION16th Jan 2007Krishna's abode is an Eternal Personal Active Loving Devotional Place of unlimited pastimes that is ever lasting and never aging, the atma-vigraha transcendental body (the soul’s real spiritual Krishna Conscious self and form) is always engaged in the personal unlimited varieties of pastimes and relationships serving Krishna - nitya-siddha means - eternally actively established as ones Krishna Conscious devotional form. This is 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 going on within unlimited pastimes that are illimitably active.In this way, lila-rasa, or the mellows of ones personal pastime with Krishna, can change in the Spiritual Universe in ways that can only be understood as one genuinely awakens their ‘old’ and original Krishna Consciousness, and even then, once established back as their Krishna Conscious real self or atma-jiva-vigraha body, the way Krishna’s perpetual Kingdom is forever disclosed may still be inconceivable and remain a mystery. In other words, even though one has an original nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha or atma-jiva body, even that active body can appear in diverse behavioural ways and outward appearance according to rasa (pastimes with Krishna and His devotees). 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 cannot fall down, it is possible one can enter a trance like consciousness and forget that unique form and consciously fall 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.A crude example of understanding the eternal liberated state (nitya-siddha) and the eternally conditioned state (nitya-baddha) 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 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.This is not difficult to understand, the various Vedic texts tell us that the Kingdom of Krishna is an eternal active place of unlimited 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. This also 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 everlasting reality due to our forgetfulness and fantasies that create our dreaming secondary consciousness that transmits one to the material universe or nitya-baddha condition of existence.Just like the dreams one has in their biological body, the non-Krishna Conscious illusionary dreams and thoughts manifest a separate version of the self. A crude example of this is 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 (unlike the illusionary unreal dreams one has while their biological body is sleeping) create a separate reality that is real but temporary and only exists within the maha-tattva when one is unaware of their real original identity and form (The atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body).This separate reality or lower conscious self that is existent but perishable is called the jiva-bhutah non-Krishna conscious active condition of awareness, that is transferred and exists within the impermanent realms of the material universes or dreams under the jurisdiction of Krishna in His Mahan-Vishnu form, This 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 an effulgence full of unlimited individual devotees as their real body serving on unlimited Spiritual Planets 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 self (atma-vigraha) are real (but temporary) because the maha-tattva is a real (but temporary) and takes up a quarter of the Spirtual Sky or Brahmajyoti. In no way are they exactly like the dreams one has in their biological body, although similar. The other three quarters of the Spiritual Sky, unlike the maha-tattva, never decays and is a perpetual real place of unlimited realationships with the two-armed form of Krishna on His central Goloka-Vrndavana planet, or the four-armed Lord Vishnu on the surrounding Vishnuloka planets.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 Vaisnava’s see the material dream in a completely different way than the Mayavadi’s, who offensively believe Krishna is also part of their illusionary dream. They cannot understand there are two different forms of reality, ones real while the other is also real, but temporary.The real eternal aspect 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.Also the 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 temporary.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 maha-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. This ethereal body only subsists within the heavenly and lower planetary systems (Explained in more detail on page ?) within the maha-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)Only in this way is the material universe the invented figment of the non-Krishna Conscious self that is transmitted as thoughts of selfish dreams to the maha-tattva (inferior energies or the place where lifeless matter exists) when one’s consciousness is no longer Krishna Conscious, or aware of their Krishna Conscious body.Although 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 His Maha-Vishnu expansion whose dreams are the temporary material universe which are simultaneously the dreams originating from the atma-vigraha bodies as the lower conscious self, while forgetful of that Krishna Conscious body.