Naradha Muni sets the example that the only way to remain conscious of one’s full identity, body, personality and individuality is to always be Krishna Conscious. In this way Krishna always protects him from illusion. See the story of Nardha Muni and the village girl below
How is it possible to fall down from Goloka-Vrndavana and Vaikuntha?
The following is a pastime (Lila) of the great sage Narada-Muni that took place while walking with Krishna outside the walls of Dwarka in Goloka-Vrndavana Krishna was about to teach Narada a valuable lesson about the powerful effects of choosing to become attached to something other than serving Krishna, thus putting oneself under the influence of Maya and Her external material energy that further provokes forgetfulness of Krishna and ones eternal nitya-siddha body they serve Krishna as.
Narada Muni, a great Devotee (marginal living entity) of Lord Krishna, was once walking outside the perimeter of Dwarka (one of Krishna’s great Palaces) with the Lord. As they walked,
Narada asked Krishna
“How is it one can forget such a beautiful place as Goloka-Vrndavana? ‘How could a devotee forget Krishna and end up in the temporary material world in an ethereal (heavenly) or biological (earthly) body?”
Narada looked at Krishna in total ecstasy and bliss wondering how anyone could leave such beauty? He was perplexed, as he new the material universe was full of souls (nitya-baddhas), who all were previously with Krishna in their only genuine eternal nitya-siddha form that is perpetually endowed with an imperishable identity, personality and individuality, who did exactly that – ‘sub-consciously’ forget Krishna along with their own authentic nitya-siddha bodily identity.
All marginal living entities are able to do this if they choose, turning their back on Him and manufacturing so many counterfeit vessels, identities, personalities and forms outside of Goloka-Vrndavana with their secondary nitya-baddha sub-conscious dream state within the temporary material universe.
How could this happen?
As they walked through the forest, a young girl caught Narada’s attention; she was struggling to carry two buckets of water near a well. Out of pity, Narada went over and offered his helping hand to the struggling girl; she gladly accepted his offer, as she was exhausted.
Gladly and compassionate Narada Muni carried the two buckets of water and proceeded to the girls’ destination at a nearby Village. On the way there, the simplicity and innocents of this beautiful young girl was so sweet and captivating that Narada was speechless in her association.
She broke the silence by explaining she was the daughter of the Village elder and her father was a great leader and devotee of Krishna. Narada, however was so captivated by the girl’s sweet voice, flowing long hair and colourful sari, he was not listening. He was totally dumbfounded in her presents.
When they arrived at the Village, the girl introduced her new friend to her father. He was very impressed by Narada’s qualities, and thought this man must be a great devotee of Lord Krishna.
He further thought ‘what a nice husband this young man would make for my daughter’
The Village elder felt obligated to reward Narada for his service.
All the Villagers gathered around thinking Narada must be a great Sage and suggested the best reward for him was the village elder’s daughter in marriage. Narada Muni was so attached and comfortable with the girl that he accepted the offering!
The wedding day arrived and everyone in the surrounding area came. The Village Brahmin’s (priests) performed the fire yajna (purification ceremony) and many gifts were given.
After the marriage Narada and his new wife settled in performing various duties. Narada eventually became the Head Master of the Gurukula (school). In due course his wife fell pregnant with their first child. A boy was born and the Village was ecstatic, celebrating late into the night.
As time went on, Narada’s happiness increased being with his family and living in the Village, he never had a worry in the world.
Over the years he was bestowed another six children. He enjoyed watching them grow, becoming educated and playing sporting games with them. All his children were adorned with beautiful qualities.
Ten years had passed, his father in-law, the Village elder, passed away suddenly due to illness; everyone was saddened and would only accept Narada as the new Village elder.
Many more years passed and he eventually gave permission to a young boy to marry his daughter. Everything was so perfect, so peaceful. Narada was totally satisfied with his wife, children, grandchildren and all the wonderful people in the Village.
Then one day an enormous storm came to the Village, pelting heavy rain with strong winds that destroyed houses. Narada decided he must immediately evacuate the Village, but it was too late, flooding had made it impossible to escape.
