krsna Posted October 28, 2005 Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 Srimad Bhagavatam/9/24/58 The Supreme Personality of Godhead acts through His material energy in the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation just to deliver the living entity by His compassion and stop the living entity's birth, death and duration of materialistic life. Thus He enables the living being to return home, back to Godhead. The sloka says 'pumasah' — of the living entities' but in his purport Srila Prabhupada adds the living entity wants to enjoy independently, is rebellious & wants to become like Krsna. Is there any sastric basis for such statements? purport: "...when the part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead unfortunately wants to enjoy independently, without Krsna, he is put into the material world.....The real dharma is to surrender unto Krsna, but the rebellious living entity, instead of surrendering to Krsna, engages in adharma, in a struggle for existence to become like Krsna. Therefore out of compassion Krsna creates this material world to give the living entity a chance to understand his real position..." other parts of the purport seem to be in line with the verse: "...this verse says, anugrahas tan-nivratteha indicating that the false life of repeated birth and death must be stopped and the conditioned soul should be educated. This is the purpose of the creation.........The fact is that there is a purpose for this creation: to give the conditioned soul a chance to return to his original consciousness, Krsna consciousness, and then return home, back to Godhead, and be completely happy in the spiritual world" Srila Prabhupada's disciples in their commentary to Srimad Bhagavatam/10/63/38 say: "...Furthermore, without the manifestation of material nature's covering qualities, the creation could not fulfill its purpose — namely, to allow the conditioned souls to make their best attempt to enjoy without God so that they will finally understand the futility of such an illusory notion." Is there any sastric basis for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhakta Don Muntean Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 To present an area where souls can work out their god-project... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesu_Bhaktan Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 god-project's indeed. One could also say God-projections. Mine aren't working out too well, how about you? I guess it must come to a point of complete material exhaustion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhakta Don Muntean Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 I gave up on trying to be the supreme enjoyer - nope - my god-project was a waste of time too...yup - that's the standard result! Hari bolo! PS: I really like your signature quote! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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