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 dreams.Nothing just happens by chance in our material impermanent universe (maha-tattva), everything is constructed and built for the expressions of consciousness that are the desires of ones lower self where one no longer wants to serve Krishna but rather carve out their own existence within the universe of the dreaming (the maha-tattva).In the Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 11:22.54-57 it is stated: -The soul's material life, his experience of sense gratification, is actually false, O descendant of Dasarha, just like trees' appearance of quivering when the trees are reflected in agitated water, or like the earth's appearance of spinning due to one's spinning his eyes around, or like the world of a fantasy or dream.Srila Prabhupada: - ‘Trees appear to be swaying when reflected in agitated water, and similarly, when one is sitting on a moving boat the trees on the shore appear to be moving. When the wind whips up the water, creating waves, the water appears to have movement of its own, although it is actually being moved by the wind. The conditioned soul (jiva-bhutah) in material life does not perform any activities, but rather the biological body, with the consent of the illusioned living entity or jiva-bhutah, is being moved by the modes of nature. One imposes this external movement upon oneself, considering oneself to be dancing, singing, running, dying, conquering and so on, although these are merely interactions of the external biological body with the modes of nature’. End of quoteSrimad Bhagavatam 11.22.56For one who is meditating on sense gratification, material life, although lacking factual existence, does not go away, just as the unpleasant experiences of a dream do not.Srila Prabhupada: - ‘One may object that if Lord Krishna insists that material life is false, then why should one endeavour to stop it? The Lord therefore explains here that although not factual, material life stubbornly continues for one addicted to sense gratification, just as a frightening dream continues for one merged in sleep. The word avidyamana, "not existing," means that material life is based on mental concoction, in which one thinks, "I am a man," "I am a woman," "I am a doctor," "I am a senator," "I am a street sweeper" and so on. A conditioned soul (jiva-bhutah) enthusiastically performs his activities based on the imaginary identification with the biological body. Thus although the jiva-bhutah exists and the biological body exists, the false identification with the biological body does not exist. Material life, based on a false idea, has no factual existence.After one awakens from a dream, the dim reflection of the dream may linger in one's memory. Similarly, one engaging in the devotional service of the Lord may be troubled sometimes by the dim reflection of sinful life. One should therefore become strong in Krishna consciousness by hearing the Lord's instructions to Śrī Uddhava.Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.22.57Therefore, O Uddhava, do not try to enjoy sense gratification with the material senses. See how illusion based on material dualities prevents one from realizing the self.Srila Prabhupada: - Everything that exists is the potency and property of the Supreme Lord, meant to be used in His loving service. Seeing material objects as separate from the Lord and thus meant to be possessed and enjoyed by oneself is called vaikalpikam bhramam, the illusion of material duality. When selecting one's personal object of enjoyment, such as food, clothing, residence or vehicle, one considers the relative quality of the object to be acquired. Consequently, in material life one is in constant anxiety, trying to acquire the most excellent sense gratification for one's personal pleasure. If one realizes everything as the property of the Lord, however, he will see everything as meant for the Lord's pleasure. He will feel no personal anxiety, because he is satisfied simply to be engaged in the Lord's loving service. It is not possible to exploit the property of the Lord and at the same time advance in self-realization. End of quotesWhen the jiva-bhutah dream conscious becomes manifest due to forgetfulness of Krishna, Krishna also accompanies the dreaming consciousness, not in His original Atma-Vigraha form who resides in Goloka-Vrndavana, but in His Maha-Vishnu expansion who is also dreaming.In the Vedas there is clear information that the original person in the inconsequential material universe is Brahma. His ethereal body is a manifestation originating from Garbhodakasayi Vishnu body, which is all part of the dream of Maha-Vishnu within the limited maha-tattva, as all