Why is going Back to Godhead most important when the creation reflect the causeless mercy of creator?

From Keshav

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question from Keshav why is going back to Godhead most important when even this material world the creation reflects the mercy of God answer yes this creation is a mercy of God but it is only one aspect of the mercy of God there is also the aspect the unreliable reality that this world is temporary so it is temporary and ultimately the temporariness causes great misery to us so we have to have two different perspectives of this world in the devotional path generally materialists have only one perception of the world that oh this world is a place of enjoyment there is a Gita Sagiri article in which I have explained don’t romanticize don’t demonize but utilize so the romanticized notion of the world is to see this world itself as a place of enjoyment and not to think of anything beyond that, that is the materialistic way of looking at life and for perceiving and looking at this way of life one needs to forget the reality of old age, disease and death and those people who become old disease and die they are shut away from the public eye so that the public can go on with the romanticized idea of the world the gyani way of looking is the way of demonizing the world oh this world is a place of temptation this world is a place of illusion this world is a place of tribulation we have to get away from this world come what may the bhakta way includes aspects of both but ultimately it is a way of utilization so we understand this world is the energy of Krishna and it can be used in Krishna’s service and for that purpose we do utilize this world and its resources in Krishna’s service so while utilizing a devotee can have both of these perspectives also the romanticized perspective and the demonized perspective based on what is uncool for the bhakti at that time so if a devotee is going through a naturally scenic situation that devotee can think about how the beauty of nature is a manifestation of God’s beauty and that can enhance one’s remembrance of Krishna in fact the whole 10th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita focuses on this aspect of Vibhuti yoga of seeing Krishna’s greatness manifest in this world and that is important that is very good if one can do that so that is that can be done and should be done by a devotee but at the same time one has to have a little bit of distance from their world this world reflects the beauty of God but it doesn’t reflect the ultimate beauty of God when Srila Prabhupada had gone with the devotees to a beautiful naturally scenic place and the devotees said Prabhupada how beautiful is this world and it is Krishna’s world Prabhupada said yes it is Krishna’s world but the devotee should think how beautiful is Krishna and one focuses on that so we look at the artist now the artist doesn’t and the work of art the artist has created now the artist doesn’t want to destroy that world that is definitely true that is a later part of the long question which I have not read out over here so it is not that Krishna hates this world but the world has a particular purpose and we shouldn’t be so caught up in the artist’s work that we forget the art especially when our eternal relationship is not with the work of art it is with the artist now even if we find this world very beautiful we cannot stay over here we are souls who are eternal and our stay in this world is transitional so we should use the transitional to attain the eternal so we don’t generally as devotees we don’t have to demonize the world once we have understood that Krishna is the we have seen the Krishna connection of the world and Krishna connection of ourselves and we have focused on reviving and strengthening that Krishna connection then even the world can remind us of Krishna and take us towards Krishna so we don’t have to reject everything good in the world but we can use it to remind us of Krishna and devotees may sometimes use the gyani perspective of the demonization of the world when that is uncool for bhakti sometimes in this world there are so many promises of pleasure so many allurements they can make us completely forget God so at that time it’s good to remember that ok whatever promises the world is making ultimately this world is a place of misery ultimately things here are temporary, there is old age, there is disease there is death and the pleasures of this world can well act as baits for a fish, the fish gets attracted to the bait and gets trapped similarly when I try to enjoy the pleasures of this world I can get trapped therefore let me stay away from the pleasures so the problem is not just with the romanticization or the demonization the problem is with the godlessness so if you are not god conscious then seeing the world positively or seeing the world negatively both can be harmful although seeing the world negatively may cause less karmic bondage but still even that way of looking at the world will also involve negativity friction and that won’t bring happiness to this person, it is only god conscious that can bring happiness so as devotees we certainly can as long as we keep it in mind that this world is the energy of Krishna and it is a temporary, it is temporary and this attachment to it separate from Krishna will cause bondage once we have this basic philosophy in mind then after that we can even use this world as an impetus for remembering Krishna and going back towards Krishna so we want to go back to godhead because that is where our longing for love will be eternally and completely fulfilled here even if we are god conscious still at a material level we have to go through old age, disease and death and most people will find it difficult to be god conscious because the beauty of the creation doesn’t remind them of the creator often the beauty of the creation increases their disconnection and divorce from the creation that’s why we want to be in arena where there will be no disconnection from the supreme lord and there will be the constant ecstasy of loving service for him as our eternal and ever increasing joy, so that’s why our focus is neither for the creation nor against the creation, our focus is on the creator and because this world is not the most favorable place for serving the creator largely it is a place of forgetfulness of the lord so that’s why we want to go back to godhead so that we can serve the lord more enthusiastically and eternally with greater facilities internally and externally we won’t have a mind which will distract us, we won’t have a body that will limit us and we won’t have so many godless people who are alluring, who are advertising godless pleasures so the focus is always on service to Krishna and because in the spiritual world there are no internal or external distractions from service to Krishna that’s why devotees want to go back to the spiritual world and serve Krishna eternally over there thank you