Actual Source of “Goloka-Envy-Fall” Determined Conclusively, Part 2
BY: BAHUSHIRA DASA (ACBSP)
Jun 28, USA (SUN) —
Karya-karana-kartrtve Dravya -jnana-kriyasrayah
Badhnanti NITYADA MUKTAM mayinam purusam gunah
Karya -effect; karanam-cause; kartrtve-in activities; dravya-material; jnanam-knowledge; Kriya-asrayah-manifested by such symptoms; badhnanti-conditions; NITYADA-eternally; MUKTAM-transcendental; MAYINAM-affected by material energy; purusam-the living entity; gunah-the material modes.
“These three modes of material nature, being further manifested as matter, knowledge and activities, PUT THE ETERNALLY TRANSCENDENTAL LIVING ENTITY UNDER CONDITIONS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT AND MAKE HIM RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH ACTIVIES.”
“Because they are between the internal and external potencies, the ETERNALLY TRANSCENDENTAL LIVING ENTITIES ARE CALLED MARGINAL POTENCY of the Lord. Factually, the living entities are not meant to be so conditioned by material energy, but due to their BEING AFFECTED by the false sense of lording it over the material energy, they come under the influence of such potency and THUS BECOME CONDITIONED by the three modes of material nature. This external energy of the Lord COVERS UP THE PURE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LIVING ENTITY’S ETERNALLY EXISTING WITH HIM, BUT THE COVERING IS SO CONSTANT THAT IT APPEARS THAT THE CONDITIONED SOUL IS ETERNALLY IGNORANT. Such is
the wonderful action of maya, or external energy manifested as if materially produced.”
(S.B.2.5.19 and Purport)
I read this verse many years ago, but I could not find it for a long time. But there it is folks, in plain Sanskrit, Nityada muktam mayinam -- the eternally transcendental (liberated) affected by material energy. So sorry Bala Avidya, I don’t have to rewrite all the Vaisnava Philosophy as you say to me, it is already written in the topmost Vedic Literature, Srimad Bhagavatam, which is the cream of all the Vedas, that means it has precedence over all the Upanishads, other Puranas and The four Vedas. Srila Prabhupada has so beautifully commented on the verse.
The verses you found, Balavidya, about no fall of the jiva, pertain to those who don’t fall from Vaikuntha by their free will. And the verses other devotees have found about falling from Vaikuntha pertain to the ten percent of the jivas that Srila Prabhupada said fall from Vaikuntha due to their independence.
With the statement of this verse, Nityada muktam mayinam, it means that it is pertaining to those jivas living in Vaikuntha/Goloka in the spiritual world beyond the material universe. Nitya mukta and Nityasiddha are synonymous, they are the same, and they, the eternally liberated or perfected, live or have their origin in the spiritual world, not the Vaikuntha planets in the material world.
If one is a nityamukta/ nityasiddha who is beyond the modes of nature, is it possible to be covered? This verse says it happens. That is Achintya Tattva. The verse states Nitya muktam mayinam, the eternally transcendental affected by material energy. It does not say, nityabaddha mayinam, the eternally fallen are affected by the material energy, as you, Balavidya, wish it would say.
How can a Nityamukta/nityasiddha be held responsible for activities of cause and effect which are material? But here in this verse it says he can be put in this situation. How? By misuse of free will in the Spiritual world, but only that ten percent of the Nityamuktas/nityasiddhas misuse it. So Balavidya, don’t you think it’s about time to whip up into a frenzy the dogs around the ISKCON caravan? But anyway, Srila Prabhupada said the dogs may bark but the caravan will move on. And I know you found this useful, Balavidya.
Siddhanta-alasa jana anartha to’chade na
“A person lazy in properly understanding siddhanta does not give up anarthas”
On another topic, when I was in Los Angeles for the Prabhupada Festival 2008, Hari Sauri dasa was giving a class about Srila Prabhupada, and Kanka devi dasi said that she was in Berkeley, California in 1975, at the temple, and a reporter asked Srila Prabhupada something. Srila Prabhupada said that his books will be the law books for the next ten thousand years. There was no tape recorder running, unfortunately. But she was an eye witness, sitting at Srila Prabhupada’s feet.
