Any devotees of Vedic thinkers , thinking our industries, plastic and carbon and petrol industries , are having absolutely no effects on the planets atmosphere, and that somehow the commercially driven world of throw away consumerism, that the global conglomerates are so very fond of , conglomerates who are directly or indirectly creating wars to create divisions within countries , so they can aquire precious minerals or metals for further industrial enterprises, have their sciences correct , are a little out of balance . Conglomerates employ scientific members to produce slanted subjective speculations that favour a particular veiw point . Common sense should tell us that excess , whichever way you look at it is harmful.. Saying things like the demigods are controlling the weather , so we can pump poison into the atmosphere and there will be no consequences is too extreme….its just not the atmosphere or weather, the symbiotic nature of the planet and its creatures has been and is being slowly eradicated .Do you hear the dawn chorus, nothing like it was 30 or 40 years ago ..That Greta heavily chastised leaders who allow the conglomerates to do what the Hell they like ,is in keeping with Vedic standpoints ….she is a taking a stance against demons , she is to be admired .
I can well imagine the founder Acarya of ISKCON being very impressed by her spirit of chastising the demons ..Krishna in His Bhagavad Gita clearly tells us about the work of demons who want to destroy the world. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Krishna knows everything?…there is no Robotic rasa
The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have clearly explained that an over emphasis on the oneness of the living being with God or an over emphasis on a difference from God is incorrect. Thus, simultaneously and inconceivably, oneness and difference is the correct tattva , or understanding, the progressive steps to this tattva are taught by Madhava ,Ramanuja, Visnu Swami , and Nimbarka acaryas. The great scholar Srila Jiva Goswami in his Tattva Sandarbha says God makes the impossible possible. Thus, simultaneously being one and different from God should be understood.
When we exhibit our inherant nature and volunteer our love to God, this is an exhibition of the part and parcel of God , who is different from God , uniting in love with God in a “oneness of love ” As such, there is no robotic rasa, love is not a pretence, and God does not exactly know when or how deeply our exhibition of love will occur. We are not machine like robots . As God is individual, so are we , we have tiny independence, and God has unlimited independence. Love is volunteered, and love for the unlimited has an unlimited capacity to increase, and the ever increasing ocean of blissful life is described by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana. The clue is .. Prabhupada says we are not dead stones .. The high court judge knows the destination of the criminal. Do you think the high court judge knows the destination of an honest man ?
Further, to understand the principles of Bhakti in conditioned life , you have to learn to love .. Why some spirit souls spontaneously loved Krishna in His various forms and why some didn’t initially…is the exhibition of freewill , of who or what we love ….We , being the expansions of Balarama or Mula Sankarsan , some of the expanded beings , it appears , due to an independent spirit , were transferred to Mahavisnu, from the Tatastha regions or Brahman . This was because they could not feel that pure spontaneous love immediately. The transportational glance from the Bramhajyoti into matter takes place , where the living beings attempt to find loving relationships . It is never found in fullness. Only Divinity can provide it .
Thus, here we are , still searching.
Love is always voluntary.. When you choose to love God is your free will , the potential for love is inherant but sometimes misplaced . Love is also ever expanding, so it’s newer and newer in quality. Krishna does not know exactly when we will fully love him or how it will feel in terms of intensity….that’s our choice of freedom.
As we previously noted, Prabhupada said .. ” We are not dead stones,” As a high court judge knows the destination of the criminal . Similarly, God knows how conditioned nature responds , His energies bind the conditioned souls. i.e.,within the determinism of the responsive universe , karmic synchronicities. Thus, in conditioned life, God knows everything of our life and choices and how exactly we are conditioned . But Narada Muni is free to wonder anywhere because pure love is always trusted ….and exhibited freely and unpredictability. The more we learn to love God, the more freedom and unpredictability of our loves emotions , and they are expressed without God knowing how they exactly will be ..that brings the highest pleasure to God . We are not predicable downloads of God . There is no robotic rasa .
