Understanding how the jiva falls from Golka to the mahat-tattva
Hare Krishna
the jiva souls (all of Krishna’s marginal living energy or all living
entities) manifests originally and eternally as a bodily (vigraha)
servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krishna (The
Supreme Vigraha) that can never fall from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha
(the perpetual Kingdom of God (Krishna)
The Jiva-soul: Its Origin, Nature, And Potentialities
The beautiful Srimad Bhagavatam teaches us that the perpetual Kingdom
of Radha and Krishna, known as Krishna-Loka or Goloka-Vrndavana and
encircled by the imperishable Vishnu-Loka or the Vaikuntha Planets,
where Krishna’s numerable expansions of Vishnu and Lakshmi reside
along with their infinite number of devotee’s (known as Krishna’s
marginal potency or individual bodily servants) takes up 3/4 of the
imperishable Spiritual Sky or total creation. Krishna’s planet is
centered above in the red lotus flower and surrounded by unlimited
expansions of Vishnu and Lakshmi in the surrounding yellow Vaikuntha
planets; both transcendental abodes are made up of living entities
(individual bodily personalities or Krishna’s marginal potency) with
eternal devotional bodies where no material energy (maha-maya) can
exist. The nitya-siddha-svarupa-atma-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha devotee’s
(Krishna’s marginal potency) can never fall down as their bodily
devotional self because of the perpetual uninterrupted nature of the
Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spitiual Sky that is set in the rternal
present beyond the concept of past and future.
In the corner of the painting above, one can see the less significant
and smaller mahat-tattva unpreserved cloud, also in that Spiritual Sky
(perishable material universe divided by past, present and future and
only 1/4 of creation)
This dark cloud is nothing other than the rebellious dreams, thoughts,
desires and impersonal escape of just a few of those eternal bodily
personalities (nitya-siddha-svarupa-atma-vigraha devotees).
Ones secondary consciousness enters the dark cloud in the Spiritual
Sky or Brahmajyoti due to their desires not to be with Krishna as
their devotional form or body, such disloyal dreams, thoughts and
desires are projected or transmitted as a ‘secondary consciousness’ to
that dark perishable cloud or mahat-tattva temporary material
manifestation where they are then given counterfeit bodily material
forms (ethereal and biological vessels) by the creator of that
perishable place of the dreaming, Maha-Vishnu.
Understanding the true origins of all living entities
This book is based on the teachings of His Divine Grace A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The difference between mental
speculation and philosophical speculation is backing up ones
realizations with quotes from Srila Prabhupada who is my Spiritual
Master. Unless one engages in philosophical speculation, just how will
one formulate relevant questions to place before their guru and search
through his teachings for corruct meaning and understanding? The
difference between philosophical and mental speculation is conclusions
based on Srila Prabhupada’s teachings (books, tapes and letters) that
is handed down to our society in the 21st Century giving the correct
meaning and translations of all previous Acharays.
Srila Prabhupada is the 32nd Spiritual Master in a line of disciplic
succession that goes all the way back to Krishna. Srila Prabhupada,
unlike all previous Acharays, has spread the teachings of Lord Krishna
and Sri Chaitanya to every corner of the globe. Due to his endeavours
the chanting of Hare Krishna and the distribution of his books have
reached every city, town and village around the world where Krishna
has now become a house hold name.
Chanting Hare Krishna and engaging in devotional service will protect
a sincere aspiring devotee as the cobbler was protected in the story
of ‘the cobbler and the jnani’ (page ?) however there are also those
sincere souls who may become disillusioned if they only follow the
charisma of a particular Guru, Swami or general devotee when a
philosophical crisis develops due to their sentimental understanding
of Vedanta. Srila Prabhupada wanted all his diciples and grand
disciples etc to study his books and learn HIS teachings and not
simply become a unknowledgable follower in someone else’s religious
plans, "Don't think, just do what you are told prabhu may have its
place in helping some, but it is certainly not meant for everyone”, it
is an old cliché that can be misused and deny ones from their own
personal realizations and natural Spirtual development and growth.
This is also called being institutionalised.
If you don’t want to be cheated when buying a diamond, you must have
some knowledge of what a diamond is, similarly one must have some
understanding of Spiritual life to begin with and then develop a solid
understanding of Srila Prabhupada’s books, in this way one will not be
mislead by material charisma, dictatorial power and conflicting
Vaishnava therories. One must study Srila Prabhupada’s books and
openly challenge anyone who contradicts those books.
What is written in this book is based on Srila Prabhupada’s teachings
and my personal realizations and not mental speculation nor
institutionalized parrot quoting of scripture.
I was once cleaning the Temple room in early 1973, as I was cleaning
the walls down I took the paintings of the Panca-tattva and Radha and
Krishna down and placed them on the step of Srila Prabhupada's Vysa
sign. (at the feet of Srila Prabhupada) because I did not want to put
the painting on the floor. As I was cleaning to my surprise Srila
Prabhupada came in and looked at the Vysa sign laughing and laughing
and laughing. Then said “ What is this? (Referring to the paintings of
himself) I sit at the feet of Krishna and Lord Chaitanya, when you go
back to Krishna, back to Goloka, you will understand,”
Srila Prabhupada had tears in his eyes, he then started chanting japa
looking at the beautiful painting of the Panca tattva and Radha and
Krishna. (The curtains to the Dieties were closed) Everyone else was
out on Sankirtan, except for the few devotees in the Kitchen. So there
I was with Srila Prabhupada and no one else around in the Temple room.
