The Conditional and The Constitutional
Everything is gefierally associated with two types of activities, the conditional and the constitutional. Conditional means an activity that is subjected to one or more conditions or requirements being met. Constitutional means an activity relating to someone's nature. For example, wateris liquid by nature. Hence, liquidity is its constitutional activity However due to excess cold it becomes ice and freezes others. If heated, it changes to vapour and makes others warm or burns. Both of these are conditional activities. Silla Bhakti Vedanta Swami writes that when a living entity is conditioned, he has two kinds of activities: one is conditional and other is constitutional. As for protecting the body or abiding by the rules of society or state, and many other activities in connection to conditioned life, these are called conditional. Besides these, the living entity who is fully conscious of his spiritual nature and is engaged in devotional services unto Krishna, has activities which are transcendental, performed in his constitutional position. In general, we understand body as the person and also use terms as 'my body', 'my mind', 'my intelligence'. Nobody says, 'I am body', I am mind'... This means that the speaker This somebody different from the body. Across the globe, if the body has conscious principle, it is considered as a person. When the same body loses consciousness (or is dead),nobody addresses that dead body as a person. Without realisingthefact, we accept the constitutional position of all living beings, though we tend to accept conditional position of living being. This means we all accept thata living being is called 'living' when he possesses that conscious principle, known as Atman'. Accepting living being as 'Atman' is accepting the constitutional position of that living being. In other words, until the atomic soul, energy of the eternally existing, blissful, knowledgeable Supreme Lord, remains in the body, it is identified as a person. By the existence of that principle, 'I remains and by the absence of that principle, TI'do not remain; that is my nature (means, I am a soul). Soul is eternal, body is not eternal. That is my constitutional position. Whenever we embrace our conditional state, we move away from our constitutional state, that is, reality Being soul, we comprise of sat+chid+anand. We have inbuilt desire to become happy. Although striving hard for many years to become happy, we see happiness slipping from our hands now and then. It is though the desire to be happy, bliss is always there. What should we then do, to hard-earned happiness forever According to the Bhagwad Identities are not part of the Support of His energy. We, the so servants of Krishna, eternally seventh chapter of the Gita, K explains that soul is part of hisThismeans soul is servitor of:By staying in this material forgetting the Super-soul, was threefold misery. When this so the Lord in his constitutional practises devotion, he remains transcendental ecstasy, unaffethreefold miseries. One who at exalted state of devotion is ins liberated from the cycle of birdbath. (The writer heads the S Chaitanya Gaudiya Math
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The Conditional and The Constitutional
Everything is gefierally associated with two types of activities, the conditional and the constitutional. Conditional means an activity that is subjected to one or more conditions or requirements being met. Constitutional means an activity relating to someone's nature. For example, wateris liquid by nature. Hence, liquidity is its constitutional activity However due to excess cold it becomes ice and freezes others. If heated, it changes to vapour and makes others warm or burns. Both of these are conditional activities. Silla Bhakti Vedanta Swami writes that when a living entity is conditioned, he has two kinds of activities: one is conditional and other is constitutional. As for protecting the body or abiding by the rules of society or state, and many other activities in connection to conditioned life, these are called conditional. Besides these, the living entity who is fully conscious of his spiritual nature and is engaged in devotional services unto Krishna, has activities which are transcendental, performed in his constitutional position. In general, we understand body as the person and also use terms as 'my body', 'my mind', 'my intelligence'. Nobody says, 'I am body', I am mind'... This means that the speaker This somebody different from the body. Across the globe, if the body has conscious principle, it is considered as a person. When the same body loses consciousness (or is dead),nobody addresses that dead body as a person. Without realisingthefact, we accept the constitutional position of all living beings, though we tend to accept conditional position of living being. This means we all accept thata living being is called 'living' when he possesses that conscious principle, known as Atman'. Accepting living being as 'Atman' is accepting the constitutional position of that living being. In other words, until the atomic soul, energy of the eternally existing, blissful, knowledgeable Supreme Lord, remains in the body, it is identified as a person. By the existence of that principle, 'I remains and by the absence of that principle, TI'do not remain; that is my nature (means, I am a soul). Soul is eternal, body is not eternal. That is my constitutional position. Whenever we embrace our conditional state, we move away from our constitutional state, that is, reality Being soul, we comprise of sat+chid+anand. We have inbuilt desire to become happy. Although striving hard for many years to become happy, we see happiness slipping from our hands now and then. It is though the desire to be happy, bliss is always there. What should we then do, to hard-earned happiness forever According to the Bhagwad Identities are not part of the Support of His energy. We, the so servants of Krishna, eternally seventh chapter of the Gita, K explains that soul is part of hisThismeans soul is servitor of:By staying in this material forgetting the Super-soul, was threefold misery. When this so the Lord in his constitutional practises devotion, he remains transcendental ecstasy, unaffethreefold miseries. One who at exalted state of devotion is ins liberated from the cycle of birdbath. (The writer heads the S Chaitanya Gaudiya Math
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are B V Vaman Maharaj views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: B V Vaman Maharaj and Speaking Tree,Times of India