The Christians speak of body mind and soul in sacrifice and love for God . The Vedas call this in its highest levels pranaya , an extreme oneness in love .
The expression to steal someone’s mind is there and somewhat understood on one level , but in spiritual consciousness this stealing is taken to inconceivable levels .
Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has revealed the deepest aspects in his explanation of the inconceivably and simultaneously oneness and difference between the living beings and God , especially within the Madurya and Parakiya rasa, or mellows of relationships.
Even our political classes speak of winning over hearts and minds .This suggests dualism, the body is a shell , the inner existence something quite different.
What is the body ..that is the difference from hearts and mind , and what is the heart and mind , the heart and mind is a reflection of our deeper consciousness, the symptoms of the soul is consciousness. Consciousness has its original pure state, which is somewhat covered by the subtle ethereal energies, energies that stem from Visnu. Bhagavad Gita, as it explains, all , Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada makes everything crystal clear.
The hearts and minds are the essence of a person . In pure spiritual love, the heart and pure mind become so absorbed in the object of love , Krishna that it becomes one in love ..this is referenced as pranaya by Srila Rupa Goswami. This extreme condition ,of the abode of love, the devotee , coming in contact with the object of love , Divinity , fluctuates in union and separation from the beloved in order for the ever increasing ocean of blissful mellows to expand .Even in ordinary dealings of the reflections of spiritual love , the lover is always thinking of his loved , especially in youthful forms .
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has revealed these confidential truths , and the Caitanya Caratamrita explains all , Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami has also explained all in his commentary. There we see Srimati Radharani has become Gadadha prabhu , He was like the shell of Her body , all be it trancendental, but the heart and mind of Gadadha , who was ( Radharani) was experienced by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu….
In spiritual love our hearts and minds are given over to another in absolute fulness ..thus Mahāprabhu taught the inconceivably and simultaneously oneness and difference of pranaya , particularly of manjari bhava , and ultimately of Radharanis ‘ pranaya with Krishna . He was glorifying Srimati Radharani’s love , and Srimati Radharani in Her oneness with Krishna, within Mahāprabhu, was glorifying Krishna.
Thus, Krishna says, in His Bhagavad Gita “Think of me become my devotee.”
If we do not, the difference between God and ourselves, and the lack of oneness in love , brings another material body , of some kind or another …made of the difference, the difference being the external energies…of Krishna, which are actually, His inferia energies, so also one and different.
Spiritual bodies are an expansion of the soul , the inner heart and mind , in its pure spiritual state , the soul expands into spiritual form in the association with Krishna.
The abode of love Radharani , has combined with the object of Love , Krishna, in His form as Mahaprabhu, so Krishna could get an insight into the glories of the abode of love , Srimati Radharani …and He experiences it , but not to its fullness, Radharani watched over Him ,as Gadadha prabhu ,Radharani could see Mahaprabhu at Puri was becoming so very mad in His experiences of the Hladini sakti of Srimati Radharani … that Radharani called a halt to it ….and then Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu entered the Tota Gopinatha Deity at Puri . The end of the pastimes of Mahaprabhu ….Thus Krishna could not fully understand Radharani because ever increasing spiritual love in anuraga is forever increasing . Such is Radharanis attraction for Krishna, who also does not know the extent of His glorious attributes , that Srimati Radharani is forever attracted to ..