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"According to one's level of devotional service, to that degree the transcendental aspects of one's body become prominent and the material aspects diminish. This transformation is described in the following verse from the Bhāgavatam (11.2.42):
bhaktih pareśānubhavo viraktir
anyatra caiṣa trika eka-kālah
prapadyamānasya yathāśnatah syus
tustih pustih kṣud-apāyo 'nu-ghāsam
'Devotion, direct experience of the Supreme Lord, and detachment from other things — these three occur simultaneously for one who has taken shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the same way that pleasure, nourishment and relief from hunger come simultaneously and increasingly, with each bite, for a person engaged in eating.' When one achieves totally pure love of God, the material portions of the body disappear and the body becomes completely spiritual. Nonetheless, so as not to disturb the false opinions of atheists and so as to protect the confidentiality of devotional service, the Supreme Lord usually has His illusory energy exhibit the demise of the gross body. An example of this is the disappearance of the Yādavas during the Mausala-līlā.
"Sometimes, however, to proclaim the excellence of bhakti-yoga, Krsna will allow a devotee to go back to Godhead in his selfsame body, as in the case of Dhruva Mahārāja. We can cite evidence for this point from the Twenty-fifth Chapter of the Eleventh Canto, Text 32:
yeneme nirjitāh saumya
guṇā jīvena citta-jāh
bhakti-yogena man-nistho
mad-bhāvāya prapadyate
'A living entity who conquers the modes of material nature, which are manifested from the mind, can dedicate himself to Me [Krsna] by the process of devotional service and thus attain pure love for Me.' Here the Lord states that the defeat and destruction of that which is composed of the modes of material nature can be brought about only by the process of devotional service.
bhaktih pareśānubhavo viraktir
anyatra caiṣa trika eka-kālah
prapadyamānasya yathāśnatah syus
tustih pustih kṣud-apāyo 'nu-ghāsam
'Devotion, direct experience of the Supreme Lord, and detachment from other things — these three occur simultaneously for one who has taken shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the same way that pleasure, nourishment and relief from hunger come simultaneously and increasingly, with each bite, for a person engaged in eating.' When one achieves totally pure love of God, the material portions of the body disappear and the body becomes completely spiritual. Nonetheless, so as not to disturb the false opinions of atheists and so as to protect the confidentiality of devotional service, the Supreme Lord usually has His illusory energy exhibit the demise of the gross body. An example of this is the disappearance of the Yādavas during the Mausala-līlā.
"Sometimes, however, to proclaim the excellence of bhakti-yoga, Krsna will allow a devotee to go back to Godhead in his selfsame body, as in the case of Dhruva Mahārāja. We can cite evidence for this point from the Twenty-fifth Chapter of the Eleventh Canto, Text 32:
yeneme nirjitāh saumya
guṇā jīvena citta-jāh
bhakti-yogena man-nistho
mad-bhāvāya prapadyate
'A living entity who conquers the modes of material nature, which are manifested from the mind, can dedicate himself to Me [Krsna] by the process of devotional service and thus attain pure love for Me.' Here the Lord states that the defeat and destruction of that which is composed of the modes of material nature can be brought about only by the process of devotional service.
posted by Vyoma at Saturday, July 16, 2005
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