I was watching a sci-fi video in which an individual was hooked up to a computor, Matrix style. Within the video-imaged computor-generated dream scape, the individual had a youthful energetic non-aging body, lived in a beautiful and pleasing place, could eat unlimitedly, and could not die; a superior technology could create this dream-improvement upon the normal earthly experience. For a while, one could imagine one was in heaven.
By comparison, this "real" world has so many restrictions, is so limited and clumbsy. One has to struggle, just to survive, and an end is inevitable. matra sparsas..sitosna sukha dukha da... always changing, happiness then distress.
If I was Godhead and creator of all these things, I would surely prefer to create an existence more akin to the unlimited and wonderful computor-dream. Why create something full of pain and death, like the material worlds? Happiness and distress come and go like the winter and summer seasons here.
Lord Krishna describes that there is a superior realm, a superior enegy beyond the mundane material worlds. There is a higher technology, so advanced it is unlimited, each tiny portion is fully cognizant and blissfull, forever. What we have in material creation is a broken program, a fatally flawed limited cheap replica of the spiritual realm.
A bad dream... from which we are assured that there is an awakening, if we but grasp the message and desire to arise, by attempting to apply ourselves with due diligence to the transcendent process and the goals, and we will find somehow, that we have become part of the process and the goal, servitors and associates of the very sources of mercy, and thus have become re-eligible to enter the perfect and eternal spiritual dreamscapes, the ultimate realities.
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