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From: Jyoti Pahuja <radhashyamsunder19@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:19:15 +0400
Subject: Reviving the pure consciousness
To: opriti <opriti@gmail.com>
Cc: Meena Masi <mreejsinghani@qlimg.com>

śrī-śuka uvāca
ātma-māyām ṛte rājan
parasyānubhavātmanaḥ
na ghaṭetārtha-sambandhaḥ
svapna-draṣṭur ivāñjasā
[Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.1]

Sri Sukadeva Goswami said: O King, unless one is influenced by the
energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no meaning to
the relationship of the pure soul in pure consciousness with the
material body. That relationship is just like a dreamer's seeing his
own body working.

Purport by Srila Prabhupada

Maharaja Pariksit's question as to how a living entity began his
material life, although he is apart from the material body and mind,
is perfectly answered.

The spirit soul is distinct from the material conception of his life,
but he is absorbed in such a material conception because of being
influenced by the external energy of the Lord, called atma-maya.

The external energy is controlled by the Lord, and the living entities
are controlled by the external energy — by the will of the Lord.
Therefore, although the living entity is purely conscious in his pure
state, he is subordinate to the will of the Lord in being influenced
by the external energy of the Lord. In the Bhagavad-gita (15.15) also
the same thing is confirmed; the Lord is present within the heart of
every living entity, and all the living entity's consciousness and
forgetfulness are influenced by the Lord.

Now the next question automatically made will be why the Lord
influences the living entity to such consciousness and forgetfulness?

The answer is that the Lord clearly wishes that every living entity be
in his pure consciousness as a part and parcel of the Lord and thus be
engaged in the loving service of the Lord as he is constitutionally
made; but because the living entity is partially independent also, he
may not be willing to serve the Lord, but may try to become as
independent as the Lord is. All the nondevotee living entities are
desirous of becoming equally as powerful as the Lord, although they
are not fit to become so. The living entities are illusioned by the
will of the Lord because they wanted to become like Him.

Like a person who thinks of becoming a king without possessing the
necessary qualification, when the living entity desires to become the
Lord Himself, he is put in a condition of dreaming that he is a king.
Therefore first the sinful will of the living entity is to become the
Lord, and the consequent will of the Lord is that the living entity
forget his factual life and thus dream of the land of utopia where he
may become one like the Lord.

The child cries to have the moon from the mother, and the mother gives
the child a mirror to satisfy the crying and disturbing child with the
reflection of the moon. All these stages are dreaming illusions only.
The fact is that as soon as he desired it, he was put under the
control of atma-maya by the direction of the Lord. Therefore the
living entity in his material condition is dreaming falsely that this
is "mine" and this is "I." The dream is that the conditioned soul
thinks of his material body as "I" or falsely thinks that he is the
Lord and that everything in connection with that material body is
"mine." This continues life after life, as long as the living entity
is not purely conscious of his identity as the subordinate part and
parcel of the Lord.

In his pure consciousness, however, there is no such misconceived
dream, and in that pure conscious state the living entity does not
forget that he is never the Lord, but that he is eternally the
servitor of the Lord in transcendental love.

In the one stage of human life the misconception is prominent in the
shape of "It is my body," "It is my house," "It is my family," "It is
my caste," "It is my nation," "It is my country,". And in another
stage of speculative knowledge, the same misconception of "mine" is
transformed into "I am," or "It is all I am," etc. But the real
significance of "I" can be realized only when one is situated in the
consciousness of "I am the eternal servitor of the Lord." This is pure
consciousness, and the whole Vedic literatures teach us this
conception of life.

So the science of bhakti-yoga, of worshiping the Lord, glorifying the
Lord, hearing the Srimad Bhagavatam from the right sources and being
always in the association of pure devotees, should be adopted in
earnestness to make one's life perfect.

--
The only way to counteract the effects of this age of Kali is chanting
the Holy Names of Lord Krsna. There is no other way. There is no other
way. There is no other way. (Brhan Naradiya Purana)
Chant and be happy - "Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare/
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare"

--
Yours
Dinesh

Reviving the pure consciousness