Srila Prabhupada said, after chanting for a few minutes, Radha and
Krishna as Lord Chaitanya is very nice and so attractive, he the
laughed again and again, what he was seeing I certainly could not see,
Srila Prabhupada chanted in the temple room until I finished cleaning
then in a humble chastising mood Prabhupada said –
‘Now you can put the paintings back on the wall and always remember
that I am always at the feet of Radha and Krishna, next time you clean
put the paintings on a chair and not on the step of the Vysa-sign, one
day you will also wake up from this miserable world and also see that
Krishna has always been there waiting for you to again come back home
and enter His pastimes - always chant Hare Krishna”
For the next ten minutes we both chanted japa and then he payed his
obeisances to Radha and Krishna, I payed my obedience’s to him and
Srila Prabhupada went back to his room. As a young 20 year old the
significance of his mercy was taken for granted. It was only thirty
years later I began to realize how significant my association with
Srila Prabhupada was, for me I always believed we were once with
Krishna and Srila Prabhupada personally confirmed that to me to -
Krishna has always been there waiting for you to again come back home
and enter His pastimes –always chant Hare Krishna.
Understating the Non-Krishna conscious dreams of the nitya-siddha-
svarupa devotees in Goloka that are transferred to the ‘creation for
the dreaming’ known as the mahat-tattva
Srila Prabhupada: “Svapna-drastur ivanjasa. The very exact example is
given, svapna-drastuh. Just like a man seeing dream: “Oh, there is
tiger, tiger, tiger, tiger! Save me!”
He is crying. Another man is, “Where is tiger? Why you are crying?
Where is tiger?” But he, in the dream, he is actually feeling: “The
tiger has attacked me.”
Therefore this example is given, na ghatetartha-sambandhah. There
cannot be any meaning of this relationship except like a man dreaming
and he is creating a situation. He is dreaming there is a tiger and he
is creating a situation, fearful situation”.
Srila Prabhupada – “Actually there is no cause of fear. There is no
tiger. That situation is created by the dreaming Sub-consciousness.
Actually there is no tiger. Similarly, we have created this material
world and activity.
… People are running, “Oh..., sonh, sonh, sonh, sonh, sonh, sonh,
sonh,” identifying that “Oh, I am the manager. I am the factory owner.
I am this, I am that. We have got his politics. We have to defeat such
competitors.” All these things are created exactly like that, svapna
drastur ivanjasa, just like a man is creating his particular situation
simply by dream. That’s all.
Srila Prabhupada makes it very clear. So the answer is, when somebody
asks you the question of our origins, ‘When have we all become in
contact with this material nature?” Tell them one has not become in
contact (authentic perpetual vigraha body) with the mahat-tattva. He
is thinking by the influence of the external energy, but actually he
is dreaming, for example: A man is dreaming of a tiger but actually
there is no contact with tiger because it’s only a dream. Similarly we
are not fallen. We cannot be fallen. But we have created a situation
that we are, become... Try to understand, understand. It is very
important point”.
Srila Prabhupada makes the point - “We have simply created a
situation, well, we personally have not created a situation, Krishna
has given us a situation because we wanted to imitate Krsna, Krsna has
given us an opportunity: “All right, try and imitate me. You want to
be an imitation king in the stage. So feel like this. Play that part.
Do like that. People will applaud. ‘Oh, a very nice king, very nice’,
you can become the center of adoration, everyone can worship you’. So
in this situation our contact with material energy (mahat-tattva) is
just like dream, a secondary conscious phenomenon, only a dream.
Actually we are not fallen, we are only dreaming. Therefore, because
we are not fallen, at any moment we can revive our Krsna
consciousness. As soon as we understand that “I have nothing to do
with the mahat-tattva — I am simply Krsna’s servant, eternal servant,
that’s all,” immediately he becomes liberated. Exactly like that: as
soon as you... Sometimes we do that. When the fearful dreaming becomes
too much intolerable, we break the dream. We break the dream when it
becomes intolerable. Similarly, we can break this material (mahat-
tattva) connection at any moment as soon as we come to the point of
Krsna conscious. “Oh, Krsna is my eternal master. I am His servant.”
That’s all. This is the way. Actually we are not fallen. There cannot
be any fallen.
Actually there is no tiger; it is dreaming, it is all a dream.
Similarly, our fallen condition is also dreaming” end of Srila
Prabhupada’s quote
The secondary extended conscious life force phenomena (jiva-sakti),
emanating from ones own authentic perpetual rasa nitya-siddha bodily
form (vigraha) in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha dominion, manifests
due to its non-Krishna conscious nature. This jiva-sakti consciousness
is transferred from Goloka and further facilitated or provided
ethereal and biological vessels by Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva
creation. This cloud of the dreaming (the mahat-tattva) is also
situated in the uninterrupted Spiritual Sky (Krishna’s Goloka-
Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm) in one corner and is distinguished from the
Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm by is phenomenal nature of impermance
and division of time. This has been a mystery to even many great
Vaishnava’s (devotee’s of Krishna) in the past in their attempts to
try and understand the true origins of all living entities that enter
that dark impermanent cloud in one corner of the Spiritual Sky
(Brahmajyoti).
