What it feels like upon returning to the spiritual world?
Insights — By RNS Online on December 11, 2010 at 7:19 am
Question to Radhanath Swami: I was wondering, what the scriptures say about what it feels like upon returning to the spiritual world.
Radhanath Swami: Sanatan Goswami, a seventeenth century saint, describes in his work, Brihat Bhagavatamrita, the reunion of a soul with the Supreme Lord Krishna in the spiritual world. He explains how one day Krishna with his cowherd boyfriends (gopas) and cows was returning from the forest of Vrindavana to his home. On the way a soul that has just attained the spiritual world appeared in the cowherd pasture as a beautiful little cowherd boy. When Krishna saw him, he ran to him and embraced him. And in the ecstasy of love, both Lord Krishna and the newly arrived cowherd boy fainted in ecstasy. All the gopas were very much astonished: who is this boy and why is Krishna laying in the ground in an unconscious state? So Balaram, Krishna’s brother, approached Krishna and brought him back to consciousness by singing sweet words and by fanning him.
Then Krishna told that new cowherd boy, “You left me long, long ago. You forgot me. But I never forgot you. Lifetime after lifetime you tried to enjoy the material world, but I was always in your heart waiting for you to turn to me. You suffered storms, diseases, and broken hearts. Sometimes you enjoyed wealth, prosperity, and high education, but eventually it was all taken away. Did you not feel separation from me as I felt separation from you at every minute? Then finally you turned to me and gave your life to me. I saw how difficult it was in that material world for you to turn to me and be faithful. You were ridiculed, prosecuted, criticized, and sometimes you had to beg, but I was always with you there to protect you. Now, finally you have returned home, I welcome you.”
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How eager is the Lord to receive us back in our eternal home! If only we could be so eager about going back…
Yes, in our daily KC activity, we may forget the goal and be only ritualistic. Such descriptions will really make us eager to practice intensely. Thank you very much Maharaj.
Very nice explanation ..reminds me of if we take one step, Lord takes thousand steps towards us
One of the most inspiring words for me to take spiritual life seriously. Thank you Radhanath Swami!
thank you very much for the explanation.
Nice. Mind blowing-Maharaj has given wonderful explaination.
beautiful
Beautiful narration of inner feelings, when I was reading this answer tears rolled off from my eyes. Lord Krishna has been waiting for each and individual soul from millions and millions of years, we have to take advantage of human birth and go back spiritual world. Thank you so much Maharaj for reminding me (us) every day.
Yes indeed…. when i heard from mouth of His Holiness in one of the prerna lectures, same was my feeling….!
Yes I do agree.
Very beautiful explanation.
Thank you maharaj for such a wonderful description on how Krishna is eagerly waiting for us. This gives me the inspiration to continue Krishna Consciousness with more determination.
H.H.Radhanath Swami Maharaj ki jai
very true..
Such beautiful description of how God really takes 10 steps if we make 1 step towards Him. He is much more eager to have us back with Him than we are.
Very nice explanation by H.H.Radhanath Swami.
This is the desire of all the devotees that one day we also are welcomed by Krishna in his holy abode of Goloka Vrindavan
A beautiful explanation wherein while just reading the passage it seems to happen just in front of us. His Holiness Radhanath Maharaj KI JAI
This is very beautiful, thank you Maharaj. One should always have full faith in Krishna and his pure devotees words.
Radhanath Swami’s description of the separation the Lord feels for us brings tears to our eyes. We can relieve Him of His anxiety by at least trying to love Him.
Wonderful beyond words….
Wow, this is so amazing to read!
The detailed description of how Krishna personally welcomes the soul back home is very inspiring & gives us a lot of hope to continue on the path of bhakti even in the face of all difficulties.
What a description….it seems you are seeing the pastime taking place in front of your eyes…..thanks…..
Wonderful explanation of the soul returning to spiritual world. Krishna (God) is very personal more than one can even think of.
Beautiful!!! Who would not want to be such a loving Lord?
Yes we must turn to Lord Krishna and surrender unto him.He is always happy us to welcome back to godhead and he is more eager than us for the same .we can get real happiness only when we go back to godhead and serve the Lord Krishna and his associates.
If only I could remember these words of Krishna, every moment, there would be no question of ever forgetting Krishna even in this material world.
thank you radhanath mahraj for this wonderful description ,it is really charmed our heart that how much Lord loves each one of us.
JAI!!
Radhanath Swami Maharaj ki Jai!! Thanks Maharaj for your nectarous words
Thanks Radhanath Swami for sharing this pastime, which is very touching. Lord Krishna is waiting for all of us to turn to Him and be with Him, but the snares of Mayadevi don’t let us achieve that state. Only if take shelter of Lord Krishna, these snares would be ineffective.
Amazing!
Thank you Radhanath Swami for giving us such a fantastic preview of the spiritual world.
