The Absolute Purity of the Spiritual World Without Inebriety
Śrīla Prabhupāda repeatedly clarifies that the spiritual world is not an impersonal void, but a realm of unlimited, blissful variety. While the material world is a perverted reflection full of defects, the absolute realm contains all forms, relationships, and activities in their pure, original state, completely without inebriety. Śrīla Prabhupāda urges us to transfer our attachment from this defective material existence to the perfect, blissful reality of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
The Perfection of Spiritual Variety
The impersonal philosophers mistakenly believe that to escape material suffering, one must annihilate all variety. Śrīla Prabhupāda refutes this by explaining that true spiritual life means experiencing the perfect, original varieties of existence without the miseries of the material body.
- The spiritual world is exactly like the material world in that it has varieties. In the spiritual world there are also houses, trees, roads, chariots - everything is there, but without the material inebrieties. As described in Brahma-samhita.
- This material world is only a perverted reflection of the spiritual world, where everything is manifested without inebriety. There everything is in its original existence, free from the domination of time.
- The activities in the spiritual world are without any of the inebrieties of the material world, but there is no question of impersonal voidness on the spiritual platform, as suggested by the impersonalists.
- There is nothing good in the material world. In the spiritual field everything is absolutely good. There is no inebriety in the spiritual varieties.
Original Propensities Devoid of Fault
Even behaviors that are considered faulty in the material world have their pure, absolute origin in the Supreme Lord. Śrīla Prabhupāda points out that Kṛṣṇa exhibits pastimes of stealing or fighting, but because He is absolute, these activities are completely transcendental and without mundane inebriety.
- We should understand that in the spiritual world all these activities exist, but there is no inebriety, whereas in the material world all activities are full of miserable conditions.
- The childish propensity of stealing is there even in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore this propensity is not artificial. However, in the spiritual relationship there is no inebriety to this stealing propensity.
- Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura specifically deals with the original and pure sex psychology (adi-rasa), devoid of all mundane inebriety.
- Even one is married, he wants to love another's wife. Or if the girl married she wants to love another husband. Why? That is there. But without inebriety. That is the beauty.
Pure Spiritual Sound and Preaching
The vibrations of the spiritual world are fundamentally different from mundane sound. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the holy name of the Lord and the pastimes broadcast by great sages are infused with absolute potency. Thus, the mission of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to inject this pure, unadulterated sound vibration into the material world.
- The transcendental sound bhagavan represents infinite knowledge, potency, energy, opulence, strength and influence-all without a tinge of material inebriety.
- Sound vibrated by the instrument cannot be material, and therefore the glories and pastimes which are broadcast by the instrument of Narada are also transcendental, without a tinge of material inebriety.
- The glories and pastimes which are broadcast by the instrument of Narada are also transcendental, without a tinge of material inebriety.
- I am especially appealing to the GBC men to take this mission of Krishna Consciousness movement very, very soberly and without any inebrieties for advancing the knowledge of how to inject Krishna Consciousness into the dead body of material nature.
The Absolute Goodness of the Spiritual Field
In the absolute realm, the enjoyer, the enjoyed, and the process of enjoyment are all of the same spiritual nature. Śrīla Prabhupāda assures us that by transforming our material desires into Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we can relish unlimited happiness without any negative reactions.
- Everything in the mundane world is qualitatively mundane, it is full of inebrieties, whereas in the absolute realm, because everything is of the same absolute nature, there are varieties of enjoyment without inebriety.
- Instead of trying to make this material world as beloved, you have to make Krsna as beloved. That is Krsna consciousness. The everything is there. You get everything in return, as here, you are trying to enjoy, but without any inebriety.
- It requires higher intelligence to understand Krsna consciousness. Krsna consciousness is trying to give the people the happiness to which is simply blissful, without any inebrieties.
- I am especially appealing to the GBC men to take this mission of Krishna Consciousness movement very, very soberly and without any inebrieties for advancing the knowledge of how to inject Krishna Consciousness into the dead body of material nature.
Conclusion
To truly understand the Absolute Truth, one must reject the impersonal idea of a void and embrace the reality of spiritual variety. Śrīla Prabhupāda concludes that the spiritual world contains everything found in the material world, but in its pure, original state. Because the absolute realm is not subject to the influence of time or the three modes of material nature, all relationships, activities, and sounds exist there without inebriety. By practicing Kṛṣṇa consciousness under the guidance of Śrīla Prabhupāda, the conditioned soul can transcend the defective, miserable conditions of this perverted reflection and safely enter the eternal, blissful pastimes of the Supreme Lord.
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