ready explained. Karanadakasayi Vishnu or the Paramatma, that accompanies all jiva-Bhutahas consciousnesses, is an expansion of Garbhodakasayi Vishnu.The picture above is of Sri Radha and Krishna sitting on a pink lotus in the Goloka-Vrndavana Planet, far beyond the insignificant mundane material creation (maha-tattva) and past the viraj or Causal Ocean, which is outside the influence of the sleeping Maha-Vishnu yet still within the vicinity of the maha-tattva, yet out of reach of the vaikuntha lokas.Krishna’s Perpetual Form/Body is therefore always in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha and so are His inconsequential or marginal nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha servants. It is important to try and understand here, that Krishna’s eternal servants never fall down in their eternal nitya-siddha body, however they can ‘consciously’ forget that body (their real personal form and identity). The only way to never fall down is by failing to always remember to serve Krishna and His devotees and never ever forget Him or them. Even if one does turn their back on Krishna, they only fall down in a conscious dream state and never as the body they really are and whom they always will be.It is important to understand here this ‘fall from grace’ is never a physical fall down, but rather, a conscious fall down due to forgetfulness, like wondering off in a daydream while playing sport and being so absorbed in the daydream, you forget your body and the sport you are involved in. Only in this way can ones conscious awareness fall down, as emphasized, never in their original atma-vigraha bodily form, but in a dreaming illusionary transmitted consciousness.Krishna, on the other hand, can never fall or forget, yet does expand Himself as a dreaming incarnation, not only to create ‘the dreaming’ by accompanying His marginal servants while in their forgetful dreaming lower consciousness, but also to provide all the facilities they need so they can pursue their non-Krishna conscious desires. The marginal or insignificant (small in the presents of Krishna) personalities can only consciously fall down and enter ‘the dreaming’ portion of the Spiritual Sky, which is a dark cloud in one corner of the all-pervasive living personified Brahmajyoti. This corner of the Brahmajyoti is called the maha-tattva which is the abode of ‘the dreaming’ Maha-Vishnu and His wife Maya. Through the pours on Maha-Vishnu’s skin, the material universes are created as He breaths out and annihilated as He breaths in. Within each of the unlimited material universes, Krishna, in His Maha-Vishnu form, further expands Himself as Vishnu, Shiva and demigods headed by Brahma (33, 000,000 of them in our universe) who act like ministers with their portfolio’s in a Government under the direction of the Prim-Minster or President. They help facilitate, maintain and build the material manifestation. Lord Shiva’s duty is to also annihilate it when the time comes for the universe to be withdrawn back into the bodily pours of Maha-Vishnu. Maha-Vishnu is always there in the maha-tattva ‘causal waters’ ‘dreaming-up’ an infinite number of finite material universes.Maha-Vishnu therefore manages ‘the dreaming nitya-baddha condition’ and fulfils the dreaming mistaken desires of the jiva-bhutah’s lower-self non-Krishna conscious circumstances as they live out their imaginings in total denial or memory of their original atma-vigraha body.If the marginal individual personalities scope of influence (sakti) did not have the ability to choose by between their higher self Krishna conscious bodily form and their lower self independent non-Krishna conscious creations in the expressions of illusionary dreams, then there can be no question of love – this is why the atma-vigraha’s (ones real devotional bodily self) have a lower conscious dreaming expansion of the self manifested as the dreaming jiva-bhutah/jiva-nikaya sub-conscious state that is only activated when one is not serving Krishna.Another way of understanding this is where there is light (Krishna consciousness), there is no darkness (material consciousness and Impersonalism) and where there is darkness, there is no light. This is the theme on Srila Prabhupada’s Back To Godhead Magazine coverThe Sanskrit word jiva-sakti means the influence of the atma-jiva or atma-vigraha while established in ones higher conscious self that manifests as selfless devotional service and also means the attribute or influence the individual jiva-bhuttah/jiva-nikaya or lower conscious self has within the material universe.Because the atma-vigraha’s are separate individual from Krishna, jiva-sakti refers to that separate identity, individuality and form as marginal. This is because living entity or atma-vigraha’s constitution is a secondary independent entity from Krishna that is fully dependant of Krishna regardless of their position in reality (Vaikuntha) or illusion (maha-tattva).
