Category:Information of the Spiritual World
Theme Analysis
The conditioned souls, trapped within the limits of material senses, often assume that nothing exists beyond the visible cosmic manifestation. However, Śrīla Prabhupāda asserts that specific, scientific information of the spiritual world is available through authorized sources. Just as a radio receives messages from distant places, the Vedic literatures—and specifically the Bhagavad-gītā—act as the medium to receive knowledge about the transcendental sky. This information reveals a realm that is eternal (sanātana), self-illuminated, and vastly larger than the material creation. Kṛṣṇa and His representatives descend specifically to disseminate this parā-vidyā, or superior knowledge, to guide the living entities back to their original home.
- The Authorized Source: While other literatures may give slight hints, the Vedic literature, with Bhagavad-gītā as the essence, provides detailed descriptions of the spiritual world. It is the "radio machine" for receiving transcendental messages.
- The Extent of Reality: The material world constitutes only one-fourth of God's creation. The remaining three-fourths is the spiritual sky, which is at least three times greater than the material manifestation.
- The Nature of the Realm: Unlike the dark material universe that requires sun and moon, the spiritual world is self-illuminated. It is Vaikuṇṭha—free from anxiety—and eternal, existing beyond the cycle of creation and annihilation.
- The Purpose of Knowledge: Kṛṣṇa descends to give this information because without it, conditioned souls remain unaware of their true destination and cannot practice bhakti-yoga effectively.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: We Get Information of the Spiritual World from Bhagavad-gītā.
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Pages in category "Information of the Spiritual World"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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- A devotee who is always in KC, for him there is nothing unknown. Just like we can give information of the whole creation - not only of this material world, of the spiritual world. Clear conception: where is where, what is what. Everything. That is KC
- Any literature giving information about the spiritual world, spiritual life, spiritual identity and the spirit soul is called para vidya
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- He (Krsna) comes and He sends His own, I mean to say, confidential sons or servants to give us information of the spiritual world of God, or everything, both material and spiritual. This knowledge is perfect knowledge
- Here (in CC Adi 17.105) we get some information of the Vaikuntha world, or spiritual world. Vaikuntha means - without anxiety
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- If you are transferred to the spiritual world . . . there are also so many planets, as we have got planets in this material world. Beyond the sky, there is another, spiritual sky. That information is there in the Bhagavad-gita
- In other literatures also there are slight information, but in the Vedic literature you'll find described information of the spiritual world
- Information means we have in Vedic literature. In other literatures also there are slight information, but in Vedic literature you'll find described information of the spiritual world. So Bhagavad-gita is the nutshell, cream of all spiritual knowledge
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- The spiritual world is at least three times greater than this material world. That information we get from Bhagavad-gita
- There are innumerable planets, and beyond the planets, there are spiritual world. So yogis, they have got information. How they have got information? From the scriptures, from Vedic literature, they have got
- There is another world, beyond this material world. We cannot calculate what is the length and breadth of this material world, and what we can get information of the spiritual world? But there is
- There is another world. That we get information from Bhagavad-gita. Paras tasmat tu bhavah anyah (BG 8.20). There is another nature, which is sanatana, eternal. This world, this material world, is not eternal
- This is material world. But there is another world. That information we get from Bhagavad-gita and other Vedic literature. Spiritual world. This material world is only one-fourth of the whole creation. Ekamsena sthito jagat
- This whole universe is dark. By God's arrangement, there is sun, moon, like that, illumining. But there is another world, where there is no need of sun and moon, and that is spiritual world. That is spiritual world, this information is there
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- We get information from Bhagavad-gita and other sastras that spiritual world is still bigger. This material world is the one fourth of the God's creation, and the spiritual world is the three fourth
- We get information from Bhagavad-gita that the spiritual nature is beyond this manifested and nonmanifested cosmic situation. So Krsna says, mad-yajino 'pi yanti mam. If somebody cultivates Krsna consciousness, he can go there. It is not difficult