The Jiva-soul: Its Origin, Nature, And Potentialities

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 and Krishna's marginal potency) with eternal devotional bodies, where as the less significant and smaller mahat-tattva cloud, also in that Spiritual Sky (perishable material universe only 1/4 of creation), as well as its impersonal escape, is nothing other than the rebellious dreams, thoughts and desires of just a few of those eternal bodily personalities. Such dreams, thoughts and desires are projected or transmitted as a 'secondary consciousness' to the mahat-tattva or temporary material manifestation, due to their desire not to be with Krishna as their devotional form or body. It is there within that mahat-tattva cloud the projected secondary consciousness, emanating from ones original perpetual body, becomes contained by ethereal and biological vessels provided by the presiding Deity of the mahat-tattva, Maha-Vishnu.

 

Krishna's subsidiary or marginal living entities make Him inclusive and all pervading like the sun and the sunrays, yet both Krishna and His marginal potency always remain individual persons as those original authentic perpetual person in/as transcendental bodies that is always who they really are for eternity.

 

In other words such spiritual bodies in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha 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.

 

The energy of Lord Krishna is divided into three: para, kshetrajna and avidya. The para energy is actually the energy of the Supreme Lord Himself; the kshetrajna energy is the individual living entities or the marginal potency of Krishna that are all originally eternal bodily persons like Krishna yet always in the constitutional position of eternal servants and the enjoyed, while Krishna is the enjoyer; and the avidya energy is the material world (mahat-tattva), under the influential control of Maya-Devi, the wife of the creator of the mahat-tattva, Maha-Vishnu.

 

Never was there a time when all the individual transcendental bodies (marginal potency, soul or atma-jiva-vigraha devotee's) did not exist, nor in the future will such original bodies cease to be. This is confirmed as follows –

 

'Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be' - Bhagavad-Gita as it is chapter 12 text 2.

 

Krishna or God is a perpetual 'Bodily-Person' and so are all of the individual marginal potencies (souls) that emanate/surround Him.

 

We hear from the Vedic texts that the Supreme Brahman or Brahmajyoti exhibits Krishna's (God's) effulgence, and therefore everything becomes illuminated. We can understand from Brahma-samhita that this Brahmajyoti, or the Brahman effulgence, emanates from the Personal body of Lord Krishna.

 

Many Vaishnava philosophers have considered this effulgence of bodily individuals or souls to be Impersonal however, all 'so-called sparks in the effulgence or souls' in Krishna's 'energy emission of rays' are actually the manifestation of unlimited individual bodily-personalities that are referred to as Krishna's marginal potency, sparks or jiva-atma-vigraha souls.

 

Even the terminology 'originally manifested' is incorrect because there is no beginning or end to Krishna or His marginal devotee's. One thing is certain; all living entities that enter the dark mahat-tattva cloud in the far corner of the Spiritual Sky have all originated from the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, not as their perpetual devotional Krishna Conscious body, but rather as a transformation of consciousness caused by non-Krishna conscious desires.

 

 

All marginal sparks, souls, jiva's, atoms in the effulgence, potencies, energies etc are all individual bodily personalities that originally manifested as an eternally Krishna (God) Conscious devotional body or sat-cit-ananda-vigraha. (Etenity, knowledge, bliss and form)

 

It is only when they (the marginal devotee's as their authentic devotional body) foolishly transmit a 'secondary conscious phenomenon' (jiva-bhutah) to the mahat-tattva (material universe), that such knowledge of their original service to Krishna in the transcendental body they really are, is temporarily lost (never severed due to their spiritual body being the source of their transmitted jiva bhutah consciousness) and the disease of Impersonalism (Mayavadism) and confinement to ethereal and biological vessels or bodies, overwhelms and traps their transferred secondary consciousness to the confines of the material temporary universe or mahat-tattva.

 

The unfortunate unknowledgeable view of believing our origins are from Impersonal origins even affects many great Vaishnava devotee's like Srila Bhaktirakshaka Sridhar Dev Goswami Maharaja, Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja Swami, B.G. Narasingha and many others in the Gaudiya Math. Many Vaishnava philosophers have considered this effulgence of bodily individuals or souls to be Impersonal however, all 'so-called sparks in the effulgence or souls' in Krishna's 'energy emission of rays' are actually the manifestation of unlimited individual bodily-personalities that are referred to as Krishna's marginal potency, sparks or jiva-atma-vigraha souls. Their understanding of the jiva or souls origins is simply incorrect. The fact is, we are all eternal person as a perpetual transcendental body and always have been that bodily form. We can either accept that Krishna conscious bodily origins, or we can deny that body and consciously transfer our desires, aspirations, dreams and thoughts to he mahat-tattva (impermanent material universe of self centered importance).

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Ultimately Krishna's 'marginal-potency-bodily personalities' are the Brahmajyoti!!

 

It is from all those perpetual bodily individuals forms (vigraha's), who are always engaged in various pastimes with Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana or Vishnu within the surrounding Vaikuntha planets, may sometimes go on to 'consciously' (never as the body they are eternally, that is their true selfless devotional unique self) leave Krishna's imperishable abode and enter the perishable mahat-tattva cloud within one corner of the Spiritual Sky in a secondary non-Krishna conscious state that automatically becomes an Impersonal phenomenon within the Brahmajyoti. Only in this way, via the mahat-tattva cloud, can the Impersonal Brahmajyoti temporarily exist.

 

All the 'individual bodily subsidiary sparks (vigraha's) of the effulgence originating from Krishna' are actually collectively the Brahmajyoti Brahman effulgence or Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha's bodily personalities serving Krishna.

 

The mahat-tattva on the other hand, is also part and the parcel of the Brahmajyoti, and comes into existence due the dreams of Maha-Vishnu (the parcel or energetic) and simultaneously the non-Krishna conscious desires, aspirations, thoughts and dreams of the marginal living entities (the part or energy) perpetually serving the either Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrndavana when they abandon that service. Without the part, (marginal) the parcel (Krishna) is not complete – without the marginal secondary transmitted consciousness emanating from the marginal living entities authentic bodily origins, Maha-Vishnu's dreams within the mahat-tattva and incomplete. Krishna and his marginal devotee's are inseparable even when his marginal servants choose even when His marginal servants choose to extend their consciousness to a secondary existence away from the full potentialities of their own original devotional bodily identity.

 

Because Krishna is the Supreme Personality of God and the cause of all causes, He anticipates such choices of His marginal energy (vigraha's). In other words, for Krishna to be complete, the marginal potency, including their secondary transmitted consciousness, actually make Krishna the absolute-whole or simultaneously one and different (acintya-beda-beda-tattva) It is because Krishna allows individuality, He knows in advance that some will choose to reject Him and their own Krishna conscious nitya-siddha-svarupa-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha body and apt for the secondary option which is the mahat-tattva or material universe.

 

For Krishna to be complete, He creates this secondary option via His Maha-Vishnu expansion (technically Maha-Vishnu is an expansion of Balarama who is Krishna's brother). The mahat-tattva is created ironically out of love for His marginal vigraha devotee's because He would rather they choice to love or serve Him than be like a slave or 'mindless' servant without free will. Therefore one can stay in Krishna's Autocratic Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm if they choose, or they can 'consciously' enter the impermanent mahat-tattva (never as their authentic bodily form as that body is perpetually part and parcel of the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky).

 

All of Krishna's marginal 'sparks' have the same bodily features like Krishna – sat-cit-ananda-vigraha.

 

The marginal potency or sparks emanating from the whole categorically means individual bodily personalities emanating and surrounding Krishna's Personal bodily form. Sometimes this is compared to a fire from whence those individual sparks come from. It's only a metaphor, a allegory, a figure of speech, Krishna is certainly not a blazing fire in His Ultimate self and bodily form and neither are the marginal individual bodily personalities impersonal sparks emanating from that blazing fire. Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is often referred to as the energetic, while His marginal servants are known as the marginal energies however, in both cases the original and ultimate appearance of both Krishna (energetic) and His marginal potency (energies) are always individual bodily personalities of Master (Krishna) and servant (marginal individuals called nitya-siddha-svarupa-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha eternal devotee's of Krishna). In other words every living entity (marginal potency) has an original devotional bodily form that is perpetually serving Krishna in unlimited pastimes within either Goloka-Vrndavana or Vaikuntha.

 

As explained, it is important to understand that Krishna's marginal potency bodily personalities are the Brahmajyoti!! It is from all those perpetual bodily individuals forms (vigraha's), who are always engaged in various pastimes with Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana or Vishnu within the surrounding Vaikuntha planets, that a secondary non-Krishna conscious phenomenon may sometimes 'consciously' leave or be projected from their Krishna conscious authentic original bodily self within the imperishable abode of Krishna (Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha). This is how the living entity (a secondary projected non-Krishna conscious self, enters or falls down to the perishable mahat-tattva cloud within one corner of the Spiritual Sky in a inferior non-Krishna conscious state that automatically becomes an Impersonal phenomenon within the Brahmajyoti existing in the mahat-tattva cloud.

 

Only in this way, via the mahat-tattva cloud (never as ones authentic body that can never leave Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm), can the Impersonal Brahmajyoti temporarily exist.

 

All the 'individual bodily marginal sparks (souls, jiva's, living entities or life force) of the effulgence emanating/surrounding Krishna, are actually collectively the Brahmajyoti Brahman effulgence or the Vaikuntha's that is eternally glowing with individual personalities in perpetual devotional bodies.

 

It must be given emphasis to, that the mahat-tattva, also part of the Brahmajyoti, comes into existence due to the dreams of Maha-Vishnu in partnership (the parcel and the part can never be separated) with the non-Krishna conscious desires, aspirations, thoughts and dreams of the marginal living entities perpetually serving in either Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrndavana, when they foolishly desire to be the master instead of the servant.

 

All of Krishna's marginal 'sparks, jivas' or souls' have the same bodily features like Him. Sparks emanating from the whole means individual bodily personalities emanating and surrounding Krishna's Personal bodily form that is compared to a fire from whence those individual sparks come from.

