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What do you think about UFO's?

• Subject: What do you think about UFO's?
• From: alumno 63
• Date: Thu Feb 22 17:02:07 1996
• Message-Id: id752

At 11:58 AM 21/2/96 -0600, you wrote:

>Dear Madhudvisa:

>

>I want to thankyou for your answer about UFO's, now I would like to 

>know what is Krishna because I'm a litle confused, some people talk 

>about a personal God and others like the Hermetics definds God like 

>an All, and not like an superior spirit from everything borns.

>Also I would like to Know about the origins of the life on earth

>how did it hapend? Why there are white, black, chinesse people?

>why not an original and unique raze?

>I believe in reincarnation, and I'm agree with you.

>I'd like to be vegetarian but I can't, what can I do to change.

>

>I'm wating for your anwser.

>

>	HARE KRISHNA.

>

>	Cristian Cascante Salazar



Dear Cristian



Hello. Hare Krishna!



Krishna is a person, but He is the Supreme Person.



          aham evasam evagre nanyad yat sat-asat param

       pascad aham yad etac ca yo 'vasisyeta so 'smy aham



"Bhahma, it is I, the Personality of Godhead, who was existing before the 

creation, when there was nothing but Myself. Nor was there the material nature, 

the cause of the creation. That which you see now is also I, the Personality of 

Godhead, and after annihilation what remains will also be I, the Personality of 

Godhead." Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.9.33)



So Krishna, God is ultimately a person. We are made in His image, even the 

Christian Bible gives that information. So His form and our form are similar. 

But we are very small and He is very great. 



We have come to this material world and accepted material bodies made of earth, 

water, fire, air and ether and subtle bodies made from mind, intelligence and  

false ego. So the gross material and subtle bodies are coverings on our 

original spiritual bodies. Krishna does not have such coverings. Krishna does 

not have a material body. Even when Krishna appears within this world He does 

so in His original transcendental body.



So God is a person, but He can be realized in different ways. Not everyone can 

understand His personal form as Krishna. Some accept the supreme as something 

impersonal that pervades everything. And that is also one aspect of Krishna. 

Just as the sun is in the sky in a particular place but from that place the 

sun-rays are spread all over the universe so Krishna's energy is also spread 

all over the universe. 



       vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvam yaj jnanam advayam

            brameti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate  



"Learned transcendentalists call this non-dual substance Brahaman, Paramatma or 

Bhagavan."



"The Supreme Truth is realized in three aspects: as impersonal Brahman [the 

all-pervasive, impersonal conception of the supreme], localized Paramatma [God 

within the heart] and at last as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So at the 

last stage of understanding the Absolute Truth, one comes to the Supreme 

Personality of Godhead. A liberated man and even a common man may realize 

impersonal Brahman or localized Paramatma, yet they may not understand God's 

personality from the verses of Bhagavad-gita, which are being spoken by this 

person, Krishna.



There are even many liberated persons who cannot understand Krishna as 

Purusottama, the Supreme Person, the father of all living entities...



So knowing God as a person is a higher level of understanding. 



You have asked why there are different types of people, why not just one race. 

So there are not just different types of people. There are 8,400,000 species of 

life from the tiny insects, up to the human form of life. There are even more 

advanced forms than the human one. They are called demigods and they live on 

higher planets.



All the 8,400,000 species of life arise from a different combination of the 

modes of material nature: goodness, passion and ignorance. The idea is we 

develop a certain type of consciousness in this life and depending on the type 

of consciousness we have at the time of death we are given another body to 

continue our life in. So if one develops animal consciousness he will get and 

animals body in the next life. If he is in human consciousness he will get a 

human body, and there are 400,000 different species within human bodies and he 

gets a particular one according to his consciousness... that is determined by 

his karma, the activities he has performed in his previous life.



We are all individuals and we are generating our next body now by the 

activities we are performing and the consciousness we are developing. So that 

is why there are so many different types of body...



It is very good that you believe in reincarnation. 



As for being vegetarian you have to develop a "higher taste". That can be done 

by chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra very seriously. You will gradually see 

you are becoming purified and developing a taste for hearing and chanting about 

Krishna. At the same time meat eating will become very unattractive to you. But 

we have to chant hare Krishna and become purified,.



Looking forward to hearing from you again.



Madhudvisa dasa

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