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The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri
Krishna, and His eternal consort, Srimati
Radharani are enjoying transcendental pastimes in
the topmost planet of the spiritual world, Sri
Goloka Vrindavan. They are beckoning us to
rejoin them. (Click on photo to see a larger
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Our Mission: To help everyone awaken
their original Krishna consciousness, which is
eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss.
Such a global awakening will, in one stroke,
solve all the problems of the world society
bringing in a new era of unprecedented peace and
prosperity for all. May that day, which the
world so desperately needs, come very soon. We
request you to participate in this mission by
reviving your dormant Krishna consciousness and
assisting us in spreading this science all over
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Dedicated with love to
ISKCON Founder-Acharya: His
Divine Grace A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual master, and
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Total Awakening
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There
is no reason for you to remain captured in maya, or the
dreamlike illusory energy of material existence
sometimes imagining that you are a king and sometimes
imagining that you are a pauper, because the supreme
source of all existence, the most stupendously
astonishing person that you could ever hope to meet is
ready to liberate you right now. All you have to do to bring
about the total awakening of your original, all-knowing,
all-blissful identify is call out to Krishna for
deliverance in the mood of a small child crying for its mother. The great acharyas recommend this mantra as the
most powerful and effective mantra for invoking the
mercy of the Lord in this age:
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare
Utter these names regularly with all the feeling you can
muster, and the dark night of ignorance and suffering
will be dissipated by the rising sun of Krishna as you
become more and more absorbed in His loving service. You'll have a great life. And it
will never end.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari |
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Answers According to the Vedic Version: | |
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Question: Form or Formlessness in Goloka? |
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I have
question that came up during a discussion with a
colleague. We were discussing the fact that the body is
temporary, but the soul is eternal. My colleague asked
me if the soul is formless, and I said, "Yes, it is,
because the body it is associated with is temporary." He
asked if formlessness is a quality of the soul, and by
extension, if the Supreme Soul should also not possess
the same property of formlessness?
I explained that in our system we worship Krishna who
has form and yet is above form at the same time.
However, I was unable to provide a more clear answer.
Arising out of this, given that the Lord has form, and
is above form or formlessness, what about liberated
souls who have attained Goloka and the Lord's lotus
feet? Do they possess indestructible, blemishless forms
as well in that exalted state? Or are they without form?
With humble dandavats,
Srinivas
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Answer: Krishna is the
Supreme Form |
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The soul is not formless.
In fact the body has form because it is a covering for
the soul, which has form. Just as a glove has form
because it covers the hand, which has form, the body
also has form because it covers the soul, which has
form. You need to study our books more thoroughly
before you start preaching.
It not correct to say that Krishna is above form. This
makes it sound like formlessness is above form. Krishna
is the Supreme Person and the Supreme Form because
Krishna and His form are one and the same. There is no
difference between the person Krishna and His form. In this
connection Srila Prabhupada states in his purport to
Srimad Bhagavatam 1.15.35, "His body is nondifferent
from Him, and therefore He is known as the embodiment of
eternity, knowledge and bliss."
Every living being throughout all of existence has his
svarupa, his eternal spiritual form. In material
consciousness, he forgets his eternal form and foolishly
misidentifies with so many imperfect material forms one
after another in the cycle of birth and death. But once
he revives his Krishna consciousness he reactivates his
eternal spiritual form and regains his original position
in the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead in that most wondrous spiritual
sky.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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