| Author: | Rajasekhara | ISBN: | 9781310386176 |
| Publisher: | Rajasekhara | Publication: | May 31, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Rajasekhara |
| ISBN: | 9781310386176 |
| Publisher: | Rajasekhara |
| Publication: | May 31, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Shri Krishna, is called Sat-Chit-Ananda – Vigraha, or the form of bliss, knowledge and eternity. Vigraha refers to His personal form, sat means He is eternal, chit means He possesses complete knowledge, ananda means He is full of bliss. As the individual spirit-souls are also persons, so the Supreme Personality of Godhead is also a person, but He is the greatest person, being omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, whereas the individual spirit-souls are very small and insignificant in comparison. Nevertheless, as the spirit-souls are created from God’s spiritual nature, they also possess the same sat-chit-ananda qualities. Just as God is anandomaya, or always jolly, always cheerful, and full of transcendental love, the jivatmas, the individual spirit-souls, who are Meditation and parcel of God, are also eternally joyful, cheerful, and full of love. Constitutionally, the spirit-souls are not material but completely spiritual entities and are therefore ‘anandamayo-byasat’, meaning ‘eternally blissful’.
However, when the spirit-souls fall from the Kingdom of God into the material world, their pure transcendental love turns into pure lust and thus they remain captivated by mundane sex, which is also the cause their suffering. This is because the material world is only a shadow reflection of the spiritual world and therefore, if one lives in a shadow, he cannot see anything clearly and is bound to bump into things and get hurt. That is the nature of material life, it is not perfect, but a mixture of happiness and distress, and a place of repeated birth and death. In the material world, the spirit-souls are in an alien environment and thus experience great suffering, just like a fish out of water, or a spark or cinder that shoots out from the fire and then slowly dies out. The spark must be put back into the fire in order to regain its fiery nature. When the living beings go back to home, back to the Kingdom of God, they will again become a glowing spark and revive their original nature of being anandomaya, blissful, cheerful, and full of transcendental love.
All the living entities in the spiritual world are enjoying loving pastimes with the Supreme Lord, and their existence is always joyful. The residents of the Kingdom of God are fully absorbed in devotional service and enjoying ecstasy at every moment, due to their transcendental relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna, through the exchange of rasa or loving sentiments. The five types of rasas or relationships are known as dasya-rasa, sakhya-rasa, vatsalya-rasa, and madhurya-rasa. In the spiritual world, which is called Cintamani-dhama, the land, the trees, the animals, the residents, everything is of the same spiritual nature as the Lord, because the spiritual world is an expansion of the Lord’s internal potency, hladini-shakti. The word cintamani means transcendental gem. Just as the material universe is created from five material elements, earth, water, fire, air, and ether, so the spiritual world is created from the spiritual element called chintamani, or cit potency. Chintamani is compared to a transcendental gem, and the entire spiritual world is composed of this gem-like chintamani element.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Shri Krishna, is called Sat-Chit-Ananda – Vigraha, or the form of bliss, knowledge and eternity. Vigraha refers to His personal form, sat means He is eternal, chit means He possesses complete knowledge, ananda means He is full of bliss. As the individual spirit-souls are also persons, so the Supreme Personality of Godhead is also a person, but He is the greatest person, being omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, whereas the individual spirit-souls are very small and insignificant in comparison. Nevertheless, as the spirit-souls are created from God’s spiritual nature, they also possess the same sat-chit-ananda qualities. Just as God is anandomaya, or always jolly, always cheerful, and full of transcendental love, the jivatmas, the individual spirit-souls, who are Meditation and parcel of God, are also eternally joyful, cheerful, and full of love. Constitutionally, the spirit-souls are not material but completely spiritual entities and are therefore ‘anandamayo-byasat’, meaning ‘eternally blissful’.
However, when the spirit-souls fall from the Kingdom of God into the material world, their pure transcendental love turns into pure lust and thus they remain captivated by mundane sex, which is also the cause their suffering. This is because the material world is only a shadow reflection of the spiritual world and therefore, if one lives in a shadow, he cannot see anything clearly and is bound to bump into things and get hurt. That is the nature of material life, it is not perfect, but a mixture of happiness and distress, and a place of repeated birth and death. In the material world, the spirit-souls are in an alien environment and thus experience great suffering, just like a fish out of water, or a spark or cinder that shoots out from the fire and then slowly dies out. The spark must be put back into the fire in order to regain its fiery nature. When the living beings go back to home, back to the Kingdom of God, they will again become a glowing spark and revive their original nature of being anandomaya, blissful, cheerful, and full of transcendental love.
All the living entities in the spiritual world are enjoying loving pastimes with the Supreme Lord, and their existence is always joyful. The residents of the Kingdom of God are fully absorbed in devotional service and enjoying ecstasy at every moment, due to their transcendental relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna, through the exchange of rasa or loving sentiments. The five types of rasas or relationships are known as dasya-rasa, sakhya-rasa, vatsalya-rasa, and madhurya-rasa. In the spiritual world, which is called Cintamani-dhama, the land, the trees, the animals, the residents, everything is of the same spiritual nature as the Lord, because the spiritual world is an expansion of the Lord’s internal potency, hladini-shakti. The word cintamani means transcendental gem. Just as the material universe is created from five material elements, earth, water, fire, air, and ether, so the spiritual world is created from the spiritual element called chintamani, or cit potency. Chintamani is compared to a transcendental gem, and the entire spiritual world is composed of this gem-like chintamani element.
