KKS DAILY NECTAR
exrcept from 25/01/2005
So we see that all the relationships that exist in this world also exist in the spiritual world but they exist in a greater form, there is nothing that exists in this world that doesn’t have a counter part in the spiritual world because the material world is described to be a reflection, yesterday we mentioned that some would think that the spiritual world has to be something that is not here, if we say what is spiritual we say that which is not material and if you follow that logic then you would say therefore the spiritual world is not material then anything of the material can not be of the spiritual so in that kind of logic you would think spirit and matter are opposites … but that is not the fact: actually matter is simply the shadow of spirit, and because it is the shadow of spirit it resembles spirit but it doesn’t have the full potency of the spirit just like the shadow of the tree, it takes the shape of the tree
but it doesn’t have all the intricate detailing and colour and so on, so you lose a lot, what to talk about tasting the fruits of the tree! There is no question of taste so all these dimensions of experience are gone. So here in the material world we see forms: we see people with arm and legs and there is a certain amount of beauty, there is beauty in bodies, there is emotion there is expression and there are all kind of exchanges, there is laughter there is astonishment, there is chivalry there is compassion, there is anger, there is dread and ghastliness in this world so all these relationships we know in this world , we know all these twelve elements of relationships, the five direct or principle elements of relationships are the basic thing, the basic foundation and then within that all the other experiences are there, just like parents and children are experiencing laughter, but lovers are also experiencing laughter, friends are also experiencing laughter, master and servant may also experience laughter so in this way by understanding material relationships we get an idea of the spiritual relationship because the material relation is a reflection of the original one , so by understanding the reflection , you understand something .. by the shadow of the tree you get an idea, at least some idea of what the tree is like in this way our understanding of the material energy we can understand something of the spiritual world but we can never understand in full ,
there are many dimensions that remain unknown to us and therefore from our present situation in the material world we can not understand the spiritual world so it is said that in the spiritual world there are also divisions, raass are manifested in various realms: it is said in the spiritual world there are different areas : there are the planets of Vaikuntha and above the planets of Vaikuntha is Ayodhya which actually we could explain it more simple: the spiritual world is unlimited and it consists of the effulgence of Brahman…. within the effulgence of Brahman there are unlimited Vaikuntha planets: then within that realm of Brahman there is a huge area……… then Goloka it is in the form of a lotus, with petals and it says all the petals of that lotus there are just on the external side we find Ayodhya, the abode of Lord Rama and then on the inner side of the petals we find Dwarka and then in the actual core , we find Goloka. So once again the effulgence of Brahman, that is the impersonal white light, oh we have heard plenty about that: if you mediate on that dot or that triangle or if you read the Tibetan book of the dead, right, then you encounter the white light! and there the all pervading white light….sanskrit.. it is the all pervading energy of Krishna which everything rests and some are being blinded by that white light: just as those who look into the sun, in the early morning you can actually see the sundisk, you see it appear and you can see, but at twelve noon you can not actually see the disk you can see just light glare and the glare is so bright that one can not actually understand the form, you can only see the glare so this is the situation in relation to the spiritual effulgence of Krishna, actually the Brahman energy is the effulgence of Krishna. One could say that it is His aura, because it is the effulgence that is emanating from His body and in the Sri Isopanisad
one of the principle Vedic literatures it is stated….sanskrit .., please take away this dazzling effulgence, take away this dazzling effulgence and manifest You original face, so behind the effulgence is Krishna in His Original form. So those who look for liberation become one with the spiritual energy they enter into that brahmajyoti, into that light and there they are formless as long as they like , for as long as they can tolerate and then again they will come down to this world….sanskrit… but then it says that there are other places where one has eternal personality and form so on the Vaikuntha planet one eternally has form, in Ayodhya one eternally has form , in Dwarka one eternally has form and in Goloka one eternally has form and not only do we have form all forms are there. Just as here we are in the realm of form, everything has forms, there everything has form and the ultimate form that is visible there is the form of the Supreme Lord.
Here the Supreme Lord is rarely seen, here that is the biggest problem that the Supreme Lord He is invisible and therefore that causes confusion , causes religious wars..because some say……i was reading some books that psychologists had interviews with children and He was interviewing these different children and some were four years old, there was this four year old boy, no six year old boy, four year old girl and a ten year old girl so he is interviewing the boy and he is aking the boy what happens after you die he said “well you go to heaven , right , you can go to heavan”
So they asked him “What is it like there?
“Well God is there”
“What does he look like?”
“He has blue eyes and blond hair”
And so obviously he had been exposed to a certain concept and had developed this idea about God. And the four year old girl her parents were not religious at all so they asked this girl that “What do you think about God”
Did she believe in god or anything. She said “Well my parents don’t believe in God but I sometimes do”
And they said like “Wow!”
She said that on the tv, beaver, some children series, “Beaver sometimes speaks about God and that made me think that made me think”
Four year old girl said, you know , that made me think that maybe there is God but my parents they don’t believe in God ……………..so this very interesting how you can see that this child started to think independently from the education of her parents, just a little stimulants from beaver and she started to think maybe
.They asked a girl the question “what would the world be like if you were not there?”
“ It wouldn’t be the same” she said “Because there wouldnt be a girl who was the younger sister of (then she named her brother)…, there wouldn’t be a girl in the city orchestra that plaved the viola…..” and like that she was speaking and then they sort of asked her:
“If there wouldn’t be any people at all?”
And she said “Well that wouldn’t be any good because people are important because we wouldn’t have people it wouldn’t make sense”
So they asked her “Why not?”
So she come up with this idea:That people, why are there people, “People are there to keep God company” ….. she comes up with that!! It’s just like interesting, very interesting because it is true we are the eternal company, companions of the Supreme Lord actually . She hit the nail on the head!! She figured it out with her childish innocence , she actually figured out what it is all about: that eternally we are meant to be in the company of the Supreme Lord!!!
