Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Kindle up


The Lord Paramatma is surcharged like the fire in the wood within everything in matter and appears to be of many varieties although He is Absolute one without a second.

PURPORT

Lord Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by one of His plenary parts expands Himself all over the material world, and His existence can be perceived even within the atomic energy. Matter, antimatter, proton, neutron, are all different sources of manifestation of the Paramatma feature of the lord by proper culture only. As from the wood the infested fire can be manifested by proper manipulation or as butter can be churned out of the milk so also the presence of the Lord as Paramātmā can be felt by the process of legitimate hearing and chanting of the transcendental subject. The transcendental subject is specially dealt with in the Vedic literature like the Upaniṣads and Vedānta and Śrīmad-Bhāgawatam is the bona fide explanation of the same Vedic literatures. The Lord can be realized through the aural reception of the transcendental message and that is the only source of experienceing the transcendental subject. As fire is kindled the from wood by another piece of fire similarly the divine cosciousness of man can be kindled up by another divine grace. His Divine Grace the spiritual master can kindle up the spiritual fire from the woodlike living entity by imparting proper spiritual messages injected through the receptive ear. Therefore one is required to approach the proper spiritual master with receptive ear only and the divine existence is thus gradually realized. The difference between animality and humanity lies in this process only. A human being can hear properly, whereas an animal cannot.

Excerpted from an Original first printing ( Brown Cover 1962 ) of Srimad Bhagwatam by HD AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj ..... First Canto Ch.2 Text 31

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He lives for ever by His Divine instructions
and
the follower lives with him.