 

The terminology of sparks, energies, atoms in the effulgence, and potency are only metaphors, a allegories - a figure of speech, Krishna Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is often referred to as the energetic, while His marginal servants are known as the marginal energies however, in both cases the original and ultimate appearance of both Krishna (energetic) and His marginal potency (energies) are always individual bodily personalities of Master (Krishna) and servant (marginal individuals called nitya-siddha-svarupa-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha eternal devotee's of Krishna). >

 

In is way it is clear that every living entity (marginal potency) has/is an original devotional bodily form that is perpetually serving Krishna in unlimited pastimes within either Goloka-Vrndavana or Vaikuntha whether they are aware of who they really are or not.

The smaller mahat-tattva (material universes) phenomenon on the other hand is a dark perishable cloud, as shown above, that is also situated in the Spiritual Sky and surrounded by the superior Vaikuntha Planets that vastly out number the insignificant material universes within the mahat-tattva cloud. This dark impermanent cloud is a discoloration within the Spiritual Sky and is constructed for the mutinous desires, thoughts or dreams of those individuals who no longer wish to be with Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Krishna is the original Supreme Personality from whence all other individual perpetual bodily personalities (known as Krishna's marginal potency or energy) are sustained from. Krishna also expands Himself from His Personal Goloka-Vrndavana abode and takes up residents on the infinite number of Vaikuntha planets; however Balarama, Krishna's brother in Goloka-Vrndavana, appears as Sankarshana and is the origin of Maha-Vishnu who goes on and creates the mahat-tattva.

 

Lord Krishna, the original Godhead and cause of all causes, firsts expands as Balarama who resides with Him in His Personal abode. It is Balarama who creates and maintains the dark cloud (mahat-tattva) that is encircled by overwhelming presents of perpetual Vaikuntha Planets. It is within the mahat-tattva, the four-armed sleeping expansion of Balarama appears. He is known as Maha-Vishnu and is accompanied by His wife Maya Devi. Together they build, administer and create the facilities to fulfil the desires, thoughts and dreams of those who no longer yearn to remain in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm and who prefer to 'consciously' transfer their 'self-awareness' or secondary conscious state (jiva-sakti or jiva-bhutah) to Maha-Vishnu's mahat-tattva creation. One has to understand Maha-Vishnu's appearance in the mahat-tattva with great intelligence because the material energy is also emanating from Him. Maha-Vishnu is the original source of the impermanent material energy or mahat-tattva, just as the sun is the source of the sunshine. The sunshine cannot cover the sun globe, nor can the material energy, being an emanation from of Maha-Vishnu, cover Him. Maha-Vishnu is simultaneously within and without of the mahat-tattva, He is in the three modes of material energy, but actually the three modes of material energy cannot cover Him. The highly intellectual philosophers understand this. In other words, although Maha-Vishnu appears to be within the material energy yet is never covered by it.

 

Maha-Vishnu therefore provides the bodily vessels and their material surroundings that make the transmitted jiva-bhutah's desires a reality however, even though it is all-real, it is also temporary and for that reason the dreams of Maha-Vishnu are considered an illusion. All non-Krishna conscious dreams or disloyal thoughts of self importance are transmitted as the jiva-bhutah consciousness (the soul or life force) and then contained in outward ethereal or biological vessels (supplied by Maha-Vishnu) or may eventually, after many, many births and deaths, become silent in an impersonal inactive un-bodied liberated state that both belong to and are only achieved after ones secondary projected consciousness has entered the mahat-tattva (the impermanent material universal creation).

 

As explained, the non-Krishna conscious dream, seditious feelings and requirements of self-importance is expressed as a secondary conscious condition known as the jiva-bhutah consciousness which is transferred out of the imperishable Vaikuntha realm to the perishable mahat-tattva cloud phenomenon also in the Spiritual Sky. Then entire Spiritual Sky or creation is further known as the Brahmajyoti, as shown above.

 

Once the transmitted jiva-bhutah consciousness enters the mahat-tattva cloud, it is immediately contained in outward ethereal or biological vessels that belong to and are provided from within the mahat-tattva by Maha-Vishnu, or eventually, after many, many births of trying to enjoy those bodily vessels, the transmitted jiva-bhutah consciousness may discover the existence of an Impersonal inactive outlet state of consciousness (jiva-nikaya) if they continue to deny the Krishna Conscious bodily origins of their transmitted secondary consciousness transferred to the mahat-tattva from the outside Vaikuntha realm. The Impersonal condition, only found after going through the mahat-tattva in ethereal and biological vessels, releases one from being trapped in those impermanent decaying vessels. The jiva-nikaya condition of inactive consciousness is only achieved after one is impersonally liberated from those bodies by withdrawing into a dreamless, thoughtless and desireless condition of consciousness they foolishly believe is becoming one with God and the universe. Maha-Vishnu, the Over-Lord, facilitator and provider within the mahat-tattva or material universe, does also allowthe jiva-nikaya impersonalists to merge into His body but they certainly do not become Maha-Vishnu, they simply remain dormant there until Maha-Vishnu creates the next mahat-tattva manifestation. Such dormant jiva-nikaya dormant consciousnesses eventually fall down to the jiva-bhutah condition and become again contained in ethereal and biological vessels provided by Maha-Vishnu.

 

Both states of consciousness, namely the active embodied jiva-bhutah consciousness that is confined to ethereal and biological vessels, as well as the 'play-acting imaginary oneness with the universe, whichis actually just an inactive condition of individual consciousness called the jiva-nikaya liberated position, are both only attained after first 'consciously' entering the mahat-tattva from 'the outside surrounding Vaikuntha planets' where ones perpetual Krishna Conscious bodily form exists. The so-called dormant jiva-nikaya dreamless condition, where ones consciousness isindividuallymerged into the 'supposed Impersonal Brahma-sayujya or Impersonal Brahmajyotiis actually no more than just a consciously non-active place or reality within the mahat-tattva creation where ones secondary consciousness, that changes from the active jiva-bhutah condition to the inactive jiva-nikaya condition, remains dormant. This Impersonal stationary condition is not full of an unlimited number of individual 'inactive' jiva-nikaya, it is all those transmitted jiva-nikaya consciousnesses congregated together that are the stationary effulgent Brahma-sayujya or Impersonal aspect of the Brahmajyoti.

 

The Impersonal Brahmajyoti is Krishna's individual marginal perpetual bodily personalities or potency in their secondary conscious manifestation that only exists for those who travel first through the mahat-tattva. As they persist to enjoy the material universe on their own terms and ignore, not only Krishna, but also their original personal devotional bodily identity and continue to arrogantly refuse to accept the existence of Krishna and there own original body, they will continue on being embodied by ethereal and biological vessels until they become fed-up with such impermanent vessels. It is then they seek an inactive solution because their only memory of being active in a bodily form always ends in pain and suffering because they cannot see their genuine bodily origins beyond the mahat-tattva cloud. In this way the Brahma-sayujya and impersonal Brahmajyoti condition is ultimately, after first existing in those frustrating ethereal vessels covered by biological bags of bones and stool, achieved as a relief from the temporary painful nature of those vessels confined to the mahat-tattva. Finding liberation from those vessels is how the Brahma-sayujya and Impersonal Brahmajyoti manifest.

 

This dormant secondary conscious condition of the marginal potency is transmitted as the individual sparks that is the Impersonal Brahmajyoti, Brahma-sayujya. Such dormant Impersonal consciousness can also merge into the Body of Maha-Vishnu, yet at no stage does such transmitted inactive projected consciousness loose its individuality. All these aspects of Impersonalism are actually a state of 'motionless individual consciousness' that can only first exist in a unmoving state after first eventually emerging or withdrawing from the confines and shackles of ethereal and biological vessels within the mahat-tattva. These Impersonal states of liberation can only be achieved after millions of births and deaths of attempting to end the 'thought process of material desires' that confine ones transmitted consciousness to ethereal and biological vessels that belong to and are part and parcel of the mahat-tattva.

 

The great Impersonalist yogis struggle very hard to achieve their freedom from Karma, or attempting to shed the ethereal and biological vessels or bodies the transmitted forgetful consciousness is restricted to. If the Impersonalists do not realize their true authentic Krishna Conscious bodily origins or source from whence their consciousness originates, then the only way to be free from the ethereal and biological containers is inactivity and cessation of thoughts, desires and dreams - an extremely difficult task. Only when one no longer desires or attempt to enjoy the impermanent material universe or mahat-tattva in ethereal and biological vessels, can they then achieve the difficultly attained Impersonal liberated state by freeing themselves from karma, good and bad. It is then that the inactive jiva-nikaya consciousness individually merges either into the collective Impersonal compilation, where numerous other inactive individual jiva-nikaya consciousnesses are situated or even worse, attempt to merge into the Transcendental bodily form of Maha-Vishnu which is a most regrettable selfish ignorant act to the Vaishnava's or Krishna's devotees.

 

All Impersonal aspects of existence are only made possible by first travelling through the mahat-tattva impermanent cloud when ones secondary consciousness becomes free from the ethereal and biological constraints however, even the merging into the Brahma- sayujya, Impersonal Brahmajyoti or the bodily form of Maha-Vishnu, is temporary. As already emphasized, the Impersonal Brahmajyoti or Brahma-sayujya is only attained after one first enters the mahat-tattva after being consciously transferred from their perpetual original and authentic body in Goloka-Vrndavana or the Vaikuntha's. Such Impersonal liberation is only attained after one first 'consciously' abandons their original perpetual Krishna Conscious body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, and then after entering the mahat-tattva and chasing desires, dreams and thoughts of self importance and grander, further abandons the ethereal and biological vessels one has 'consciously' transferred too in order to achieve their independence from Krishna's Personal association.

 

This is what His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the founder of the International Society or Krishna Consciousness means when he says:

 

"Because he falls down from Brahma-sayujya (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.