>From the view point of the mahat-tattva, the jiva-sakti or the living
force or life force (the extended consciousness of the nitya-siddha
devoteein the Spiitual Sky or Brahmajyoyi) may also fall from the jiva-
tatastha conscious condition of spark like dormant consciousness that
is situated between the Vaikuntha’s and the mahat-tattva (the
Impersonal apect of Krishnas individual maginal consciousnesses or
Brahmajyoti) however, from the bigger picture of the creation outside
of the mahat-tattva and the thin Impersonal Brahmajyoti realm of
marginal consciousnesses or dormant life forces (tatastha-saktis)
separating the imperishable (Goloka) from the perishable (Vaikuntha),
Srila Prabhupada tells us we indeed make our way to that tatastha
conscious state in a previous creation and long, long, long, long
before that our secondary consciousness was transferred or extended
from our rasa body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Bramajyoti Spiritual
Sky.
Srila prabhupada - “Because he falls down from Brahma-sayujya
(tatastha-s’akti, Impersonal Brahmajyoti or Brahman consciousness
condition of the life force), he thinks that may be his origin, but he
does not remember that long, long, long, long ago before that even, he
was with Krishna.
Ones secondary conscious projection (jiva-bhutah) in this way can only
manifest as a dormant spiritual spark (jiva-tatastha) AFTER going
through the mahat-tattva. Such a dreamless conscious aspect of the
life force (jiva-sakti) is then called the Brahma-sayujya or tatastha
condition of consciousness which is also the Impersonal extension of
the Brahmajyoti we call the ‘Impersonal Brahmajyoti’.
In this way we do not originate from tatastha or the Impersonal
Brahmajyoti because they are a secondary conscious phenomon transfered
from the perpetual Goloka-Vrndavana Spiritual sky or Brahmajyoti. This
may have to be read a few times to understand the real concept of
Brahmajyoti.
The secondary creation (mahat-tattva or material creation) is a
phenomena created by the dreaming Maha-Vishnu that gives a reality to
the non-Krishna conscious dreams of the vigraha (perpetual bodily
form) devotees in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha when they choose to
ignore Krishna and sub-consciously enter His dreams within that maha-
tattva cloud. (the dark cloud for the dreaming or the black hole in
the Spiritual Sky) Entering the ‘black whole cloud or material
universe’ as a secondary life force (jiva-tattva) simultaneously
disqualifies one of being aware of their eternal Krishna Conscious
rasa body (the authentic self) that is the source of the jiva-sakti
consciousness or life force dream state. Both the dreams of Maha-
Vishnu and the atma-vigraha devotee’s originate from the uninterrupted
Spiritual Sky (Krishna’s Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm) that has
been a mystery to even many great Vaishnava’s (devotee’s of Krishna)
in the past, yet correctly understood by His Divine Grace A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
The atma-vigraha devotee’s authentic perpetual bodily form, OR the so-
called marginal sparks that are ALL constitutionally perpetual
personal bodily forms (marginal vigraha devotee’s) ARE the effulgence
emanating/surrounding Krishna beautiful body. Krishna is the Supreme
Vigraha body from whence His entire marginal vigraha devotee’s
initiate. However the second-rate extended conscious phenomena, which
radiates as a dreaming life force (jiva-sakti), is transferred out of
the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm that takes up residence in the
mahat-tattva (material universes). Ones non-Krishna conscious desires,
dreams and thoughts emanates as a secondary consciousness or life
force (jiva-sakti) from the atma-vigraha devotee’s authentic perpetual
bodily form that never leaves Goloka.
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the
founder of the International Society or Krishna Consciousness.
Srila Prabhupada - “No one falls from Vaikuntha.” We really do not
fall. We think we are fallen. But this just means we have forgotten
our original situation”
Srila Prabhupada is very clear. Originally we have a direct personal
relationship with Krishna in the spiritual world. But when we want to
take Krishna’s position, we therefore put ourselves into a dreaming
state due to our non-Krishna conscious choices.
In this dreaming state after we enter the mahat-tattva dream of Maha-
Vishnu that is a real but a perishable reality situated in one corner
of the Brahmajyoti Spiritual Sky or creation, we choose to forget our
actual position and thus are free to act out our non-Krishna conscious
desire and dreams within the mahat-tattva cloud in our attempts to
become the centre of attraction or inour attemp to even become a
supreme enjoyer. These mistaken self centered choices or non Krishna
conscious dreams are characterized as being “fallen” from our position
in the spiritual world, but Srila Prabhupada explains that in
Vaikuntha reality, beyond mundane time and space that governs the
mahat-tattva, we are not fallen and our authentic bodily self is
eternally there, “We are simply in a dreaming” explains Srila
Prabhupada.
