The Vaikuntha world is suddha-sattva

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On 20 Mar 1999, Payonidhi Dasa wrote:

 

> Who do you think you are that you can understand Vyasadeva without the via

> media of a bonafide Guru?

 

Of course, if the Guru ends up becoming Monikapada, one will have

to spend a lot of time _unlearning_ all those incorrect things one

learned at his non-brahma-niSTha lotus feet.

 

> There is no eternal karma,it starts when the jiva falls into material

> existence.

 

Now you are defying the direct words of the book _Our Original

Position_ in Chapter 2. This book very clearly says that karma

is eternal -- they just define karma as referring to material and

spiritual activities.

 

Additionally, Srila Prabhupada makes it clear: "The material activity

of the living being is beginningless, but it can be rectified by

transferal into the spiritual quality. Thus it can cease its material

qualitative reactions." (SB 1.15.27 purport) Since Srila Prabhupada

explicitly says _the material activity_, it's clear that he does not

accept the OOP authors' view that beginningless karma of conditioned

souls can refer to both material & spiritual action.

 

(There are other places where the OOP authors try to second-guess

Srila Prabhupada; for example, they claim that Brahman is

described as "anAdimat" in BG 13.13, but that follows Sri Shankara's

way of parsing the sentence rather than Srila Prabhupada's. Srila

Prabhupada parsed it as "anAdi mat-param" -- beginningless and

subordinate to Krishna.)

 

Yours,

 

Vijay