Category:Absolute World
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda draws a sharp philosophical contrast between our present experience in the relative material world and the reality of the absolute world. In the material realm, everything exists in duality—light requires darkness, and the name of an object is separate from the substance itself. However, the absolute world is characterized by advaya-jñāna (non-duality). There, the name, form, and qualities of the Supreme Lord are identical to the Lord Himself. Śrīla Prabhupāda famously illustrates this with the spiritual mathematics where one plus one equals one, and one minus one also equals one. While the absolute world is entirely spiritual and free from material inebriety, it is not devoid of variety. There are masters and servants, and even apparent competition or sorrow, but because everything is absolute, these varieties are completely free of malice and are manifestations of eternal bliss.
- The Relative vs. The Absolute: The material world is dualistic (composed of matter and spirit), whereas the absolute world is complete spirit without any material tinge.
- Name and Substance are Identical: In the absolute world, there is no difference between a name (like "water" or "Kṛṣṇa") and the actual substance or person.
- Absolute Mathematics: One plus one equals one, and one minus one equals one; everything is absolute.
- Oneness in Quality: The Lord and His pure devotees, or the master and the servant, share the same spiritual quality, though they maintain their functional relationships.
- Transcendental Variety: Competitions, pleasure, and apparent pain in the spiritual world are devoid of material contamination and exist only as eternal bliss.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: No Duality in the Absolute World.
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Pages in category "Absolute World"
The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
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- A name that represents an object of this material world may be subjected to arguments and experimental knowledge, but in the absolute world a name and its owner, the fame and the famous, are identical
- Animal-killing is only allowed when it is absolutely necessary, for medicine. Suppose by killing one animal hundreds of lives are saved, so that is allowed
- As long as one is in material, conditioned life, strict discipline is required in the matter of moral and immoral activities. The absolute world is transcendental and free from such distinctions because there inebriety is not possible
- As soon as we say "Here is light," there must be darkness. This is called relative world. One has to be understood by other relative terms. But there is another world, which is called absolute world. There the master and the servant, the same
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- He (God) can see, hear, touch or manifest Himself anywhere and everywhere, for He is present everywhere as the Supersoul of all infinitesimal souls, although He has His particular abode in the absolute world
- He has no idea what is absolute truth. He is in darkness. He does not know there is absolute world. This is the relative worlds
- Here everything is duality, relative knowledge, relative world, but in the absolute world everything is one, spirit. Because here we have got experience two energies, spiritual energy and material energy, working
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- In the absolute world a name and its owner, the fame and the famous, are identical, and similarly the qualities, pastimes and everything else pertaining to the Absolute are also absolute
- In the Absolute world the fool is also the master and the master is also a fool in reciprocal exchange of dealings. Lord Caitanya also accepted Himself a great fool before His spiritual master and all of us must follow the transcendental process
- In the absolute world there are no such differences (between the visnu-tattva servitors and the jiva-tattva servitors), yet one must observe these differences in order to distinguish the Supreme from His subordinates
- In the absolute world there is no difference between the master, the father and the son. There is no difference, because they are absolute
- In the absolute world there is no difference in quality between the Supreme Lord and His pure devotee
- In the absolute world there is no such duality. Everything is everything. One plus one equal to one; one minus one equal to one
- In the absolute world there is sometimes competition between servitors in the service of the Lord, but such competition is without malice
- In the absolute world, the name Krsna is the transcendental sound representation of the Lord. There is no potential difference between His quality, name, form, etc. If we chant the name of the Lord, Hare Krsna, that has as much potency as the Lord Himself
- In the Absolute world, the name water and the water is the same. This is called Absolute, no different separation. So in the kingdom of God, the God is God and His son is also God. There is no difference between the name and the substance
- In the absolute world, the plane, the associates of Lord Visnu and Lord Visnu Himself are all spiritual. There is no material contamination. In quality, everything there is one
- In the dual world everyone is falsely trying to become the master of the world, whereas in the absolute world the Lord is the absolute Lord, and all others are His absolute servitors
- In the material world, of course, in the material conception, a name is different from the fact it represents. But in the absolute world there are no such differences. The name is as potent as Krsna is
- In the spiritual world there is no difference between the servant and the master. Here, of course, there is distinction, but in the absolute world everything is one
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- On the Absolute world there is no such relativities as a success and failure. The one thing in the Absolute world is to serve Krishna. Don't care for the result. Krishna must know that we are working very seriously and that is our success of life
- One may feel sorry in the absolute world, but the manifestation of so-called pain is always full of bliss
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- Since everything in the spiritual world is absolute, in the spiritual varieties of apparent pleasure and pain there is no perception other than eternal bliss
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu offered His respects to Nanda Maharaja and mother Yasoda, and with great ecstatic love He touched the body of Lord Krsna
- Srimad-Bhagavatam is full of the transcendental topics of the Personality of Godhead and His pure devotees. In the absolute world there is no difference in quality between the Supreme Lord and His pure devotee
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- The anxiety caused by separation from Krsna has made Me (Lord Caitanya) impatient, and I can think of no way to meet Him. O My friends, you are also deranged by lamentation. Who, therefore, will tell Me how to find Him?
- The manifested world is full of varieties of created beings in 8,400,000 species of life, and some of them are superior and inferior to others
- The Mayavadi philosophers fail to understand that Absolute means that one plus one is equal to one, and that one minus one is also equal to one. This is the case in the absolute world. BG 1972 purports
- The process (offering sacrifices to Lord Shiva) is still current in India in a place called Vaidyanatha-dhama, where demons offer animal sacrifices to the deity of Kalabhairava
- The Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gita is giving us some hint about the absolute world, absolute knowledge. How that knowledge can be attained, that is being spoken by the Absolute, Supreme Person, Krsna. Krsna is the Absolute Supreme Person
- The spiritual master, is actually the servitor God. As explained in previous verses, in the absolute world there are no such differences, yet one must observe these differences in order to distinguish the Supreme from His subordinates
- This (human) life is meant to prepare one to return to the absolute world, the kingdom of God
- This material world is the world of duality, in contrast with the oneness of the absolute realm. The world of duality is composed of matter and spirit, whereas the absolute world is complete spirit without any tinge of the material qualities
- This phenomenal world is impersonally the representation of Vasudeva because the ingredients of its creation, their interaction and the enjoyer of the resultant action, the living being are all produced by the external and internal energies of Lord Krsna
- Thus Lord Jagannatha returned to His temple and sat on His throne while Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu returned to His residence with His devotees
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- We require the water in substance. Then our thirst will be satisfied. But in the transcendental, absolute world, there is no such difference. Krsna's name, Krsna's quality, Krsna's word - everything is Krsna and provides the same satisfaction
- Whoever got to see Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu would feel himself overwhelmed with ecstatic love and would begin to chant the Hare Krsna mantra
- Why he (the Guru) is God? "He is God because He is very, very dear to God." In the absolute world, God and a person very dear to God, he is also God