When the fallen dreaming nitya-siddha's secondary consciousness (nitya-
baddha) returns to his/hers original bodily position and full
potential as ones Krishna Conscious nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha body,
the secondary non-Krishna conscious nitya baddha state will disapates
like darkness disapateas as soon as the light is turned on, one will
find themselve in the exact same position as if they never left due to
the absence of the time factor of the mahat-tattva that has no
influence in the eternity of Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha. So once
returned to the everlasting Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha from the
perishable mahat-tattva, it will be as they had never left, just like
when a light is one can see who they are, and the darkness that denied
them of seeing their authentic real idenity is no longer there because
in the presents of light, it simply does not exist.
Understanding that our original sub-conscious fall down to the mahat-
tattva is originally from our rasa body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha,
has also been endorsed in an English translation of Prema-pradipa by
Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura, as well as an English translation of Sri
Caitanya’s Teachings by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami
Prabhupada, the Spiritual Mater of His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada.
“However, because of contact with matter, the imprisoned jiva-tattva
extended consciousness loses the memory of their original spiritual
rasa bodily form in Vaikuntha. . . material rasas are perverted
reflections of the jiva-atma-vigraha devotees original spiritual
rasas.” Prema-pradipa, p. 83
Ramanujacharya also vigorously argues that the spiritual perpetual
rasa body of the soul has always existed and that upon liberation, one
once again attains that which has always existed. (Vs. 4.4.1),
Our perpetual nitya-siddha-svarupa-atma-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha Krishna
Conscious body does not fall and can never fall from Goloka-Vrndavana/
Vaikuntha.
We simply choose to do ‘our own thing’ and knowingly turn our back on
Krishna and the perpetual body we serve Krishna as, because of the
attachment to pursue our non-Krishna conscious dreams, desires and
thoughts that put us in the centre instead of Krishna. This is why our
dreaming condition is transferred to the mahat-tattva.
Every atma (perpetual body) is a marginal vigraha Krishna Conscious
devotee that collectively appears in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha
Spiritual Sky and appears to exist collectively as a bright personal
effulgence emanating/surrounding Krishna’s beautiful body [Krishna's
Supreme Vigraha body] that radiates the entire creation with
(Brahmajyoti). The Impersonalist cannot understand this and how it is
possible for the secondary conscious condition of their atma-vigraha
body, to find its way to an Impersonal aspect of that Brahmajyoti.
The secondary (mahat-tattva or material creation) and third
(Impersonal Brahmajyoti, tatastha Brahma-sayujya) realms of creation
of Lord Krishna also originate from the Personal Goloka-Vrndavana/
Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky, both the second and third aspect of
‘conscious projection’ are the manifestation of the secondary
conscious state of the atma-vigraha devotees, first as the their
active stage in the mahat-tattva confined to ethereal and biological
counterfeit bodily vessels, and then as the inactive state of tatastha
consciousness in the so called Impersonal Brahmajyoti, free from
ethereal and biological containers provided within the mahat-tattva.
In the secondary creation 'of the dreaming' called the mahat-tattva,
Krishna and His marginal vigraha devotees are in a dreaming condition,
not as their original bodies in Goloka, but in a dream state, Krishna
expands as the dreaming Maha-Vishnu and the marginal atma-vigraha
devotee’s expand or extend their consciousness, when NOT Krishna
conscious, to those dreams Maha-Vishnu is having, where HE provides
the ethereal and biological vessels that give the non-Krishna
conscious dreams of the atma-vigraha devotee’s dreaming condition,
their counterfeit forms. The difference is Krishna, the creator of the
universe and the cause of all causes, is always no different from His
many expansions such as Maha-Vishnu and is not affected in any way by
His dreaming Maha-Vishnu expansion, where as the minute marginal atma-
vigraha devotee’s are very much effected and becomes ‘consciously’
forgetful of their atma-vigraha perpetual marginal body, when their
secondary consciousness is transferred to the mahat-tattva cloud (the
impermanent universal creation of the dreaming or material universe)
when they choose to imagine, think, dream or desire an existence
without Krishna.
This secondary dreaming consciousness manifests from ones atma-vigraha
body and finds refuge in the secondary creation (mahat-tattva). When
ones secondary consciousness becomes fed up of being restricted and
contained by ethereal and biological vessels, which belong to the
mahat-tattva, the life force (jiva-sakti) can then enter the third
(impersonal Brahmajyoti) stage of conscious projection created
ultimately by Lord Krishna. What is happening here are the marginal
living entities that radiate from Krishna’s perpetual body have all
the traits of Krishna’s body, including a perpetual body of their own
however all marginal vigraha devotee’s are the same in quality but not
quantity. Krishna’s Supreme beautiful Vigraha body is compared to the
Sun and the marginal vigraha devotee’s are compared to the sunrays,
all originate from the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky as the
expansion of Krishna’s life force or Supreme sakti. This sakti of
marginal devotees surrounding Krishna, sometimes manifest a secondary
aspect of their being that enters the mahat-tattva, the marginal life
force or sakti can then manifest the third aspect of their being which
is what we know as the collective Impersonal Brahmajyoti.
