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What do we need Divine senses for?

Swami Nikhilanand Ji

Another way of realizing the state of perfect union is not to have a Divine body, senses, or mind. In that case, just your soul merges into Krishna's formless aspect. So this is called sayujya mukti (one of the forms of liberation).

In this state, you don't actually get to experience anything because your mind no longer exists. You didn't get a Divine mind. And your material mind finished because it was material, mayic. And now the mayic influence and bondage over you is finished. Your body was also mayic. You left that behind when you went to merge into God; so, no mind or senses or body, just your pure original Divine soul. Then how would you experience anything?

The soul needs faculties with which to experience. The soul needs senses. The soul needs a mind and a body in order to realize its potential to experience. The soul itself is the one with the potential to know, hear, see, experience. But without those faculties, just like you have an engine of a car, but that car engine isn't connected to an axle with wheels. And the car is revving up. It's alive. It has potential. It has power. But where are you going to go until you give that engine a driveshaft, an axle, and some wheels? Similarly, the soul has the potential to do everything. The soul is full of life, Divine power, yet without a mind, senses, and a body, the rubber is not going to hit the road. You're not going to be able to do anything, think anything, know anything, experience anything.

Right now, we have material faculties to experience this world. After God realization, we could get Divine faculties to experience God and the Divine world.

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