Nature of the Absolute (cont.)

God-dess’ body and its owner are not two dif­fer­ent prin­ci­ples like the dif­fer­ence between the body and soul of liv­ing enti­ties in the phys­i­cal world. God-dess’ body and its owner both con­sist of con­scious­ness and bliss. The same eter­nal spir­i­tual prin­ci­ple man­i­fests God-dess’ names, attrib­utes, activ­i­ties, and abodes. God-dess is not dif­fer­ent inter­nally or externally.

God-dess pos­sesses incon­ceiv­able power to man­i­fest dif­fer­ent forms with­out los­ing his-her one­ness. God-dess remains one and indi­vis­i­ble yet expands innu­mer­able forms and man­i­fests in infi­nite ways to per­sons accord­ing to their dif­fer­ent tastes, apti­tudes, and modes of realization.

God-dess man­i­fests on three clear lev­els, as Undif­fer­en­ti­ated One­ness, Cos­mic Con­scious­ness, and per­sonal God-dess accord­ing to the three paths of approach–knowledge, med­i­ta­tion, and devo­tion. Of these three forms, each suc­ceed­ing form super­sedes and philo­soph­i­cally speak­ing, includes the pre­ced­ing. God-dess, the high­est man­i­fes­ta­tion, super­sedes and includes Undif­fer­en­ti­ated One­ness and Cos­mic Consciousness.

We iden­tify God-dess with the supreme per­sons, Radha-Krishna, the source of all incar­na­tions, the ulti­mate ground of being, in whom infi­nite grandeur, infi­nite pow­ers, and infi­nite modes of divine bliss exist. All scrip­tures, either explic­itly or implic­itly, speak of God-dess as the Ulti­mate Real­ity. God-dess con­sti­tutes the only real­ity that exists with­out change before, dur­ing, and after the end of creation.

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