Destination of all spiritual processes is not the same
Radhika Gopinatha dasa
Professor of Vedic Theology and Religious Studies: Present society needs a new paradigm of devotion to God.
The destination of all spiritual processes not the same. for e.g. If you buy a ticket to Denver Colorado, you will be allowed to board a flight to New York, NY.
Gradations of people at different levels of Worship:
In this mundane world there are fourteen levels disposed in the graded order of high and low.
Here is a description of higher 7 levels
Level 1: Persons living with wives and children hankering for the pleasure-giving effect of their fruitive actions, move up and down within the limits of the three worlds of Bhū?, Bhuva? and Sva?.
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Level 2: Brahmacārīs of great austerities, ascetics and persons addicted to hypothetical truth, persons of a neutral disposition adopting nonfruitive works by an aptitude which seeks to be free from all mundane desires, move up and down within the limits of the worlds of Maha?, Jana?, Tapa? and Satya.
Level 3: Above these worlds lies the abode of four-headed Brahmā, above which lies the unlimited realm of Vaiku??ha of Vi??u, K?īrodaka?āyī, lying in the ocean of milk.
Level 4: Paramaha?sa-sannyāsīs and the demons killed by ?rī Hari, by crossing the Virajā, i.e., by passing beyond the fourteen worlds, enter into the luminous realm of Brahman and attain to nirvā?a in the form of temporary abeyance of the temporal ego.
Level 5: But the devotee actuated by knowledge (j?āna-bhakta), the devotee actuated by the pure devotional aptitude (?uddha-bhakta), the devotee imbued with loving devotion (prema-bhakta), the devotee actuated by pure love (premapara-bhakta), and the devotee impelled by overwhelming love (premātura-bhakta), who serve the majesty of Godhead, have their locations in Vaiku??ha, i.e., the transcendental realm of ?rī Nārāya?a.
Level 6: The devotees who are imbued with all-love and who walk in the footsteps of the spiritual maids of Vraja, alone attain to the realm of Goloka. The different locations of the devotees in Goloka according to the respective differences in the nature of their rasa, i.e., mellow quality, are settled by the inconceivable power of K???a.
Level 7: The pure devotees following the devotees of Vraja and those following the pure devotees of Navadvīpa are located in the realm of K???a and Gaura respectively. The identical devotees of Vraja and Navadvīpa simultaneously attain to the pleasures of service in the realm of K???a and Gaura.
?rī Jīva Gosvāmī, a great Vaishnava acarya, writes in his work Gopāla-campū that "the supreme transcendental realm is called Goloka being the abode of go, transcendental cows, and gopa, transcendental cowherds. This is the seat of the rasa pastimes of the absolute ?rī K???a. Again the realm is called ?vetadvīpa owing to the realization of some of the rasas which are the inconceivable manifestation derived from the untouched purity of that supreme realm. The twofold entities of the supreme Goloka and the supreme ?vetadvīpa are indivisibly the realm of Goloka." The gist of the whole matter is this—Goloka as ?vetadvīpa is eternally manifest because the pleasures of enjoyment of the rasa could not be had in its entirety in the pastimes of K???a in Vraja. He accepts the emotion and effulgence of His predominated moiety, ?rī Rādhikā, and makes an eternal pastime for the enjoyment of k???a-rasa there. ?rī K???acandra coveting to taste the following pleasures, viz., to realize (1) the nature of the greatness of love of ?rī Rādhā; (2) the nature of the wonderful sweetness of His love of which ?rī Rādhikā has got the taste; (3) the nature of the exquisite joy that accrues to ?rī Rādhā by Her realization of the sweetness of His love, took His birth, like the moon, in the ocean of the womb of ?rī ?acī-devī.
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2 个月I learnened the very 1st Yogi i. e. Adiyogi Belongs to 1st Catagory is the higest order of Yogi
Levels? How do you know this? Were you taught this or did you actually experience this?
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2 个月Thanks for sharing!