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The soul absorbs and adapts to whichever external environment the Lord chooses to set it into. We see this preference for adaptability even in the material bodies of Earth.
Our business is to absorb and experience and report back, as minute individuals, to God, and in this way He expands His own experience, data, enjoyment, and infinity. He has created the souls as a locum of free will and ability to enjoy and conceive, each unique. He has made the jiva capable of assuming Demigod bodies with immense almost inconceivable power, or we can be turned down and live a life as a plant.
We can turn to God within our hearts and literally communicte with Him, or we can turn away artificially, and in a deluded state of mind and in a material body appropriate for that mind set, we can play at being seperate from God, even to try to be God ourself ; an impossibility.
We can be empowered like Gods, by His will alone, including even a sort of omniscience. These powers, lagima siddhi etc, ie mystical powers, can be imitated or even distract a progressive yogi from obtaining the goal of pure devotional service, obtainable evn by a simple youth. When one is a surrendered servant of Godhead, He easily awards all powers needed to His actual representatives and their servitors/associates.
In the Vaikuntha planets, the jiva category of souls have spiritual bodies so alike to that of God Himself, it is hard to tell them apart !
Our business is to absorb and experience and report back, as minute individuals, to God, and in this way He expands His own experience, data, enjoyment, and infinity. He has created the souls as a locum of free will and ability to enjoy and conceive, each unique. He has made the jiva capable of assuming Demigod bodies with immense almost inconceivable power, or we can be turned down and live a life as a plant.
We can turn to God within our hearts and literally communicte with Him, or we can turn away artificially, and in a deluded state of mind and in a material body appropriate for that mind set, we can play at being seperate from God, even to try to be God ourself ; an impossibility.
We can be empowered like Gods, by His will alone, including even a sort of omniscience. These powers, lagima siddhi etc, ie mystical powers, can be imitated or even distract a progressive yogi from obtaining the goal of pure devotional service, obtainable evn by a simple youth. When one is a surrendered servant of Godhead, He easily awards all powers needed to His actual representatives and their servitors/associates.
In the Vaikuntha planets, the jiva category of souls have spiritual bodies so alike to that of God Himself, it is hard to tell them apart !
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