The ” beginning ” of Karma
A great and important philosophical question posed by Vrajanatha in Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s Jiva Dharma, the occupation of the soul .
The Vedas indicates we are manifest from Lord Balarama, the first expansion of Krishna, and because the soul is part of Him , and Krishna always been , we could conclude, so have we . Within Krishna are unlimited expansions , thus the simultaneous one and difference can be looked at in this way , or as Jiva Goswami says in his Tattva Sandarbha verse 43 , Krishna makes the impossible possible , by manifesting totally separate entities with free will .
We also have to understand the expression , “ time immemorial ,” we can not fathom times beginnings.
Balarama brings forth the ” dormant ” Jivas , it could be understood in this way , because He wants to increase Krishna’s pleasure. We are not dead stones or downloads of Balarama , but we have free will . The more we use our free will for its intended purpose , the more freedom we can experience . On our being “manifest ” , just as a good father tells us all about the proper and beneficial way to conduct life for our greatest benefits , similarly Balarama , our original father , by His example brings freedom of expression, love and attraction . Spontaneously, the living beings reveal their consciousness by their own personality and personal attractions . Love is always voluntary and can never be forced . The complete and full existence of Divinity. the most complete, is only ever understood by love. Indeed Sanatana Goswami has shown in his litrature in the pastime of Gopa Kumar , that when Gopa Kumar finally returned to a spiritual world, the Lord was waiting and embraced him saying “where have you been I have missed you and have been waiting?” Such is the Love of the Supreme Father of all .
It’s indicted by Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur , the jiva enters a tatasta state , which is understood as the impersonal Brahman , those that are not inclined to share their consciousness remain in impersonal bliss . However , for want of activity , they come to the material planes , to ultimately refine their activity and experience life without God as their friend. Ultimately we must learn that Krishna is Rasaraja the king of exchanges of love .This movement of the jiva from the brahman energies is completed by a ” transporational” glance , the living being is injected into matter.
Each Jiva reveals their state of consciousness , thus the Jiva is connected automatically either to Maha maya or Yoga maya ,i.e., the spiritual or material energies , according to their free spirit . It appears our consciousness having this free spirit, connected itself to Maha maya , we are in the material realms . Balarama obviously detected such independence of desires and arrangements that they were made , automatically through ethereal planes in the multidimensional unlimited space time . Initially with relatively exalted consciousness . Mahamaya or Durga Devi has the task of providing an illusion of artificial lordship and thus temping one to enjoy, and further entanglements begin .
Some people say God knows everything, but does He know when you will turn in Love towards Him , and how you will love Him and the intensity ?
In conditioned consciousness, one is firmly in God’s energy, as the high court judge knows the destination of the criminal, so a harmful soul is under God’s grips , with predicable consequences . Not a pure soul , he has his full freedom and is consequently unpredictable, love is dynamic. Ever increasing loving exchanges with the master of love Divinity or Krishna takes place unlimitedly.
Not too much oneness , not too much difference..this needs considering..
“That means we all individual beings, we are individual constitutionally. God is the father or creator or whatever, or the source of all life, or source of our existence. Whatever you like, you can say. So we have…, we have been created in that way. Eko bahu syāma. God has become many. This is also version of the Vedas that many, all these many, we are also god. Just like the fire diffuses its sparks. The sparks coming out of the fire, it is the…, they are also part and parcel of the fire. Similarly we, we are all parts and parcels of the Supreme.”
“Now, He wanted to become many. He wanted to become many, so He has become many, and we are that many. So we are not different from God. We are not different from God, but because He wanted to become many, so we are the many. Now, thing is, when God wanted to become many, there must be some purpose behind this. Otherwise, why did He like to become many? He was one, one without second. That’s all right. But why did He become many? So that is a question, one must like to put, that “Why God became many?”
“So that is, that answer is that because God is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha [Bs 5.1],”
“[Kṛṣṇa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.]”
“He’s all-pleasure—therefore, without many, there is no pleasure. Just like here I sit down the whole day alone, but I become more active and more pleasing when you come. Whenever we want to enjoy some pleasure, pleasure is not enjoyed alone. Pleasure is enjoyed with many. Now God is by nature… He’s ānandamayo ‘bhyāsāt [Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12].”
The words of Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
The founding Acarya of ISKCON
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