Category:Eternal Body
Theme Analysis
The living entity is eternal by nature, yet in the material world, he is forced to accept a temporary body that is subject to birth, disease, old age, and death. Śrīla Prabhupāda identifies this as the central problem of human existence. The unique function of human intelligence is to inquire, "I am eternal, so why do I have this temporary body?" and "Where is my eternal body?" While the materialist neglects this inquiry, the intelligent person utilizes this life to cultivate a spiritual body (sac-cid-ananda-vigraha). This eternal body, characterized by bliss and knowledge, is attained by returning to the spiritual world, where the chemical composition of the body is the same as God's—pure spirit.
- The Inquiry: The human being must ask, "Where is my eternal body?" (athato brahma jijnasa).
- The Paradox: An eternal soul trapped in a temporary body is an unnatural situation caused by the desire for material enjoyment.
- The Choice: One can cultivate a body like a cat or dog, or one can cultivate an eternal, blissful body.
- The Nature of the Body: The spiritual body is full of knowledge and bliss, unlike the material body which is a source of disease and misery.
- The Solution: Returning to Kṛṣṇa restores the soul to its original, eternal status.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Attaining an Eternal Body.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "Eternal Body"
The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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- Even if you are going to get body next life, you must have a better body. Or the best thing is that you must have an eternal body. If such solution is there, why the human society should neglect it? That is their foolishness
- Every living entity is eternal. He must have his eternal body. But purposefully, to enjoy this material world, the living entity has accepted a material body. Not only once, but it is going on continually, one after another
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- I do not die even after the annihilation of this body. Then where is my eternal body? This question should be raised by the human form of life. Athato brahma jijnasa
- If I am eternal, whether it is possible to get an eternal body? Or eternal happiness? That is the problem of human society
- If we can transcend this interruption, we can take part in loving affairs similar to those of Krsna and Radharani. Our aim should therefore be to go back home, back to Krsna, because since Krsna is eternal, we shall there receive an eternal body
- If we study, "Is our body eternal?" No, sir. It is temporary, say, fifty years, sixty years, utmost hundred years. So it is not eternal, it is not sat
- If you want to reach to the ultimate goal of life, where only blissful life, sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah, eternal body of knowledge and bliss, then you have to become sura
- In the human form of life, we should utilize our intelligence that "This constant change of body, how it can be stopped?" And we should remain in our eternal body, because I am eternal
- It is believed that all the universal planetary systems are situated on the extensive body of the purusa, but He has nothing to do with the created material ingredients. His body is eternally in spiritual existence par excellence
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- That soul is eternal, but the body is not eternal. For our activity we must have a body; without a body, without sense organs, there is no activity. But people are not inquiring whether it is possible to have an eternal body
- The chemical composition of God's body and the eternal spiritual body of the living entity is the same-spiritual
- The highest perfection of life is to come back to Me, and you get the spiritual body, eternal body, blissful life, full of pleasure
- The Vaikuntha planets are forms of eternity, bliss and knowledge, and therefore the devotees of the Lord, who are admitted into the abode of the Lord, also get bodies of eternity, bliss and knowledge. As such there is no difference between one and another
- They (people) aspire for an eternal body because even though they engage in sense enjoyment, that sense enjoyment is not eternal
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- We are trying to give this information (next life one should have better or eternal body) to the human society, but they are so callous, they are so bodily conscious, they are not very much serious about it
- We can cultivate the next body like cats and dog, and we can cultivate such body as eternal, blissful knowledge. Therefore the best intelligent person will try to get next body full of blissfulness, knowledge, and eternity
- We see, we act, under some conditions offered by the material nature. So we are not fully aware of everything; neither our body is eternal; neither we are blissful. This body is the source of so many diseases