Freedom!

The human form of life is the life of responsibility where one is responsible for his actions and where every action has a reaction. So that is there. But the human form of life offers us that freedom to choose, to choose for the Supreme Lord. That freedom is given to us and as soon as we take up this devotional service we become further empowered. The human form of life is already more empowered than the animal form of life – but when one takes up service to Krishna then we become empowered and with that empowerment we gain our freedom. Empowerment is what freedom is about…

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur is explaining that the jiva that is taking up devotional service is empowered witht the Cit and the Anand Shaktis. That is logical because the spirit soul who is the spiritual world in the condition of Sat Cit Ananda, eternity full of bliss and full of knowledge. But in this material world eternity is not attained. In this material world we are in a temporary situation, in a temporary body- but the other two: full bliss and full knowledge can be obtained within this material body.

Like that, one becomes empowered – this knowledge potency and this bliss potency – first to limited degrees but to ever increasing degrees, there is basically no limit to that.

It is there that we find our freedom!

(Kadamba Kanana swami, New Radha Kunda August 2010)

 

 

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