chekitan@bahnhof.se (Jahnu) wrote:
>>They were all full of anger and resentment, as
>>well. I suppose you just follow your guru on the path to enlightenment
>>as he defined it to you. My mistake. Like guru, like disciples.
>
>Again you got it all wrong. Srila Prabhupada just told it like it. He
>finally came and gave us reality, exactly as it is stated by Sri
>Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita - this material world is temporary place
>full of suffering. 

I think I remember that this attitude is what you objected to the
"impersonalists": thinking that the world is an illusion to be
transcended. The material world, and all of the Creation, is of course
temporary, because it exists within time. But it is not illusory, it
is a reflection of God's nature on the ever changing matter. It is
necessary to know God in order to understand his Creation, but then
there is no need to spit on the world and escape from it, one can live
in the world without becoming of the world. That is the state of
liberation, which consists of knowledge that there's nothing to be
liberated from, because God's nature is in everything. A real yogi is
content within the highest consciousness even in hell. His only wish
is to remain in alignment with God's will, and he has no other
interests. If God wants him to leave the world, he will. If God wants
him to be reborn and fulfill a mission, he will. He remains content in
knowledge that there can be no fall, because God knows him in his true
nature and will never leave him.

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