In the higher realms of Rasa, one can be at one with the residents of Vraja.( pranaya) and the unpredictability becomes even more unpredictable , such as the crooked path of Parikiya rasa . The union and separation of love are described by our acaryas. Directed by the assistants of the Supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani, one can be graced and enter into some understanding of this pranaya oneness of love . The more conditioned a person is, the more predictable they become, its a forgone conclusion how a sex , drug, or drink addict will act .
Certainly, music and the arts as a whole have a crossover point . The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas use music as do the Christians , the Islamic faiths, and the Jewish faith. Arts of all kinds are used to tell of the spiritual dimensions and the divine varigatedness of spiritual relationships and their beauty, which far exceed the self-centred relationships of this world. Every faith has allowances and restrictions within the world of art , art is a perfect tool for spiritual connections or it can hopelessly and helplessly bind one to a temporarily manifested world where the ignorant strongly identify with the sensual world centred around unrestricted sex .
Only an unthinking fanatic would want to ban music and singing as a form of glorification of God , but certainly there are prohibitions , music should be solely a glorification of God and the progressive cultures He teaches , it should not be music that promotes oneself in any way or any enjoyments in a temporarily manifested world based on sensual relationship that come and go .
This is said in Islamic faith , both Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja and Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada had some restrictions on how music and the arts are to be conducted. Before the Renaissance, everything in cultures and educational matters was solely meant for Divinity in music, arts, sciences, social sciences, and political science. There is a careful balance to be struck .
“The status of music in Islam is a subject of extensive debate among scholars, and there is no single consensus. Different schools of thought interpret the Quran and Hadith in varying ways, leading to three main perspectives.1. The Prohibitive View (Haram)Many classical and conservative scholars consider music and musical instruments to be forbidden (haram).Evidence: They cite Hadiths (recorded sayings of the Prophet Muhammad) that condemn instruments.Quranic Interpretation: Verses such as Surah Luqman (31:6) that warn against “idle talk” (lahwal-hadith) are interpreted by some early commentators as references to singing and music.Reasoning: The belief that music distracts from the remembrance of God, encourages heedlessness, and can lead to sinful environments.2. The Permissible View (Halal)Other scholars argue that music is generally permissible, provided the content does not promote immorality or lead to the neglect of religious duties.Evidence: “ The Vedas and the Sankirtana movements are full of appropriate music , as is the case with most faiths .
The particle of consciousness that each living entity possesses and that is fundermentally their real self is , according to a measured amount given in the Vedas , 1 / 10,000th of a tip of a hair in size . Yet our consciousness has incredible potential , and the particle of consciousness expands from the unlimitedly expansive consciousness of Krishna or God . We are parts and parcels of Divinity, simultaneously and inconceivably one and different from Him . Let’s take a look at photons of light and their comparisons to the sun in size and potentials , and consider ourselves in similar ways to be like the photons and God as a Sun , but a sun thats incalculably greater than the size of the sun .…
“The Photon’s Equivalent Mass: While a photon has no “rest mass”, it possesses momentum and energy based on its frequency ((E = h\nu) or (E = \frac{hc}{\lambda})). If you translate this energy into an effective mass using (E = mc^2), a single typical visible photon from the sun has a mass of roughly (8 \times 10^{-36}\text{ kg}).The Sun’s Mass: The sun is incredibly heavy—weighing approximately (1.99 \times 10^{30}\text{ kg}) (about (333,000) times the mass of Earth).The Comparison: To find the ratio of the Sun’s mass to this photon, you divide the two numbers:(\frac{1.99 \times 10^{30}\text{ kg}}{8.0 \times 10^{-36}\text{ kg}} \approx 2.5 \times 10^{65})Visualizing the Scale: “
“This means the Sun is roughly (250,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) times heavier than a single particle of its own light.” Now in trancendental terms , meaning the unlimited multidimensional spiritual and material universes , all of which are under the full control of and emanate from Divinity , and His consciousness powers along with His “reach” . So, we can consider the unlimited sun of Divinity, and perhaps if you go on adding” zeros ” for a year , continuously, to the above equation , we may be approaching something of a comparisons between ourselves as the photons of consciousness , with our spiritual mass , with the potentials and potency of Divinity , along with His unlimited spiritual mass and potency potentials . However, even more miraculous is that although Divinity is inconceivably unlimited in comparison to us , still , He comes personally before us in an individual loving caring relationship, and He expands His sweetness and reduces His majesty for our benefit
One should know something of the unlimited nature of the unlimited and how the unlimited makes Himself known to the limited . The Vedas says . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Atheistic people think the scientific community their friends , but currently, subjective science and speculations are projected onto the public by the scientific community, but as objective fact based sciences and thats cheating, thus such a scientific community are their greatest enemy , cheating and deceit is not sciences.