What is marginal?It is obvious that the nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha body is the higher self or marginal condition and the nitya-bhadda-jiva-bhutah consciousness is the lower self or marginal dreaming manifestation. This is explained in detail on page 146. The word sakti means power, attribute, potency, energy, influence, control, clout, mussel, weapondary, force, vigour, liveliness, strength, effectiveness and aura of the jiva-atma-vigraha real self in the Goloka-Vrndavana Spiritual Sky or the jiva-bhutah conscious self trapped dreaming within the universe where Maha-Vishnu is also dreaming.As already mentioned, Krishna also has a dreaming expansion of Himself called Maha-Vishnu whose dreams are the material universal creation and the dreams of the jiva-bhutah transmitted consciousness. In this way, whether one is aware of it or not, Krishna is always the only provider of everything even in their dreams because He is the cause of all causes. Krishna does not however interfere with the dreaming jiva-bhutah’s consciousness as they create their destiny within the material universe. Krishna more or less says, if you want to do your own thing, then you are responsible not Me, don’t blame Me. Those who do not understand karma and reincarnation cannot not comprehend that is ones own previous actions in a previous life that determines ones suffering and enjoyment within the material universe. Nothing happens by luck or chance.The duty of Krishna’s dreaming Maha-Vishnu expansion is to provide the environmental conditions to assist their desires that exist under the strict laws of karma. Krishna never forces anyone to remember their real identity or body, that choice is always yours. You can wake up as ones real self in your original rasa (pastime with Krishna) or you can forget it for almost an eternity and be content living out your own desires and dreams in the material universe constantly experiencing birth, disease, old age, death and rebirth. By building your dreams, they carve your illusionary existence through many millions of life times within the material maha-tattva that is facilitated and provided by Maha-Vishnu. His dreams are your dreams and are real but temporary.As already mentioned, the atma-vigraha devotee’s or the supplementary personified individual potency or energy of Krishna as their original bodily forms, have a tendency to forget Krishna from time to time and project a lower dreaming consciousness in defiance of their real devotional atma-vigraha body. This ‘lower self’ transmits them to the impermanent ethereal, biological and material manifestation. Krishna also has a dreaming expansion of Himself that is unlike the consciousness of the insignificant atma-vigraha devotees. This is like comparing the sunrays (marginal living entities or atma-vigraha bodies) to the sun (Krishna). Even though Maha-Vishnu is dreaming, He is simultaneously fully awake as the four-armed Vishnu in Vaikuntha and His original two armed, Lord Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana. The individual inconsequential atma-vigraha’s are incapable of doing this, although nothing is impossible as this is Krishna’s creation, He makes the rules and He can change them when He feels fit. It is said that that the great Vaishnava devotee Naradha Muni travels also within the dreams of Maha-Vishnu in His original atma-vigraha body. Krishna is the cause of all causes and His unlimited expansions and inner circle devotees are unaffected by this change.Krishna facilitates, creates and accompanies the fallen transmitted jiva-bhutah conscious to its desired dreaming destinations within the material universe. This duty is performed by Maha-Vishnu, whose dreams are simultaneously the transmitted jiva-bhutah’s dreams. Only when one is free from their own dreaming consciousness within the material dream (yet still unaware of their real Krishna Conscious bodily identity) can they exist out-side the realm of Maha-Vishnu’s dreams, but still dreaming (in a dreamless inactive state) within the dominion of the causal ocean where the Brahma-sayujya or Impersonal Brahmajoyti exists. The jiva-bhutah’s transformation into the dormant jiva-nikaya’s individual consciousness that merges within the Brahma-sayujya (Impersonal Brahmajyoti), can only happed when one is fed up attempting to enjoy within with the transitory frustrating ethereal and biological bodies within the always decaying material existence (inferior energy).Maha-Vishnu’s duties include facilitating the dreaming lower forgetful consciousness of the atma-vigraha’s to their desired destination amongst the billions upon Billions of material universes that are constructed by His various representatives and demi-gods for the jiva-bhutah