In other words the effulgence emanating from Krishna changes (yet as a
paradox does not change on the bodily level due to eternal Goloka
time) from personal to conditioned to Impersonal by radiating or
transmitting a secondary consciousness that becomes conditioned in the
mahat-tattva, and then can become further condition and appear as an
individual atomic spark or the Impersonal Brahmajyoti, Brahma-sayujya
or tatastha. ALL are the result of a projection of consciousness
originating from ones rasa niysiddha-svarupa body in Goloka. All this
happens without the original vigraha body ever changing due to the
perpetual nature of time and space in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha.
A crude example is just like when one dreams off in a far distant
place, their body is still always there, similarily, the
transcendental minute marginal living entities (vigraha devotee’s)
secondary expansional life force (jiva-sakti) is projected off as a
dreaming consciousness to the far distant mahat-tatva cloud in the
outlying corners of the Spiritiual Sky known as the mahat-tattva or
cloud of the dreaming, or may eventually manifest as an inactive or
dormant sparks of individual consciousness that makes up the
Impersonal Brahmajyoti, Brahma-sayujya or tatastha sakti that
seperates the Vakuntha realm in the Spiritual Sky from the mahat-tatva
cloud. This space inbetween the imperishable (Vaikuntha) and the
perishable (mahat-tattva) are all the result of the marginal vigraha’
devotees secondary conscious manifestation. The Impersonal Brahmajyoti
is nothing other than a secondaty consciousness manifesting that
manifests as a dormant state that places them neither in the mahat-
tattva in counterfeit bodies or having the awareness that their
present consciousness is is actually a dream emanating from who they
really eternally are in Goloka. The difference is Krishna and His
margimal vigraha devotees, is Krishna is the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, the creator of the universe and the cause of all causes and
His marginal vigraha devotee’s, is Lord Krishna, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, always no different from His many expansions
such as Maha-Vishnu, where as the minute marginal atma-vigraha
devotee’s can be ‘sub-consciously’ separated from their atma-vigraha
perpetual marginal body when they choose to imagine, think, dream,
desire, or even have no dreams at all, to subsist in an existence
without Krishna.
The expansion of Krishna (technically via His plenary expansion
Balarama known as the sleeping Maha-Vishnu) and the extended
consciousness of the atma-vigraha devotee’s, are in a dreaming
phenomena that manifests as a dark cloud within the Spiritual Sky
called the ‘cloud of the dreaming’ or mahat-tattva.
The secondary consciousness is therefore generated from the perpetual
jiva-atma-vigraha devotee’s in Goloka and only comes into existence
when ones focus is not on Krishna. This secondary conscious obviously
originates also within the Goloka realm, but cannot exist or remain in
that realm because the Spiritual Goloka-Vrndavana and Vaikuntha’s are
100% Krishna Conscious. Just like darkness cannot exist where there is
light, non-Krishna conscious dreams, thoughts and desire cannot remain
in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky. Those dreams are
therefore transferred to the perishable mahat-tattva.
In this way it is very clear that the jiva-bhutah consciousness or
life force (jiva-sakti) originates outside of the mahat-tattva and is
transmitted into the mahat-tattva from one perpetual body in the
Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm that is 3/4 of the creation because
of those non-Krishna conscious thoughts or dreams. Such secondary
consciousness or lower self is known as the jiva-bhutah consciousness,
among other ‘jiva names’ according to the condition ones transmitted
consciousness is in outside of Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha.
The jiva-bhutah (the lower self) consciousness (jiva-soul or life
force) is neither ethereal, biological or material because it is part
of ones spiritual constitution however, when this lower conscious
version of the self enters the mahat-tattva, it becomes contained and
confined to an ethereal vessel provided by Maha-Vishnu for the purpose
of beginning its journey in the dreams of Maha-Vishnu to satisfy
material desires, dreams and thoughts without Krishna being in the
centre.
In the corner of the painting above, one can see the less significant
and smaller mahat-tattva unpreserved cloud, also in that Spiritual Sky
(perishable material universe only 1/4 of creation), that dark cloud
is nothing other than the rebellious dreams, thoughts, desires and
impersonal escape of just a few of those eternal bodily personalities
(jiva-atma-vigraha devotee’s). Due to their desire not to be with
Krishna as their devotional form or body, such disloyal dreams,
thoughts and desires are projected or transmitted as a ‘secondary
consciousness’ to that dark perishable cloud or mahat-tattva temporary
material manifestation.
No One’s Perpetual Devotional body Falls From Goloka-Vrndavana/
Vaikuntha that is not possible?
Srila Prabhupada - “Actually No one falls from Vaikuntha, We really do
not fall. We think we are fallen. But this just means we have
forgotten our original situation due to our sub-conscious dreaming
that transports us to a far away place without Krishna”.
This dreaming secondary conscious condition emanating from the sub-
conscious mind of the atma-vigraha devotee is a conscious force (jiva-
sakti) that becomes embodied within the mahat-tattva. In our original
situation, we were with Krishna and our authentic bodily self never
leaves Krishna, even if we ‘sub-consciously’ may wonder a far.
Srila Prabhupada - “We wanted to give up Krishna.” There is no mention
of originally being in the brahmajyoti, tatastha or the Viraja River
in the mahat-tattva outside the dreams of Maha-Vishnu, or being always
conditioned, or being in anything less than a fully developed
perpetually vigraha devotee in a relationship with Krishna that is
eternally there in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, even if we presently
are unaware of this fact due to our secondary dreaming consciousness
restricted by the division of time and space within the mahat-tattva
cloud.
