The temporary creation is also a relative truth. It is
in fact the temporary picture of the eternal crea-
tion. The forgetful soul has no information of the
spiritual creation, known as the sanatana dhama,
but the temporary creation gives an idea of this
Original creation. The devotees of the Lord, there-
fore, make the best use of the bad bargain by
utilizing the temporary creation in the service of
the Lord.

Everything emanates as different energies from
the Lord, and thus everything should be engaged
for His service only. AS soon as even temporary
things are engaged in His service, they take on
permanent values. The process of such engage-
ment in the service of the Lord is what the sages
call cikitsitam, or ‘‘well treated’. If we have some
kind of trouble in the stomach from drinking milk,
the physician prescribes the same milk in the form
of curd, which is nothing but treated milk. Similar-
ly, the temporary creation of the material world is
undoubtedly full of miseries, but when accepted in
terms of its relation with the Supreme Lord the
whole thing becomes as well treated as the curd.
Everything accepted in full God consciousness
has its spiritual value, and by the’ grace of the
Almighty its material effects are diminished in
terms of the increasing degree of spiritual con-
sciousness. That is the process for cultivating the
human spirit.—

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