Transcendental Logic 2

The Scope of Transcendental Logic

"Transcendental logic is based on the full realization of the spiritual nature of the living entity as independent of this material body. It is not mere belief or faith, but testable hypotheses of conscious spiritual experience that anyone can duplicate and confirm."

Free Will

"At any moment the living entity’s consciousness may be directed either toward the material energy or the spiritual energy. This is the full extent of the free will of the living entity. Once he freely makes this determination, he comes under the control of either the material or the spiritual energy."

Reality and Illusion

"It is essential that students of the Esoteric Teaching become instinctively familiar with, and can also emotionally feel this most important ontological distinction of spiritual life."

Relationships with God

"Our natural and healthy spiritual condition is to remain connected with the source of all spiritual energy in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. When we falsely identify with the material energy, our original sweet rasa with the Lord becomes perverted into material desires and feelings of acceptance and rejection, likes and dislikes, that bind us to the material world by our own attachment and aversion."

Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī

As already explained in previous installments of this series, the mood of conjugal love exhibited by the gopis is the highest form of spiritual consciousness. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, Kṛṣṇa’s eternal consort, is the embodiment of this rasa. Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā are one in two. They are individual, yet identical.

Consciousness Determines Experience

The living entity always appears with all his symptoms, including his ontological relationship with the Supreme. In any truly transcendental logic, the point of departure is always the consciousness and other experiencing symptoms of the living entity.

The Ontology of Rasa

The living entity always has an emotional relationship with Kṛṣṇa. First let us consider the state of a living entity in spiritual consciousness. His whole existence and consciousness will be composed of ecstatic loving exchanges with the Lord and His intimate devotees in the spiritual world. These transcendental emotions are structured as follows (take a few minutes to explore the class hierarchy links):

Conclusion: The Perfection of Yoga

We conclude our detailed presentation of a proposed transcendental logic. If this seems hard to understand, please review our earlier podcast material for background. To read and hear more than 100 previous installments of this series, click here.

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