If the soul is changeless, then how does it change from its svarupa to a seed form?
From: panca pandava das
Prji in your class you mention that soul has dimension like krishna, radharani has, similarly soul has like certain heights etc. and then you mention when soul get material body his dimension become seed form so my question in B.G. 2.24 prabhupada translation was soul eternally the same(changeless) then why soul change dimension.
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Question from Panchpandak Rahu In your class you mentioned that the soul has dimensions just as Krishna and Radharani have and then you mentioned that when the soul gets a material body its dimension becomes seed form so my question is in the Bhagavad Gita 2.24 Prabhupada’s translation says that the soul is eternally the same changeless then how does the soul change dimensions? answer the word Avikaryo which is used in the Bhagavad Gita to indicate that the soul is changeless here is being used primarily in the context of differentiating the nature of the soul from the body so if you see the word used here is Thanur, then in the next verse the word that is used is Avikaryo so the primary focus of this presentation of the Bhagavad Gita is to draw a contrast between the body and the soul that means all the phenomena that characterize the body, they are practically not applicable to the soul so the verse before that says that 2.23 that the soul cannot be pierced by weapons it cannot be burned by fire it cannot be harmed by water or wind and then this verse is saying that same thing it is said in a more generalized way it is impenetrable, it is indissoluble it is non-inflammable so the emphasis of this presentation of the Gita is to contrast between the nature of matter and spirit and this theme was set right earlier in 2.16 where Krishna says to Arjuna that the seers of truth see two natures material and spiritual and of the material there is never any cessation of change, there is constant change and in the spiritual there is no cessation there is no lack of existence so the context of this section is to contrast between matter and spirit and in that context Prabhupada also explains in this purpose that vikarya which he is using in the next verse vikar means change or transformation that and here also sthanu unchangeability it refers primarily to the soul not undergoing six changes, so the six changes are creation, growth, maintenance, reproduction then deterioration and destruction so these six changes characterize matter and they are called the vikar of the jada tattva of material energy but these six changes do not happen to spirit and in that sense it is saying avikaryo and as far as the soul is concerned in the material world it doesn’t undergo any change from body to body, once it comes to the material world it is in the seed form and that is how it stays and even in the seed form the swaroopa of the soul is latent, it is dormant it is just unmanifest and it becomes re-manifesting when the soul becomes purified and liberated so the primary emphasis is to contrast from matter and while contrasting from matter to show how it is not undergone the six changes thank you