View source for I was thinking that Narada has actually an all-spiritual body, and Brahma has a material form, material body. And yet Narada appears to Brahmaji to ask questions from him as spiritual master. How is that?

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<div class="heading">Brahmājī also enters the spiritual kingdom at the time of annihilation with his persons.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.27-34 -- Surat, December 17, 1970|Lecture on SB 6.1.27-34 -- Surat, December 17, 1970]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Revatīnandana: In the picture in the revealed book, Nāradajī is asking questions of Lord Brahmā. I was thinking that Nārada has actually an all-spiritual body, and Brahmā has a material form, material body. And yet Nārada appears to Brahmājī to ask questions from him as spiritual master. How is that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Brahmājī also enters the spiritual kingdom at the time of annihilation with his persons.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Does he undergo a change of body at that time?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That automatically takes place. Just like Hiraṇyakaśipu's son is Prahlāda. It doesn't matter. And spiritual body, material body, that can be changed. (break)</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: It will all be one thing(?), spiritual into material or material...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Material means when the consciousness is not Kṛṣṇa. That is material. The same example, that iron rod, if kept to the fire, gradually it becomes warm, warmer, and at last it becomes red. When it is red, it is no longer iron; it is fire. Similarly, by spiritual association, your body gradually becomes spiritualized. And at the perfection stage, there is no more material activities, simply the activities of the fire. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā:</p>
:māṁ cāvyabhicāriṇi-
:bhakti-yogena yaḥ sevate
:sa guṇān samatītyaitān
:brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
:([[Vanisource:BG 14.26|BG 14.26]])
<p>The whole body becomes supplemented with Brahman effulgence. It is not for everyone, and those who are very, very much spiritually advanced, their body becomes like that. Therefore a Vaiṣṇava ācārya's body is never burned. It is entombed. They worship the body. But that is spiritual body.</p>
<p>Devotee (2): It is never burned?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. (end)</p>
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