How many types of bodies are there in the spiritual world?
From: ANKUSH SHARMA
how many types of bodies in spiritual world ? and how one will get that particular body and family?
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Question from Ankush Sharma.
How many times our bodies are there in the spiritual world? And how will one get that particular body and family? Answer, the types of body in the spiritual world are only one. All bodies are Satchitananda. All bodies are purely and entirely spiritual.
These bodies are not different from the mind and the soul. There is only one substance that makes everything in the spiritual world. So in that sense there are only one bodies.
Now those bodies can have different forms. There can be elderly bodies for those who are in Vatsala Rasa with Krishna. There can be female bodies for those who are in Madhura Rasa.
And male young bodies for those who are in Sakya Rasa. So these will vary but they are not types of bodies. A type is only one, that is Satchitananda, the spiritual body.
And they have different forms. Even the trees, in fact everything, even the ground in the spiritual world is spiritual. Everything is spiritual.
That is the meaning of the word spiritual world. Now beyond that, how do we get the body? That is by the arrangement of Krishna. It is not that we get that body.
It is not like there is a soul over here and the body will come and the two will unite. It is that the soul itself right now is shrunk in the form of a bija. So when the soul goes back to the spiritual world, from this bija itself the Swaroopa will manifest.
And we will re-assume the form that is our eternal rasa in the spiritual world. So that will happen by the process of gradual purification and awakening of our spiritual consciousness. By which we will be able to see that this is the form of Krishna with which I have eternal relationship.
And this is my eternal relationship with Krishna. We will see this not with our material eyes, but with our spiritual perception that will be awakened. And this will happen gradually as we become purified.
Especially when we go in the 9 stages of development of devotion. When we go beyond the stages of nishtha, ruchi, then from asakti, bhava, prema, we start getting spiritual visions where we start perceiving Krishna and our eternal relationship with Krishna. So we don’t have to bother right now about these advanced stages of devotion.
Right now we focus on minimizing our identification with our present material body and on increasing our attraction to Krishna. The platform of even shantarasa is complete detachment from matter and complete attachment to Krishna. And the spiritual body manifests after one goes beyond shantarasa.
So we should focus primarily on developing that qualification of trying to become detached from the body’s identification and trying to serve Krishna to the best of our capacity and thereby developing our attachment to him.