Srila Prabhupada - Originally we have a direct personal relationship
with Krishna in the spiritual world. But when we want to take
Krishna’s position, we therefore put ourselves into a dreaming state
due to our non-Krishna conscious choices. In this dreaming state after
we enter the mahat-tattva dream of Maha-Vishnu that is a real but
perishable reality in one corner of the Spiritual Sky or creation, we
forget our actual position and thus are free to act out our desire in
our attempts to become the supreme enjoyer. These mistaken self
centered choices or non Krishna conscious dreams, are characterized as
being “fallen” from our position in the spiritual world, but Srila
Prabhupada explains that in Vaikuntha reality, beyond mundane time and
space that governs the mahat-tattva, we are not fallen, We are simply
in a dreaming.
Our perpetual nitya-siddha-svarupa-atma-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha Krishna
Conscious body does not fall and can never fall from Goloka-Vrndavana/
Vaikuntha. We simply choose to do ‘our own thing’ and knowingly turn
our back on Krishna and the perpetual body we serve Krishna as because
of the attachment to pursue our no-Krishna conscious dreams, desires
and thoughts that put us in the centre instead of Krishna.
It is there within that mahat-tattva cloud, the projected secondary
consciousness, emanating from ones original perpetual body, which can
never fall from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, becomes contained in
ethereal and biological vessels in a phenomenon of time and space
(past, present, future, decay and impermanence) that does not exist in
the perpetual Spiritual Sky surrounding the mahat-tattva. Such
temporary ethereal and biological bodies are provided by the presiding
Deity of the mahat-tattva, Maha-Vishnu and guided (constantly tempted
through the mahat-tattva by Maya-Devi’s sakti, the wife of Maha-
Vishnu.
The mahat-tattva cloud is a real manifestation like the other three
quarters of creation or Spiritual Sky however, unlike the perpetual
Spiritual Sky; the mahat-tattva or ‘cloud of the dreaming’ is
temporary. This will be clearly explained in this book.
Krishna’s subsidiary or marginal living entities make Him complete,
inclusive and all pervading like the sun and the sunrays, or like a
burning bush with embers and sparks emanating from the fire.
Unfortunately such a comparisons or analogies have an impersonal shade
about it because Krishna is not the sun or a burning bush (ultimately
He is the Supreme Vigraha) and His marginal living entities are not
rays from the sun or sparks from a burning fire (the marginal Vigraha
devotee’s). The fact is both Krishna and His marginal potency always
remain individual persons as their original authentic perpetual
transcendental bodies, that is always who they really are and always
have for an eternity. No beginning, no end.
In other words such spiritual bodies in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha
Autocratic Empire are not vessels or container or a body one is housed
in, no, it is not like that in the perpetual spiritual Sky because
those bodies are who one really is for infinity.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.47.32
As a person just arisen from sleep may continue to meditate on a dream
even though it is illusory, so by the agency of the mind one meditates
on the sense objects, which the senses can then obtain. Therefore one
should become fully alert and bring the mind under control.
Srila Prabhupada: -
The verb pratipad means, "to be perceived or restored." The soul that
is vinidra, free from the dreamlike condition of material
consciousness, is restored to its constitutional position as an
eternal servitor of the Lord, Sri Krishna, and thus the soul is
directly perceived by pure consciousness.
This means our spiritual body (vigraha) is already there in Vaikuntha
and has always been there. The Srimad-Bhagavatam states Goloka is an
eternal place where there is no birth, disease, old age and death and
nothing perishes there, so this is a reasonable shastric conclusion –
our genuine bodily form is always there in Goloka even though, due to
our non-Krishna conscious dreams, we may not realize this fact.
Isn't that the meaning of perpetual? No- one can actually leave such a
place or enters there because they are already there? The only way to
leave such a wonderful place is through ones non-Krishna conscious
dreams.
It is therefore clear that our authentic body never leaves Krishna’s
beautiful Kingdom because everything in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha
exists in the eternal unchanging Lila’s of Krishna that is always
expanding and perpetually-changing in Lila genre, without past or
future as the Brahma-Samhita teaches us.
How are we to understand such a paradox?
How are we to understand in our conditioned state that the end is the
beginning and the beginning is the end and that we have always had a
devotional Krishna Conscious vigraha bodily form that has no beginning
or starting point as the Bhagavad-gita as it is teaches us? From the
view point of the mahat-tattva, the life force (jiva-sakti
consciousness), can also come from it’s tatastha-sakti inactive
conscious condition appearing as a spark of consciousness ready to be
given bodily form by Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva however, from
the superior depiction of creation outside of the mahat-tattva, Srila
Prabhupada tells us we indeed make our way to that tatastha conscious
state originally from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha.
Could it be, due to our long association in the perishable universe
(mahat-tattva) for such a long, long, long, long period of time, we
mistaking believe we originate from the third temporary portion of
creation, known as the tatastha-s’akti aspect of our jiva-tattva
consciousness after one has deactivated all their conscious desires
(non dreaming state of the life force or jiva-sakti), denying both
their authentic vigraha devotional Krishna Conscious self in the
HIGHER IMPERISHABLE Vaikuntha (due to the choice all marginal vigraha
devotee’s have) as well as ones counterfeit material bodies in the
LOWER PERISHABLE mahat-tattva, where one eventually forgets those
material bodies.
