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The Supreme
Reservoir of Erotic
Principles
INSIDE TALKS
By Tridandi Goswami A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada
The Bhagawatam Puranam or the SRIMAD
BHAGAWATAM
in pursuance of the VEDANTA (Philosophy) SUTRAS, put forward a very
scientific explanation of the Supreme Absolute Truth Personality of
Godhead in a nutshell. The ABSOLUTE TRUTH is that from which everything
emanates, on whom everything is sustained and whom everything is
conserved after disappearance.
There
are eighteen thousand Sanskrit verses in the Srimad Bhagawatam simply
to explain these three things, namely the Ultimate source of all
generations, the reservoir of all maintenance and the conservation of
all energies. The beauty of this great literature Srimad Bhagawatam
is that throughout the 18,000 verses, you will find a new light in each
and every verse about the Absolute Truth. In other words Srimad
Bhagawatam is the science of the Absolute Truth, and it is admitted in
responsible circles of modern age. There is step by step gradual
development of the great science, and the culmination is achieved in
the
10th canto, where in the middle five chapters you will find
the erotic principles of life in the ultimate Cause or the
Transcendence. More clearly there is description of the amorous live
affairs of the Absolute Person with His spiritual pleasure potency.
The
whole world of animation is moving on under the spell of this pleasure
potency perverted by reflection in the temporary illusion as a
refection of water in the desert. The sex-life on the material world is
an adulterated spurious representation of the original pleasure potency
of the Absolute Truth. In the material world, therefore, sex life is
the
central point of all activities. Had there been no sex life, no
animation would have been exhibited in the daily life of the living
creatures; man, animal, bird or beast. This pleasure feature of the
sex life is, therefore, a tangible fact and in every step of our
developed consciousness even at the fag end of aged life we are all
liable to be affected by sex pleasure. Fact: as it is, the ultimate
source of this pleasure potency must be in the Supreme Reservoir of
erotic principles without any inebriety of mundane creation. That
reservoir of Transcendental Love is the CHINMITHUN or the Spiritual
Couple of Radha and Krishna depicted in the
picture or leaf. Krishna
or the Absolute Personality of all Attraction is ONE without a second,
but He manifests His Pleasure Potency as Radha or the Pleasure Counter
Part of Krishna, and thus He enjoys a spiritual bliss without any
material contamination.
The Janmadyasya
appoggiatura of the Vedanta Sutra
affirms the above-mentioned truth and Srimad Bhagawatam explains it
elaborately as well as philosophically by gradual development of
transcendental sense. If there were no real attractive love between the
potent and the potency there was no possibility of its being
pervertedly reflected in the temporary or false material world. The
shadow of water would not have been experienced if there was no water
factually. The false notion of a snake on the curling rope is perceived
because there is actual existence of snake as reality. False reflection
may not be actual fact or truth but the source of such reflection is
reality. The picture of the cinema show may be a false reflection of a
shadow play, but there is always a factual play behind the picture.
Therefore,
the definition of God or the Supreme Absolute Truth put forward in the
very beginning of the Srimad Bhagawatam is a wonderful presentation,
and
this great literature must be relished by all thinking men of the world
in an atmosphere of unreasonably Godless Civilization. As such this
will fill up a great gulf of disparity of the human society in advanced
form of materialism.
Do
not say that there is no God. It is sheer foolishness; because the very
assertion that there is no God proves that there is God positively.
This power of speaking that ‘there is no God, the power of seeing, the
power of thinking, the power of moving, the power of willing and the
power doing or enjoying a thing, all powers are but borrowed potencies
from God; and God helps us in every action because we want to do it.
That is the version of all books of knowledge and observation of our
daily life. Nobody, not even the greatest scientist can
give
all these powers of animation to the dead stone. As such, God is
defined in the Vedas as the Supreme Living Truth[1]
and the leader of all living beings. In every field of activities we
require a leader or the source of inspiration and the Supreme Leader or
Leader of all leaders is known as God or the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. That Supreme Godhead as Lord Krishna is presented in the
Bhagwat Geeta and it is further explained in the Srimad Bhagawatam.
There
are different personal features of attraction; wealth, strength,
influence, beauty, knowledge, and renunciation. All these items are
different personal features of attraction. If a fellowman is wealthy,
he attracts the neighbor; if a fellowman is stronger, he attracts
others; if a fellowman is beautiful, he attracts others; if a fellowman
is learned, he attracts others; and at least if a fellowman is in the
renounced order of life, he also attracts others. But within our
experience, there is no one who is perfectly and completely wealthy,
influential, beautiful, powerful, learned or mendicant than the Supreme
One. The living entities are sometimes called as God, but no such god
or
demigod can be compared with the Supreme God. The Absolute Godhead is
different from the relative gods. The relative gods are dependant on
others, but the Supreme God is fully conscious, fully independent and
fully attractive for all. All these qualities of Godhead are fully
present in the Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna, and there is nobody
else with full perfection of Godly attributes. Srimad Bhagawatam
explains these transcendental attributes of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead with statements full of philosophy and full of reasons to prove
it factually that there is God the Supreme Person, for convincing even
those who unreasonably say that “THERE IS NO GOD”.
The
science of God is greater than all other sciences and it is explained
in the Srimad Bhagawatam verse by verse. One must have, therefore, the
required patience to learn this science of God from the right source,
and then say whether there is God or there is no God. By scientific
study of the Personality of Godhead, we can know that paramount God,
His name, His abode, His attributes, His pastimes, His entourage and
His paraphernalia all are identical as the Absolute Truth distinguished
from all relativities.
Katha Upanishad
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