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Spiritual Understanding (Cont’d)
Those who have no knowledge of the spiritual sky hold that after
being freed from the material activities of the material form, this
spiritual identity becomes formless, without any variegatedness.
However, just as there is material variegatedness in this world, in
the spiritual world there is also variegatedness. Those in ignorance
of this think that spiritual existence is opposed to material variety.
But actually, in the spiritual sky, one attains a spiritual form.
There are spiritual activities, and the spiritual situation is called
devotional life. - BG 14:2, purport -
The constitution of Brahman is immortality, imperishability, eter-
nity, and happiness. Brahman is the beginning of transcendental
realization. Paramätmä, the Supersoul, is the middle, the second
stage in transcendental realization, and the Supreme Personality
of Godhead is the ultimate realization of the Absolute Truth.
Therefore, both Paramätmä and the impersonal Brahman are
within the Supreme Person. - BG 14:27, purport -
The whole cosmic order is under Me. By My will it is manifested
again and again, and by My will it is annihilated at the end.
- BG 9:8 -
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