Guest guest Posted April 7, 2002 Report Share Posted April 7, 2002 A great devotee sees everything in relation with Krishna. This material energy is a creation of the external potency of the Lord, therefore a devotee knows that everything in the material world is work of Krishna as He controlls everything. However this does not mean that Krishna is this external energy, maya. Krishna is Krishna , although He is within every atom of the universe as the supersoul, He as the original personality is always residing in His private residence planet, Govinda. Although He is present in the universe He as a person does not have to come in the universe to make it work because that is done automatically by His external energy. There is a difference between Krishna Himself and the external potency, maya. Maya is a creation of the Lord, maya is not the Lord. A great devotee easily sees the difference and therefore does actually feel the seperation of the Lord because he knows that he is within maya although he does see it the creation by Krishna. A great devotee is always waiting for a darshan from the Lord when He has reached the higher stages of devotional service. When the Bhagavata Gita mentions that a devotee sees everything in relation with Krishna, that is absolutely correct, because everything is working under Krishna's instructions. Also the devotee does feel the pangs of seperation that is also correct because he is in the material world and he wants to meet Krishna personally. So both statements in Bhagvata Gita & Sikshastakam are correct they do not contradict and they should be taken as they are as do not overlap each other in its meaning. I hope I make sense In the service Lord Krishna Yagnesh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 7, 2002 Report Share Posted April 7, 2002 On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Yagnesh Rajani wrote: > A great devotee sees everything in relation with Krishna. Lord Caitanya gave this oft-cited instruction to Ramananda Raya (Cc. Madhya 8.276): sthavara-jangama dekhe, na dekhe tara murti | sarvatra haya nija ista-deva-sphurti || "The maha-bhagavata, the advanced devotee, certainly sees everything mobile and immobile, but he does not exactly see their forms. Rather, everywhere he immediately sees manifest the form of the Supreme Lord." In general, the chaper contains many ideas relevent to this discussion. MDd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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