Conscious Prospecting
However hitting pay dirt - totally satisfying body, mind, emotions and spirit is rarely achieved - just ask the richest people you know, or anyone.
But mostly due to lack of information or a constricted heart, one's gold-quest usually looks to material assets to hold and bodies to plunder for happiness, rather than mining the underlying gold strata of spiritual reality; a reality that is hidden from those not purposefully prospecting for it.
Transcendent gold is discoverable, by consciously re-connecting with the Source of all love and consciousness, through sacred sound manifesting in song/prayer/mantra/meditation.
Such a relationship with the Supreme Person is possible; a love affair which can transcend all time and space and satisfy the heart in a way like no other.
Information/guidance is found in different traditions, cultures and holy texts. One such text, the Bhagavad-Gita (The Song of God), describes each living entity as a spark eternal consciousness.
Consciousness is distinctly different from the mountains of minerals and chemical compounds that surround it. As such, mountains of gold, chemical infusions or palaces of marble can't provide lasting pleasure. Disconnected dull matter, is not the same stuff that consciousness is made of, or excessively needs.
When consciousness connects with the Source of all energy, both material and spiritual, a golden synergy is formed. How to become God/Source conscious, is revealed directly by Source within and without, and also through saints and holy texts.
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Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all sentient beings, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form.
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One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.
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Being freed from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of Me—and thus they all attained transcendental love for Me.
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All of them—as they surrender unto Me—I reward accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā (Arjuna).
PURPORT - by AC Bhaktivedanta Swami
"Everyone is searching for Kṛṣṇa in the different aspects of His manifestations. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is partially realized in His impersonal brahmajyoti effulgence and as the all-pervading Supersoul dwelling within everything, including the particles of atoms. But Kṛṣṇa is only fully realized by His pure devotees. Consequently, Kṛṣṇa is the object of everyone's realization, and thus anyone and everyone is satisfied according to one's desire to have Him. In the transcendental world also, Kṛṣṇa reciprocates with His pure devotees in the transcendental attitude, just as the devotee wants Him. One devotee may want Kṛṣṇa as supreme master, another as his personal friend, another as his son, and still another as his lover. Kṛṣṇa rewards all the devotees equally, according to their different intensities of love for Him...."
(more recently performed by Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and more)
"Once there was a way, to get back home..
...Golden slumbers fill your eyes, smiles await you when you rise .....
......And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make."
Lord Chaitanya came to show and experience the unlimited bliss and ecstasy, of being totally connected to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as the goal of all yoga and religious practice.
Described as Bhakti-yoga or devotional service, Lord Chaitanya taught spiritual perfection through chanting/singing the holy names of God, and adopting a submissive loving and serving mood - the same mood personified and embodied by the divine feminine energy, Srimati Radharani, who captures Sri Krishna's heart.
More information about Radha, Krishna and Lord Chaitanya is presented in an archived post (on the right of this screen) from March 2018, entitled "An Ocean Of Mercy"