There is no temporal in the Absolute

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> However, the idea of a temporal sequence of perfection, fall,

> liberation is a useful way to think about the concept of the jiva's

> origin and constitutional position. Ravindra svarupa explains this last

> point in his BTG essay (at http://www.rsdtm.com).

 

Besides jeopardizing Srila Prabhupada in term of "blowing" away

his preaching strategy that got to be lasting so long his

books last (ad that's a bit more than 20 years), there is even

another moment here:

 

It is painful to see somebody else's grossly materialistic

conceptions being projected on Prabhupada. It would be foolish

to assume such scenario as Prabhupada's, since it is simply the

reflection of somebody's materialistically conditioned intelligence.

Namely, in the realm of the Absolute, there is no such thing as

"*temporal* perfection". That is the conception of a materialistic

experience.

 

In Srila Prabhupada' books (if one is still allowed to refer to

them), exactly the opposite understanding is to be obtained. There,

from the point of the Spiritual Time (where there is no past, present,

and future as we may experience it here, so no "temporal" things), it

is that our conditioning in this world (though called "eternal") is

perceived as an insignificant split of moment. However, now somebody

else presents here some topsy-turvy conception on Prabhupada, attributing

to him the way of perceiving/presenting the events in the realm of the

Absolute as "temporal", judged from the point of eternal material

conditioning. You call it "useful way to think". I call it "an ignorant

way to think".

 

Srila Prabhupada never presented such a foolish concept. Somebody

else is making it all up. Why? Please answer.

 

 

Also, I can't belive that Ravindra Swarup prabhu can be so gross

in presenting Prabhupada in that light. But I don't know. You have

not quoted him here, so can't judge.

 

 

 

 

 

- mnd