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how krishna/Rama is fountainhead or the original cause of all incarnations, if all the incarnations reside eternally in the spiritual realm?

Posted by Priyanshu Singh on May 7, 2025 at 8:52am in Bhakti

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i'm unable to understand this thing-

 

Visnu, Krishna and Rama are all non-different and eternal

 

then, how krishna/Rama is fountainhead or the original cause of all incarnations, if all the incarnations reside eternally in the spiritual realm?

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      • Priyanshu Singh May 7, 2025 at 1:58pm

        yes prabhuji i understand this but the place where i'm facing difficult is-- if all incarnations of the godhead is eternal(no beginning) and the reside eternally in spiritual realm then how avatari can be the source (if someone had no beginning then there is gonna be no source)

        Srila Prabhupada says: "In Brahma-saṁhitā the example is given of an original candle which lights a second candle. Although both candles are of equal power, one is accepted as the original, and the other is said to be kindled from the original. The Viṣṇu expansion is like the second candle"

        and my doubt is if one candle (Visnu) is eternal (always burning) then how can the original candle (Krishna) can light it? 

         

        Prabhuji, this is the doubt i'm facing because of lack of knowledge, lmk where im lacking in understanding.

        • gaurav chauhan > Priyanshu Singh May 7, 2025 at 4:36pm

          the problem is that you are trying to understand things that are beyond time with our material world experience which is enveloped by time.

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