transmitted dreaming consciousness. The demi-gods function is to fulfil the material desires (dreams) of those who turn their back on Krishna where one simultaneously forgets their real perpetual bodily form they serve Krishna as. Maha-tattva also hosts Krishna’s pastimes and pure devotees when He appears for lila duty within the maha-tattva.Maha-Vishnu’s obligation, and the role of the demigods under His jurisdiction within the maha-tattva or material manifestation, is often unpleasant due to the non-Krishna conscious desires or thoughts of those who have ‘consciously separated, spilt or divided’ from their real jiva-atma-vigraha self. This partition of consciousness means they are no longer aware of their Krishna conscious original body because they have opted to create their own existence in defiance of Krishna. In this way, ones lower non-Krishna conscious state goes through a transformation that places it within the ‘dream universe’ of Maha-Vishnu, where He and His representative demigods facilitate or build the ethereal, biological and material condition that meet the requirements of the jiva-bhutah transmitted dreaming conscious desires.The Vishnuloka planets that are eternally maintained by the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna in His Vishnu form surround the centre of the universal Creation, which is the topmost Spiritual Planet, Goloka-Vrndavana or Krishnaloka. Krishna’s Personal universe is also known as the Personal Brahmajyoti, or just Brahmajyoti, which fills all space in every direction however; there is also a secondary universe that technically also has no beginning or end called the maha-tattva.The Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha universe is real, unchanging and timeless; the secondary universe on the other hand, is a place where ones lower dreaming consciousness temporarily resides (not as there perpetual body), but as a protracted consciousness radiated from their full consciousness or body when they forget Krishna’s interminable abode (like wondering off into a dream while ones biological sleeping body has not moved from the bed), as already explained and will always need further clarification because of our conditioned consciousness that makes us foolishly believe we are these biological bodily containers.This secondary shadowy universe, also in the Brahmajyoti, is a real reality but a temporary phenomena controlled by time, forgetfulness, envy, jealously, lust, anger, greed, the hunger for power and to be worshiped like Krishna, impermanence, flickering enjoyment, arrogance, selfishness, self righteousness, suffering, birth, disease, old age and death. This inferior (where lifeless matter exists) universal phenomenon is where the dreaming Maha-Vishnu resides who accommodates ones dreaming lower conscious dreaming self-illusions. He’s abode is an extension of Krishna’s Personal Brahmajyoti/Brahman effulgence transformed from the real reality of individual personalities serving Krishna, to the same individual personalities in their non-Krishna lower conscious illusion or dream. Like switching the light on there can be no darkness, on the other hand as soon as you switch the light out, that same space becomes darkness. In the same way this is how the personal Brahmajyoti and the Impersonal Brahmajyoti exist in the same space. It’s all bases on ones conscious awareness.The maha-tattva is the place in creation created for those who do not want to be with Krishna. Therefore, their imagination takes them to that detached abode Krishna has created for them that is also naturally the Brahmajyoti yet in its darkened state that appears like a dark cloud in the Spiritual Sky. The trance like dreaming consciousness of those personalities who choose to cross over into the detached universe of the dreaming existing as a dark cloud in one corner of the Brahmajyoti, always have that choice or independence to serve Krishna or forget Him. In this way, the dark cloud exists in the Brahmajyoti side by side with the surrounding Vaikuntha planets, yet those souls (transferred consciousness) trapped in the dark cloud are unable to realize or acknowledge the existence of Vaikuntha or their original atma-jiva bodily form due to their non-Krishna conscious Impersonal nature.The maha-tattva is real yet is called an illusion or dream because of its temporary nature, where as reality (the Vaikunthas) is permanent, imperishable, and always actively alive in the service of Krishna and never fades. The dark cloud that takes up a quarter of the Brahmajyoti on the other hand is real but impermanent, perishable and always fades in and out of existence like a mirage in the desert. The dark cloud or maha-tattva (the material manifestation) nonetheless, is still part