Category:Developing a Material Body
Theme Analysis
The Vedic literature provides a complete and flawless science regarding the origin of life and the development of the physical body. Unlike modern materialistic theories which falsely claim that life is generated from inert matter, Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the exact opposite is true: matter only develops because of the presence of the eternal spirit soul. The material body is essentially a biological machine that grows and functions solely because the spiritual spark, or seed, is present within it. If the spirit soul leaves, all physical development immediately ceases.
The process of developing a new material body is a precise mechanism driven by the laws of karma. At the time of death, the living entity enters a state of unconsciousness. Based on their past fruitive activities and the specific desires cultivated within their subtle body (mind, intelligence, and ego), the soul is placed under the strict supervision of higher authorities (karmanā daiva-netreṇa). The soul is then injected via the semen of a male into the womb of a specific female. Once inside the womb, the soul takes shelter, and the physical body begins to form around this spiritual seed.
This period of embryonic development takes approximately seven months. During this time, the soul remains unconscious as the physical form grows and develops its various holes, such as the eyes, ears, and mouth. When the body is sufficiently developed, consciousness returns, and the child struggles to come out. Because the conditioned soul falsely identifies with the material energy, they are forced to repeat this painful cycle of entering a womb and developing new bodies life after life. However, Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that just as the soul has the potency to develop a material body, it also possesses the inherent potency to develop its original, eternal spiritual body. By abandoning material desires and cultivating Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the soul can stop the cycle of material development and return to the spiritual world.
- Spirit is the Basis of Matter: Life is not generated from matter; rather, the material body grows and develops only because the eternal spirit soul is present within it.
- The Mechanism of Karma: The development of a specific type of body is dictated entirely by the living entity's past fruitive activities and mental desires.
- Development in the Womb: The soul is injected into the womb via semen, where it remains unconscious for about seven months as the physical body develops around it.
- The Spiritual Potency: Just as the soul develops a temporary material body through material contamination, it can develop an eternal spiritual body through Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Developing a Material Body - The Science of Transmigration.
Pages in category "Developing a Material Body"
The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
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- A living being, according to his own action, is allowed to enter into the womb of a mother by the vehicle of a father's semina, and thus he develops his desired body. This is the law of birth in specific bodies according to one's past actions
- A living entity utilizes his senses, intelligence, mind and so on in a specific way of his own choosing and thus develops a particular type of body, within which he becomes encaged
- According to his association with the three modes of nature, the living entity develops a particular type of body
- According to the desires of the living being, the material body develops. So from the spirit soul the material body comes into existence, generated from the living force
- Anyone who has no knowledge of the spiritual existence - how this material body has developed, how we are put into different conditions life - without this knowledge he is two-legged animal, that's all. So don't remain as two-legged animal
- As Krsna is always aloof from the cosmic manifestation although it is completely dependent on Him, so a living entity is also completely aloof from his material, conditioned life although the material body has developed on the basis of spiritual existence
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- Death is nothing but to remain practically unconscious for seven months. That's all. This body is left, and we enter into a particular womb of mother, and just to develop another body it takes about seven months
- Death means from the time of your leaving this body and entering into the womb of another mother, and so long another body is not developed, you remain unconscious
- During this period, I mean to say, quitting this body, entering into another body and to develop that body, come to the consciousness point of view, it takes seven months. So death means sleeping for seven months
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- Generally it is experienced that the father gives life to the child but the mother gives its body; although the seed of life is given by the father, the body develops within the womb of the mother
- Gradually we develop different types of body and different types of consciousness. So when we come finally to God consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, that is the perfection of life
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- I can develop the body like an elephant, but the elephant is conducted under the direction of a man. You know? Such a big animal is controlled by a small boy of human being. So everyone is under control
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam, Third Canto, it is explained that under the control of superior authority a living entity is put within the semen of a male and injected into the womb of a particular female in order to develop a particular type of body
- In the first night there is a pealike form that takes place. Then he grows, growing. Then many holes come out of that pealike form - that becomes our eyes and other nine holes. In this way the body is developed in seven months
- In this way (9 holes - 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth, 1 genital, & one rectum) the body develops, and as long as it needs to develop within the mother's womb, it remains there. When it is sufficiently developed to go outside, it comes out and grows
