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Being parcels of the Supreme Personality, living beings possess His qualities. The Aryan literature is the only one on the planet which contains comprehensive details about the Supreme Personality of Godhead: descriptions of His appearance, character, environment, behavior. This takes place because only they really communicated with Him! This is the uniqueness of this literature! The Vedic scriptures state that the Lord demonstrates 64 qualities:

1. His features are beautiful,

2. all auspicious marks can be found on His body,

3. His features are pleasing the eye,

4. He is effulgent,

5. He is strong,

6. ever youthful,

7. wonderful linguist,

8. truthful,

9. talks pleasingly,

10. fluent,

11. highly learned,

12. highly intelligent,

13. genius,

14. artistic,

15. extremely clever,

16. expert,

17. grateful,

18. firmly determined,

19. an expert judge of time and circumstances,

20. sees and speaks on the authority of Vedas, or scriptures,

21. pure,

22. self-controlled,

23. steadfast,

24. forbearing,

25. forgiving,

26. grave,

27. self-satisfied,

28. possessing equilibrium,

29. magnanimous,

30. religious,

31. heroic,

32. compassionate,

33. respectful,

34. gentle,

35. liberal,

36. shy,

37. the protector of surrendered souls,

38. happy,

39. the well-wisher of devotees,

40. controlled by love,

41. all-auspicious,

42. most powerful,

43. all-famous,

44. popular,

45. partial to devotees,

46. very attractive to all women,

47. all-worshipable,

48. all-opulent,

49. all-honorable,

50. the Supreme controller,

51. changeless,

52. all-cognizant,

53. ever fresh,

54. sat-chid-ananda (possessing an eternal blissful body),

55. possessing all mystic perfections,

56. He has inconceivable potency,

57. uncountable universes generate from His body,

58. He is the original source of all incarnations,

59. He is the giver of salvation to the enemies whom He kills,

60. He is the attractor of liberated souls,

61. He is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes,

62. He is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Him,

63. He can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute,

64. He has a wonderful excellence of beauty which cannot be rivaled anywhere in the creation.

Among these, 54 qualities also belong to jivas (His inherent parcels, namely all the living beings). Depending on the extent of their love of God, these qualities are manifested in jivas fully or partially. Those who fully manifest these qualities, never come to this material world because they are protected by the “amount” of their love for God.

Those jivas whose attachment (trust) is not so strong often become unsatisfied as a result of misunderstanding the motives for His actions. In fact, no one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead – a limited spiritual parcel cannot perfectly understand the intrinsic motives for actions of the infinite Lord. The difference is that the close associates never mistrust God.

In general, it is the topic of very confidential talks which would be reasonable to discuss only with advanced believers. Here we will present the main concepts of the Aryan philosophy simply to have the opportunity to correctly understand their life style. Being qualitatively equal to the Lord, but quantitively infinitely small, some living beings feel envy of Lord’s confidential devotees. This is a specific feeling which appears when the Lord brings some of the devotees near to Him.

Very provisionally, it can be described as follows: a living being who does not possess such a potency to serve the Lord as a confidential devotee cannot understand why He has brought closer this devotee. This feeling becomes the basis for dissatisfaction or roughly speaking the feeling of injustice. A living being thinks that God does not “see” how he/she is devoted to Him. If He saw, then he/she would have been chosen as a confidential person not another one. Actually, this explanation is very rough and provisional. In the spiritual world the consciousness cannot be so rude. This is just a transient feeling, very keen but it is already called “envy” and with this feeling in the heart a spiritual parcel cannot keep staying in the spiritual world where everything is enlightened with love and no negative things can take place. Once such negative thing appears, a personality is already not in the spiritual world, practically this change of existence does not take any time once envy appears.

Envy lies in the basis of the material existence. This feeling devours all good qualities of jiva. Everybody in the material world is envious. Those free from envy do not come to this world (the exception is only for Lord’s servants sent by Him to open the way back home to all willing it). "I’m better, I’m more worthy". With this spirit, jiva cannot stay in the spiritual world any more. From these personalities, the Lord immediately “hides”, hides His devotees and gives the former the possibility to make their own society. This possibility is this very material world. One who does not understand the nature of envy will never be able to become an Aryan. One who does not accept this truth about the material existence will never be able to develop this system of values common for the Aryans. Therefore, having created the material world and given us the possibility to realize our desires, the Lord in fact becomes our servant putting at our disposal His material energy with which we can do whatever we want.

But this freedom of action becomes a heavy burden on the shoulders of a small living being who immediately loses the culture of relationships with other living beings attributable to the spiritual world and understands how in fact the Lord’s “job” is difficult. Trying to imitate God but not capable of being just, a living being gets entangled in the knots of sinful activities and becomes an eternally conditioned (i.e. deserving to stay in the material prison) jiva (soul) doomed to sufferings for causing sufferings to other living beings. Figuratively, the Aryans see the material world as a prison designated for envious souls. One way or another, this concept is supported by all religious movements.

There is one more question to be answered. What determines unequal birth conditions of all living beings? How to explain that one is born rich, another is born poor, another is healthy and another is ill and so on? The answer on this question is given only by the reincarnation concept. By nature, jiva is eternal. Having descended to this material world, it stays here for a very long time, practically eternally. As the result of various activities it gains certain amount of reactions becoming the author of its own destiny. For instance, in this life we eat bodies of many animals and in next lives these animals will have the possibility to eat us. Thus, the rule “as you sow so you reap” is implemented, not within one life, but from life to life. The fact is that in practice we can often see that a person commits what is known as sins without any punishment. The secret that lies beneath is that the punished for committed evil are all those who are born in poverty, born to bad parents, without opportunity to get education, who are ugly, have congenital diseases, who are under malicious state prosecution, etc. But that brings up the question: why cannot we remember our past lives? The answer should be found in the Lord’s noble nature. The Lord is merciful and He is not interested in artificial processes of jiva’s return to Him. Jiva itself is so much entangled in its efforts to take the Lord’s position by trying to predominate and enjoy that it is practically doomed to living in the material world forever. And yet, despite the amount of sufferings jiva does not stop wanting power and enjoyment, therefore it still desires to be in this world. To satisfy this desire, the factor of the memory loss about past lives is simply a must.

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