{"id":3153,"date":"2007-03-26T15:16:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2007-03-26T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T14:16:48","slug":"a-jiva-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3153","title":{"rendered":"A jiva perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Antaryami Dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following is a cross-section from books mentioned read in article titled: importance of reading submitted 9\/12\/06. Purpose of this article: To show jiva’s desending to earthly sphere. <\/p>\n

The spirit soul or jiva as referred to by the vedas is in itself pure and transcendental, eternal full of knowledge and bliss in transcendental form. The jiva cannot be burned, dried, cut or killed, no time affects the jiva. The jiva is eternal a part and partial of the supreme jiva sri krsna. The eternal occupation of the jiva is to hear, chant, remember, serve and worship krsna always. There are nine types of service the jiva renders to lord krsna and four types of relationships may be held.<\/p>\n

Krsna created the jiva as himself, transcendentally pure, granting the jiva an almost equal footing of enjoyment while serving krsna in the transcendental goloka\/vikunta sphere where there is unlimited variaty. Krsna endowed the jiva with a minute particle of Independence, without this Independence loving service towards krsna would be a kind of slavery\/robotic. The only real occupation of the jiva is to be krsna consciously serving krsna nothing else.<\/p>\n

At some point the jiva somehow desired to enjoy separate of krsna, this was detected by krsna and krsna’s internal energy yoga maya. Yoga maya removed the jiva from krsna’s association and placed the jiva into the Brahma-Jyoti braman. The brahma-Jyoti is the effulgence emitting from krsna’s body. The jiva remains in a causal state there, conscious, desiring, but not able to act physically.<\/p>\n

The jiva is now under the care of krsna’s external energy maha maya durga devi. Durga devi is known as krsna’s shadow. Durga acts as krsna’s mind, eye’s, hands, legs, and ears for monitoring and doing the needful with the jiva’s placed within this sphere correctional facility. Another meaning of durga is fortress or prison keeper. Empowered by krsna, durga is on a par with the supersoul antaryami who stays with the jiva always.<\/p>\n

After sometime in the brahma-jyoti the jiva is taken and granted a material body to act within one of the many material universes that are clustered together like a small dark cloud amidst the brama-jyoti. This cloud is called mahat-tatva. To begin the jiva is first granted a bodily life as a brahma universal engineer in one universe. If the jiva does not awaken the dormant loving relationship for krsna as a brahma the jiva then falls to the level of an administrative demigod, in charge of one of natures forces even a planet.
\n Time place and circumstances are taken seriously, no accidents or mistakes made regarding universe, planet and body the jiva will be placed into.<\/p>\n

If yet the jiva does not awaken the loving relationship for krsna on this level the jiva then accepts birth as a human being on an earthly planet. Previous to taking birth as a human being there was no karma on the jiva, the jiva was enjoying coming down, a concessions reward from krsna on his devotee who desired to leave his association. Durga and her aid’s-de-camp the modes of material nature: goodness, passion, ignorance have taken complete control of the jiva’s material body, mind, intellect, senses, bodily actions, inside and out. Always the jiva’s desires and actions being monitored.<\/p>\n

Within mahat-tatva there are unlimited universes large and small. Each universe is covered by seven different layers, each layer very vast in thickness, no chance of the jiva escaping this correctional facility.<\/p>\n

The jiva is not actually the owner\/controller of the granted material body, the jiva is only a passenger of the body. Encaged in the body floating in five types of air in the heart region. The jiva never comes into contact with any material bodily parts or minds etc. The jiva merely witnesses and views the bodies thoughts, functions, actions, food\/beverage intake from the encaged position all based on a desire to enjoy separate of krsna.<\/p>\n

Desire only carry the jiva from body to body, desires are monitored by krsna and his assistants from within and from outside the body. The vedas state that only after the jiva enters a human form does the karma begin, the karma factor begins here. agtsp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"HareBy Antaryami Dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n

After sometime in the brahma-jyoti the jiva is taken and granted a material body to act within one of the many material universes that are clustered together like a small dark cloud amidst the brama-jyoti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}