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Post by amalagauradas on May 12, 2020 17:46:02 GMT -5
I appreciated the focus back to the svarupa-siddhi in Chapter 5. But I am wondering if the term "second spiritual body" is confusing. According to the discussion of the svarupa-siddhi, isn't the svarupa-siddhi a stage of realization of the spiritual body?
I was just feeling the terms second spiritual body and third spiritual body were a bit confusing.
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Post by Uttamasloka on May 13, 2020 1:11:19 GMT -5
They are not confusing if you read that section carefully.
When one attains the stage of bhava, Krsna awards one their desired spiritual identity, which is called svarupa siddhi, ie: the perfection of one's svarupa - to attain a relationship with Krsna in Vraja lila.
But that isn't our final stage. We still have to take birth in bhauma-lila and grow as a child to teenage. THAT spiritual body is called vastu-siddhi by Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
So the siddha-deha is the first stage, svarupa-siddhi at the stage of bhava is the second stage and taking birth in bhauma-lila is the third and complete spiritual manifestation of our identity and form and mature prema.
So it's just delineating those three stages.
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