>From the bigger picture, we never originated from tatastha; we entered
that inactive conscious state after being liberated from the mahat-
tattva.
The teachings of Jiva Gosvami teaches us that we can also come into
this material world via our individual tatastha-s'akti conscious
condition of consciousness however, before we entered that state we
were active within the mahat-tattva and long, long before that we were
in Goloka. The only way to enter the tatastha condition of
consciousness is by entering it from the mahat-tattva side of creation
after giving up ethereal and biological bodies. When ones secomdary
consciousness is transferred to the mahat-tattva from Goloka, they are
provided with the body of Brahma first and not the tatastha conscious
condition as some believe. Only liberation from the mahat-tattva can
reval to one the tatastha consciousness (Impersonal Brahmajyoti)
Our individual life force (jiva-sakti) has enterd into the tatastha
inactive condition of consciousness on many, many occasions and then,
due to the inherent active nature of the jiva-sakti inherited from
ones rasa body in Goloka, always return or fallen out of that tatastha
dormant consciousness to be confined again and again to material
bodies (ethereal and biological) in mahat-tattva. From the bigger
picture, we never originated from tatastha; we liberated ourselves
from the conditioning of the material creation that lead to that
inactive conscious state. Only in this way does ones secondary
consciousness expression or life force (jiva-sakti) re-emerge from our
jiva-tatastha conscious dormant condition and again enter the mahat-
tattva to be confined to the cycle of birth and death in ethereal and
biological vessels. As clearly explained, this means that bing in the
tatastha sakti of consciousness simply means we were in a previous
mahat-tattva material creation. Therefore from the bigger picture of
creation outside of the mahat-tattva, Srila Prabhupada tells us we
indeed make our way to that tatastha conscious state from a previous
mahat-tattva creation and before that, maybe a long time before that,
we were with Krishna.
In this way ones extended consciousness not only becomes trapped and
disillusioned in ethereal and biological bodies in the impermanent
lower universe (mahat-tattva), but they become unaware that the
manifestation of their secondary consciousness actually originated
from the higher universal creation (beautiful Goloka) from their own
pepetual rasa body.
Srila prabhupada - “Because he falls down from Brahma-sayujya
(tatastha-s’akti, impersonal liberated condition or Impersonal
Brahmajyoti or Brahman), he thinks that may be his origin, but he does
not remember that long, long, long, long ago before that even, he was
with Krishna.
Srila prabhupada -“We cannot say therefore that we are not with
Krishna. As soon as we try to become Lord, immediately Maya covers us.
Formaley we were with Krishna in his lila or sport, but this covering
of Maya may be of very, very, very, very long duration; therefore many
creations are coming and going. Due to this long period of time it is
sometimes said that we are ever conditioned. But his long duration of
time becomes very insignificant when one actually comes back to
Krishna consciousness”.
This means our spiritual body (vigraha) is already there and is always
perpetually there in Vaikuntha. Our jiva-bhutah consciousness can only
come from our individual tatastha s'akti condition of consciousness
after we first enter that inactive conscious condition from a previous
material creation. This means before tatastha we were also embodied
and this is where most in the Gaudiya Math have misunderstand the
teachings of Jiva Gosvami and wrongly think the life force or jiva-
sakti consciousness originates from it’s tatastha-sakti condition.
We have re-entered the mahat-tattva on many occasions from the
tatastha
Originating from the tatastha is therefore correct in the face of our
material universe only within the mahat-tattva because we have re-
entered the mahat-tattva on many occasions from the tatastha, however
from the bigger picture we clearly originate from Goloka-Vrndavana/
Vaikuntha, therefore it is obvious that such so-called origins from
the tatastha are only from the perspective of the mahat-tattva where
our individual consciousness (jiva, soul or life force) has again and
again and again fallen from, after previously entering that tatastha
condition of consciousness from a previous material universal
creation, possibly billions of material creation before that also
however, originally our existence was initiated from Vaikuntha.
This is how ones secondary consciousness, in the dormant tatastha
state, which is an inactive conscious condition in the Impersonal
Brahmajyoti or the Impersonal aspect of Brahman, re-merges back as a
conditioned soul to again be housed in ethereal and eventually
biological vessels within the mahat-tattva.
This is how we return (NOT originate) from the tatastha to occupy
material bodies (ethereal and biological vessels) in mahat-tattva in
our futile attempt to fill our non-Krishna conscious dreams.
No one originates from tatastha
Tatastha it is only an intermediate state of dormant consciousness
that exists inbetween the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky and
the mahat-tattva material sky in the same Brahmajyoti. The only
difference is that in this inbetween jiva-tastastha aspect of the
Brahmajyoti consciousness is that ones secondary consciousness is
dormant and that is why and how the Impersonal Brahmajyoti comes to
exist. The Impersonal Brahmajyoti is simply the existence of ones
individual dormant secondary consciousnesses vibrating together with
billions upon billions of nitya-baddha consciousnesses in theire jiva-
tatastha inactive state. Nothing Impersonal exists in the Goloka-
Vrndavana/Vaikuntha. It can only exist in that inbetween zone
separating Vaikuntha from the Mahat-tattva. Krishna as Vishnu only
kills and liberates demons in the mahat-tattva and their consciousness
enters into that effulgence separating the mahat-tattva and Vaikuntha.
