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So we have to understand where is that spiritual world. That is... You have... Those who are reading Bhagavad-gita, you will find, paras tasmat tu bhavaḥ anyaḥ: "There is another world." Bhava means nature. Paras tasmat tu bhavaḥ anyo 'vyakto 'vyaktat sanatanaḥ [Bg 8.20]. Sanatana means eternal. The living entity is described as sanatanaḥ. Mamaivamso jiva-bhūtaḥ jiva-loke sanatanaḥ [Bg 15.7]. Sanatana means eternal. And there is another nature which is also described, sanatana. So when a living entity is constitutionally sanatana, if he wants to go back to that sanatana nature, that is called sanatana-dharma. It is called... You have heard the name sanatana-dharma. Sanatana-dharma means when the sanatana-jiva, living entity, tries go to back home... That is our real home. Here it is not home. We have taken America as home. How long it is your home, sir? Say, fifty years, hundred years, that's all. Not this kind of home. So that home is eternal. That is called, therefore, sanatana. Avyakto 'vyaktat sanatanaḥ. [Bg 8.20]. Yasmin sarvesu nasyatsu means when in the material world everything will be dissolved, annihilated, then it is said that the other nature... (More...)

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