Page 18 - Defending Prabhupada Words - By Harivlas Das

Lord Ramachandra from Sita is spiritually understood as
vipralambha, which is an activity of the hladini potency
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead belonging to the
srngara-rasa, the mellow of conjugal love in the spiritual
world……. Lord Ramachandra, therefore, manifested
the truth both spiritually and materially. Materially those
who are attached to women suffer, but spiritually, when
there are feelings of separation between the Lord and His
pleasure potency the spiritual bliss of the Lord increases.”

It is said in the Isopanisad, verse 11, “Only one who can
learn the process of nescience (ignorance) and that of
transcendental knowledge side by side can transcend the
influence of repeated birth and death and enjoy the full
blessings of immortality.” Srila Prabhupada writes in his
purport to this verse, “The normal temperature should
be maintained at 98.6 degrees, and the great sages and
saints of India have attempted to do this by a balanced
program of spiritual and material knowledge. They never
allow the misuse of human intelligence for diseased sense
gratification.”
All Prabhupada’s purports are validated by
Vedic shastras

Material knowledge that analyzes the defect of false
material attachment and sense gratification should be
cultivated side by side with spiritual knowledge so that the
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