 

This is an important revelation at a time (the beginning of the 21^st century) when even so-called advanced Guru's and Swami's in Vaishnava traditions like the Gaudiya Math, foolishly mislead others to believe their origins are from the Brahma-sayujya, Impersonal Brahmajyoti or Tatatra-sakti. All these states of impersonal consciousness are only attained after first passing through the mahat-tattva or creation of Maha-Vishnu.

 

 

Srila Prabhupada in his lectures always says that originally we were all Krishna-conscious living entities and on the Hare Krishna album He addresses a large audience with the words: "We are all originally Krishna conscious entities . . ."

 

Srila Prabhupada further explains: -

 

"Regarding your questions concerning the spirit soul's falling into Maya's influence, it is not that those who have developed a passive relationship with Krishna are more likely to fall into nescient activities. Usually, anyone who has developed his relationship with Krishna does not fall down in any circumstances, but because the independence is always there, the soul may fall down from any position or any relationship by misusing his independence. But his relationship with Krishna is never lost. Simply it is forgotten by the influence of Maya, so it may be regained or revived by the process of hearing the Holy Name . . ." Letter to Jagadish, 4.25.70

 

"A living entity misuses his little independence when he wants to lord it over material nature. This misuse of independence, which is called Maya, is always available. Otherwise, there would not be independence. Independence implies that one can use it properly or improperly." Srimad Bhagavatam 3.31.15

 

Only after many births confined to ethereal and biological containers or bodies within the mahat-tattva, does one eventually no longer desire to be 'consciously extended' to those bodies and contained in those impermanent vessels or bodies of suffering and despair within the smaller inconsequential mahat-tattva cloud or material manifestation. It is Impossible for such inactive consciousnesses to exist in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha domain (3/4 of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti) or within the active dreams of Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva.

 

It must be emphasized that such an inactive state of consciousness is generally only attained after first being consciously transferred (Not in ones original genuine Krishna Conscious body because ones perpetual bodily form never leaves Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha) to the mahat-tattva cloud and only then after 's one's authentic perpetual bodily identity is outside the mahat-tattva, and the frustration with ethereal and biological vessels one has taken shelter of for so long, does one seek out the Impersonal solution. Such an inactive state of individual consciousness (jiva-nikaya) and its motionless quiescent place called the Impersonal Brahma-sayujya and the Impersonal Brahmajyoti can never exist in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti that takes up 3/4 of Krishna's Creation. Such mysterious non-Krishna conscious impermanent realities exist only because of the mahat-tattva dark cloud that is created by Maha-Vishnu for those who do not wish to be with Krishna.

 

Unlike the projected jiva-bhutaha relocated consciousness, the ethereal and biological vessels are eternally part and parcel of the mahat-tattva (the impermanent material universal creation). Such vessels within the mahat-tattva are only obtained after ones extended secondary consciousness first enters the mahat-tattva, which is a dark existent (real but temporary) impermanent cloud where the four-armed expansion of Balarama, (Krishna's brother) the dreaming Maha-Vishnu, and His wife Maya Devi (an expansion of Lakshmi) resides and manages, as shown above.

 

Unfortunately it also appears many scholars are getting Krishna's Goloka-Vrndavan/Vaikuntha permanent Spiritual sky mixed up with Maha-Vishnu's impermanent mahat-tattva.

 

The biological human body is a garment provided by Maha-Vishnu that is made up of billions of other embodied jiva-bhutah's each at different stages of evolving from a single cell through to complex organs on their path of evolving back to the biological human form. Human biological existence on the middle planetary systems is not possible without the complex existence of lower life forms. Biological life can only be sustained within the mahat-tattva have 'feeding' off other biological bodies; this will be fully explained in later chapters. To enter into the lower biological species in the first place, the embodied jiva-bhutah conscious had fallen (a further fall down) from the biological human platform. The biological human body is achieved (covers or further contains the ethereal vessel) after falling from the heavenly sub-space universe. The heavenly planets are achieved after one abandons their service to Krishna in the Goloka-Vrndavana, or Vishnu in the Vaikuntha's, by consciously (not as their true bodily form and identity) leaving Vaikuntha and entering the mahat-tattva cloud as already explained. The ethereal vessels in the sub-space heavenly and hellish realms can never be proved as an existence by means of the biological human body and the secular gross material facilities surrounding the human biological body, no-matter how scientifically or technological advance our human society becomes.

 

The five realities achieved or realized in the mahat-tattva are – 1. The transcendental abode of Maha-Vishnu, Vishnu in the Vaikuntha's or Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana, that is only realized as one awakens from their secondary relocated consciousness and realizes whom they really are serving Krishna 'outside' of the mahat-tattva.

2. The sub-space subtly refined heavenly and vulgar hellish material universes where the jiva-bhutah consciousness is constrained in ethereal bodies.

3. The secular-space middle gross material universes where the ethereal vessel is further restricted in a biological container.

4. The hard and awkward liberation from both those vehicle constraints, where the jiva-bhutah amends into a 'dormant' transformation called the jiva-nikaya motionless consciousness which becomes (not enters) as another individual inactive consciousness (tatastra-sakti) and part and parcel of the Brahma-sayujya or Impersonal Brahmajyoti.

5. Merging (as an individual dormant consciousness) into the body of Maha-Vishnu either by choice or forced to at the time of annihilation of the material universes.

 

Where there is life, then there is either an embodied jiva-bhutah moving those single celled biological organisms, or they may also be moved by Maha-Vishnu's all-pervasive aspect. This happens all through the mahat-tattva, from Brahma down to the amoeba. In other words, if no embodied jiva-bhutah is available to fill those 'posts' within the mahat-tattva, then Maha-Vishnu expands Himself to 'fill in the gaps' in order to facilitate those few who have abandoned their service to Krishna by 'consciously' leaving their unique Krishna Conscious perpetual jivatma-vigraha body.

 

Due to that choice, the jiva-bhutah consciousness foolishly takes shelter within the mahat-tattva dark cloud. Within this dark cloud or material manifestation, there only exists the phenomenon of decay, impermanence and forgetfulness, even on the opulent heavenly planets within the mahat-tattva where one can live in an ethereal vessel for tens of thousands of years, which is the goal of Jews, Christians, Muslims and some schools of Buddhism, the heavenly planets are only temporary. These frustrating impermanent qualities do not exist outside the mahat-tattva in the surrounding Vaikuntha Planets. To achieve the mahat-tattva, one does not have to first forget Krishna, no, that is not possible in the Vaikuntha realm, forgetfulness only comes after entering the mahat-tattva.

 

One chooses to leave Krishna which simultaneously means they leave behind, in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha, their perpetual unadulterated body that is their genuine self simply because they want to enjoy existence on their own terms without Krishna. This is only achieved through conscious projection or teleportation. (Many Vaishnava's are not familiar with the many terminologies in this book however, if we are to correctly understand the origin of the jiva soul, then such terminologies are necessary for explaining that we all originate from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha) 

 

Due to the perpetual nature of the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha's, ones original body is always there even if one has 'consciously' extend themselves to the mahat-tattva. For the purpose of allowing the choices of His marginal potency-jivatma-vigraha devotee's, Krishna has created the mahat-tattva cloud via His Maha-Vishnu expansion. In this way, be it in the Vaikuntha's or the mahat-tattva, Krishna is the only provider.

 

The biological bodily garments (8,400,000 of them) cover the ethereal vessel, which contains or embodies the transmitted jiva-bhutah or jiva-sakti-secondary relocated consciousness. As already explained but needs to be emphasized, this transferred jiva-bhutah secondary consciousness originates from ones authentic perpetual bodily-self (nitya-siddha-svarupa-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha) that eternally exists in a loving servitor relationship with Krishna in either Vaikuntha or the more intimate Goloka-Vrndavana Kingdom of Radha, Krishna and Lord Chaitanya and their expansions and associates. 

 

The extension of consciousness, transmitted from ones eternal Krishna Conscious body, or ones authentic, original and genuine bodily appearance, that is often referred to as the so-called marginal sparks or atoms in the effulgence, is only transferred (as a secondary self-centered consciousness) from ones perpetual bodily self to the containments of ethereal and biological vessels in the mahat-tattva (the dreams of Maha-Vishnu) when one wants to enjoy existence separately from Krishna. This choice is given to all marginal living entities in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha (vigraha's) because without it there can never be genuine love or service?

 

Always chant Hare Krishna for the purpose of always remembering Krishna and to further gradually reawaken ones 'old dormant original' Krishna Consciousness, then these seemingly inconceivable topics can easily be understood regardless if one is a fallen rascal who previously selfishly and insensitively exploited the material world around them due to the diseased conditioned of their biological vessel, caused by the individual embodied soul's (life force or jiva-bhutah's entrapment within ethereal and biological containments) accumulation and crushing build-up of an overwhelming avalanche of Karmic reactions!

 

Srila Prabhupada and Lord Chaitanya (the most merciful combination of Radha and Krishna) have come to save such delinquent souls from their accretion and devastating massive karmic backlog that is like an overpowering flood forcing one in the opposite direction to where they are trying to swim! Such souls have forgotten they have all been transferred as the jiva-bhutah consciousnesses that have emigrated to the mahat-tattva as a secondary consciousness that was originally transmitted from their authentic innovative perpetual Krishna Conscious bodily form outside of the confines of ethereal and biological vessels. Such impermanent vessels are the part and parcels of the mahat-tattva. In this way one's eternal consciousness does not belong to the mahat-tattva or the ethereal and biological vessels one is presently housed in.

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Srila Prabhupada, the great pure devotee of Lord Chaitanya (the most merciful combination of Radha and Krishna) have come to save such delinquent souls and finally direct them back home back to Godhead.

 

Once there was an old man and a young boy who were travelling with a donkey.  The young man was leading the donkey and the old man was riding on the donkey.  When they passed through a small village, some of the townspeople yelled abuse, "Look at this old man taking advantage of this poor young boy!  What a rascal!"  After they had passed through the village, the old man said, "We had better swap over, otherwise they will abuse us in the next village."  So then they swapped with the old man leading and the young boy riding.  But in the next village also they got criticized, "Look at this selfish boy, taking advantage of his grandfather.  He should let the old man ride on the donkey."  So then they both got off and led the donkey, but in the next village the people yelled out, "Look at these two stupid people!  They have a donkey, but they are choosing to walk instead!"  Then the old man concluded. "Actually, it doesn't matter what you do, most people will always be critical anyway.'
 

