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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">No, why not with Viṣṇu. Vaikuṇṭha is Viṣṇu, Nārāyaṇa. That is also... But there Nārāyaṇa is worshiped with awe and veneration. He is God. No friendship as in Vṛndāvana. That is not possible. Vipralambha-sakhya. Aiśvarya, aiśvarya, opulence. There the Supreme Lord is taken in aiśvarya, opulences. Not aiśvarya-sthiti.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 19, 1973, London|Room Conversation -- July 19, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 12.13.1|SB 12.13.1]]). Paśyanti, this word is there. Yoginaḥ paśyanti they see. Dhyānāvasthita, by meditation.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: This is the Sixth Chapter Bhagavad-gītā? Is that what you're quoting?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, this is in Bhāgavata.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: I see. But that seeing...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That seeing is not ānanda. Seeing is ānanda, undoubtedly, but seeing and talking and becoming friend, that is higher. Friend or conjugal lover, father, mother. That kind of seeing is different.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: If that yogi quits his body in that condition, does he attain a Vaikuṇṭha planet?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: (break) Is it possible that if he was... This is a question that sometimes a devotee has asked me. If a yogi does attain a Vaikuṇṭha planet, but by his constitutional nature he is meant to be associated with Kṛṣṇa in Goloka...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, why not with Viṣṇu. Vaikuṇṭha is Viṣṇu, Nārāyaṇa. That is also... But there Nārāyaṇa is worshiped with awe and veneration. He is God. No friendship as in Vṛndāvana. That is not possible. Vipralambha-sakhya. Aiśvarya, aiśvarya, opulence. There the Supreme Lord is taken in aiśvarya, opulences. Not aiśvarya-sthiti. In Vṛndāvana the devotees, they practically do not know that Kṛṣṇa is God. "He is our very beloved friend." That's all. They doesn't care to know whether He is God or not. Here the conception of God. Vaikuṇṭha, "Oh, here is God," with awe and veneration, respect.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: That I understand. The question is suppose this yogi, he has not got full knowledge, he does not know of Kṛṣṇa, and therefore he is meditating on Paramātmā, and he attains Vaikuṇṭha. Is it possible that because he hadn't got full knowledge...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, he has to go, simply by Paramātmā conception, he cannot go to Vaikuṇṭha.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Can he later go on from Vaikuṇṭha to Goloka? Can that happen also?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, there is such instances, can go.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: But if a devotee knows Kṛṣṇa, if he knows of Kṛṣṇa, then wherever he is destined, he will go perfectly to his perfect position. Just like Bhīṣma knew Kṛṣṇa...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Mad-yājino yānti mām. Kṛṣṇa devotees, they go directly, especially those who are worshiping Kṛṣṇa through Caitanya Mahāprabhu. They directly go to Kṛṣṇaloka.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: What about like the case of Bhīṣmadeva where he knew about Kṛṣṇa in Goloka, and he went to Kṛṣṇa as Pārtha-sārathi.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, Kṛṣṇa... He understood Kṛṣṇa as Nārāyaṇa. He will go to Vaikuṇṭha, Bhīṣmadeva.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: But he had full knowledge of everything as a mahājana. He knew also...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But he loved Nārāyaṇa, Catur-bhuja.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Yes, that was his constitutional position. That's all right.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like sometimes mādhurya-rasa is the greatest humor...</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Who?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Mādhurya-rasa, conjugal love. But still, there are devotees who prefer parental love, friendly love. That is liking. Everyone has got his own liking. But they are all the same, all the same. There is no difference between Kṛṣṇa devotee and Nārāyaṇa devotee. They are all the... But it is their liking, varieties of liking.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Another related question that also arose... These come in Bhāgavata class with the devotees because they think about the questions and sometimes they come up with nice ones. When Kṛṣṇa is incarnating in His plenary incarnations like Varāha, Nṛsiṁha, like that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is in this material world.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Yes. And sometimes devotees become devoted to those forms. Are there corresponding planets in Vaikuṇṭha for those forms of incarnation? Is there a planet of Nṛsiṁha or Nṛsiṁha-loka in the Vaikuṇṭha sphere?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So far (I) know, those planets are here within this material world.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Wherever He is appearing.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm. Even Rāmacandra's. So far I have...</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: On all the Vaikuṇṭhas, Kṛṣṇa is in His catur-bhuja, four-armed form?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: But those devotees will eventually go there. Those kind of devotees like devotees of Sītā-Rāma, they will also attain the spiritual sky in their various positions.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: All right. Thank you very much. (offers obeisances)</p>
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