- Individual soul is the seed, and upon that seed, this body has developed. According to our Vedic understanding, the body develops on the seed. This is very practical
- It is not the semen of the man that creates life within the womb of a woman; rather, the living entity, the soul, takes shelter in a particle of semen and is then pushed into the womb of a woman. Then the body develops
- It is true that the material body develops only by the desire of the living entity. The evolution of the material body is due to the desires of the living being
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- Jantu means animal. Although he's living entity, he's not called jiva soul. He's called jantu. Jantur dehopapattaye. Jantu. This material body is developing for the jantu, animal
- Just like from the spiritual body, you have developed this material body, similarly, from the spiritual atom, you can develop your spiritual body. Tyaktva deham. Tyaktva deham means that giving up this material body, he develops his spiritual body
- Just like the matter created by the male and female, the jiva soul enters and then the body develops
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- One has to understand the differences with intelligence. Everyone knows that his material body has developed from a spiritual spark, and similarly the universal body has developed from the supreme spark, Supersoul
- One must understand that the process of mental speculation develops a new type of body that does not actually exist
- Our material mind and body develop from the living entity, the soul, and being influenced by the three qualities of matter, we forget our real identity
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- The acts of commission and omission made by them (the materialistic leaders) during their lifetime of leadership will remain in the psychic encagement of mind and the subtle psychic life will develop again in another suitable body
- The gopis who concentrated their minds on Krsna in the spirit of paramour love became fully purified of all the fruitive reactions of material nature, & some of them immediately gave up their material bodies developed under the 3 modes of material nature
- The indestructible, transcendental living entity is called Brahman, and his eternal nature is called adhyatma, the self. Action pertaining to the development of the material bodies of the living entities is called karma, or fruitive activities
- The master claims full right to the bodies of slaves because the master feeds them. It may also be questioned whether the body belongs to the father, who is the seed-giving master of the body, or to the mother, who develops the child’s body in her womb
- The Mayavadi philosophers' thesis that God and the individual soul are one and the same cannot be accepted because the individual soul has to develop his power according to the development of different types of bodies
- The spirit souls in the Brahmajyoti, although they have no desire for sense gratification, still they feel inconvenience like the ghost, and they fall down again in the Maya's atmosphere and develop a material body
- The subtle body with the semina of the father, it is injected in the mother's womb, and then again you will develop another body. This is the process of transmigration
- The subtle body, which carries the conception of the next body, develops another body in the next life. This process of transmigrating from one body to another and struggling while in the body is called karsati or struggle for existence. BG 1972 purports
- The subtle psychic life will develop again in another suitable body by the process of transmigration of the spirit soul & thus put godless leaders in ordeals of different wheels of action & reaction by obliging them to transmigrate from 1 body to another
- The subtle psychic life will develop again in another suitable body, by the process of transmigration of the spirit soul, and thus put them in ordeals of different wheels of action and reaction by obliging them to transmigrate from one body to another
- The Supreme Lord said, The indestructible, transcendental living entity is called Brahman, and his eternal nature is called the self. Action pertaining to the development of these material bodies is called karma, or fruitive activities. BG 8.3 - 1972
- This material body is developed because spirit is present within matter; a child grows gradually to boyhood and then to manhood because of that superior energy, spirit soul, being present. BG 1972 purports
- This material body, how it has developed, such big body? Because the living spark is there. The gigantic material thing grows on the basis of spirit soul. We can understand that
- This we can experience, that as soon as the spirit is entered into the womb of the mother, they develops skin and the child develops body. So this is very practical, that first of all, not that simply by sexual intercourse a child is born
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- We have to take it from authoritative scriptures like Bhagavad-gita, the Vedic literature, that soul is different from this body, and . . . of course, according to the mentality of the soul, we develop different kinds of body
- We living entities, we are spiritual atoms, and by material atomic combination we have developed this body, although this material body is foreign to me. Similarly, we can develop our spiritual body also in the spiritual world. Is it clear?
- When he goes to Krsna, he goes in spiritual body. So there is potency of every living being. Just like he has got the potency of developing this material body, similarly, he has got the potency of developing spiritual body
- Within the body of a child, for instance, the spiritual principle is present, and therefore changes take place in the body and it develops. But if the spirit leaves the body, the development stops. This law is applicable to every material object
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- You already have a spiritual body. Now, due to our material contamination, we are developing the material body
- You take information from Bhagavad-gita. There is spiritual body. And why it is difficult to understand? You can understand it that your materially body has developed from that atomic existence of spirit