The Inward Journey

Disciples Live Eternally with Spiritual Master

Whether the spiritual master travels lifetime after lifetime to deliver the fallen, conditioned souls of this material world or whether he immediately returns back to Godhead is up to Lord Krishna. And we do know from the teachings of Srila Prabhupada that the disciples eternally live with their spiritual master. The advanced disciple is not much concerned about whether he goes back to Godhead or not. He simply always wants to remain in the company of his spiritual master assisting him in his mission of delivering the fallen, conditioned souls. Of course, such a completely surrendered disciple is immediately qualified to go back to home, back to Godhead and lives as a liberated, deathless soul even while he is situated within his material body.

A very amazing point in this connection revealed to us by Srila Prabhupada is that a devotee of the Lord can live simultaneously in the spiritual world and in the material world. So with this information from Srila Prabhupada we can understand that it is possible for the spiritual master and his disciples to simultaneously be in the pastimes of the Lord in the spiritual world while simultaneously traveling and preaching throughout the material universes.