Tuesday, August 23, 2016

THE BRAHMAJYOTI, RESERVOIR OF ALL ENERGY

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It is becoming more clear that indeed all of the Lord's energies are there in His brahmajyoti. Everything is created from those energies. Both material creations and spiritual creations... Perhaps a better word than "creation" at least in referring to the spiritual worlds would be expanded or emanated from. Since the spiritual planets never "come into being" and are eternally the same... although they are always increasing in bliss, and knowledge. Whereas the material universes can actually be considered to be created since they are completely destroyed also and are always changing. 

In the verse (SB 2.6.17) Lord Brahma compares the sun and the sun's rays radiating from the sun to Krishna and His energies... the brahmajyoti radiating from Him. In the purport Srila Prabhupada elaborates how the Lord's energies in the brahmajyoti are divided to form the spiritual and material worlds.

"Seventy-five percent of the expansive radiation of the Lord is manifested in the spiritual sky (tripad-vibhuti), and twenty-five percent of His personal radiation comprehends the entire expansion of the material universes. This is also explained and stated in the Bhagavad-gita (10.42). Thus the seventy-five percent expansion of His radiation is called His internal energy, whereas the twenty-five percent expansion is called the external energy of the Lord." SB 2.6.17 purport

The marginal energy...the living entities... are also there in the brahmajyoti.
"The living entities, who are residents of the spiritual as well as the material expansions, are His marginal energy (tatastha-sakti), and they are at liberty to live in either of the energies, external or internal." SB 2.6.17 purport

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