There are two kinds of sayujya-mukti: merging into the Brahman effulgence and merging into the personal body of the Lord. Merging into the Lord's body is even more abominable than merging into His effulgence. According to the opinion of the Mayavadi Vedantists, the living entity's ultimate success is to merge into the impersonal Brahman after being liberated from ethereal and biological vessels inside the dreams of Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva cloud.

 

Krishna is the source of both the Personal Goloka-Vrndavana realm and the less significant Impersonal mahat-tattva cloud.

 

The impersonal Brahman, or bodily effulgence of the Maha-Vishnu within the mahat-tattva, is known as Brahmaloka or Siddhaloka. According to the Brahma-samhita (5.40), yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti: the material universes are generated from the bodily rays Maha-Vishnu. Some Impersonalist Yogis accept the form of Maha-Vishnu yet want to merge into the transcendental body of the Supreme Lord. That is their desire, however this is only possible within the mahat-tattva. Being the creator and facilitator of the mahat-tattva, Maha-Vishnu can easily allow many millions of living entities to merge their transmitted jiva-nikaya consciousness into His body. The origin of everything is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan, and Maha-Vishnu is his expansion within the mahat-tattva, His bodily effulgence is known as the brahmajyoti, Brahmaloka or Siddhaloka. Thus Brahmaloka or Siddhaloka is a place where the jiva-nikaya 'inactive' consciousness appears as sparklike and in total denial of their original authentic bodily form outside of the mahat-tattva cloud.

 

This jivatma-vigraha bodily Krishna Conscious form is the authentic constitutional position of all of Krishna's marginal potency or energy.

 

Because these living entities dare to enter the mahat-tattva cloud and eventually do not wish to keep their individual existences due to the despair, frustration and suffering they experience in ethereal and biological vessels provided by Maha-Vishnu within His the dreams, they are combined individually together and allowed to remain in Brahmaloka like so many atomic particles of sunshine emanating from the sun. Such a condition of the inactive motionless transmitted conscious state is not possible outside the domain of the mahat-tattva cloud (where the perpetual Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha aspect of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti exists)

 

The word siddha is very significant. Siddha refers to one who has realized the Brahman effulgence from the confines of their ethereal or biological vessel within the mahat-tattva. The word siddha means they have achieved complete knowledge, only after many, many births, realising the living entity is not a material atom, but a spiritual spark, however Impersonalist yogis and transcendentalists, including many advanced Vaishnava's, still do not recognize the fact that the 'spiritual spark' or consciousness is originally transferred to the mahat-tattva as the jiva-bhutah consciousness, this is why such projected consciousness has no substantial form or substance, therefore their siddha realization is incomplete. This is because it is a secondary conscious condition transmitted from ones authentic body in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha. This means they are only realizing they are not the ethereal and biological vessels and are yet to recognise the transcendental bodily source of that secondary marginal projected conscious counterfeit self. This inactive conscious state achieved after passing through the 'dreams of Maha-Vishnu' is described in the Bhagavad-gita as brahma-bhuta. Those who realize the self, or become brahma-bhuta, are only preparing themselves for the platform of joyfulness. That joyfulness can be actually re-established only when one comes into contact with Krishna.

 

In the ethereal and biological conditioned state, the living entity is known as jiva-bhuta, or "the living force within those containers." Brahma-bhuta living entities are allowed to stay in Brahmaloka or Siddhaloka within the mahat-tattva, but unfortunately they again fall into the material world because they are not engaged in devotional service. After all, their inherent nature, like their authentic body their secondary consciousness is transmitted from, is meant to always be active. This is supported by the verse in Srimad-Bhagavatam beginning ye 'nye 'ravindaksha. (Bhag. 10.2.32) These semi liberated souls falsely claim to be liberated, but unless one engages in devotional service to the Lord, he is still materially contaminated. Therefore these living entities have been described as vimukta-maninah, meaning that they falsely consider themselves liberated although their intelligence is not yet purified enough to recognise the Krishna Conscious bodily source of there present condition Although these living entities undergo severe austerities within ethereal and biological vessels to rise to the platform of Siddhaloka, they cannot remain there perpetually (that is only possible outside of the mahat-tattva), for they are bereft of ananda (bliss). Even though these living entities attain the brahma-bhuta stage and realize Maha-Vishnu through His bodily effulgence, they nonetheless fall down due to neglecting the Lord's service. They do not properly utilize whatever little knowledge they have of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Not attaining ananda, or bliss, they come down to the material world to enjoy again in the confines of ethereal and biological vessels or bodies.. The devotees of Krishna who are gradually reawakening their 'old' Krishna Consciousness and who are gradually withdrawing their transmitted consciousness back to ONES Krishna Conscious bodily source, consider such a falldown equal to achieving a place in hell.

Technically there is no structure to the individual jiva-soul in its manifestation within the illusionary dream world of the material universe (mahat-tattva) because it is only transmitted consciousness. It is simply 'dreaming projected consciousness' moulded by NON-Krishna Conscious thoughts, desires and eventually karma. There is no difference between desires, thoughts and actions on the absolute level, therefore such dreams are a real reality yet are temporary. Unlike the perpetual Vaikuntha realm, the mahat-tattva is perishable. If one projects their consciousness to the mahat-tattva, then they enter a temporary universe governed by past, present, future, decay birth and death. We call that 'projected transmitted consciousnesses', the life force or soul in English. The Vedas call the life force the jiva, jiva-sakti or jiva-bhutah among a few and explains how the jiva (soul) enters the impermanent material universe.  Those non-Krishna Conscious thoughts first begin simultaneously, the consequences of this is forgetting Krishna and ones real eternal Krishna Conscious Krishna Conscious atma (self)-vigraha (form) body.  

 

There is no difference between desires, thoughts and actions on the absolute level.

 

After 'consciously' leaving the Kingdom of God (Krishna), the transmitted jiva-soul-consciousness becomes covered by its own generated ethereal body, moulded by non-Krishna Conscious desires and thoughts, eventually the ethereal body further generates a biological body, this is where the distinction between desires, thoughts and actions begin to manifest and Karma begins to exist. This is very difficult to understand, what is written here in 'THE SECRET BOOK OF ORIGINS', is how this happens and is also the correct understanding of what the jiva (life force) is and where it originates. The Sanskrit word jiva in this thesis means transmitted consciousness that originates from its eternal individual Krishna Conscious atma (self)-vigraha (form) foundation in Krishna's perpetual abode. Lord Krishna's eternal Kingdom is known as Goloka-Vrndavana, or the Kingdom of God.  Some scholars call the atma-vigraha body, the jiva or atma however, to make this book easier to understand, the Sanskrit word JIVA refers to the transmitted forgetful consciousness that emanates from the eternal and never changing Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body that is always serving Krishna (God) in Goloka-Vrndavana.  

 

The forgetful Krishna Consciousness of the individual atma-vigraha personalities in Goloka-Vrindavan is called the televised transmitted jiva (Sanskrit word for life force) soul (English word for life force) consciousness that reverberates sub-conscious thoughts of non-Krishna Conscious origins (desires) that broadcast the realism-dream-state-illusion of the impermanent material universe" Pradyumna Swami

 

Chapter 1

 

THE JIVA-SOUL: ITS ORIGIN, NATURE, AND POTENTIALITIES

 

The Kingdom of God (Krishna) is an Eternal Personal Active Loving Devotional abode of unlimited pastimes that is forever lasting and never aging. Krishna's marginal potency or energy are eternal servants known as the atma- (self)-jiva- (soul)-vigraha (unending form) transcendental body (the soul's real spiritual Krishna Conscious self and form). All marginal bodily individuals can never fall down to the material universe nevertheless; it does not mean one can never fall down from their perpetual bodily self.

 

How is this paradox possible when one can never fall down, yet also fall down?

 

How this happens is through a secondary conscious transformation that is activated when one no longer desires to be with Krishna. Such fall down is only 'consciously' feasible by means of a transformative capability made achievable by a secondary conscious version of the self that is transmitted from ones original authentic body and out of the Vaikuntha realm and the projected into the mahat-tattva cloud. Remember, during this transformation of consciousness, ones perpetual Krishna Conscious atma-jiva-vigraha body always remains in its original devotional position within the Vaikuntha's or Goloka-Vrndavana and can ever never fall down. The secondary conscious lower self is transmitted as consciousness called the jiva-bhutah or jiva-sakti consciousness. This secondary consciousness is an extension of one's real perpetual self and form that is eternally serving in Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrndavana and only manifests or comes into existence when one denies their original Krishna Consciousness.

 

When the light of Krishna Consciousness is there, this dark sub-conscious version of the self (jiva-bhutah) cannot exist however, when such dark consciousness does exist, one can longer see whom they really are serving Krishna.

 

As emphasized, one never falls down as their permanent devotional Krishna conscious nitya-siddha-svarupa-sat-cit-ananda-jivatma-vigraha–bodily form. As soon as one desires to enjoy or take pleasure in their existence separately from Krishna, they are only sub-consciously transferred to the mahat-tattva or material impermanent manifestation where they can shape, carve out and choose their own ethereal and biological vessels and destiny that are all provided within the mahat-tattva by the dreaming Maha-Vishnu. In this way it must be clearly understood that ones secondary projected consciousness is the jiva-bhutah or jiva-sakti lower self, which is only activated when one no longer wants to serve Krishna in His perpetual Kingdom in their perpetual bodies in either Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrndavana.

