Category:Completely Spiritual
Theme Analysis
This category defines the state of pure existence, often termed visuddha-sattva, or being "completely spiritual." The quotes distinguish this platform from the material planes of gross sense gratification, mental speculation, and even pious fruitive activity. Being completely spiritual means existing in a state where there is no distinction between the body and the soul, as seen in the eternal forms of the Lord and the inhabitants of Vaikuntha. The selection further explains that the process of Krsna consciousness—specifically chanting and serving—is not a material ritual but a direct engagement with this spiritual reality, capable of transforming the practitioner's body and consciousness from matter to spirit.
- Beyond Material Layers: The completely spiritual platform transcends the gross waking state, the subtle dream state, and even the deep sleep of susupti, culminating in pure vasudeva-sattva where the Lord is revealed.
- Non-Dual Nature: In the spiritual world, everything is absolute; Lord Krsna and His expansions have bodies that are completely spiritual, meaning there is no difference between the person and their form.
- The Process is the Goal: Devotional activities like chanting the holy name are not material pious deeds but are themselves completely spiritual, acting as the bridge to the transcendental world.
- Ultimate Transformation: By cultivating spiritual desire during life, a devotee can attain a spiritual body at the time of death, just as Dhruva Maharaja's body transformed into a golden spiritual form.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Understanding - The Completely Spiritual Platform.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "Completely Spiritual"
The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
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- Caitanya Mahaprabhu begins from this brahma-bhutah stage. His teaching is completely on the spiritual platform. Therefore people misunderstand us
- Completely spiritualized means that no more material activities. That is possible. If we follow the process, we can turn our life from material contamination to pure spiritual life
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- Devotional service is completely spiritual; it has nothing to do with material things. It is awakened by hearing and chanting in the association of devotees. Because devotional service is always transcendental, it has nothing to do with material activity
- Devotional service of the Supreme Lord and the worship of a demigod cannot be on the same platform because worship of a demigod is material and devotional service to the Supreme Lord is completely spiritual. BG 1972 purports
- Devotional service to the Supreme Lord and the worship of a demigod cannot be on the same platform, because worship of a demigod is material and devotional service to the Supreme Lord is completely spiritual
- Devotional service, however, is beyond the boundary of sense gratification. It is completely spiritual activity
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- If the yogi is reluctant to maintain any connection with the material world, he can, in less than a second, reach the transcendental Vaikuntha and appear there completely in his spiritual body which will be suitable for him in the spiritual atmosphere
- If we can keep cows sufficiently and grow our necessary foodstuffs, then we shall show a new way of life to your countrymen . . . completely spiritual life in healthy atmosphere in divine consciousness
- If you practice this spiritual way of life, the same way, gradually you will become completely spiritualized
- In the Vaikuntha planets the land, the trees, the fruits and flowers and the cows - everything - is completely spiritual and personal. The trees are desire trees
- It is completely spiritual movement. It is not material movement. Therefore they sometimes mistake that "Your people are weak in health. They are becoming this and that. They do not eat meat, so vitality is less"
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- Lord Ananta's arms are attractively long, beautifully decorated with bangles and completely spiritual. They are white, and so they appear like silver columns
- Lord Ananta, whose body is completely spiritual, resides at the root of the planet Patala. He always lives in the core of Lord Siva's heart, and He helps him destroy the universe. Ananta instructs Lord Siva how to destroy the cosmos
- Lord Jagannatha is completely spiritual and full of transcendental bliss, but you have compared Him to a dull, destructible body composed of the inert, external energy of the Lord
- Lord Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja, is advaya-jnana; in other words, there is no distinction between His body and His soul, for His existence is completely spiritual
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- One attains a completely spiritual body fit to render service to the transcendental couple Radha and Krsna: sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam
- Our eating process will be similar to His when we are completely on the spiritual platform. On that platform every part of the body can act on behalf of any other part
- Our movement is completely a spiritual movement, therefore sometimes it appears to be a little different from the materialistic cultural movement
- Our movement is not with the dress but with the living being who has the dress. This is our movement. This is a completely spiritual movement
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- Pious activity is on the material platform, but chanting of the holy name of Krsna is completely on the spiritual plane. Therefore, although pasandis do not understand this, pious activity can never compare to the chanting of the holy name
- Pure love on the transcendental platform is the paragon of purity devoid of material affection and completely spiritual
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- Sannyasi should be situated completely in spiritual order. He has nothing to do. He should simply be engaged in spiritual service, in Krsna consciousness. That is the perfection of renouncement
- Sometimes loving ecstasy transcends regulative principles; such ecstasy, however, is completely on the spiritual platform and cannot be imitated
- Such mercy (Krsna's) is further described as cin-matram, completely spiritual. The use of the word matram indicates absolute spirituality, with no tinge of material qualities
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- The bodies of the inhabitants of Vaikuntha are completely spiritual, having nothing to do with the material body, senses or life air
- The person served, the process of service and the servant. These three items are completely spiritual, and therefore the spiritual world is called absolute. There is no tinge of material contamination there
- The remnants of food left by a pure Vaisnava are called maha-maha-prasadam. This is completely spiritual and is identified with Lord Visnu. Such remnants are not ordinary
- The theory that the symptoms of life are manifest by the interaction of the twenty-four material elements is not supported here (in SB 3.26.19). The living force comes directly from the Supreme Personality of Godhead and is completely spiritual
- The transcendental bodies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His expansions are all existing eternally. Such bodies are never material and are completely spiritual and full of knowledge. They are reservoirs of all transcendental qualities
- The transcendental vibration of the Lord’s holy name is completely spiritual. Thus it must be received from spiritual sources and must be chanted after having been heard from a spiritual master
- Their (the Mayavadis) imaginative mental speculation cannot deter the progress of the Krsna consciousness movement, which is completely spiritual and is never under the control of such Mayavadis
- This change of dress (from gross body to completely spiritual form) will take place automatically at the time of death if one so desires. But this desire is possible at death only if the desire is cultivated during life
- Those who are addicted to fruitive activities and speculative knowledge cannot understand the value of the holy name of Lord Krsna, which is always completely pure, eternally liberated and full of spiritual bliss
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- We are working neither on the sensual platform, nor on the mental platform, nor on the intellectual platform; we are working completely on the spiritual platform
- When all the material designations have thus merged into their respective material elements, the living beings, who are all ultimately completely spiritual, being one in quality with the Supreme Being, should cease from material existence
- When one goes to a transcendental planet it is necessary to change both the finer and gross bodies, for one has to reach the spiritual sky completely in a spiritual form
- When that original consciousness (svarupa) is completely spiritual, it is called Krsna consciousness. One who lives in such consciousness is actually living in Vrndavana. He may live anywhere; material location doesn’t matter
- While boarding the Vaikuntha airplane, his (Dhruva maharaja) body changed to a completely spiritual golden hue. No one can surpass the higher planets in a material body
- While boarding the Vaikuntha airplane, his (Dhruva's) body changed to a completely spiritual golden hue