We are serving Krsna here and the inhabitants of the spiritual world are serving Krsna there. We are both serving Krsna, but there is a great difference in the quality of our service.
How should we see the body of the Guru. Shastras say that it is an offense to consider their body as material.
But in the article, you explained that the object becomes conduit for spiritual energy but there is a difference between the material object and spiritual energy.
It depends on how you see. A red hot bar of iron is simultaneously fire and metal. Because it works like fire, you can't say it is not fire, even though, technically, it is also metal.
Technically, the body of the guru is material, but because it works as spirit, it is spiritual for all practical purposes.
Hare Krishna pr ji
PAMHO
Thank you pr ji for explaining this.
How should we see the body of the Guru. Shastras say that it is an offense to consider their body as material.
But in the article, you explained that the object becomes conduit for spiritual energy but there is a difference between the material object and spiritual energy.
Ys Bharath
It depends on how you see. A red hot bar of iron is simultaneously fire and metal. Because it works like fire, you can't say it is not fire, even though, technically, it is also metal.
Technically, the body of the guru is material, but because it works as spirit, it is spiritual for all practical purposes.