The storm became more intense, the water level was rising fast and raging torrents destroyed everything in its path. Narada frantically searched for his wife, children, grandchildren and friends,
He found himself trapped on a plank of wood in the raging torrents looking everywhere through the hail, wind and ragging water for his wife, but new she must have been washed away by the flood.
His son in law and daughter also found a plank of wood attempting to ride out the storm however, it only got worse and they eventually lost their footing and also perished. Then to Narada’s amazement he saw two of his young grand children high up in a tree holding on to dear life. Narada reached out to them screaming,
“Just hold on to me, give me your hand and I will save you!”
They reached out and at the same time a huge wave overpowered all of them, frantically Narada searched through the water screaming out for his grandchildren, but they also had perished. He continued calling out,
“Don’t leave me, just hold on somehow, don’t leave me!”
Then he also perished in the flood
At that exact moment, Narada felt a tap on the shoulder, he slowly opened his eyes still lamenting and wanting to be with his family. He found himself sitting against a well; again Narada yelled out in bewilderment,
“Where is my family?”
Then Narada realized the tap on the shoulder was from Krishna standing next to him. Krishna laughed and said,
“You wanted to know how powerful Maya (forgetfulness) was, so I showed you. You have been sitting against that well for no more than a moment!”
Coming to his senses, Narada says to Krishna,
“You mean all that experience, my wife, my children, my friends, my wealth, my fame, my followers, the Village, was a dream?”
Krishna replies,
“No, it is all real to you however everything outside My Kingdom is impermanent and like a dream was an illusion, your entire experience was a lesson to show you how easy it is for devotees in Goloka-Vrndavana, who are all eternally liberated, that is, until they foolishly choose not to be, as you have just done, by choosing to become captivated by Maya (forgetfulness and illusion) and fall to a temporary ‘dream state’ body of forgetfulness birth, disease, decay, old age short memory and death experiencing the impermanent nature that exists only within My material universe outside My Eternal abode of Goloka Vrndavana and Vaikuntha
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In My Spiritual Universe of Goloka and Vaikuntha, there is no death or decay or even past or future, however as soon as you chose to forget Me and help the village girl, you were immediately transferred to My material universe and experienced the fleeting forgetful nature of the transitory universe, including death by drowning.
This is because you were attached to something other than loving devotional service to Me; (Krishna or God) you chose to turn your back on me just for a moment to help the young girl and became captivated by your own selfless desires to help her for your self, so much so you forgot Me standing right next to you! That moment seemed like a lifetime.
Genuine selflessness is doing everything for My pleaser and you, along with others, simply become inattentive and served the girl for your own pleasures.
Some, only less than 10% of My devotees experience this illusion like you have so I can teach them a valuable lesson however, others, also in that 10% who choose to turn their back on me and become attracted to the flicking beauty of Maya, can remain in the material universe forgetting their nitya-siddha true form, identify, personality and individuality for almost what appears to be an eternity, transmigrating through many millions of counterfeit bodies as their nitya-baddha secondary dream imaginary self in their search for so called happiness.
Enough is never enough in the material universe.
In the material world, this is like chasing after a mirage in the desert that only appears real, but in reality is only an illusion.
The impermanent universe is both real and an illusion because it is transitory. This is what temporary ethereal (heavenly or hellish) and biological (earthly) bodies in the material universe are like, they all end in disappointment because they fade away because everything one has accumulated and worked so hard to achieve is lost and ultimately forgotten – everything just fades with the passing of material time
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Conditioned souls (nitya-baddhas) who are trapped in the material universe experience that ‘moment of being away from my Kingdom’ as billions upon billions of life times in billions of different bodies that seem like an eternity, so much so, many foolishly come to believe the Impersonal inactive effulgent Brahmajyoti, or bright light, which is the motionless effulgence of trillions of individual dormant inactive dreamless baddha jivas surrounding My body, is the starting and ending point of their existence. The Brahmajyoti is held together by My form, behind the ‘light’ one will find bodily nitya siddha forms surrounded by living paraphernalia which is also forms like building, roads, trees, flowers, clothing, animals, birds ect.