Thank you Radhanath Swami for giving this encouraging glimpse of the spiritual world.
very graphical explanation by Radhanath Swami Maharaj based on the saintly literatures of Sanatana Goswami.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!
I always had this question as how a soul feels when he returns back to the spiritual world. I was
searching for this answer for a long time. And fortunately today I came to know.
Thanks Maharaj for such a wonderful explanation of the reunion of the soul with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
It brings tears to my eyes to read this beautiful narration of Radhanath Swami. How we have forgotten our greatest wealth which is our connection to our all loving supreme father and tried to enjoy independently is beautifully described here.
This answer increases the thurst to return spiritual world many many times.
the experience of entering the spiritual world from the previous acharyas, down the parampara, right through the lips of radhanath maharaj with the same authenticity…
many thanks to Radhanath swami for the beautiful words
Thank you Maharaj…You have narrated this wonderfully.
Tears are running from my eyes.
I pray for your blessings.
Indeed, Spiritual Master is the meeting point of the devotee and Krsna. Radhanath Swami’s words are like the warm embrace of Krsna.
so wonderful…when o when will the day be mine…
Super excellent.HH.Radhanath Swamiji explained it in such a way that I felt like reading it again and again.Also nice picture with it explaining the answer.Thank you very much.
Hari Bol, I hope that even we reach the spiritual world like that cowherd boy one day. Very very nice article. Thank u
Hari Bol, I hope that even we reach the spiritual world like that cowherd boy one day. Very very nice article. Thank u for sharing this.
Radhanath swami has given a very nice answer of how Krishna is always eagerly waiting for us to turn to him.
Thank you for sharing this wih us!
thank you so much for reminding us that Krishna is waiting for us but we are still trying to enjoy in this material world.
What a beautiful narration by Radhanath Swami on souls return back to Spiritual World !
Thank you !
Hare Krishna !
wonderful explanation by Maharaj.
really hopegiving assurance …………i m really moved by this answer
This article really inspired me to feel the urgency of going back to godhead, how much Lord is loving and caring for his departed children.
Thank you so much
Thats so much touching to the heart… Krishna is waiting for us …
Radhanath Swami Maharaj’s narration inspires us to take our journey back to Godhead very seriously…
We may forget Krishna but he will never forget us!
Hare Krsna !
hari bollllllllllllllllllllll
Hare Krsna ! Beautiful.
i m eagarly waiting that day to come upon
Most Inspiring. Thank you Swamiji.
thank u so much …..i m really looking forward to meet Radhanath swami to get more enlightenment directly
very nice
Thank you Radhanath Swami for giving us such a wonderful insight into the spiritual world.
Thanks!This is indeed wonderful
Very motivating keep posting thes nice articles
Thanks a ton
So beautiful words of Sanatana Goswami narrated by Swamiji……thanks
Maharaj has specially descended to take the suffering souls of this material world back home back to Godhead. Otherwise why should he be here. Thanks Maharaj for being there for us.
Thanks for sharing. We forgot Krishna, we came here, but Krishna is eagerly waiting when we turn to him to come to him. If we eagerly want to serve him, he will show the way
So sweet and full of inspiration.
very very very inspiring ………i loved it reading
Hare Krsna ! Very Ecstatic.Thank you very much for sharing !
Haribol..!! Very Inspiring – Just too good.
This article is inducing us to take Bhakti seriously
what an amazing realization ……..
my god! what a reunion. Hope i will be there too.
It is out of the world
very very good
very nice
Hare Krishna. Thank you.
amazing facts. hope we all will experience the same.
Many thanks to Radhanath swami for sharing this inspiring story….
Thank you for nice answer with story.
These are very useful and inspiring subjects and are nicely dealt.
This is the most motivating article that i came across.. thanks a lot
So sweet!!!. We need a spiritually elightened and realized personality who can explain such most sublime truths about the spiritual world. We are fortunate to have HH Radhanath Swami Maaharaj.
Very true.
Thank you for sharing…
Fact that Krishna feeling separation from a soul every minute should encourage us to chant good round. At the same time, we should blame ourselves for making Krishna sad by leaving him.
hare krishnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
really really touching
Amazing !
Wonderful!
brahd baghavatamrita is amazing
Lord is eagerly waiting for all of us to be back with Him! There is no doubt..
I hope and pray that all of us may get this experience..
Thanks to Radhanath Swami for the answer.
Nice answer, let see in our life, how Krishna is going to reciprocate. Thanks!
Such a faith giving answer. Krishna is always waiting for us…
we take one step, Lord takes thousand steps towards us.. Lord is always eager to receive us back in our eternal home! If only we could be so eager about going back…
Thank you Maharaj for the realization
I am reading these answer again and again. Practically every day. It inspires me to try to remember Krishna every minutes. Thank you maharaj!
Wonderful description of the spiritual world. We should all be eager to go back there to be in eternal association with the Lord.