Expressions researched:
"third eye"
Lord Śiva's body is reddish, and he is unstained, but he is covered with ashes. His hair is dusty from the whirlwind dust of the burning crematorium. He is the younger brother of your husband, and he sees with his three eyes.
Lord Śiva is not an ordinary living entity, nor is he in the category of Viṣṇu, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is far more powerful than any living entity up to the standard of Brahmā, yet he is not on an equal level with Viṣṇu. Since he is almost like Lord Viṣṇu, Śiva can see past, present and future. One of his eyes is like the sun, another is like the moon, and his third eye, which is between his eyebrows, is like fire. He can generate fire from his middle eye, and he is able to vanquish any powerful living entity, including Brahmā, yet he does not live pompously in a nice house, etc., nor does he possess any material properties, although he is master of the material world. He lives mostly in the crematorium, where dead bodies are burnt, and the whirlwind dust of the crematorium is his bodily dress.
Woman: Swamijī, would you say that the soul is locked in the third eye?
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The soul is what?
Harikeśa: Locked in the third eye.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Locked in the third eye. She's asking if the soul is locked in the third eye.
Prabhupāda: Locked? What does it mean locked? Soul is not locked. Soul, for temporarily, is embodied according to the soul's desire. There are 8,400,000 forms of body, and as we are desiring, the material nature is supplying the body.
Anna Conan Doyle: The fire, yes. Yes, oil and... Was it a third eye?
Prabhupāda: No.
Anna Conan Doyle: That means you are dust and you become dust again, or what?
Prabhupāda: No, we attended the ceremony. (laughter)
Bhagavān: It is a souvenir of the ceremony.
Prabhupāda: You were not marked because you did not attend the ceremony.
Anna Conan Doyle: I see. It's just a sign. It has no particular meaning.
Prabhupāda: No, this is the general meaning. And this is blessing. After, after the ceremony, if there is any blessing, you get the blessing. Yes.
Yogeśvara: Do we have a meaning, do we have a definition for the third eye?
Prabhupāda: Humm?
Yogeśvara: The third eye.
Prabhupāda: Third eye. The future. Future.
Yogeśvara: Future?
Prabhupāda: Past, present and future.
Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: There is a philosophy, Śrīla Prabhupāda, they say that you meditate on some third eye, and this opens up into the..., some spiritual realization, a mystical realization. It is very popular.
Prabhupāda: : Yes, yes. Between the two eyebrows, that is said, explained in the Bhagavad-gītā, bhruvor madhye..., ante kāle ca mām...
Yogeśvara: Do we have a meaning, do we have a definition for the third eye?
Prabhupāda: Humm?
Yogeśvara: The third eye.
Prabhupāda: Third eye. The future. Future.
Yogeśvara: Future?
Prabhupāda: Past, present and future.
Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: There is a philosophy, Śrīla Prabhupāda, they say that you meditate on some third eye, and this opens up into the..., some spiritual realization, a mystical realization. It is very popular.
Prabhupāda: : Yes, yes. Between the two eyebrows, that is said, explained in the Bhagavad-gītā, bhruvor madhye..., ante kāle ca mām...
Pṛthu Putra: (French)
Prabhupāda: That's Eight Chapter, I think, bhruvor madhye. Eighth Chapter? Hmm. Is it the Eighth Chapter?
Yogeśvara: That is the Eighth Chapter, text 21, 22.
Prabhupāda: Ten. Read.
| Page Title: | Third eye |
| Compiler: | Mangalavati, Jaya, Visnu Murti |
| Created: | 30 of May, 2011 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=1, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=3, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 5 |