tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15485481.post2153370415361150903..comments2024-03-07T19:16:51.653+01:00Comments on madangopal: Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta, Canto 2, chapters 1 and 2advaitadashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11562361400492002096noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15485481.post-89557637282202725892009-12-20T19:58:36.188+01:002009-12-20T19:58:36.188+01:00QUOTE: 2.2.196 The commentary carries an explanati...QUOTE: 2.2.196 The commentary carries an explanation of atyantika muktas attaining bhakti: "....sometimes, by the Supreme Lord’s special mercy, a liberated soul merged into oneness with Brahman becomes eager for the joys of bhakti and once again assumes his distinct identity so that he can have a spiritual body with which to serve the Lord..."<br /><br />----<br /><br />You also wrote this, in an email in 2005:<br /><br />----<br /><br />in verse 186 Sanatan Gosvami quotes Shankaracarya's mukta api lilaya vigraham kritva bhagavantam bhajanta' - Even the liberated assume a form and worship the Lord in his pastimes' and SB 6.14.5 muktanam api siddhanam narayana parayana - "Also the liberated and perfected souls are engaged in Narayan's service." Then he asks himself: 'If liberated souls didnt have forms how could they engage in the Lord's service?' Bhagavati layam praptasyapi nri dehasya mahamuneh punar narayana rupena pradurbhavah - ' Even those who have merged into the Lord have human forms.' <br /><br />----<br />Someone else has said it like this:<br />----<br />Even the great sages who have attained the perfection of dissolution unto Bhagavan can have repetition of existence in a human form by attaining an inconceivable nirgun bodily form of the nature of Narayana.mark ansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723751975945388127noreply@blogger.com