Eternal Existence - an essential subject

Eternal existence is a quality of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. The Lord is eternally existent in His transcendental form, which is neither gross nor subtle like that of the embodied soul. As part of Kṛṣṇa, time, material nature and each individual soul also exist eternally. However, Kṛṣṇa is the only independent eternal being while everything else depends on Him.

The external energy of the Lord covers up the pure knowledge of the living entities eternally existing with Him, but the covering is so constant that it appears that the conditioned soul is eternally ignorant. These three modes of material nature, being further manifested as matter, knowledge and activities, put the eternally transcendental living entity under conditions of cause and effect and make him responsible for such activities.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Eternal Existence category. An introduction from his books is given below in the following 13 quotes.


Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's books















Eternal Existence - explore more within this category.

Vanipedia has now over 903 introductory articles compiled from Srila Prabhupada's books under the series titled Essential Subjects. All these articles can be seen in the Table of Content on the right side of this article and also here in this Umbrella Category. Browse through them to relish the breadth and depth of Srila Prabhupada's teachings - There is a subject for everyone.


   
 

HOME

Choose Another
Essential Subject