Religion of the Heart - Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math

Natural tendency—real religionThe Lord is not Impersonal 21Once a devotee of Ír( Chaitanya Mahåprabhu, named SanåtanGoswåm(, asked Him, “Who am I and why do we go to differentspecies of life after we leave this body, and why do we sufferso much in this material world?‘ke åmi’, ‘kene åmåya jåre tåpa-traya’ihå nåhi jåni—‘kemane hita haya’{Ír( Chaitanya-charitåm~ta, Madhya 20.102}Mahåprabhu replied that all the Scriptures say the j(va-souls havean eternal spiritual body. Through their own activities {karma}they are getting the results of those activities, and those resultstake them to different bodies such as a human body, an animalbody or a plant body. We are now aware of this because sciencehas proved that for every action there is an equal and oppositereaction. So the question is, how can we get relief and liberationfrom the illusory environment and how can we find our own joyfulhappy life where there is no sorrow or unhappiness?Mahåprabhu said real religion {dharma} means everyone andeverything has some natural tendency and it is necessary to discoverwhat that natural tendency is. For example, water is liquid.Wherever it is, it will flow downwards. That is its natural tendency.Fire is hot and it will burn. If it gets cool or goes out, thatis not its natural position. The sky also has its natural tendencyor religion. It tries to observe everything in the universe. Theplanets have their own religion. They are always moving in a naturalsynchronized way.Mahåprabhu said the natural tendency of everyone and everythingis their real religion. All j(va-souls have their own religion{jaiva dharma}, and the one thing everyone has in common isthey are all able to think, feel and will; plus they all have theirown spiritual bodies. And, since the j(va-souls are small, they willnaturally be attracted by a greater power.