The buds develop, it becomes flower, then full-fledged flower

So in this way, within this material world there are varieties of developed consciousness, and in the spiritual world, when we surpass, transcend the material world, paras tasmat tu bhavo anya [Bg. 8.20], when we are promoted to the other energy, other world, then our consciousness… Even when one is, I mean to say, transmitted to the spiritual world… The first is brahmajyoti. Their consciousness is also not developed, even one has gone to the spiritual world where everything is spiritual.

Aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah patanty adho anadrta-yusmad-anghrayah [SB 10.2.32] That means consciousness is fully developed when he is a devotee, when one adores the lotus feet of the Lord. Yusmad- anghrayah. So those who are promoted even to the Brahmajyoti, they are also not fully conscious. Fully conscious means a devotee. Vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah [Bg. 7.19]. That is full consciousness. Without this consciousness, Krsna consciousness, there is no question of full-fledged Just like a small bud of a flower. First of all the seed. The seed grows, then the buds come out, then gradually the buds develop, it becomes flower, then full-fledged flower, then fragrance, beauty. Everything is developed. That is real development. Similarly, this is the process of development. When one comes to Krsna consciousness, then it is full-fledged flower with fragrance, beauty, and everything. That is the perfection.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.21-22
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Vrndavana, November 9, 1976

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