of the Brahmajyoti, yet is already darkened due to the individual dreaming non-Krishna conscious thoughts that are transmitted there. It is only there, within the maha-tattva, such dreaming self-centered desires exist. This diseased condition infects those who choose to forget Krishna and the real bodily form they serve Krishna as. Only within the maha-tattva or material manifestation under the jurisdiction of the sleeping and dreaming Maha-Vishnu, can their introverted selfish dreaming consciousness exist. This condition of ignorance is similar (but not the same) to ones dreams and fantasies experienced as real while ones biological bodily is asleep or daydreaming. The dark cloud (maha-tattva) is where ones introverted dreaming forgetful consciousness becomes active however, the knowledge to tell the difference between dreams and reality is lost. We forced Krishna to allow us to come to this material universe, He warned us, but we came anyway. He left that choice up to us.The ethereal and biological vessels that the jiva-bhutah consciousness possesses/creates, as well as the material energy and elements, which are the left over consequences of impermanent biological bodies being possessed by jiva-bhutah consciousness, that is now the fossilized remains we call matter (inferior energy), is under the jurisdiction of Maha-Vishnu. When the atma-vigraha’s dream, Krishna also accompanies their dreaming lower consciousness by entering into a dream state Himself. This dream state of Krishna is called Maha-Vishnu. Krishna always remains the two armed Krishna or Shamasundara in Goloka-Vrndavana even while simultaneously expanding Himself as Maha-Vishnu. The atma-vigraha’s are incapable of imitating Krishna in this way.The two-armed form Krishna is always within His original spiritual planet with his loving devotees, which resembles the whorl of a huge lotus flower called Goloka-Vrndavana. This transcendental place is the highest abode of Lord Krishna, the original Personality of Godhead. Krishna’s original planet, Goloka-Vrndavana, throws off a spiritual ray of effulgence called the brahmajyoti that is all the individual atma-vigraha’s bodily personalities, as well as the unlimited Spiritual planets where they reside. On these planets they serve Krishna’s eternal four-armed Vishnu incarnation or expansion. These Brahmajoyti planets extend out to the far reaches of the Spiritual sky that also eventually embraces the abode of Maha-Vishnu who resides in one quarter of the Personal Brahmajyoti however, within Maha-Vishnu’s material cosmic dream manifestation, the whole Spiritual universe changes because in that corner of creation within the Brahmajyoti, the Krishna Conscious nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha’s personalities who eternally serve Krishna, cannot exist there unless the atma-vigraha devotees forget Krishna and from within their body radiate a secondary self (nitya-baddha) that exists as dreams.Only in that dream state does one hook-up with the dreams of Maha-Vishnu where your dreams are his dreams and one and His dreams are your reality within the Impersonal material universe. Only non-Krishna conscious dreams can transfer you, while in total forgetfulness of your real Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body, from the personal Brahmajyoti in the Spiritual Sky to the ‘dark cloud of dreaming’, which is the material and Impersonal universe that exists within the dark agitated storm cloud for those who want to live their dreams without Krishna.Keep in mind the Personal Brahmajyoti is made up of the Vishnu planets and the atma-vigraha devotees, who are within (Vaikuntha – nitya-siddha) and without (maha-tatva – nitya-baddha) the Personal effulgence surrounding this dark cloud or maha-tattva which is technically the Brahmajyoti in its Impersonal form as materialism and the Brahma-sayajyu as impersonal liberation.The dark cloud is simply a broadcast transmitted from the Personal Brahmajyoti (atma-vigraha bodies) and projected or played on the screen of the maha-tattva.The Impersonalist yogis, Buddhists, Jains and Mayavadis cannot enter or merge their individuality into that surrounding active living Personal Brahmajyoti, they can only enter (temporally) into the Impersonal void aspect that exists only within the maha-tattva because they do not believe in individuality. They also believe the material universe is an unreal illusion which is also incorrect. The material universe is real but temporary phenomenon.Note: - the Personal devotional active effulgence or Brahmajyoti is not practicals of light; it is individual personalities with eternal bodily form that is always Krishna Conscious. This conversion from Personal to Impersonal happens in this way, when the