Even if a devotee of the Lord has not yet reached the perfectional stage of love of Godhead, his devotional service is considered immortal
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"even if a devotee of the Lord has not yet reached the perfectional stage of love of Godhead, his devotional service is considered immortal"
Other Books by Srila Prabhupada
Narada-bhakti-sutra (sutras 1 to 8 only)
Upon attaining love of God, a person immediately becomes immortal and no longer has to change his material body. But even if a devotee of the Lord has not yet reached the perfectional stage of love of Godhead, his devotional service is considered immortal. Any action in the stage of karma or jñāna will be finished with the change of body, but devotional service, even if not executed perfectly, will continue into the next life, and the living entity will be allowed to make further progress.
The constitutional position of the living entity as a fragment of the Supreme Lord is confirmed in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and the Upaniṣads. The Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (5.9) states,
- bālāgra-śata-bhāgasya śatadhā kalpitasya ca
- bhāgo jīvaḥ sa vijñeyaḥ sa cānantyāya kalpate
"If the tip of a hair were divided into one hundred parts, and if one of those parts were again divided into a hundred parts, that one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair would be the dimension of the living entity." As already mentioned, this position of the living entity as a fragment of the Supreme Lord is declared in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.7) to be eternal; it cannot be changed. A person who understands his constitutional position as a fragment of the Supreme Lord and engages himself in devotional service with all seriousness at once becomes immortal.
| Page Title: | Even if a devotee of the Lord has not yet reached the perfectional stage of love of Godhead, his devotional service is considered immortal |
| Compiler: | RupaManjari |
| Created: | 20 of Apr, 2012 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=1, Lec=0, Con=0, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 1 |