 

When we foolishly deny who we are as Krishna's eternal servant, then struggle against our devotional inheritance or nature, uncertainty develops and cause our 'now limited jiva-bhutah conscious awareness' to become covered by ethereal and biological bodies or vessels that impound our consciousness (jiva-bhutah) within the restricted realms of the mahat-tattva. Eventually, after many births, we loose control over who we have imagined ourselves to be within the mahat-tattva. In our continual search for happiness; we frantically possess millions upon millions of different ethereal and biological bodily identities and personalities however, non of them gives us permanent pleasure because of the impermanent nature of the material universe or mahat-tattva.. 

 

The natural eternal constitutional position of 'ones 'authentic bodily self' (atma-jiva-vigraha Krishna Conscious bodily form) is forever engaged in an infinite number of pastimes and relationships serving Krishna. Nitya-siddha, or our eternal constitutional marginal condition of servitude or loving selfless unconditional devotion to Krishna, is the ultimate natural, original and perpetually nature of ones innovative active Krishna Conscious state. Such a Krishna Conscious condition is our genuine bodily form or self that is forever dedicated to devotional selfless service to Krishna and His pure devotees.

 

Our atma-jiva-vigraha perpetual Krishna Conscious body represents what permanence, perpetual and eternity means – no beginning, no end and never decays or changes yet at the same time there are always unlimited transcendental changes and devotional adjustments going on within unlimited pastimes that are illimitable active in the present, beyond the concept of past and future, birth or death.

 

The Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha (the supreme imperishable Kingdom of God) feature of the Spiritual Sky exists in the majority of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti (3/4 of the creation). It is a place where past and future does not exist because everything there is imperishable and exists always in the eternal present beyond our material understanding of time and space.

 

Only within a dark cloud (1/4 of creation) that is also existing in Spiritual Sky (Known as the mahat-tattva or material universe) does impermanence, past, present, future, birth, death, suffering, impermanence and forgetfulness exist and always moving in cycles, i.e., the cycle of birth and death, the cycle of Yugas or ages, the cycle of the climatic seasons etc. These qualities of decline and regeneration do not exist within the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm. Only within Lila-rasa or the mellows of ones personal pastime with Krishna, does eternal farsightedness exists in diverse behavioural ways of outward manifestations (relationships) and 'seasons of seemingly change' according to rasa (pastimes with Krishna and His devotees) that never needs regeneration because it never ages or fades.

 

The atma-jiva-vigraha devotee's are sometimes referred to as marginal spiritual sparks and Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead however, both are distinct as individual Persons, atma-vigraha devotees or Purushas meaning "Individual Persons" with bodily form in the sense of a conscious spirit. Both God (Krishna) and the individual spirits (atma-jiva-vigraha devotee's) are purushas, but Krishna is the Adi (Original, exemplary) Purusha, Parama (Highest) Purusha, and the Purushottama (Best of the Purushas or atma-vigraha bodily personalities), and Krishna the Supreme Atma-Vigraha or Purushas.

 

The finite atma-jiva-vigraha devotee's are always subservant to Krishna or His various expansions including Maha-Vishnu who is the provider and facilitator of the material manifestation or mahat-tattva. Krishna is their provider in all aspects of existence even when they 'consciously' (or transmitted consciousness that is called the jiva-bhutah or jiva-sakti) choose to leave Vaikuntha and enter the material universe or mahat-tattva where Maha-Vishnu provides the ethereal and biological vessels that facilitates the jiva-bhutah's or jiva-sakti's non-Krishna conscious desires.  In the Vedas and Puranas all Persons as their marginal identity are distinct individuals with a perpetual bodily form that is the authentic identity of the 'so-called' spiritual spark, so for Vaishnavas, it is not difficult to understand the eternal personal existence of the finite jivatmas (atma-vigraha devotee's) in relationship to the infinite Deity Paramatma (Lord Krishna) is always personal and ones original constitutional position is an eternal bodily person eternally serving Krishna.

 

Such Lila's or pastimes although, can change in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha feature of the Spiritual Universe in ways that can only be understood as one genuinely re-awakens their 'old' and original Krishna Conscious bodily identity and withdrawal their extended transmitted secondary consciousness (jiva-bhutah) from the confines of ethereal and biological vessels ensnared within the material universe (mahat-tattva). And even then, after withdrawing from the dream of Maha-Vishnu (the Over-Lord and facilitator of the mahat-tattva) and giving up the ethereal and biological containers at their root cause, which is the desire to enjoy separately from Krishna, can one again take up their original position in the Kingdom of God (Krishna).

 

Along these lines ones projected jiva-bhutah consciousness is eventually withdrawn or again re-established back as ones Krishna Conscious real self or atma-jiva-vigraha body as the dust of material desires are cleared from the mind and replaced with memories of ones real self serving Krishna. Even then, when re-established as ones real self, the ways of Krishna's devotional perpetual Kingdom will always be inconceivable and remain a mystery.

 

In other words, even though one has an original nitya-siddha-svarupa-atma-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha or atma-jiva body, still the entire creation will remain a forever expanding creation, not with living entities (atma-jiva-vigraha devotees) for they have always been and there was never a time when they did not exist. The forever-expanding creation is due to the forever expanding pastimes of Krishna and His expansions that will always eternally remain a mystery.

 

Srila Prabhupada states in his teachings of Lord Chaitanya referring to the living entity (jiva-bhutah consciousness) entrapment in the material manifestation (mahat-tattva): -

 

'The living entity is eternally part and parcel of God, when he is liberated from the impermanent material manifestation; he revives his original, eternal, part-and-parcel bodily identity. The realization of aham brahmasmi ("I am not this biological body") does not mean that the living entity loses his identity. At the present moment a person may consider himself to be matter, but in his liberated state he will understand that he is not matter but spirit soul, part of the infinite. To become Krishna conscious or spiritually conscious and to engage in the transcendental loving service of Krishna are signs of the liberated stage'.

 

Every living entity (Krishna's marginal potency) has an original nitya-siddha-svarupa-sat-cit-ananda-atma-vigraha body they can realize if they remain Krishna Conscious, or can never realize when not Krishna Conscious. The meaning of these Sanskrit words are: -

 

Nitya-siddha - Everyone (all living entities or the marginal potency of Krishna) has a perpetual nitya-siddha higher self or Krishna conscious body that can never fall or leave Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha.

 

The fall down (forgetting Krishna) state is not a bodily plunge, it is a conscious descend downwards to the lower self or unconscious dream setting where one's 'thoughts' enters and creates the holographic dimension of the material delusional universe, such creations are not factually created by the jiva-bhutah transmitted consciousness, even though one may think they are creating such facilitates due to forgetfulness of who they really are and Krishna the cause of all causes. In actual fact all the dreams, thoughts and desires of the transmitted secondary self are built into a secondary reality within the mahat-tattva by Maha-Vishnu.

 

Nitya-siddha refers to ones original Krishna Conscious body or higher personified self personified that is always there in bodily form in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha (Gods Kingdom) even when ones dreaming jiva-bhutah consciousness, or lower self is projected into the material universe of dreams, or further transformed into the jiva-nikaya stage or non-dream state that happens after the embodied jiva-bhutah becomes frustrated with the impermanent nature of its material hallucinations, that, from the viewpoint of the Vaikuntha's, are no more real than a mirage in a desert. However on this absolute level, all dreams, hallucinations, thoughts and mirages are real but temporary because the mahat-tattva or material universe does temporarily exist in the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti.

 

Eventually the jiva-bhutah's ethereal and biological containments that trap the transmitted life force or secondary consciousness in the material-interactive condition of existence in the mahat-tattva, withdrawals from the confines of those bodily vessels and the dreams of Maha-Vishnu, withdrawing to the jiva-nikaya inactive non-ethereal, biological and material condition. This is just another change of consciousness, altering one illusion for another, an active sub-consciousness (material activities), to an inactive sub-consciousness (Impersonal Brahman or Brahmajyoti that exists outside the dreams of Maha-Vishnu but still within the confines of the mahat-tattva.). They are both an illusion (real but temporary) and only exist in sub-conscious dreams transmitted from the Nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha body to the mahat-tattva as either the jiva-bhutah or jiva-nikaya condition while totally unaware of the atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body.

 

Due to the nature of eternal time and the permanence of the Spiritual universe or Personal Brahman or Brahmajyoti, past, present, future, space and time that can only exist within the mahat-tattva cloud within the Spiritual Sky, are amalgamated as an everlasting event with no beginning or no end. Everything in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha eternally happens in the present. This confirms that ones original atma-jiva-vigraha body is always in Goloka-Vrndavana, even if one is sub-consciously off somewhere else in some imaginary dream. That dream world or non-Krishna conscious mahat-tattva is the material universe and comes under the phenomena of past, present, future, time, space, ethereal vessel, biological vessels, impermanence, forgetfulness, birth, disease, old age, death

 

Siddhasvarupa - One's Krishna Conscious unique, original and servitor personal relationship with Krishna that is eternally in Goloka-Vrndavana even if one has turned their back on Krishna and experience existence through their lower self as the sub-conscious transmission of non-Krishna conscious desires or thoughts, where one imagines themselves as many different forms with many personalities, still their real transcendental state of Krishna Consciousness and relationships with Krishna, His internal plenary individual expansions and His devotee's (other nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha's) is always in Goloka-Vrndavana, regardless if ones dreaming consciousness has entered the abstract universe of shadows known as the material universe. It is therefore clear that ones original eternal relationship is always with Krishna, even while one is dreaming other things and has forgotten their atma-vigraha body from where the illusionary dreams are transmitted. One can only be re-awakened, after previously 'choosing to deliberately leaving Goloka-Vrndavana', when one is again Krishna Conscious. It is impossible to understand whom one really is in Krishna Lila (pastime) while still absorbed in the sub-conscious-jiva bhutah or jiva-nikaya projected hallucinations.

 

Sat  - Krishna Conscious eternity beyond time and space, past, present and future.

Cit - Krishna Conscious Knowledge.

 

Ananda - Krishna Conscious bliss.