A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories are not “guesses” but reliable accounts of the real world.
The current scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis are most definitely guessing, guessing, and more guessing.
In Nyaya logic , a person who sees smoke on a distant mountain will deduce fire .. The person who understands and sees perfect math , symmetry , informational exchanges, and codes are assessing correctly and making the correct assumptions. The more sciences progress and the more it investigates, the more it will inevitably move closer and closer to the fire on the mountain ….intelligence is deeply situated in the microbial world and within the universal structure and the constants .
Left or right-handed ?
And everything by chance unguided random mutations….says the Darwinian…they can not explain.
“This handedness is critical for life; for example, an enzyme (a protein) with a left-handed active site can only effectively interact with other left-handed molecules. Using the “wrong” handedness can result in inert or even toxic effects, as famously demonstrated by the Thalidomide drug tragedy, where one enantiomer was a safe morning sickness treatment, while the other caused severe birth defects. The Mystery of the Origin The reason for this universal “choice” is one of the great unsolved mysteries in science. Most ordinary chemical reactions produce an equal (racemic) mix of both forms. Scientists are still exploring various theories for how this symmetry breaking occurred on early Earth, including: “
The Vedas bring us the fundermental principles of the material universes, along with scientific dualism..,when consciousness enters matter information is carried by it ..molecules by themselves dont move towards life …www.thevedicspectator.com
The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas , following the advice and teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Krishna, have invited us all to think , act and intellectualise in connection with Krishna , in Krishna consciousness. Ultimately the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra or any names of God are fully realised and relished when one develops an effection for Krishna, Radharani, Balarama, one must call out in love , with love within the heart .There are many many ways to think , act, and intellectualise in Krishna consciousness, but the most essential ingredient to the spiritual path of Gaudia Vaisnavism is to add Bhakti , pure Bhakti means pure love . This essential ingredient of love is bestowed upon the sincere practitioners , the Bhagavad Gita runs through the process of how karma yoga leads to niskama karma yoga then to high levels of realised jnana in pure jnana yoga then to pure meditations in pure Astanga yoga that is enthused by Radha Krishna nitya lila smaranam or remembrances. The process of Sadhana bhakti, one of practice , that can develop into spontaneous loving services as a Ragganuga Bhakta, have been written on by Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Sanatana Gosvami and Srila Jiva Goswami, Srila Ragganatha das Goswami’s litratures describes the highest pinnacles of the Bhakti process.
