The complex relationship between appearance and substance in spiritual life

[Bhagavatam class at Krishna House, Gainesville, USA]

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this topic of the relationship between appearance and substance in spiritual life talked about four quadrants no appearance, no substance that’s when people are materialist and don’t care about spirituality appearance but no substance that is when they are materialist but they want to put on a facade of spirituality no appearance but substance that is when they don’t care for this world at all and then appearance and substance is when they want to go to other world but also take this world along with them towards other world so I talked about why Jadbharat was in the third quadrant because he was extremely cautious he had been deviated in a previous life and he got deviated because although he had been spiritually advanced he got attached to a deer so just because we are practicing spiritual life doesn’t mean that Krishna will change the rules of the game for us we have to be cautious and responsible and as far as our functioning is concerned we understand that respect is universal and reciprocal universal in the sense that everybody needs to be respected as human being and reciprocal means if somebody is spiritually advanced then we respect them more so the best way we can stay in the fourth quadrant is by having basic respect for everyone and whenever somebody is practicing spiritual life if we see them behaving in a non-respectable way then we give them the benefit of doubt instead of gossiping we clarify and thus we avoid the danger of offense.
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