navism this eternally realised and eternally perfect human body is the spiritual form or body of the Lord. It differs from our physical body in this, namely, that while our physical body is subject to growth, disease and decay, that are characteristic of all flesh, the Body of the Absolute or Shree Krishna is not and can- not be subject to the common ailments of our flesh. It knows no growth, it knows no decay, is not subject to dissolution. It is eternally realised, eternally perfect, and as such stands as the Regulative Idea of our own frames of flesh. This is really what the realisations of Bengal Yaishnavism mean when these speak of the essentially human form of Shree Krishna. The same remark equally applies to our physical senses and the organs of our sense- knowledge. The eye, the ear, all these pass through processes of evolution. These organs develop gradually in the womb of our mother. This process irresistibly^ posits eternally realised and perfect forms of these different sense-organs. These are not and cannot possibly be carnal or composed of flesh and blood, though they are organised through flesh and blood during the process of their evolution in the human body. The primary
