Chaitanya, The Golden Avatar
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After many rebirths dedicated to the worship of the Supreme Being and the Supreme Soul, the person who surrenders to Vasudeva, the Supreme Soul, seeing in him the Supreme Master of whom she is the eternal servant, becomes a great soul, a realized soul. The unwavering relationship which then unites him to the Supreme and Absolute Truth encourages him to begin his loving service to the Person of God. Thus the neutral relationship is transformed into an attitude of service.

It is at the level of the relationship uniting the servant to the Supreme Master, that the highest degree of respect and reverence towards the Supreme Lord is manifested, the greatness of God is also appreciated there. Note here that the neutral relationship is devoid of any activity related to service, which we see however arise in the relationship uniting the servant to the Supreme Master, so that the latter unites two components: the feeling specific to the neutral relationship and the spirit of spiritual brotherhood. The existence of the spiritual characteristics of the neutral relation and of the relation uniting the servant to the Master is not in doubt, but a third one is added thereafter: the intimate attachment which engenders purely spiritual love. This intimacy with the Supreme Person is called brotherhood, and excludes any feeling of respect and veneration towards God, the Supreme Being. Thus, the relationship of spiritual fraternity unites three transcendent components: the notion of greatness, the notion of kinship and the notion of privacy free of any trace of respect or veneration, so that this fraternal relationship is enriched with an additional spiritual characteristic.

The liberation of conditioned souls, prisoners of the envelopes of dense and ethereal matter formed by the material body. Once freed from all material stain, the soul, abandoning its dense and ethereal material bodies, can reach the spiritual world in its original spiritual body, and there at Vaikuṇṭhaloka or Kṛiṣhṇaloka, become absorbed in the service of transcendent love offered. to the Lord. It is when the soul is thus in its natural, original and eternal position that it is qualified as liberated. It is possible to access the service of transcendent love offered to the Lord, and thus to become a liberated soul, even in the material body.

Likewise, parental affection has four characteristics. In addition to the three characteristics already mentioned, there is the notion that the Lord depends on the mercy of the devotee. Playing the role of parent to the Lord, the devotee will sometimes chastise the Lord while seeing himself as his support. The sublime feeling of being the support of the supreme support is very pleasant for the devotee as for the Sovereign Lord.

The Blessed Lord says: Any appearance of truth from which I am absent is within My energy of illusion, for nothing can exist without Me. It is only a simple imitation, like a pale reflection of light in the shadow, for in the light there is neither darkness nor reflection.

Just as the material elements exist inside the bodies that beings put on but nevertheless remain outside of them, I exist in all material creations without however being in them.

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