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04-21-2008, 06:36 PM
Srila Prabhupada - "We all have come down from Vaikuntha some millions of years ago” Lecture August 6, 1973
Yet I find it interesting that he didn't use the word originate. How can an eternal being "originate"? Interestingly in the sastra we are told that the jivas originate from the tatastha sakti. Prabhupada stuck to the siddhanta by not using the word originate. But no matter what words you stick to, the reality is not something that can completely be contained by our words in a dualistic language used by conditioned souls. Each angle of vision described in words can be established by logic and defeated by another logic. tarko parthisthanat. Tal fruit and the crow. We can waste our time eternally establishing and defeating all the statements about the soul's origin. The real guru will mention what is said in the sastra briefly but it is all in the context of engaging his disciples in bhajan - practical devotional service. If we have become arm chair philosophers then this is something to lament.
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