Speaker: Ramananda dasa (Volcano, HI)

February 13, 2015

CC Ādi 5.52 Surrounding Vaikuṇṭha is a mass of water that is endless, unfathomed and unlimited.
CC Ādi 5.53 The earth, water, fire, air and ether of Vaikuṇṭha are all spiritual. Material elements are not found there.
CC Ādi 5.54 The water of the Kāraṇa Ocean, which is the original cause, is therefore spiritual. The sacred Ganges, which is but a drop of it, purifies the fallen souls.
CC Ādi 5.55 In that ocean lies a plenary portion of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa.
CC Ādi 5.56 He is known as the first puruṣa, the creator of the total material energy. He, the cause of the universes, the first incarnation, casts His glance over māyā.
CC Ādi 5.57 Māyā-śakti resides outside the Kāraṇa Ocean. Māyā cannot touch its waters.
CC Ādi 5.58 Māyā has two varieties of existence. One is called pradhāna or prakṛti. It supplies the ingredients of the material world.
CC Ādi 5.59 Because prakṛti is dull and inert, it cannot actually be the cause of the material world. But Lord Kṛṣṇa shows His mercy by infusing His energy into the dull, inert material nature.
CC Ādi 5.60 Thus prakṛti, by the energy of Lord Kṛṣṇa, becomes the secondary cause, just as iron becomes red-hot by the energy of fire.
CC Ādi 5.61 Therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa is the original cause of the cosmic manifestation. Prakṛti is like the nipples on the neck of a goat, for they cannot give any milk.