Guest guest Posted January 23, 1999 Report Share Posted January 23, 1999 Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I must first admit my inept position of having NOT read the GBC position book 'Our Original Position'. However, I do wish to understand this siddhanta succinctly. In a nutshell, O venerable vaisnavas, is the following correct?: 1. Living entities in Vaikuntha DO NOT fall down, ever. 2. The brahmajyoti emanating from Sri Krsna contains unlimited conscious rays. 3. As a cloud sometimes covers a portion of Vaikuntha, so some portion of Krsna's brahmajyoti sometimes comes in contact with that cloud. 4. The conscious rays (or jivas) in that covered portion of brahmajyoti are 'marginal', having the free will to stay in sat-cit-ananda or exploit the 'cloud' (material nature, prakrti). 5. Having chosen to exploit, lost taste for exploitation and desiring reunion, jivas engage in bhakti-yoga to purify themselves. 6. Bhakti-yoga elevates the jiva ultimately to Vaikuntha. 7. Once 'back' in Vaikuntha, the jiva NEVER returns to the 'cloud' again. 8. Due to lack of time in Vaikuntha, the whole of (3 - 6) above, which may be 'countless lifetimes' in a material sense, is in fact no more than the blink of an eye. If this is indeed correct, then our original position would be being 'merged' in the brahmajyoti, evaluated as 'impersonal (brahman) liberation', attainable by Jnana-yogis. Your servant, Vraja Kumara das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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