Category:Eternally Conditioned Souls
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda defines the eternally conditioned souls, or nitya-baddhas, as those living entities who have turned away from the Supreme Lord due to a misuse of their minute independence. Because of this rebellious attitude, they are placed under the care of the external energy, māyā, for rectification. The term "eternally conditioned" indicates that their entanglement in the material world is so ancient that it cannot be traced, and their forgetfulness of Kṛṣṇa appears to be without beginning. Śrīla Prabhupāda contrasts them with the nitya-siddhas, or eternally liberated souls, who never forget their relationship with God. Despite this "eternal" conditioning, the living entity can regain their original position through the mercy of the Lord and the Vedic process of self-realization.
- Definition: Nitya-baddha refers to souls who are conditioned by the material energy and forgetful of Kṛṣṇa.
- The Cause: Misuse of independence and a desire to lord it over material nature.
- The Symptoms: Identification with the gross and subtle bodies, suffering, and the struggle for existence.
- Comparison: Unlike nitya-siddhas, conditioned souls are under the control of the mind and senses.
- Redemption: The Lord descends and provides scriptures specifically to revive the lost memory of these souls.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Nature of Eternally Conditioned Souls.
Pages in category "Eternally Conditioned Souls"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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- Deluded by material energy, the conditioned soul wants to lord it over material energy, just as a moth wants to enjoy a fire. This illusion is the net result of the conditioned soul's forgetfulness of his eternal relationship with the Supreme PG
- Due to misuse of this independence some of the living entities have become implicated in the conditions of cosmic creation and are therefore called nitya-baddhas, or eternally conditioned souls
- Due to the conditioned soul's eternal attitude of separation from Krsna, the spell of material energy awards him two kinds of bodily existence - the gross body consisting of five elements, and the subtle body consisting of mind, intelligence and ego
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- Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has said that a Vaisnava is recognized by his preaching work - that is, by convincing the conditioned soul about his eternal position, which is explained here (in CC Madhya 20.6) as nija-dharma
- Srila Vyasadeva, who is the incarnation of the Lord, thus compiled the Vedic literatures to revive the lost memory of the conditioned souls about their eternal relation with the Lord
- Such is the wonderful action of maya (the covering of maya makes the conditioned soul eternally ignorant), or external energy manifested as if materially produced
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- The Bhagavad-gita was delivered to the conditioned souls of the world to deliver them from the wrong conception of identifying the body with the soul and to reestablish the soul's eternal relation with the Supreme Lord
- The conditioned soul can regain his form of eternal knowledge and bliss simply by seeing the Lord by means of bhakti-yoga
- The conditioned soul eternally suffers the pangs of material existence known as the threefold miseries. He is also subjected to six enemies (such as lust, anger, etc.). Such is the everlasting disease of the conditioned soul
- The conditioned soul, eternally sleeping in darkness, does not understand his self-interest. He simply tries to become happy by making material adjustments, but this is impossible
- The conditioned souls, although eternally existing as parts of the Supreme Lord, are sometimes put within the cloud of the material concept of life, in the darkness of ignorance. The whole Vedic process is to alleviate that darkened condition
- The distinction is that the nitya-siddhas are eternally Krsna conscious without any forgetfulness, whereas the nitya-baddhas, or eternally conditioned souls, are forgetful of their relationship with Krsna
- The living entities belong to the eternal superior nature of the Lord, but due to contamination by the inferior nature, matter, their illusion is also eternal. The conditioned soul is therefore called nitya-baddha, or eternally conditioned. BG 1972 pur
- The living entities who are expanded by His internal potency are eternally liberated persons, whereas those who are expanded in terms of the material energies are eternally conditioned souls
- The Lord is the only enjoyer, and all others are enjoyed. The living beings are predominated enjoyers. But the eternally conditioned souls, forgetful of this constitutional position, have strong aspirations to enjoy
- The Lord of the universe, out of His causeless mercy upon the conditioned souls, descends by His own energy (atma-maya) to reestablish the eternal relation of the conditioned souls with Him
- The nitya-baddha, or the eternally conditioned souls, have the sense of individuality or ahankara, which dictates them sense enjoyment, which they are unable to have constitutionally
- There is no difference between the Supreme Lord and His body, but the conditioned soul, although eternal, is different from his body
- There was no necessity to create this material world for the sufferings of the conditioned souls, but at the same time there are certain living entities, known as nitya-baddha, who are eternally conditioned
- They (the conditioned souls) exist in different species of life because they are eternally averse to transcendental loving devotion to the Supreme Lord
- This external energy of the Lord covers up the pure knowledge of the living entities eternally existing with Him, but the covering is so constant that it appears that the conditioned soul is eternally ignorant