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Spiritual Affection and Variety

Spiritual Form and Spiritual Pastimes

He observed that a mere boy in Vṛndāvana, India, was accepted as the Supreme Lord and that He was performing He took away all of Kṛṣṇa’s calves and playmates and hid them. When Brahmā returned to Vṛndāvana after one year and saw the same calves and playmates still there, he could understand that Kṛṣṇa had expanded Himself by His unlimited potency into so many calves and boys every evening when their boys returned home from the fields, their affection for them increased more and

culture, one should leave home as soon as he has reached fifty years of age; one should not live at home and Sex is allowed for twenty-five years, between the ages of twenty-five and fifty. After that one should give up the habit of sex and leave home as a vānaprastha and then properly take Ajāmila, however, because of his association with a prostitute, lost all brahminical culture and became

In human society, the affection between a mother and her child is very much eulogized, but as we see, Unless the mother and child are affectionately connected, it is not possible for the child to grow up Parental affection is natural and necessary, but it does not raise one to the spiritual platform.

svarāṭ: The original source of everything must be supremely cognizant of everything, both directly and He is the supreme spirit, and He knows everything because He is perfect. We are also spirit – spiritual sparks – and as soon as a spiritual spark takes shelter in the womb of That means that the spiritual spark is the source of the body and all its mechanisms. And because we do not know, we are not God. But Kṛṣṇa knows.

A baby’s smile immediately attracts the father, mother, and relatives. The baby monkey entered the window through the bars, and the mother became very upset. Somehow or other we pushed the baby monkey out of the bars, and immediately the mother embraced the baby and took it away with her.

Still, some persons, called Māyāvādīs, are so disappointed and frustrated with the imperfect varieties of this material world that they imagine the spiritual world to be impersonal and without variety. The impersonalists have no information of the Vaikuṇṭha planets, and due to their imperfect knowledge

while Ajāmila thus spent his time in abominable, sinful activities to maintain his family of ten sons and The youngest child was a baby named Nārāyaṇa, who was naturally very dear to his father and mother.

When the sacrifice to Indra was stopped, he became furious and tried to punish the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana But Kṛṣṇa, a child of about seven years, immediately lifted Govardhana Hill and invited all the residents Kṛṣṇa held up the hill for seven days and nights without taking any food or rest, just to protect the

Ajāmila was a young man of twenty when he met the prostitute, and he begot ten children in her. his children were grown up, so naturally the youngest child, Nārāyaṇa, became his parents’ favorite, and

“When I come, I do not accept a material body; My birth and activities are completely spiritual. And anyone who perfectly understands this is liberated.”

The impersonalist philosophers cannot differentiate between activities in the material world and similar Nor do they differentiate between the material form and God’s form.

In this way the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam warns that if even great personalities like Brahmā and Indra can sometimes

So, God sometimes displays Himself as God and sometimes as a human being, but the rascal impersonalists Better that I cut off her head and save the expense of feeding her. everywhere,” the rascal Māyāvādīs think it is very palatable, but when He says, “Give up everything and They accept what is convenient and reject what is not.

This nonsense is going on, and both those who declare themselves to be God and those who accept them Anyone can claim to be God, and any foolish person can accept, but no one will benefit by serving a false

Ajāmila was nearly ninety, he was still enjoying the child’s playful pastimes, just as Mahārāja Nanda and

And the Vedānta-sūtra (1.1.2) says, janmādy asya yataḥ: “The Absolute Truth is the original source of The Absolute Truth is that which is the source of everything, the reservoir of everything, and the maintainer

His form is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1], a spiritual form full of eternity, bliss, and knowledge

Even Brahmā and Indra became bewildered. They thought, “How can this boy be the Supreme Lord?