 

Atma - (soul's higher self, personality and individuality) – Krishna Conscious self, identity, and personality (also atma can mean jiva however, in this thesis, the jiva (soul's lower self) is the sub-consciousness of the full conscious atma (the souls higher self) and is called the jiva-bhutah that is the transmitted dreaming consciousness that creates the material illusion. The non-Krishna Conscious jiva-bhutah-sub-consciousness only exists when one is not Krishna Conscious, just as darkness cannot exist when the light is on.

 

Vigraha - Soul's Krishna Conscious eternal form and is the atma's individual eternal identity and personality

 

Ones inability to remember Krishna while trapped in the jiva-bhutah sub-consciousness is due to attachment to the lower self. This addiction to counterfeit bodies and identities are shaped by the jiva-bhutah-sub-conscious determination to satisfy their self-interest of being determined to enjoy like Krishna, replacing service to Krishna with service to the imaginary self. In this way, the shadow of the Krishna Conscious atma-jiva-vigraha body becomes that imagined self and is called the jiva-bhutah-sub-conscious non-Krishna conscious condition. This shadow of ones self is only interested in pursing self-centered sensual gratification (lower-self addicted to ethereal, biological and material life or non Krishna conscious dreams) that creates what we call the material universe where one can forget Krishna for almost an eternity if they want.

 

The Brahmajyoti or Brahman is held together by form and is the entire creation where Goloka-Vrndavana, the Vaikuntha's (imperishable) as well as the mahat-tattva (perishable) exist. What anyone does within the mahat-tattva, it is like acting out a role in a play

 

Generally nitya-siddha among Vaishnava's means one never falls to the conditioned living entity stage, known as the jiva-bhutah non-Krishna dreaming conscious condition, which is the sub-conscious lower self (nitya-baddha or eternally conditioned state) that is oblivious to their full Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body in Krishna's perpetual Kingdom.

 

The lower conscious self (jiva-bhutah) is always in the nitya-baddha condition of comatose consciousness that can only actively manifest within the perishable material universal dream. Therefore, more or less, their understanding is correct however, even though the nitya-siddha atma-vigraha bodies never fall down from Krishna's Personal Kingdom, the introverted dreaming conscious state 'within' which is called the nitya-baddha jiva-bhutah, can be generated as consciousness from ones real self or nitya-siddha atma-vigraha bodily form.
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Even though ones original body can never fall down from Krishna's perpetual Kingdom, it is possible, due to free will, one can enter a trance like insignificant (real but temporary) consciousness and forget that unique blissful nitya-baddha form and 'consciously fall' (not as ones uninterrupted bodily form) to the nitya-baddha eternally conditioned state. This is similar to forgetting the biological body while sleeping and dreaming.  In simple terms, the atma-vigraha body, or higher conscious awareness in the form of ones real bodily form serving Krishna in the Kingdom of God, is eternally liberated (nitya-siddha) and can never fall down, where as the lower conscious self, manifested as a multiple dreaming bodily identities and forms within the material universe or mahat-tattva, is eternally conditioned (nitya-baddha) and is always in that state.

 

Every living entities original individual bodily devotional form (marginal potency of the Lord) in Krishna's Abode is always eternally there because of the perpetual and imperishable nature of His Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky or Abode.

 

This clearly means all of us have an eternal individual form and relationship that is always with Krishna in His everlasting Abode that is forever there and has always been there, even though from time to time, we maybe consciously unaware of this everlasting fact of creation due to our selfishness and egocentricity that create our independent dreaming secondary consciousness that is transferred to the material universe, or nitya-baddha forgetful condition of impermanent existence.

 

This is not difficult to understand if you chant the Hare Krishna Maha-mantra, the recommended sacrifice for this age of Kali-yuga. The various Vedic texts tell us that the Kingdom of Krishna is an eternal active place of boundless pastimes where nothing perishes. Everything in Krishna's Abode is always eternally there because of the perpetual and imperishable nature of His Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky or Abode.

 

As already mentioned and must be constantly emphasised, this means all of us have an eternal form and relationship that is always with Krishna in His everlasting Abode that is forever there and has always been there, even though from time to time, we are consciously unaware of this unending reality due to our forgetfulness and fantasies that create our mirage like insignificant secondary consciousness (real but temporary) that transmits 'the thoughts one wants created' to the material universe in the jiva-bhutah condition consciousness known as the nitya-baddha proviso of existence within the mahat-tattva (material universe).

 

In a straightforward way of trying to understand this, all of us dream when we sleep, similarly to the dreams we have in our biological body or vessel. The non-Krishna Conscious thoughts, convictions or 'dreams' manifest a separate dreaming version (that is real but temporary) of the self. Keep in mind on the absolute level, unlike the mundane biological level; ones thoughts or dreams are as real as their atma-jiva-vigraha body, with a major difference, such counterfeit bodily creations and their surroundings are temporary and therefore cannot exist within the same space that all their perpetual bodies exist in (namely Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha).

 

In this way such temporary creations or thoughts are expelled from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha perpetual aspect of the Spiritual Sky by ones own selfish independent desires and transferred to a far distant place in the Spiritual Sky set aside for such temporary thoughts, creations or desires. This place of 'the dreaming' is called the mahat-tattva.

 

A basic instance of how one selfishly desires to be served like Krishna, instead of serving Him, causing one to be bewildered and thus consciously falling from their perpetual body into a secondary forgetful state of consciousness, is when one is awake in their biological body, or when one is dreaming in that body, it is still the same 'self' existing on two completely different levels of consciousness at the same time. One as the biological body, the other as dreamed up fantasies that the body is dreaming that appear real while they are sleeping. In a comparable way, ones dreams or thoughts as the secondary jiva-bhutah consciousness create a separate reality within the mahat-tattva (material universe) that is real but temporary.  

 

In this way the thoughts of ones lower self are unlike the illusionary unreal dreams one has while their biological body is sleeping, that are illusionary and not real. This is only an analogy and it does not mean the biological understanding of dreaming causes our existence in the material universe. There is a difference, ones dreams within Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha are non different from reality or actions. However if one has non-Krishna Conscious thoughts, dreams or desires, they cannot experience those thoughts, desires or dreams in the perpetual Kingdom of Krishna. To experience such self-centered dreams and desires their consciousness is extended to the mahat-tattva or material universe. In this way, ones secondary consciousness (jiva-bhutah) is transferred to within the confines and restrictions (being contained in ethereal and biological vessels) of mahat-tattva when one is unaware of their real original identity and form (The atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body).

 

Another way of understanding the paradox of the eternal liberated state (nitya-siddha) and the eternally conditioned state (nitya-baddha) simultaneously existing at the same time, is within a large building the basement is always at the bottom and the penthouse suite is always at the top. When one is in the penthouse, that does not mean the basement does not exist, it is always there at the bottom of the building.

 

In the same way, both the nitya-baddha and nitya-siddha condition exists eternally and at the same time, it just depends on which condition of consciousness one is in. The nitya-siddha atma-vigraha condition is one's real Krishna conscious bodily form, while the nitya-baddha condition is illusion and the concoctions of non-Krishna conscious desires. The Srimad-Bhagavatam also tell us that the Kingdom of Krishna is a timeless energetic abode of boundless pastimes where nothing ever perishes which confirms one has an eternal body that is always there. Everything in Krishna's Abode is always everlastingly there because of the uninterrupted and enduring nature of His Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Spiritual Sky or domicile.

 

As already explained, this means all of us (all marginal living entities) have an eternal shape, form, body and connection that is forever with Krishna in His everlasting Abode which is infinitely eternal even though from moment to moment, we may choose to consciously deny of this everlasting reality due to our desire to experience existence separate from Krishna. Only then, after that choice is made, does forgetfulness enter the equation where ones fantasies of independent grandeur is created by our dreaming secondary consciousness that transmits one to the material universe (mahat-tattva) or nitya-baddha forgetful condition of existence as the jiva-bhutah teleported conscious condition.

In a familiar way, when one is awake in their biological body, or when that body is asleep and one is dreaming, it is the same 'self' existing on two completely different levels of consciousness, one as the biological body, the other as dreamed up fantasies that appear real while they are dreaming. In a similar way, ones dreams or thoughts create a separate reality that is real but temporary (unlike the illusionary unreal dreams one has while their biological body is sleeping) and only exists within the mahat-tattva cloud that is the creation of Maha-Vishnu. Ones consciousness is only transferred there when one is unaware (due to self centered desires) of their real original identity and form (The atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body).

 

A rudimentary illustration of this is when one is alert in their biological body, or when that body is sound asleep and dreaming, it is the matching 'self' that is active on two completely diverse echelon of awareness, one as the biological body, the other as hallucination or flights of the imagination that emerge as authentic and real while one is identifying with their biological dreaming thoughts. In a comparable way as previously explained, 'ones dreams or thoughts from the absolute level create a separate reality that is real but temporary'. Such thoughts therefore are not hallucinations because on this level they are real. Keep in mind that on the absolute level thoughts, dreams and actions are all equal however, thoughts or dreams that are not Krishna conscious cannot stay in the Vaikuntha realm and they are therefore transferred (not as ones perpetual nitya-siddha-svarupa-atma-vigraha-body) to the mahat-tattva or material universe as transmitted consciousness or the non-Krishna conscious lower-self.

 

This separate reality or lower consciousness is an extension of one's-self (atma-jiva-vigraha) and is real yet subject to forgetfulness and bewilderment due to the desire to be away from Krishna and no longer depend directly on Him through pure unalloyed unconditional loving devotional service. Ones consciousness then falls to the conditional state of consciousness called the jiva-bhutah non-Krishna conscious active state of awareness. In this state one still depends on Krishna via His Maha-Vishnu expansions however, they are mostly unaware of this fact and foolishly believe they directly and alone create their existence and destiny within the confines of the mahat-tattva or material universe. This 'individual lower self' is transferred to the mahat-tattva and exists as trapped consciousness within ethereal and biological bodies within the impermanent reality of the mahat-tattva or 'material universal dream that is under the jurisdiction of Krishna's Brother Balarama in His Maha-Vishnu form'. The material universes' within the mahat-tattva are the dreams of the sleeping Maha-Vishnu.

