Re: Several spiritual bodies in Goloka Vrindavan?

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

Dear Swamiji, Nava Prabhu and devotees, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.

This is a very good straightforward question and sometimes we wonder within our own experience if it is possible that we have a relationship with Lord Sri Krishna in more than one Bhava. Why do we ask ourselves this question? Because in our own experience we feel sometimes an inclination towards the Lord in a parental mood and at other times we are feeling more like a friend or maybe even in the mood of a lover of the Lord. These feelings are on the relative level and sprout from carefully studying the scriptures. When we read for days about the dealings of Lord Sri Krishna with the cowherd boys our meditation during chanting tends to contemplate the subjects we are reading about and we dive deeper into the realization of the cowherd boys and their relationship with the Lord. The same is when we read about Lord Sri Krishna�s dealings with His parents and with the gopies. We identify with these pastimes because we contemplate them during our japa meditation and during kirtan and during our daily lives. I call this as being on the relative level because this inducement from the scriptures is variable as we move from one subject to another. We tend to identify with these pastimes and thus we go through different identifications. But we have to understand that these identifications are temporary and not absolute.

On the absolute level we have to understand that whatever our constitutional relationship is with Lord Sri Krishna: it is perfect. Whether it is as a blade of grass in one of the Vaikuntha planets or as a gopi in Vrindavan dhama our relationship with the Lord is perfect and we are fully satisfied in whatever that might be. From the relative level it seems that it is more favorable to be a gopi than a blade of grass however such considerations are not valid on the absolute level. In this context we should not approach the Lord �as a gopi� or �as a blade of grass� or in any superficial conceived constitutional position. Our real position will be revealed from within and it will be perfect in all aspects.

Coming to a straightforward answer: yes it is possible because in the absolute realm of Lord Sri Krishna everything is possible. There are no limits and the possibilities are eternally expanding. In the scriptures we find confirmation of different personalities that incarnate as a combined form like Prahlada and Sri Advaitacharya etc.

From the point of view of how we experience our relationship with the Lord, the kind of love we feel at different times means that whatever bhava we are in constitutionally, doesn�t exclude the understanding and to a certain extend the feelings of the �other bhavas�. Srimati Radharani and the gopies are very well aware of the Bhava of Yashoda and Nanda Maharaja and they can �identify� to a large extend with the parental affection they have for Lord Sri Krishna. However they remain in their constitutional position as their predominating feelings are in the conjugal realm. 

So to a certain extend the bhavas are mixed for every spiritual soul as far as having an understanding about the feelings of all relationships with Lord Sri Krishna. However each soul has a pre-dominant relationship with Lord Sri Krishna in which he or she is most identified with and as such will always gravitate mostly to that bhava.

I hope this gives some clarification. Sometimes when we analyze our questions carefully we find that the answers are already within the question. I saw your latest video Nava, singing so beautifully Jaya Radha Madava, and just seeing your devotion gives me a feel for where your question comes from�and from that feeling I have tried to give the best answer�I hope it resonates.

Aspiring to be the eternal servant of the Vaisnavas,

Hadai Nityananda dasa

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

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