Spiritual existence (Books)
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG Chapters 1 - 6
In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa (2.12.38) it is stated that Viṣṇu and His abodes all have self-illuminated spiritual existence (jyotīṁṣi viṣṇur bhuvanāni viṣṇuḥ). The words existent and nonexistent refer only to spirit and matter. That is the version of all seers of truth.
When they are informed that spiritual life is also individual and personal, they become afraid of becoming persons again, and so they naturally prefer a kind of merging into the impersonal void. Generally, they compare the living entities to the bubbles of the ocean, which merge into the ocean. That is the highest perfection of spiritual existence attainable without individual personality. This is a kind of fearful stage of life, devoid of perfect knowledge of spiritual existence. Furthermore there are many persons who cannot understand spiritual existence at all.
As long as he is in contact with matter, he has to execute work in terms of material necessities. Kṛṣṇa consciousness, however, brings one into spiritual life even while one is within the jurisdiction of matter, for it is an arousing of spiritual existence by practice in the material world.
| Page Title: | Spiritual existence (Books) |
| Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Alakananda, MadhuGopaldas |
| Created: | 25 of Dec, 2009 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=6, SB=55, CC=24, OB=25, Lec=0, Con=0, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 110 |