 

This jiva-bhutah state of consciousness can again further transform to the jiva-nikaya inactive condition of awareness, also within the theatre of Maha-Vishnu's material illusionary universe or apparition, which is a dark cloud of 'the dreaming' that is in one corner of Krishna's Personal Spiritual Creation or Brahmajyoti. This Brahmajyoti/Brahman is effulgence full of unlimited individual devotees as their real body serving on unlimited Spiritual Planets, called Vishnuloka's that surrounds/emanates from the body of the Supreme Lord in His Personal Abode called Goloka-Vrndavana Planet.

 

Insert Painting of a Cowherd boy who turns his back on KRISHNA only for a moment. The inattentive thoughts of the cowherd boy devotee as his nitya-siddha eternally liberated body makes him not only forget Krishna, but also forget his cowherd boy perpetual nitya-siddha-atma-jiva-vigraha body he serves Krishna as. Like in a conscious trance or dream of amnesia, the non-Krishna desires force one to follow the directions of those thoughts as the jiva-bhutah consciousness and transforms into the dreaming illusion trapped in ethereal and biological bodies within material existence and experience repeated birth, disease, old age and death (the nitya-baddha eternally conditioned conscious state).

 

Even though similar to the dreams one has in their biological body, the dreams transmitted by ones real bodily self (atma-vigraha) are real because the mahat-tattva is a real and takes up a quarter of the Personal Creation, Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti. The difference between the Vaikuntha's and the mahat-tattva is the Vaikuntha's are imperishable while the mahat-tattva, except for Maha-Vishnu and His plenary expansions, are perishable and everything their goes through a cycle of creation and annihilation or decay and re-construction.

 

Also within the mahat-tattva exists a phenomenon left over from the presents of the embodied jiva-bhutah consciousness when enthralled in transitory decomposing biological vessels. These fossilized remains, or the accumulation and build-up of matter (all matter devoid of life is the left over phenomenon from the presents of life) accumulates and expands as lifeless universes of death (fossilized matter) that the embodied jiva-bhutah attempts to mould into their home or abode. This 'matter' is therefore Krishna's inferior energies making up the impermanent suns, moons, solar systems, galaxies and universes within the mahat-tattva.  In contrast, within the Goloka-Vrndavan/Vaikuntha realm, everything is living, permanent and has eternal form, therefore Krishna's inferior energies (lifeless matter) does not and cannot exist there in Goloka-Vrndavan/Vaikuntha. This understanding of the 'dreaming' as real is a crucial realization because of the Mayavadi belief it is all illusion.

 

The word sarva-gata ("life is everywhere") means the living entities, or rather the jiva-bhutah consciousness; take shelter after being contained in ethereal and biological, just about anywhere that can support life within the mahat-tattva however, as previously explained, there are barren planets where only lifeless matter exists. Modern science cannot understand what is barren and what isn't. For example, on the Moon and the Sun exist heavenly realms that our biological body cannot see. In fact the biological body and its technological material extensions, like the Hubble Telescope or the Electron Microscope, cannot view the sub-space universe where ethereal vessels, that contain the jiva-bhutah consciousness, exist. Ethereal bodies, also known as ghostly bodies, subtle bodies or Brahma-bhutah's, can be viewed by some embodied jiva-bhutah's on the secular platform contained in their biological vessel nonetheless, they can never prove what they personally sense through anything biological or such bodies gross material surroundings. Philip Adams is a journalist in Australia and he has offered $1000, 000 to prove the existence of Ghosts. For the reasons explained above, no one will win those million dollars because nothing biological or the material dimension that biological container functions in can prove the existence of the sub-space world.  Technically the jiva-bhutah can exist anywhere however the vessel the transmitted consciousness has been contained in within the mahat-tattva cannot survive everywhere, especially the biological vessel. Keep this in mind when reading the following quote from Bhagavad-gita as it is - 2.24

 

This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting; present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.

 

All these qualifications of the atomic soul (referring to size) definitely prove that the individual soul is eternally the atomic particle of the spirit whole, and he remains as small as an atom with an eternal bodily form eternally, without change. The theory of monism is very difficult to apply in this case, because the individual soul is never expected to become one homogeneously. After liberation from material contamination or mahat-tattva, the atomic soul (jiva-nikaya transmitted consciousness) may prefer to remain as a spiritual spark (jiva-nikaya) in the effulgent rays of the Supreme Personality of Godhead on the outer edges of the mahat-tattva, but the intelligent souls or jiva-bhutah consciousness will re-enter back into the spiritual planets to again associate with the Personality of Godhead in their original bodily form. The word sarva-gata ("all-pervading") is significant because there is no doubt that living entities are all over God's creation. They live on the land, in the water, in the air, within the earth and even within fire. The belief that they are sterilized in fire is not acceptable, because it is clearly stated here that the soul cannot be burned by fire. Therefore, there is no doubt that there are living entities also in the sun planet with suitable bodies to live there. If the sun globe is uninhabited, then the word sarva-gata — "living everywhere" — becomes meaningless. The Vaishnava's say the mahat-tattva or material universe (the dreams of Maha-Vishnu) is real but temporary and that's why the material universe is referred to as an illusion. It appears for a time then disappears. In other words, in a million years from now Melbourne or Sydney will seem as if it never existed. The same principle applies to the biological vessels our consciousness possesses. Such a fading of reality does not exist in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm. This is the difference between ones dreams in their biological body and the overview dreaming of the transmitted jiva-bhutah consciousness that has entered the mahat-tattva and possessed ethereal and biological vessels.  The problem is, due to the power of Maya Devi's sakti, they both seem as real as each other.

 

The other three quarters of the Spiritual Sky, unlike the mahat-tattva, never decays and is a perpetual real place of unlimited relationships with the two-armed form of Krishna on His central Goloka-Vrndavana planet, or the four-armed Lord Vishnu on the surrounding Vishnuloka Planets (also there are more names of Vishnu or God than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on all the planets within all the universe's that exist within the Mahat-tattva).

 

The Impersonalist yogis, jnani's or Impersonalist philosophers are known as Mayavadi's, they see the universe as unreal and a dreaming illusion. Their understanding is incorrect. The Vaishnava's see the material dream in a completely different way than the Mayavadi's, who offensively believes Krishna is also part of their illusionary dream.

 

The Impersonalists and Mayavadi's cannot understand there are two different forms of reality, ones real (the Vaikuntha's that they cannot perceive because they have no love or devotion to Krishna) while the other is also real (the mahat-tattva or material universe), but temporary.

 

The bona fide eternal dominion of Krishna's Personal creation is the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti where Krishna's marginal nitya-siddha-atma-vigraha devotees serve in Goloka-Vrndavana and the Vaikuntha planets and not within the mahat-tattva as some 'Hindu' sects believe. Why worship the form of Maha-Vishnu whose duty it is to directing the fallen souls (transmitted jiva-bhutah consciousness) to the labyrinth or ethereal and biological bodies (path ways) so they can express their freedom to exist in a non-Krishna conscious condition? Why not just worship Krishna the creator of Maha-Vishnu?  

 

Also within the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti exists a dark cloud known as the mahat-tattva (material universes), this place is real but subject to decay and is therefore transitory. In this book the word 'dream' is used to describe the secondary fallen non-Krishna conscious condition of the atma-jiva-vigraha when transmitted as consciousness (jiva-bhutah) to the mahat-tattva.

 

Even on the impermanent heavenly planets within the mahat-tattva, ones thoughts and dreams are as real as ones actions however, on our middle earthly planet, it is not like that due to the gross biological containment, which is a further layer of energy, generated by the jiva-bhutah consciousness within the mahat-tattva, that covers the ethereal (subtle body) vessel and suppresses ones ability to manifest thoughts or dreams as actions.

 

The subtle body (ethereal vessel) is the original incasement of the jiva-bhutah 'dreaming' consciousness when first entering the mahat-tattva or material universe. This ethereal body only subsists within the heavenly and lower planetary systems (Explained in more detail on page ?) within the mahat-tattva. Both bodies are considered shekels covering the jiva-bhutah consciousness, which is originally transmitted from ones innovative position and individual body within Krishna Lila (on the perpetual Spiritual planets).

 

In this way of thinking, the material universe is the invented figment of the non-Krishna Conscious self that is transmitted as thoughts of selfish dreams to the mahat-tattva (inferior energies or the place where lifeless matter exists) when one's consciousness is no longer Krishna Conscious, or aware of their own Krishna Conscious body.

 

Although only similar to one's dreaming creations while the biological body is sleeping, the jiva-bhutah phantasm becomes their new self, transmitted as dreaming visions that are real but temporary to the dark cloud in the Spiritual sky that is under the jurisdiction of the dreaming Maha-Vishnu. This dark cloud within one corner of the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti is for those who deny their original Krishna Conscious bodily self and live within their own dream creations. In this eternally condition state (nitya-baddha), one is unable to distinguish reality from illusion due to being unable to remember their real perpetual bodily origins in the dynamic blissful active Krishna Conscious service in Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha Kingdom.

 

This is how enviousness of Krishna transports one 'consciously' (not one's perpetual body) into the impermanent 'dream' universe managed not directly by Krishna, but by the dreaming Maha-Vishnu who is an expansion of Balarama, the Brother of Krishna (the first plenary expansion of Krishna). In this way Maha-Vishnu's dream within the mahat-tattva are simultaneously the 'imaginings or non-Krishna conscious thoughts or dreams' transmitted as a secondary consciousness from ones perpetual atma-jiva-vigraha body from either a Vaikuntha planet or even Krishna's Goloka-Vrndavana central planet.. These non-Krishna conscious dreams, desires or thoughts manifest as ones lower conscious self while neglectful of Krishna and ones unending nitya-siddha-svarupa-atma-jiva-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha original authentic body (the factual permanent self). The embodied jiva-bhutah consciousness (soul or life force) is the sub-conscious condition active in the material universe or mahat-tattva. The mahat-tattva is constructed, maintained and offered as an alternative existence to the secondary lower consciousness of one's authentic self when one no longer wants to be with Krishna.

