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Is there any example of this ascension into heaven? Didn't Arjuna...

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Yes, there are many instances. The special instance is Kṛṣṇa and His associates.
Philosophy Discussion on Carl Gustav Jung:

Hayagrīva: He says, "On a higher level the process of resurrection is no longer understood in a gross material sense. It is assumed that the resurrection of the dead is the raising up of the corpus glorificaciones, that is the glorified body, the subtle body, in the state of incorruptibility."

Prabhupāda: That I said, the spiritual body. The spiritual body never changes. When one comes with the spiritual body there is no change. Material body changes, but God has no material body. The conception of..., Māyāvādī conception that Absolute Truth is impersonal, when He comes as a person He accepts a material body, that is not understood by those who are advanced in spiritual knowledge or take information from Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says, avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritāḥ (BG 9.11). Because He appears as a human being, rascals think that He is a human being, but He is not. Paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto. He has no knowledge of the spiritual body.

Hayagrīva: The fourth form of rebirth is called renovacio and applies to the transformation of a mortal into an immortal being, of a corporeal into a spiritual being, and of a human into a divine being. Well-known prototypes of this change are the transfiguration and ascension of Christ and the assumption of the mother of God into heaven after her death together with her body. In other words, the body is somehow..., it doesn't die, the gross body doesn't die, but it's transformed.

Prabhupāda: Spiritual, spiritual body continues. Spiritual body never dies. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20). So hanyamāne, destruction, is of the material body. The spiritual body is never destroyed. Na jāyate na mriyate vā. The spiritual body, neither it is generated, neither it is dead. Nityaḥ śāśvataḥ: it is eternal. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre: (BG 2.20) it, it is not destroyed even after the destruction of the material body. That is spiritual body.

Hayagrīva: But is there any example of this ascension into heaven? Didn't Arjuna...

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Hayagrīva: ...ascend into...

Devotee: Yudhiṣṭhira?

Hayagrīva: The higher... Who?

Devotee: Yudhiṣṭhira was...

Hayagrīva: Was it Yudhiṣṭhira?

Prabhupāda: Yes, there are many instances. The special instance is Kṛṣṇa and His associates.

Hayagrīva: They didn't go through any death of any sort.

Prabhupāda: No.

Hayagrīva: But the body traveled to...

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Hayagrīva: ...higher spheres.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That is...

Hayagrīva: Kṛṣṇa also took Arjuna...

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Hayagrīva: ...to...

Prabhupāda: Spiritual body everyone possesses.

Page Title:Is there any example of this ascension into heaven? Didn't Arjuna...
Compiler:MadhuGopaldas, Rishab
Created:04 of Aug, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1