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Imported quote 17948 From this verse we can understand the Absolute Truth is realized in three features: bhagavantam adhoksajam; jyoti, param jyoti; and sarva-bhūta-guhavasam. The first realization is jyoti, the next realization is sarva-bhūta-guhavasam, and the last, final, realization is bhagavantam adhoksajam. The example we have given many times, that the sun is there. The first realization is that we come in touch with the sunshine. That is very easy. Anyone can come in light on the sunshine. It is open to everyone. Then the another feature of the sunshine is the sun globe. That is not so easily available. You cannot go to the sun globe. According to the modern scientific conclusion, we can understand that the sun globe is away from us by 93,000,000's of miles, and still, we cannot tolerate the temperature. And what will be your position if you go to the sun globe? Before reaching sun globe even by some millions of... We are already apart 93,000,000 miles, and suppose when there is three million miles apart from ninety, then the temperatures is so high that we will be finished. We cannot approach the sun globe even, and what to speak of entering into the sun globe? That requires a different body. Of course, there are living entities in the sun globe, within the sun globe. And there is the predominating deity also, the president, you may call. There is a state. Just like you have got here, United State, there is state also. And there is also president, and the president's name is Vivasvan. Everything is there in the sastra. We read from Bhagavad-gita, Krsna said, "I spoke to Vivasvan, the president or the predominating deity in the sun globe." So this is all fact. It is not fiction. You are seeing the sun globe, and you are seeing that the sunshine is coming from the sun globe. So it is a globe; therefore there must be inhabitants. But their body is different. That is... Just like this earthly planet is made of earth, or dirt-that is made of fire. This is within these five elements: earth, water, fire, air, ether. So the mixture of these things are there also, but the fire element is there prominent. As here, in this earth, all the mixtures are there, but here the earthly element is prominent. So this is also one of the material worlds.
(More...) Imported quote 18723 So this first expansion is Balarama. And from Balarama, then catur-vyūha: Vasudeva, Sahkarsana, Aniruddha..., Pradyumna, Aniruddha. So the Sahkarsana feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is the controller of bhūtendriya-manomayam, these five elements, bhūta, indriya, and the ten senses and the mind. They are... Similarly, Sahkarsana, Pradyumna, Aniruddha-they are different controlling Deities of the different functions of the mind, intelligence, ego. So sahkarsanakhyam purusam sahasra-sirasam anantam. Ananta. You will find the picture of Narayana lying down on ananta-sayya. That Ananta caturdasi-vrata. As there is Nrsimha caturdasi... A Vaisnava, they have got different functions of appearance and disappearance days of Vaisnava and Visnu. Avirbhava, tirobhava. Just the rising sun and the setting sun. When the sun sets, it does not mean the sun is finished. Of course, some of the former theosophists and scientists, they used to think that this is..., at night the sun is dead. That is not fact. The sun is not visible to our limited eyes. Similarly, appearance and disappearance of incarnation of Godhead is like that. They are going on just like the..., a horse is running in due course, but when it comes in front of your door or window, you can see. But that does not mean the running of horse is stopped when you cannot see. Similarly, these incarnation of Godhead, ananta, unlimited, they are from this sahasra-sirasam Ananta, Ksirodakasayi Visnu.
(More...) Imported quote 22621 Prabhupada: Everyone, he becomes annihilated with some particular type of mentality, and according to that mentality he gets next body: yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram [Bg 8.6]. That has to be practiced-at the time of death what he shall remember. If you remember Krsna, then your life is successful. Therefore we require bhajana-smaranam, always chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, so that you may get the chance of remembering Krsna at the time of death. Then your life is successful. All these vrndavana-vasis chant always Hare Krsna, only for this purpose-if at the time of death they can remember Krsna, that is success of life: ante narayana-smrtiḥ [SB 2.1.6]. This is the [indistinct].
(More...) These three divine aspects can be explained by the example of the sun, which also has three different aspects, namely the sunshine, the sun's surface and the sun planet itself. "The Absolute Truth is realized in three phases of understanding by the knower of the Absolute Truth, and all of them are identical. Such phases of the Absolute Truth are expressed as Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan." (Bhag. 1.2.11) These three divine aspects can be explained by the example of the sun, which also has three different aspects, namely the sunshine, the sun's surface and the sun planet itself. One who studies the sunshine only is the preliminary student. One who understands the sun's surface is further advanced. And one who can enter into the sun planet is the highest. Ordinary students who are satisfied by simply understanding the sunshine-its universal pervasiveness and the glaring effulgence of its impersonal nature-may be compared to those who can realize only the Brahman feature of the Absolute Truth. The student who has advanced still further can know the sun disc, which is compared to knowledge of the Paramatma feature of the Absolute Truth. And the student who can enter into the heart of the sun planet is compared to those who realize the personal features of the Supreme Absolute Truth. Therefore, the bhaktas, or the transcendentalists who have realized the Bhagavan feature of the Absolute Truth, are the topmost transcendentalists, although all students who are engaged in the study of the Absolute Truth are engaged in the same subject matter. The sunshine, the sun disc and the inner affairs of the sun planet cannot be separated from one another, and yet the students of the three different phases are not in the same category.
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