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The conclusion is that spirit soul has form. As Krsna has got form, sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1), similarly spirit soul, jivatma, being part and parcel of Krsna, it has got form

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He conclusion is that spirit soul has form. As Kṛṣṇa has got form, sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1), similarly spirit soul, jīvātmā, being part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, it has got form. That form is also described in the śāstra: keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya śatadhā kalpitasya ca, jīva bhāgo sa vijñeyaḥ (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 5.9). A rough idea of the form of the living entity has been given in the Padma Purāṇa, that one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair. Now, perhaps we have no instrument how to measure one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair. But this is given there.

Premāñjana-cchurita. You have to collect the ointment of love for Kṛṣṇa. And if you apply that ointment on your eyes, then . . . Just like we use surma for clear vision, similarly, when the love of Kṛṣṇa surma is applied on the eyes, these eyes, you'll see Kṛṣṇa. This is the process.

Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam (CC Madhya 19.170). You have to get yourself freed from the upādhis, designation. The designation, the sun and substance of designation: this material body. "I am this body." "I am Hindu," "I am Mussulman," "I am American," "I am Hin . . . Indian." All designation of this body. So one has to become free from the contamination of this bodily concept of life. That is called sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam.

Tat-paratvena nirmalam. When our spiritual body becomes revealed, the material body, contamination, is washed off, nirmalam. At that time, the senses remain. Senses are there. It is simply covered by the material energies. The senses are there. The living entity is not nirākāra. Living entity has got hands, legs, everything, spiritual. Just like my . . . I have got my body, and this body's covered by this shirt, and because I have got this hand, the shirt has got hand. Otherwise, wherefrom this hand comes? Unless the spirit soul has got hands and legs, how we have got these material hands and legs?

Therefore it is . . . the conclusion is that spirit soul has form. As Kṛṣṇa has got form, sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1), similarly spirit soul, jīvātmā, being part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, it has got form. That form is also described in the śāstra: keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya śatadhā kalpitasya ca, jīva bhāgo sa vijñeyaḥ (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 5.9). A rough idea of the form of the living entity has been given in the Padma Purāṇa, that one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair. Now, perhaps we have no instrument how to measure one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair. But this is given there.

So anyway, because we get information from the Bhagavad-gītā that this body, material body is . . . is like a dress. Vāsāṁsi jīrṇāny yathā vihāya (BG 2.22). As we give up old dress, garment, similarly, when this body becomes useless, we give up this body and accept another, new body. Navāni ghṛṇāti. This is the transmigration of the soul. The soul is transmigrating from one body to another. That is a fact. But the gross . . . gross materialists, they cannot see the subtle body. They simply see the gross body. Therefore they say, "When this body is finished, this gross body's finished, everything is finished." No, that is not. Within the gross body, there is subtle body, made of mind, intelligence and ego.

Page Title:The conclusion is that spirit soul has form. As Krsna has got form, sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1), similarly spirit soul, jivatma, being part and parcel of Krsna, it has got form
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-08-20, 06:35:00
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