The Maha Mantra and the names of Krishna, He has many that our acaryas glorify, have decended from the spiritual planes. These names have been enthused with Rasa and the pastimes and activities of Krishna are eternally situated in them . When one hears the Holy names from a pure devotee and accepts that devotee into one’s heart with great faith and a service mentality, and when such a pure devotee accept us into their hearts and gives blessings, the process of Bhakti and love begins . Bhakti Devi is awarding love of God , through the mercy of Srimati Radharani , who is the top most possessor of pure love for Krishna , and also in this age , through Caitanya Mahāprabhu , who in Radha Krishna combined, and along with Their devotees , such pure love of God is learned of and bestowed . Through this process , added to the discipline of what to think ,and how to think , act, and intellectualise, the Bhakti yoga process brings one and all the greatest of gifts . We must learn to love God and His family and friends, the trancendental realms of Vrndavana have decended through the Sankirtana movements of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
In the Kena Upanisad 2.3 . Its said, The Lord is known by persons who do not think the Lord limited , he who thinks the Lord limited cannot know Him , in this regard the Lord is understood differently by different theological cultures at different times and different places , also the Lord is known personally in a particular way to a particular person ..It is a misunderstanding of standard theological sciences that everyone has to see the Lord the same way , as if the Lord were limited in His absolute personality. One who seeks truth will find unlimited truth in unlimited ways ..
In the Caitanya Caratamrita Madhya lila chapter 21 the full inconceivable opulences and sweetness of Lord Krishna have been described. This particular chapter is essential to hear , one should understand ourselves to be tiny, tiny particles of spirit . The Vedas says our size is 1 / 10,000th of tip of a hair in size . We should also understand Divinity as an unlimited conscious being , who has become many so as to increase His bliss and share his opulences. Krishna Himself does not know the extent of His opulences. One can also consider multidimensional spiritual and material energies , the Harvard Prof Lisa Randall, and many physicists can extend their capacity of thoughts and they can contemplate possible existences beyond the three dimensional world fairly easily in comparison to others .However, Krishna is fully present everywhere, including within our hearts , and can very easily reveal his unlimited existence even to the limited . By the causless mercy of the unlimited, the limited can know something of the unlimited. Take a look at the most simple structures of this world, the cell , it is unlimitedly complex . In conclusion don’t be limited in thoughts , the inconceivable Lord ultimately is a person who likes to enjoy , He enjoys consciousness bliss and spiritual varigatedness in spaces where the greatest of arts are on display, the Srimad Bhagavatam give us a hint of this unlimited transcendental realms . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
When Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited His trancendental lila and the Six Goswami’s were preparing the world for Krishna consciousness philosophically based teachings and life-style, the progressive steps from sadhana bhakti to the spontaneously felt mellows of devotion , India was under the rule of the Islamic rulers, although they were somewhat flexible and like the British who came later , the Islamic leaders worked alongside Hindu cultures . Similarly, when Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj were beginning to formulate plans to establish the teachings of Lord Caitanya worldwide, the country of India was under British rule . So it behoves trancendental thinkers not to get too caught up in external events of world geopolitical ambitions of certain illusioned leaders who seek to dominate and Lord it over others . However, culture and traditions and family values are important and should be carefully valued . The battlefield of Kurukshetra were about preservation of cultures and establishing the correct intelligentsia who could guide society.
So, a balanced view of spiritual consciousness and cultures should be made , the material world are full of conditioned souls who are clueless of the sciences of self realisation or of even objective sciences that points to precision engineering, perfect math and symmetry within nature , that obviously should get people thinking, who or what and when caused this highly organised universe to appear and be maintained so precisely. The sun’s temperature is pretty constant, how can that be , neuclar fusion is not the answer..
Anyhow, the current geopolitical situation is becoming critical….and our leaders are mostly emotional unthinking fools ….but keep on with the higher ideals of trancendental affairs, as Mahaprabhu showed that example, as did Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj.
The pretence that Nato , in its European version ,along with its ideals, libertine cultures , and conglomerate financial backing , is not already at war with Russia , and daily assisting in organising attacks directly into Russia with intelligence sources and military experts will unravel very soon , the consequences could be shocking…cultures need preservation, .as one way of another things will be settled . In 1997, 50 prominent foreign policy experts, including former senators, military leaders, and diplomats, sent an open letter to then-President Bill Clinton outlining their opposition to NATO expansion. “It is a policy error of historic proportions,” they wrote.
Conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan wrote in his 1999 book ‘A Republic, Not an Empire’, “By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century confrontation.”
The current director of the CIA, William Burns, said in 2008 that for Russia, accession to NATO is the brightest of all red lines.”
“I have not yet found anyone who would consider Ukraine in NATO as something other than a direct challenge to Russia’s interests,” he said.
The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have taught Krishna lila and Mahaprabhu lila are very similar but in different trancendental ways . Both Krishna and Mahāprabhu came to establish religious principles and both also relished the loving relationships of the residents in Vrndavana, however in that respect Mahaprabhu taught the principles of separation and union and Krishna demonstrated union and separation..In the highest realms of trancendental affairs the union can bring the fear of separation and an intense separation brings union , such is the workings of trancendance
In trancendental tattva in the highest trancendental realms, the two opposites meet .The Tattva of Union and separation are elaborately explained by all our Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas.
When Krishna was carrying out lila pastimes , He danced in the forests of Vrndavana, He gave counselling to the Pandavas outside of Vrndavana, and famously He gave counsel to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra . Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu also carried out similar activities, giving counsel, preaching and teaching Krishna consciousness within all kinds of society members , from the greatest of the scholars of the day to the general public by His chanting and dancing that everyone could access . In the house of Srinivasa Acarya, deep meditative chanting behind closed doors where union and separation became one in esoteric Kirtan of the highest orders took place , and this eventually spilt out into the towns and villages of Mayapur and in other parts of India ,and the Sankirtana movements were born . The process of how to systematically advance in Krishna consciousness began to be taught to one and all , and Caitanya Mahāprabhu particularly instructed the Goswami’s of Vrndavana headed by Rupa, Ragganatha. In Jagganath Puri towards the end of Mahaprabhu’s lila He exhibited the highest realms of the Vrndavana lilas by revealing the glories of Srimati Radharani in Her moods of separation from Krishna. The Caitanya Caratamrita brings full details of the glories of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Devotees of the highest order appeared with Mahāprabhu, as they did with Krishna . So , both in Krishna lila, where union with the residents of Vraja was predominantly exhibited and in separation from them that was demonstrated within Mahāprabhu lilas in Mayapur and Jagganath Puri , the devotees exhibited and relished these highest of trancendental moods of Union and separation , that originated from Srimati Radharani, who is the abode of love in Her dealings with Krishna the object of love.
The current devotees follow Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and become absorbed in their preaching activities, but who are they preaching about ?
Thus, the most advanced preachers are living in two lilas, the lila of Mahāprabhu in Mayapur and Puri and the Lila of Krishna and the residents of Vraja . The Acaryas have written on the daily activities of Krishna in Vraja and the daily activities of Mahāprabhu and demonstrated this union and separation tattva .
In current times, a country is measured by its wealth and not its culture, which is ignored . Europe built its wealth based on exploiting other countries and pilfering and later through unfare trade deals .USA has done the same , first through exploitation and pilfering and encroachment and later through unfair trade deals . In the multipolar world, a new sense of responsibility , a sharing, and a cooperation is building , fair trade is key, and a sharing of technologies and resources . Let every country and culture prosper , the old UK , European, and USA days are over , Brics may well lead the way , and the USA are not liking it one bit. However , this is more the Vedic way.
Local people, local industries , resources, and cultures are shared and respected . Everything is based on the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings, although situated differently. In Vedic cultures, that sense of equality and respect and rights of existence were extended to all beings ,including the animals, insects, and birds . Everything is sacred because it is God-given, and God is situated in everyone’s heart . This type of culture , based on scientific dualism and advanced understanding of consciousness, is practised and understood by the intelligensia . The intelligentsia are situated within every culture…more and more in a newly educated world people will come to understand them and turn to them for the desperately needed guidance, currently we live in a world where leaders are teaching hatred and division http://www.thevedicspectator.com
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