Brahmajyoti, which is Krishna’s atma-vigraha devotees as well as all his various Spiritual planets, consciously alter from being aware of their Brahmajyoti-effulgent Krishna conscious atma-vigraha’s body, to denying its existence due to turning ones back on Krishna and therefore becoming the lower secondary conditional state of consciousness, ones conscious position and awareness within the Personal Brahmajyoti, is transported to the dominion of the dreaming Maha-Vishnu within the dark cloud or maha-tattva. It is that secondary consciousness, that originally and eternally emanates from ones atma-vigraha or the Personal brahmajyoti effulgence, that can eventually, not just enter the Impersonal Brahmajyoti, but is an inactive living individual dreaming consciousness or shadow of the personal Brahmajyoti that is now consciously transferred into the Impersonal Brahmajyoti.As a consequence of forgetfulness, the Personal individual effulgent rays or particles (atma-vigraha bodily personalities) surrounding Krishna are transferred consciously (not in their atma-vigraha physical body) to the dark cloud of ‘the dreaming Maha-Vishnu’s’ impermanent manifestation. In other words, what is going on here, is the original effulgence of Krishna, which is unlimited atma-vigraha bodies including planets, have the ability to either remain in their real effulgent atma-vigraha self or form, or ‘consciously’ extend themselves from their original effulgent bodily atma-vigraha self in the Personal devotional Brahmajyoti, consciously transferring into a lower conscious state (jiva-bhutah) that can only exist within or just outside Maha-Vishnu’s impermanent dreaming creation.As already explained, yet needs to be emphasized, Maha-Vishnu’s separate dark dreaming universe is also part of the Spiritual sky or Brahmajyoti where the Vaikuntha’s exist but appears as a dark cloud in that Personal Brahmajyoti. However the dark cloud component of the Brahmajyoti, or the universe of illusions and dreams, is also under the jurisdiction Maha-Vishnu whose dreams only confirm that the maha-tattva is the universe for those bodies that are asleep and dreaming in the eternal Kingdom of God.The only way to enter the so-called Impersonal Brahmajyoti or Brahma-sayujya is to enter within the dark cloud cover or the universe of the dreaming Maha-Vishnu and first be active in ethereal and biological bodies within the material universe, as the lower self jiva-bhutah transmitted consciousness. Only then can one move on to the so called non-materially active liberated jiva-nikaya consciousness that becomes part of the illusionary Impersonal Brahmajyoti that is simply a transformation from the Personal Brahmajoyti to the Impersonal Brahmajyoti, when ones consciousness entered the maha-tattva or material manifestation. No matter which way we look at it, we are always part of the Brahmajyoti because collectively we are the Brahmajyoti or Krishna’s Personal effulgence.Even those who take shelter in Impersonal aspect of the creation existing in the realm of Maha-Vishnu, eventually fall out of that counterfeit Impersonal sense of oneness due to the inherent nature that all living entities in the Brahmajyoti have an original active Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body.Maha-Vishnu’s creation allows and facilitates the non-Krishna Conscious dreams of those who forget Krishna and simultaneously their real and only personal body. His dark universe, that is also part of the Brahmajyoti but now in its Impersonal aspect, is like a cloud that overtakes a corner of the spiritual sky or Personal brahmajyoti. This covered portion is called the mahat-tattva. Krishna, via His dreaming expansion Maha-Vishnu, lies down in the water within the maha-tattva. This water is called the Causal Ocean (karana-jala). As He sleeps within the Causal Ocean, innumerable universes are generated with His breathing that lay the foundations for the dreaming illusions of those who choose to forget their Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body and instead, take on the multiple-identities created by the lower conscious jiva-bhutah hallucination. These floating universes within the material manifestation are scattered all over the Causal Ocean to provide planets and universe that facilitate the desires and non-Krishna conscious thoughts of those who want to forget Krishna and build their own existence.As already mentioned, within the Krishna’s unlimited Personal brahmajyoti, there are unlimited numbers of personalized eternal spiritual planets. In contrast, within the maha-tattva where the Personal has transformed into the Impersonal, there are also innumerable numbers of material impermanent planets and universes. These material massive universes with billions