Our Real Business Is To Go To the Spiritual World
The human form of life offers a unique opportunity to exit the cycle of birth and death. Śrīla Prabhupāda consistently reminds us that our primary duty is not to improve our material situation temporarily, but to permanently transfer ourselves to the eternal realm. By understanding our identity as spirit souls and engaging in the process of self-realization, we can reclaim our original position in the spiritual world.
Supreme Goal of Life
The material world is characterized by the constant changing of bodies and the presence of suffering. The intelligent person realizes that real happiness cannot be found here and sets their sights on the transcendental destination, or parā gatim.
- Our whole aim is how to get out of this material encagement and go back to the spiritual world, go back to home. That is the aim. That is called para gatim. Para means transcendental; gati means aim of life. Para gati.
- I am not this body. I am spirit soul. My destination is how to go to the spiritual world, how to meet the supreme spirit, God, and live with Him in His association.
- If one actually wants happiness, one must go to the spiritual world.
Method of Transfer
To cross the ocean of material existence, one requires a bona fide process. Śrīla Prabhupāda identifies bhakti-yoga, and specifically the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, as the link that connects the conditioned soul back to the spiritual reality.
- So Krsna consciousness is that. If you are actually serious to go to the spiritual world, take the bhakti-yoga process. Therefore Krsna is preaching personally bhakti-yoga.
- By chanting this mantra - Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, - one becomes free from the contamination of this age. And not only he becomes free from the contamination of this age, but param vrajet, he goes back to the spiritual world.
- We are on this side of the sea. We want to go the other side of the sea. Similarly this bhava-samudra, we are on this part of the sea, material world. If we want to go to the other side, spiritual world, so we have to become niskincana.
Life in the Spiritual World
The destination is not a void; it is a place of eternal activity and bliss. Unlike the material world, where the body is subject to decay and death, the spiritual body is eternal. Once a soul attains this abode, there is no return to the miserable material condition.
- Krsna consciousness does not mean sitting idly. The whole pastimes of Krsna is full of activities. When you go to spiritual world Krsna is always dancing. You have to 24 hours dance there and eat there.There is no question of sit down.
- Only difference is that God does not change His body; I change My body. That is also in this material world. When I shall go to the spiritual world, there is no more change of body. Eternal.
- What is the difference between the spiritual world and the material world? The difference is that if you go to the spiritual world, then you will not return again in this material world.
Conclusion
Ultimately, the choice lies with the individual. As spiritual sparks, we have the independence to remain in the material atmosphere or to return to our original home. However, the sane conclusion, as urged by Śrīla Prabhupāda, is to realize that our only real business is to prepare ourselves to go to the spiritual world, where we can eternally serve Kṛṣṇa in full knowledge and bliss.
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