Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Pearls of Wisdom - 67


Process of birth (Explained by Lord Kapila):
(Continued...)

The human soul further prays: The living entity is put under the influence of material nature and continues a hard struggle for existence on the path of repeated birth and death. This conditional life is due to his forgetfulness of his relationship with the Supreme Lord. Therefore, without the Lord's mercy, how can he again engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord?

No one other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as the localized Parmatma, the partial presentation of the Lord, is directing all inanimate and animate objects. He is present in the three phases of time- past, present and future. Therefore, the conditioned soul is engaged in different activities by His direction, and in order to get free from the threefold miseries of this conditional life, we have to surrender unto Him only.

(To be continued...)

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verses 15-16

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