The Spiritual World
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It is written in the Padma Purāṇa: "The Sovereign Lord, the Supreme and Absolute Truth, is also called Rama, because He lavishes on all spiritualists a spiritual joy without limit."

These sublime words therefore know no end. All material activity is subject to the law of saturation, but this phenomenon is inexistent on the spiritual plane.

The spiritual condition finds its existence on the absolute plane.

The devastating weather, which even subjects the inhabitants of the heavenly planets to its manifestations, the past, the present and the future, does not act on the spiritual plane. The influence of time is felt through the phenomena of birth, sickness, old age, and death; these four principles related to the material condition prevail in every part of the cosmic manifestation, even on Brahmaloka where the duration of existence of the inhabitants seems literally fabulous to us. The implacable time causes even the death of Brahma, what to say from other celestial beings, like Indra, Candra, Surya, Vayu and Varuna?

On the spiritual plane the soul possesses a pure consciousness, so that the domineering tendency of the false ego that impels it to identify with its body does not exist in it. His pure conscience leads him rather to surrender himself to the Supreme Lord. All this to say that at the purely spiritual level there is no question of material creation or of the ocean of the causes of material manifestation.

The spiritual condition finds its existence on the absolute plane, but it is revealed in all its truth for the spiritualist who possesses the knowledge of this high level of pure consciousness. Spiritualists are of two kinds: impersonalists and learned sages. For the first, the ultimate goal, the ultimate destination to be attained, is the radiance of the spiritual world, while the learned sages themselves target the spiritual planets Vaikunthas. The latter, experience the condition described above by obtaining a spiritual form that will allow them to continue the active practice of the service of absolute love offered to the Lord. The impersonalists, however, because they reject all contact with the Lord, do not obtain from them a spiritual body proper to spiritual action, but remain mere spiritual sparks, melted in the dazzling radiance that emanates from the Lord. Supreme. The Lord is the finished form of eternity, knowledge, and bliss, while the radiance that emanates from his body is devoid of form and remains a mere manifestation of eternity and knowledge. Vaikunthas planets are also forms of eternity, knowledge, and bliss, and the holy beings admitted into the kingdom of God each obtain a body of eternity, knowledge, and bliss. Thus these various spiritual elements are in no way distinguishable from the Abode, the Name, the Fame, the Entourage, & c. of the Lord all share the same spiritual and absolute nature.

 

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