All of them in the material creation (My world has alwys been and was never created) have forgotten their real nitya-siddha form and relationship with Me in Goloka-Vrndavana
This is very difficult to understand without My favour because it is very complicated for you to understand the eternal stage on which all this illusion within the impermanent material universe is unfolding.
In actual fact, all of those baddha-jivas lost and trapped in the material creation, were once like you and remembered and was aware of their personal intimate relationship with Me in Goloka-Vrndavana, they still do have their perpetual nitya-siddha svarupa body, but have temporally forgotten it like one forgets their present body while dreaming. As in your case while sitting against the well and being captivated by absent-mindedness (The village girl) just for a moment.
In this way, dreaming the sub-consciousness of those who have chosen to leave My Personal abode and their real nitya-siddha form, identity, personality and individually have also become forgetful, leaving behind the memory and ‘awareness’ of their original form, just as you did Narada, in Goloka-Vrndavana. On leaving your true identity you then fabricate numerus counterfeit forms, identities and personalities like one does in a dream at night.
“So in this way, one transfers their conscious ‘awareness’ to the material universe as nitya-baddha, as your conscious ‘awareness’ had just experienced by turning your back on Me to pursue your own interests of being with the village girl”.
In actual fact there is no beginning or ending point of the marginal living entity or jiva, the Impersonal conclusion by some lost souls, which includes impersonalists, Buddhists and even many learned Vaishnavas and caste Gosvamis (My devotees) have miss-understood their eternal relationship with Me that is always there in Goloka-Vrndavana, even if they have forgotten.
Their silly idea that the soul originates from the Impersonal Brahmajyoti is due to the long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long association they have had within many fleeting bodies within the temporary universe, being trapped within forgetfulness and sensual identity and association for so, so, so, so, so, long, that they have forgotten their original nitya-siddha form, identity, personality individuality and selfless devotional love in their eternal relationship with Me as you, Narada, have just done. Even a great devotee like you should never underestimate the power of My Maya (forgetfulness and illusion)”!
What is Maya? Maya: - forgetfulness, illusion, ‘that which is not’, a personality who controls the impermanent energy, i.e., the ethereal (heavenly and hellish) and biological (earthly container the soul manifests, as well as the mental delusions suffered by the forgetful jiva after leaving the Kingdom of God (As baddha-jiva).
Maya’s duty is to make sure no one disturbs Krishna by offering the aspiring devotees in their baddha-jiva sub-conscious state trapped in ethereal and biological vessels wealth, riches, beauty (female or male), and knowledge of the celestial technological heavenly realms and technologically earthly realm as a test to see what one really wants.
Human civilizations throughout the centuries have repeatedly attempted to build a permanent existence as well as prepare their present bodies with wealth and belongings to take with them into a heavenly ‘after-life’ where they believe they will live forever, why this is not possible in this temporary world will be fully explained in this book.
From the beginning of time, so many cultures have tried to prepare, with their inherent instinctual belief in an after life, to enter a Perpetual Kingdom of God. They unfortunately mistakenly come to believe that this transitory universe, with its heavenly rewards, is their real home (Explained later when explaining the heavenly planets within the interim creation in higher levels of the material universe existing in a non-biological sub-space dimension).
All things in the material world must pass
The attempt to achieve happiness, love and sensual pleasures in an impermanent atmosphere will, in due course, frustrate an intelligent human being because; in the end, all they have worked so hard to build up over their lifetime is all taken away at death.
Whatever material acquisitions built up over their lifetime also eventually wears out and erodes away to inert matter. Ultimately they loose everything anyway as forgetfulness, disease, old age and death over comes them.
The phenomenon of death, also known as ‘forgetfulness’, is an abnormal state the baddha-jiva or individual life force is overcome by while travelling in and identifying with the outward ethereal and biological human bodily garment or vehicle while contained in the temporary universe.
The attempt to build a perpetual blissful home on earth in a biological body, or in heaven in a non-biological ethereal body or covering is not possible because everything eventually breaks down and fades away in the impermanent material universe. In this way, all matter comes from the presents of life.
Even in the heavenly planets, that are rewards for Jains, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Jews and most branches of Hinduism, due to their performance of penance and austerity, exists only a temporary celestial manifestation within the boundaries of the material universe where one can live for thousands of years but also must pass on.
