The Spiritual World
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Supreme Being has nothing in common with material nature, complicated by the three attributes of material nature; virtue, passion and ignorance, He is the Master of this lower energy, as of all that exists, and therefore Absolute. Innumerable are his energies, through which He creates, manifests, maintains and destroys the material universe. In his home, however, everything remains eternal and absolute. The world does not move under the direction of the energies themselves or the only agents endowed with powers that reside there, but under the ultimate direction of the Almighty, Master of all energies.

The kingdom of God, and the realized souls who live there.

In the kingdom of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, reigns pure virtue. There, everything is eternal, perpetual, immutable, unlimited, and the conditions of existence reach the highest level of perfection. In the spiritual world, all beings live in perfect harmony, without anything coming to break their communion. This is where the Lord reigns, Supreme and Unique without a second. Those who live there are free to go wherever they want, life goes on forever. Everything exists in eternity, perfect happiness and knowledge, and as nothing is degraded, there is no past, present, or future. The Lord's energy is manifested in its pure state. The spiritual atmosphere is characterized by the fact that all obey the Lord. No rivalry, all recognize him as the Supreme Master and serve him faithfully with love and devotion. They are all subordinated to Him.

God is the master and supreme beneficiary of the material and spiritual worlds, but He enjoys living in his original dwelling in the spiritual world. No one equals nor surpasses it, its splendor is limitless. Unlike a soul incarnated in a body of dense matter, which periodically has to be reincarnated into a new carnal envelope and thus to change bodies in the material world, Lord Krishna never changes bodies. Indeed, by its absolute nature, nothing distinguishes its Body from its Soul, which is also true of the liberated and realized beings who live in his divine company, in his eternal kingdom.

The spiritual manifestations of the Supreme Lord, Krishna, have two aspects. For his pure devotees, He is a constant companion, or the beloved, that is his personal aspect. And in its so-called impersonal aspect, He diffuses the rays of his boundless and omnipresent radiance, radiance that emanates from his body. A fraction of this ubiquitous and sun-like radiance is covered by the darkness of material nature, and this tiny portion constitutes the material cosmos. It contains innumerable galaxies similar to the one we know, "The Milky Way" and which in turn contain hundreds of thousands of planets like ours. While the laymen are more or less enthralled by the infinite manifestation of the Lord's radiance, the holy beings, themselves, care more about his personal form, from which everything emanates. Just as the rays of the sun are diffused from the solar globe, the radiance emanates from Goloka Vrindavana,

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