Vishnu does not kill demons in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm
because they cannot exist there. All nitya-siddha devotees surrounds
and simultaneously emanates or radiates from Krishna's transcendental
body. Everything is personal; every so-called 'spark from Krishna's
effulgence' originates as sat-cit-ananda-VIGRAHA. Just as Krishna has
an eternal bodily form, so do ALL of his marginal living entities.
>From the view point of the mahat-tattva, the jiva-sakti (living force
or life force) may also fall from the tatastha conscious condition as
a spark of conditioned consciousness (jiva-bhutah transformation of
the life force or jiva sakti, from its dormant conscious state called
tatstha-sakti) however, from the bigger picture of creation outside of
the mahat-tattva, Srila Prabupada tells us we indeed make our way to
that tatastha conscious state in a previous creation.
Ones secondary conscious projection or extention of the life force
jiva-sakti, jiva-tattva or jiva-bhutah, can only manifest as a
spiritual spark AFTER going through the mahat-tattva. The jiva-sakti
is then called the Brahma-sayujya or tatastha condition of
consciousness situated as a single unit with unlimited others in the
Impersonal Brahmajyoti or Impersonal Brahman. The secondary creation
is a phenomena created by the dreaming Maha-Vishnu that gives a
reality to the non-Krishna conscious dreams of the vigraha devotee’s
in Goloka-Vrndava/Vaikuntha. Both the dreams of Maha-Vishnu and the
atma-vigraha devotee’s originate from the uninterrupted Spiritual Sky
(Krishna’s Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm) that has been a mystery
to even many great Vaishnava’s (devotee’s of Krishna) in the past.
The mahat-tattva is a secondary conscious manifestation
The mahat-tattva is a place in the creation where ones secondary
transmitted consciousness or life force (jiva-sakti) becomes confined
to and then active in ethereal and biological costumes. The tatastha
is a third manifestation of the life force or jiva-sakti (impersonal
or dormant state of the jiva-tattva’s consciousness). In both cases,
such conscious transformation is only ones lower conscious awareness
conditions that are both radiated or are transmitted from the first or
original sat-cit-ananda- VIGRAHA body in Goloka-Vrndavana.
This Krishna Conscious vigraha body is the perpetual constitution of
all marginal living entities as eternal servants of Krishna. This is
the correct understanding of how the marginal living entity within the
creation unfolds.
ONLY in this way does one's secondary consciousness appear to
originate as our own individual jiva-tatastha conscious-dormant
condition. Unfortunately this has been greatly misunderstood for many
hundreds of years in the Vaishnava tradition. Originally our dreaming
consciousness was transmitted to the mahat-tattva (not our perpetual
vigraha body), and given material (ethereal then biological) vessels
by Maha-Vishnu, then over billions of life times, ones conscious
awareness of their origins is forgotten so much so that that we begin
to believe our origins are from an Impersonal nature. This pollution
of Impersonal thought in the Vaishnava teachings has always lingered
and was strong in the 11th and 13th centuries. Now with the re
emergence of Vaishnavism around the world, it has started again, not
from the teachings A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who clearly
explains we all indeed did come from Vaikuntha, but by many of his
Godbrothers and God nephews.
The sun and its rays are one and the same qualitatively. Similarly,
the Lord and the living entities are one and the same in quality. The
sun is one, but the molecules and atoms of the sun's rays are
innumerable. The sun's rays constitute part of the sun, and the sun
and its rays conjointly constitute the complete sun. Within the sun
itself resides the form or vigraha of the sun-god and the sun rays or
molecules constitute the bodily vigraha devotee’s or inhabitants of
the sun planet that collectively illuminate within each of the
billions of solar systems within the mahat-tattva, similarly within
the supreme spiritual planet, Goloka Vrndavana, from which the
brahmajyoti effulgence or Krishna’s marginal bodily niya-siddha-
vigraha devotee’s are emanating, the Supreme Lord Krishna as His
transcendental Vigraha from, enjoys His eternal pastimes, as verified
in the Brahma-saḿhita (5.29):
cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaḿ
govindam ādi-puruṣaḿ tam ahaḿ bhajāmi
"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is
tending the cows fulfilling all desires in abodes filled with
spiritual gems and surrounded by millions of wish-fulfilling trees. He
is always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of
thousands of Lakṣmīs, or goddesses of fortune."
The brahmajyoti is described in the Brahma-samhita as the rays
emanating from that supreme spiritual planet, Goloka Vṛndavana, just
as the sun's rays emanate from the sun globe. Until one surpasses the
glare of the Impersonal brahmajyoti, Brahma-saujya or tatastha, that
lies in between the mahat-tattva and the Vaikuntha’s, and re-
establishes ones one’s ‘old’ Krishna Consciousness, one cannot receive
information of the land of the Lord.
The golden rule is to remember Krishna and never forget Him