Only jivas who fall from the Impersonal Brahmajyoti, having first originally previously first fallen from long, long, long before they mistakenly Vaikuntha or Goloka-Vrndavana accepted the Impersonal Brahmajyoti as their origins, have to start their active existence from the beginnings of biological life.
Only after billions of life times, do they unfortunately make their way to the Impersonal Brahmajyoti. They do not know or remember how they were introduced or originally fell from Goloka-Vrndavana/Vaikuntha to the temporary universe in the first place and foolishly believe the Impersonal Brahmajyoti is both the source of their existence and liberation.
Unfortunately the separation of the individual jiva from Krishna’s Personal abode has been so long, long, long, long periods of time they foolishly believe their origins are the Impersonal Brahmajyoti.
These baddha-jivas, who think they have originated from the Impersonal Brahmajyoti, first manifest an ethereal body or vessel that stays with them for as long as they exist in the impermanent universe. From that ethereal body all other insubstantial and biological forms are projected.
Coming from the Impersonal Brahmajyoti means these embodied baddha-jivas have to start their active existence from the most basic form of life first attained after leaving that effulgent light. From there the now embodied baddha-jiva has to go through the billions of biological bodies mapped out by evolution (8,400,000,000 species of life) until the human body is again attained. It must be made clear this extremely lengthy process is only for the baddha-jivas who have previously, in an earlier mahat-tattva creation, merged there identity, individuality, personality and form into a minute spark of individual living light vibrating with other nitya-baddhas and therefore have entered into or merged themselves (The baddha-jiva appears as an individual spark while merged in the impersonal Brahmajyoti) into and simultaneously as the brightness of the Impersonal Brahmajyoti.
In other words the baddha-jivas ARE the impersonal Brahmajyoti.
ALL souls (baddha-jivas) eventually fall from this ‘impersonal Brahmajyoti’ due to their inherent nature to ‘always’ be active and have to start off at the very basis of biological life when they again re-emerge from their Impersonal slumber.
For some mystic yogis, jnans and advanced philosophers, this is not the case as due to their ability to choose where to take birth. Impersonalism is a very dangerous philosophy to follow and is often referred to by devotees of Krishna as Spiritual suicide.
The Impersonal effulgence or Brahman is where unlimited other ‘inactive dreamless baddha-jivas’ exist and vibrate impersonally dormant as individual living sparks that shine as individual atoms of light that collectively make up what is known as the Impersonal Brahmajyoti or Brahman
All of them who enter the Impersonal Brahmajyoti, except for some rare Impersonalist yogis, have to start at scratch (entering the body of a microbe) when they eventually inherently desire activity and fall out of that Impersonal sense of oneness.
Followers of Lord Buddha and the Jains practice sever penance and austerities attempting to free themselves from karma. Their austerity however, has the side effect of accumulating pious karma that allows them entry into the heavenly planets.
These higher dimensional supernatural worlds, known as the heavenly planets, exist in sub-space which are a insubstantial manifestation of the temporary material energy where the ethereal non-biological body, that is temporary but not material (lifeless energy), contains the eternal baddha jiva or soul and resides separate encased in the ethereal living body apart from that lifeless sub-space-matter that the sub-space heavenly and hellish planets are made of. In this book it should be made clear the words material and matter is lifeless substance or energy.
In other words we do not live in a material body but rather we live in an ethereal body that further creates a biological covering. Matter and material refers to the lifeless by products left over by the embodied jivas once they vacate the biological body.
All matter comes from life
Both the baddha-jivas ethereal bodies or containments and the surrounding sub-space lifeless material energy are not generally perceived by the embodied ‘baddha-jivas projected biological containments’ that the ethereal body eventually manifests as a further extension of the ethereal body.
The biological restraint or body covers the ethereal body and resides in a dimension like our earthly planet that is called secular space that is far more gross and solid than sub-space matter however, both realities are material where as the ethereal body and its extended biological body are not material.
The ethereal body in material sub-space is also called the supernatural-realm; where as the biological containment in secular-space is called the natural-realm. Both the natural and the supernatural are not spiritual; they are different dimensions within the material realm.
