All human beings has the potential to liberate themselves from the cycle of enforced birth, aging, disease and death. Liberation is possible through learning about self, the original identity and developing the loving relations to the original supreme. For that purpose the learning the process revealed in the Vidic literature is necessary. Facilitating this process of learning, the Bhagavad Gita course held on 22nd January, in its second day, focussed on understanding the self- jiva and the related process. Here under a summary is given:
The Jiva (living entity), conditions – liberation - process
One who acts in Krsna consciousness, or acts in knowledge that aham brahmasmi is of course liberated from the very beginning; and the action itself, which is performed as a sacrifice for Krsna or Visnu, is itself the purifying process, purifying the consciousness of all the dirty things accumulated for millions and millions of births.
The process of
devotional service after one is liberated from the material conditions.
Therefore bhakti-yoga includes jnana-yoga.
The conditioned souls must try to follow the process
of yajna by becoming Krsna conscious.
Jiva
When a jiva tattva
becomes specifically empowered by the Lord, he is called saktyavesa avatara.
Lord Buddha and Lord Jesus Christ were in this group of saktyavesa avatara..
The distinction
between Supersoul and individual.
The Supersoul never
will fall under the clutches of this illusory maya and the jiva soul has this
tendency. So there is distinction, yet, the two, Supersoul and jiva.
The Soul is as the
sunlight and the Sun are qualitatively the same.
Perfection
of living entity.
When the jiva soul
accepts the dictates of the Supreme consciousness Supersoul, only for the
purpose of gratifying the senses of Krishna. This attitude of service is the
perfection of the living entity. The individual soul is called as Krsna’s
marginal energy.
The
condition of the soul.
It is his
consciousness that becomes absorbed in trying to enjoy the matter. Out of
desire to lord it over, the jiva soul forgets that he is eternal, full of
knowledge and full of bliss and identifies with the material energy. So it is
the consciousness of the conditioned soul that is affected.
It is his determination
to become Krsna Conscious that become weak or strong. By the influence of the
modes of passion and ignorance he becomes weak and by the influence of the mode
of goodness he becomes strong. But by the association with the pure devotee he
becomes strongest.
The conditioned
soul, subjected to four defects.
Lord Brahma is a
conditioned soul means that due to his desire to become the creator of the material manifestation
he had to take birth within the material world.
He has written
Brahma-samhita which is pure Vaisnava literature describing the Supreme
Personality of godhead.
The identification of Jiva.
Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu gives the identification of jiva soul as the eternal servant of Krsna
and is situated as marginal potency of the Lord based on the philosophy of acintya-bheda
bheda-tattva.
As spirit soul or
identical brahma, or jiva brahma is identical with the Supreme Brahma or the
param brahma. In this sense jiva soul is abheda or non-different from the param
brahma.
But on account of
the param brahma being the supreme, the biggest, the identical brahma or jiva
brahma being very minute, it is different from the param brahma.
The Jiva in the
body.
There is the jiva
in this body, but there are also jivas within the cells. Just like I am living
within this apartment, but does it means that no other living entity can live
here. There are so many ants, flies, bugs, they are also living within the
apartment. Even in stool there are thousands of living entities.
Fact is that each
and every living entity is covered by two kinds of bodies, one subtle and one
gross. So the subtle body causes the living entity to take another gross body.
The beginning of
his fall down.
In the
Bhagavad-gita it is directly said that the mind is inferior energy in a subtle
form, and soul, jiva, is superior energy.
When the soul becomes captivated
for enjoying the material world instead of rendering service to
Krsna, that is the
beginning of his fall down. When the living being thinks himself to be
the enjoyer, that is called false ego. His constitutional position is to serve
Krsna. So this false
egotism degrades him to pollute the intelligence and the mind.
The mind and
intelligence of the soul.
These are already
there in the soul, but in the conditional stage the same mind and intelligence
become polluted as false egotism or enjoyer. The bhakti process is to purify
everything.
The mind.
If the mind is
purified, then things go on nicely in its original position.
If the mind is
directly engaged at the lotus feet of Krsna, the senses automatically become
engaged in Krsna’s service; and that is the liberated stage. Chanting of the
Hare Krsna mantra is the direct process for curing the mind of all
materialistic contamination. Take to this process and be happy, Hare Krsna.
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