Chaitanya, The Golden Avatar
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Nonetheless, all of these attributes are tainted with passion and imperfection. On the contrary, the attributes of Vaikuṇṭha, proceed from the internal energy of God and are therefore of a purely spiritual and transcendent nature, free from any material infection. No material planet, including Satyaloka, the highest in our galaxy, can compare with the spiritual planets, where none of the five characteristics of the world of matter appear, namely ignorance, suffering, selfishness, selfishness, anger, and envy.

In the material world, everything is a creation. Everything that personal experience allows us to conceive, including our body and mind, has been created. This process of creation began at the same time as the life of Brahma, the first created being and ruler of our galaxy, and the creative principle operates throughout the material world due to the influence of passion. However, since it shines by its absence on the Vaikuṇṭhas, spiritual planets, no creation takes place there, everything exists there eternally. Moreover, given the absence of ignorance, there can also be no question of annihilation or destruction. In the material world, despite all the efforts that one can provide to cultivate in oneself the virtuous qualities mentioned above in order to make everything permanent, nothing can exist perpetually, and this in spite of the good ideas of the best scientific brains, for material virtue is mingled with passion and ignorance. As a result, we in this world have no experience of eternity, bliss and omniscience. On the contrary, in the spiritual world, where the attributes of material nature shine through their absence, everything is eternal, full of bliss and knowledge. Everything has the gift of expressing oneself, of moving, of hearing, of seeing, and this, in an existence of eternal happiness. Under these conditions, naturally neither space nor time, in the form of the past, the present and the future, have any influence there: no change therefore in the spiritual world, since time there. has no hold. Therefore, we cannot detect in it any influence of total material energy (māyā), which prompts us to become more and more materialistic and to forget the relationship which unites us to God.

As spiritual sparks of the rays emanating from the transcendent body of the Lord, we are eternally connected with Him and participate in His nature. Material energy is like a matrix that envelops this particle of spiritual energy, but in Vaikuṇṭhaloka, living beings are free from such a veil, they never lose the memory of their identity. Eternally they remain aware of their link with God, being situated in their natural condition which is to offer the Lord a service of transcendent love. From the fact that they are constantly absorbed in this transcendent service, it is natural to conclude that their senses are also transcendent in nature since one cannot serve the Lord with material senses. The hosts of Vaikuṇṭhaloka are therefore devoid of such senses which aim to dominate material nature. Those who remain neophytes on the path of knowledge say to themselves that a place devoid of material characteristics can only be nothingness without form. However, in truth, the spiritual world is not without characteristics, but these differ from those of the material nature because everything there is eternal, infinite and pure.

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