 

The jiva-nikaya (inactive) is the jiva-bhuta's (active) transformation to the immobile dormant state of consciousness situated in the Brahma-sayujya (Impersonal Brahmajyoti) This inactive state of individual consciousness, original broadcasted from ones perpetual Krishna conscious bodily form, as previously emphasised, is also facilitated or made possible by Maha-Vishnu on the outer edges of the Spiritual Sky via His mahat-tattva creation. This Impersonal condition of the lower self, or the sub-conscious conditions of the atma-vigraha personified bodily consciousness, is an already existing dream state originating from outside the mahat-tattva and only further transformed into a non-dream state after being Impersonally liberated from the confines of ethereal and biological vessels. 

 

The transmitted individual secondary consciousness, projected as dreams, thoughts and self centered desires including 'inactive desires, dreams and thoughts', originally emanate from ones innovative bodily form in the Vaikuntha realm. The imperishable Vaikuntha's surround the dark mahat-tattva cloud and is a perishable creation for the dreaming secondary consciousness of every 'marginal personality'. All living entities (jivatma-vigraha devotee's) have the conscious choice to remain actively serving Krishna as their full conscious perpetual personality (atma-vigraha body), or be submerged with non-Krishna active impermanent dreams that simultaneously enters/creates (in conjunction with Maha-Vishnu the provider) the material universe or mahat-tattva.

 

As previously explained, an example of this is when one is awake in their biological body, or when that body is asleep and one is dreaming, it is the same 'self' existing on two completely different levels of consciousness, one as the biological body, the other as dreamed up realities of self importance that appears real while they are dreaming yet fades away as insignificant when one awakes. In a similar way, 'ones dreams or thoughts create a separate reality that is real but temporary' (unlike the illusionary unreal dreams one has while their biological body is sleeping) and only exists within the mahat-tattva when one is unaware of their real original identity and form (The atma-vigraha Krishna Conscious body). This altered state of consciousness, from being aware of ones fully devotional physical permanent conventional underlying Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body, to forgetting that bodily self and falling into an absent-minded stupor (dream), only to disregard ones authentic atma-vigraha body, is called the jiva-bhutah stage of consciousness. This transformation of consciousness, where one's awareness changes from recognizing authentic perpetual reality (their own Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body), to being captivated by ones dreaming illusions, is instigated by the choice and free will to either always remember and serve Krishna, or 'consciously' turn ones back on Krishna.

 

In this way, the jiva-bhutah sub-conscious dreaming projections of non-Krishna Conscious 'thoughts and self centered desires', originates and is only transmitted (exists) while one is not Krishna Conscious and aware of their original continual bodily source or atma-vigraha source.  This sub-conscious jiva-bhutah status generates their own holographic illusory situation in the material universe that is built for them by Maha-Vishnu; it is never their eternal Krishna Conscious atma-vigraha body that enters the apparition-impermanent dream of material existence or mahat-tattva. In this manner, one's sub-consciousness can continue on for almost an eternity transmigrating from one vessel to another, provided by Maha-Vishnu, until one gets fed up existing in bodily vessels that always grow old, diseased and decay to the point they are no longer fit for the jiva-bhutah consciousness to remain in.

 

If one still denies the existence of their authentic perpetual body outside the mahat-tattva, from whence their dreaming secondary consciousness is transmitted from, then they will continue on being entangled in different dreaming levels of sub-space (ethereal bodies) and secular space (biological bodies) only to eventually attempt or achieve the yogic cessation of thought known as the inactive quiescent state of consciousness called the jiva-nikaya (impersonally liberated condition) that exists in a dormant state within the Brahma-sayujya or Impersonal Brahmajyoti. This active and inactive dreaming condition is facilitated by Krishna's expansion known as Maha-Vishnu.

 

Only the individual part and parcels (marginal perpetual bodily identities) of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are subject to the dual levels of consciousness explained here and never Krishna or His unlimited inner circle plenary expansions. Even great souls like Naradha-Muni, who is an individual atma-vigraha (marginal bodily form), knows he is also subject to the temptations of the lower self because he can also choose between the higher Krishna Conscious real self or the lower sub-conscious dream self. Naradha Muni sets the example that the only way to remain conscious of one's full identity, body, personality and individuality is to always be Krishna Conscious. In this way Krishna always protects him from illusion. See the story of Nardha Muni and the village girl on page 97

 

Q<span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-AU">. In the material world we are always accompanied by the Supreme Lord in the form of Paramatma, (an expansion of Maha-Vishnu within His dreaming cosmos or material creation) is this also the case in the Spiritual Sky?

 

A. No, not exactly. The Paramatma feature of Godhead is an expansion of Maha-Vishnu and only accompanies those who have consciously forgotten their real position as servant of Krishna as their original perpetual body in the Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha realm, or as their eternal original bodily Krishna Conscious atma-jiva-vigraha form. The feature Paramatma is the overseer of the jiva-bhutah/jiva-nikaya consciousness or lower self while trapped in the Impersonal mahat-tattva or material universe or the Impersonal liberated condition of inactive consciousness within the Brahma-sayajyu.

 

Q. Is it correct to say that Maya sakti; the wife of Maha-Vishnu (She is the influence of material energy and illusion that only exists within the dreams of Her Husband, Maha-Vishnu that are simultaneously the dreams of the jiva-bhutah transmitted consciousness) can extend her influence in the tatastha region of Brahmajyoti?

 

A. No, Maya has no influence in the Personal or Impersonal Brahman/Brahmajyoti. The Personal Brahman is the effulgence of Krishna's Personal body. That effulgence, which is unlimited living entities in their real form of servitude, spread throughout the Spiritual Sky, starting off from Goloka-Vrndavana and spreading outwards to unlimited Vishnuloka planets. In one corner of that Brahmajyoti sky, where all the Vaikuntha planets exist, is a dark cloud called the mahat-tattva (the material universe). In that cloud is also the abode of Maha-Vishnu who, unlike Krishna in Goloka-Vrndavana and Vishnu in he Vaikuntha planets, is lying down and sleeping and in that sleep he dreams and in those dreams exist the material illusionary universe that is father controlled by Maha-Vishnu's wife, Maya. Her Sakti can only influence those whose dreams are materially motivated. Outside and surrounding Maha-Vishnu's sleeping transcendental body exists the casual ocean that is the peripheral realm of his dreaming, but still under His jurisdiction within the dark cloud. It is there; within the proximity of the causal ocean, the Brahma-sayujya or the Impersonal aspect of the Brahmajyoti exist inside the cloud cover within the personal Brahmajyoti yet beyond the influence of Maya-saki and the dreams of Maha-Vishnu.

 

In the Personal Brahmajyoti Spiritual Sky, all atma-jiva-vigraha souls are the parts and parcels of that Sky and are eternally engaged in service to Krishna or Vishnu, when they choose to reject that service, they also have to consciously leave their atma-jiva-vigraha body behind in the fullness of the Personal Brahmajyoti and consciously enter the darkened realm of the Spiritual Sky that resembles a dark cloud where those independent desires and even Impersonal desires of a dormant consciousness are fulfilled.  That dreaming universe of Maha-Vishnu is also in the Brahmajyoti, but is in a place where their original atma-jiva-vigraha bodily form cannot enter. This is because it is a universe where the Brahmajyoti (the atma-jiva-vigraha's original bodily form) does not exist as its full effulgence. This is because lower-self consciousness is in a dreaming state of awareness due to its forgetfulness of its original position serving Krishna. The dark cloud within the Brahmajyoti therefore has swallowed their forgetful conscious condition within the creation of the dreaming of Maha-Vishnu. This fall down to the universe of 'the impermanence and dreaming' is due to the atma-jiva-vigraha's dreaming non-Krishna conscious condition. The only way to enter the dark cloud where Maha-Vishnu dreams is by also forgetting ones original atma-jiva-vigraha body and enter that dark cloud in complete forgetfulness of Krishna and His abode. It is only within the realms of that dark cloud resting obscurely within the Brahmajyoti alongside all the eternal effulgent Vaikuntha planets, that both the material existence and its Impersonal escape exist, both illusions cannot exist within the personal Brahmajyoti, even though technically, everything is the Brahmajyoti.

 

Q. Where exactly is Brahmajyoti located in relation to Maha- Vishnu?

 

A. The Brahmajyoti is all-pervasive and made up of /is individual bodily personalities. The Goloka-Vrndavana central planet of the Brahmajyoti or Spiritual Sky is surrounded by the perpetual Vaikuntha planets however, also in the Brahmajyoti or Spiritual Sky there exists a dark cloud (mahat-tattva) in the midst of all the eternal Vaikuntha planets yet unlike the Vaikuntha domain, this small dark blimp in the Brahmajyoti is impermanent because it is not always their in the Spiritual Sky or Brahmajyoti. Even when it does exist, every vessel (ethereal and biological containments) the visiting jiva-bhutah consciousness is provide with in order to exist within this cloud, is effected with time, past, present, future, forgetfulness, birth, disease, old age, death, impermanence and decay. On the other hand, the original nitya-siddha-svarupa-atma-jiva-sat-cit-ananda-vigraha body is ones unique authentic devotional body one is in their eternal relationships with Krishna that is eternally outside the restricted limited insignificant realm known as the mahat-tattva

 

Everything is part and parcel of the Brahmajyoti, the marginal potency, is always held together by individual form that is who each individual 'spark of the whole, is.

 

In other words just like Krishna has an eternal bodily form, so does all His expanded marginal energies that are His effulgence surrounding and emanating from Him, the cause of all causes. Just like there can be no sun without the sun rays, Krishna cannot be complete without His marginal potency or individual personalities
 

The mahat-tattva is also part of the Brahmajyoti but is a place where one's projected secondary consciousness goes when they desire to enjoy without Krishna. To achieve those self centered mistaken desire, they also 'consciously' abandon their personal brahmajyoti effulgent individual perpetual atma-jiva-vigraha body.