of galaxies are equivalent to one Vishnuloka planet in the Personal Brahmajyoti or Spiritual Sky. These innumerable material planets also technically exist within the same Brahmajoyti effulgence as the Vishnuloka planets, except they are trapped as dreams within the Impersonal dark portion of that same Personal Brahmajyoti that resembles a dark cloud in one corner of the Spiritual Sky. This aspect of the Brahmajyoti that houses the Impersonal Brahmajyoti, is under jurisdiction of the dreaming Maha-Vishnu, who represents the causeless mercy and loving concern of Krishna by accompanying the forgetful jiva-bhutah consciousness where ever is goes by providing everything it needs and desires, even its Impersonal jiva-nikaya dreamless state, where ones consciousness becomes inactive and where their original natural Brahmajyoti individual active bodily effulgent self, transforms into an Impersonal Brahmajyoti inactive individual self.This Impersonal transformation is part and parcel of the conscious fall down that enters the maha-tattva dark cloud but is detached from the influence of the maha-tattva or material universe.The Personal and Impersonal Brahmajyoti both emanates from Krishna, however it is important to clearly understand that the Personal Brahmajyoti around Krishna only transforms to the Impersonal Brahmajyoti way, way out on the edge of the Spiritual Sky within the realm of the maha-tattva (material manifestation). Even though further away form the inner circle Personal Brahmajyoti, the maha-tattva cloud is still part of the Brahmajyoti surrounding Krishna, except is in a different dimensional state of consciousness. Only within the vicinity of this dark cloud or maha-tattva can Impersonalism and materialism be embraced. It is only within that dark illusionary portion of the Personal Brahmajyoti, the Impersonal Brahmajyoti exists.Impersonalism cannot stand within the realm of the Vishnu Planets or the central Krishnaloka Planet known as Goloka-Vrndavana Planet.The Spiritual planets are dominated by plenary expansions of Lord Krishna (Vishnu in His four armed form), and the inhabitants there are ever-liberated atma-vigraha meaning their bodily form can never cease to exist even if, from time to time, they consciously forget their real self and form and enter the dark cloud within the Spiritual sky where one can live out their imagination and fantasies as dreams. The vast construction of the material universe is meant to assist the jiva-bhutah consciousness experience their material dreams and desires that can last for billions upon billions of years.The atma-vigraha devotee’s or servants, or one’s higher real self in its full capacity, have bodily features like the Lord and are full of bliss, knowledge and are impershable.Krishna is known within the Brahmajyoti as Narayana and the planets are known as Vaikunthas where as in the maha-tattva the same Vishnu is known as Maha-Vishnu. Unlike the fully awake Vishnu’s in the Vaikuntha’s, Maha-Vishnu is sleeping and in His dreams exist the dreams of the atma-vigraha’s secondary consciousness or lower self, also in a dreaming consciousness, when activated by separatist views and self centred desires.In each and every universal globe that comes out of every pour in Maha-Vishnu’s sleeping body, the same Maha-Vishnu enters again as Garbodhakasayi Vishnu and lies there on the Garbha Ocean on the serpentine Sesa incarnation. From his navel-abdomen sprouts a lotus stem, and on the lotus, Brahma, the Lord of a material universe, is born.
ORIGIN OF THE JIVA SOUL
QUANTUM PHYSICS OR THE SCIENCE OF POSSIBILITIES.
UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSAL CREATION.
2. The Spiritual universe to the material universe,
3. Prolonged consciousness to restricted consciousness
4. Atma-vigraha body to the jiva-bhutah or jiva-nikaya (impersonally liberated condition - dreaming consciousness),
5. To be in the light (Krishna Consciousness) to live in the darkness (material universe),
6. To live in reality to exist in a dreamed-up imaginary fantasy,
7. Spiritual Permanence to material Impermanence,
8. Krishna’s eternal Universal creation to Maha-Vishnu’s Impermanent Universal creation,
9. Marginal atma-vigraha to marginal jiva-bhutah and jiva-nikaya dreaming transmitted consciousness,
10. Higher self to the lower self,
11. Goloka-Vrindavan/Vaikuntha to the illusion of Maha-Vishnu’s Maya and the heavenly, middle and hellish material planets,
12. Remembering Krishna to forgetting Krishna and existing in illusion,
13. To be ones Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body to being ones forgetful non-Krishna conscious dream projections,
14. Real self (atma-vigraha) or imagined self (jiva-bhutah - or jiva-nikaya).
15. Personalism to Impersonalism.