The Vedic ideal

A Vedic world for today’s purposes.

Creating a Vedic world within the world of Kali

Creating a family with  spiritual values ..

His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has made an attempt  following the instructions and directions of Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja and Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur,  to use the educational systems of the Vedas and help establish the world as it should be . A world free from the ignorance that currently saturates the main educational systems and that presents scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis by  ignoring many  simply observed and clear objective sciences . First-class administrators of society will always listen to the genuine intelligensia who are realised in scientific  objective knowledge of all kinds . Thus, they’re realised in consciousness studies and human conditioned psychology. Scientific dualism brings us all to the correct approaches to life and naturally takes into account ” self-evident truths “. The rights of all persons within all cultures and knowledgeable interpretations of geopolitical affairs and socio-political sciences. Those who realise these truths have the responsibility to point out  cheating rascal political classes , who listen to global masters of a different kind . The political leaders must decide who their masters really are , and they must sensibly conclude they are not  the global conglomerates , heartless businessmen can never lead men or set policies for them . In the forming ISKCON Srila AC, Bhaktivedanta Swami has brought worldwide attention to Gaudia Vaisnavism,  which sets the tone for both social and spiritual mobility for every culture . The Vedas has been brought to light in a modern setting . Further developments of the applications of Vedic  suggestions are developing that could be applied to time place and circumstance . These can be practically considered and will be appealing. The Vedic ideal is that everyone can live in a harmonized atmosphere where differences are respected and facilities that everyone need , including the creatures of the earth , can be easily obtained . This is not so difficult to realise for sane persons of  cultured  disposition. Unity in diversity is key.  as well as any discord being harmonized , this is the Vedic gift for all cultures . This vision is based on the Srimad Bhagavatam and the Bhagavad Gita , as well as the eighteen puranas that bring natural and systematic education for every different type of persons and allowances for their particular conditionings  . The psychological position of the ethereal subtle consciousness of all beings is taken into account  within the eighteen Puranas.  Thus, men of goodness , passion, and ignorance are offered facilities , and systematic progressive lives are delivered for one and all . This naturally allows for the specific needs of a ” multicultural ” society , where differences can be lived out in harmony.

Some people may openly criticize ISKCON, or Gaudia Vaisnava societies , and immature thinkers probably dont understand the significance of their work and their long-term vision. When initially creating  structures naturally also problems can be created that’s to be expected especially in young institutions.   Every family has to face problems and learn to deal with them and learn from them . Living in the material world with spiritual ideals will naturally create puzzles.   Critical Vaisnava thinking  based on Gaudia Vaisnavism , can solve  management and governance issues . We can naturally understand that in creating the great worldwide family of ISKCON for instance from scratch , and in such  unprecedented ways , with unprecedented preaching   carried out all over the world , the ongoing  complexities of the management of such a  ginormous family will remain with us . Good governance means to  address issues in the best possible ways and follow in the footsteps of our param para traditions in all the spiritual tattvas . There are set methods of arriving at such fundermental  conclusions of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s teachings . Social problems are certainly not unique to ISKCON or any Gaudia Vaisnava group or any spiritual organisation .  Bringing the greatest benefits of the Vedic cultures to the world , and ultimately knowledge of Krishna consciousness ,  is a  matter of urgency .

Traditional ashrams or religious cultures , generally have  women and men within their own settings .The Nuns and Monks live separately all over the world . Family life was  absent, and their interactions with society were limited.

In creating ISKCON Srila AC, Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , following the Devi Varna Ashram that Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has suggested,  Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur had the vision that the whole world should be given the opportunity to practice Krishna consciousness together .Every varna and every ashram should be included in the spiritual renaissance movement of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu.  Prabhupada’s ISKCON society has successfully brought Krishna consciousness opportunities to one and all in very practical ways all over the world, and it continues to successfully develop in many ways .

If Prabhupada had created traditional Ashram systems , many aspects of society would not have been included in a  cultivation of Krishna consciousness , it is Mahāprabhu’s desire that everyone is included. Currently, the mission of the Gaudia Vaisnavas is influencing and  growing in all of the varnas and ashrams of the world.

Earlier days  in ISKCON were very blissful and revolutionary  but particularly difficult in many respects . Young inexperienced leaders had a lot of responsibilities , and many couldn’t manage well . Consequences of failure can be problematic , but we can not assume the utopian dream that all is rosey as soon as someone walks into an ashram . Persons have come to learn and unlearn the bad habits of material life . Risks are there in any organisation, and every organisation is now managing risks a lot better .

Certainly, Prabhupada, through his preaching method, has opened up the whole world . Every single aspect of society can now access a Krishna consciousness experience , and the success of his mission is astounding . He built a home the whole world could live in , and this will come to pass in many, many ways.

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Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur Holy appearance day ….

This article examines the importance of human societies, the need for reform within the varṇāśrama system, and the challenges of implementing such reform in the contemporary world. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura also discusses the position of Kalki-avatāra in relation to the present age of Kali-yuga. First published in Sajjana Toṣaṇī, Vol. 2, Issue 7, 1885.

by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura
translated by Swami Bhaktivijñāna Giri

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We have repeatedly stated that what is referred to as the pure dharma of the jīva is itself known as Vaiṣṇava dharma. Jaiva-dharma is the name of the eternal dharma of the jīva. When the jīva becomes free from all designations, then his inherent nature (svarūpa) is pure and spiritual consciousness. What then is his eternal dharma? Unconditional prema. When he becomes endowed with designations in the form of material knots, then his dharma is distorted love, or love mixed with material designations. The Vaiṣṇava dharma of the pure jīva is expressed in a greatly distorted form in the bound jīva.

Read up on all of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s writing.

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Articles by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur

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The Vedic spectator highlights unbiased, sound, and critical thinking from a Vedic perspective . Much needed in a dark age of quarrel and  hypocrisy , as the Vedas predicted would occur , where wars , killing , exploitation , and ignorance of all kinds permeate societies . Libertine conglomerate monopolies seek to destroy traditions and fake a intelligentsia who are posing as authorities , teach subjective scientific materialism, and Darwinian hypothesis as fact based sciences , when they are clearly not objective truths . Ruination of our planet, along with the creatures that rightly live everywhere, is taking place . Family traditions are being destroyed,  in the name of ” if it feels good, do it.” Polished animals , or sophisticated animals, they think this is the perfect civilization of the future .The Vedas offers hope and direction to one and all , plus spiritual and social mobility . The spectator brings to the attention of everyone , within its articles, both current and historical personalites who have extensively written of their realisations , these are referred to as Sabdha Brahman,  purely inspired decending sound .These illuminate and focus our attention on the ancient , but ever new ,  extensive Vedic texts . Furthermore , the Gaudia Vaisnava Vedic param para ,who were personaly instructed by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu , are competent and expert at bringing out succinct Vedic truths , and can apply them to  time , place and a  circumstance . Such persons most importantly feel deeply the suffering of others and have solutions for our leaders as well as the general
populace .
The commentaries by those teachers distinguish reality from illusion for the benefit of all .

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In Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s movements, there are many types of devotees , some are swept up in the causless mercy waves and begin to develop great faith in Lord Krishna,  they learn about the highest spiritual realms of Goloka Vrndavana. Sometimes, these devotees, although maintaining strong faith, let their practices wane. Their initial austerity falls by the wayside, and they may attempt to settle into the troublesome material world .  However, by Krishna’s grace, they are never absent in real terms because once one gets the mercy of Mahāprabhu it will never leave . Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that even if a devotee becomes sinful and fallen because they never give up a hope against hope and  never give up their faith ,  they should be regarded as devotees.

So , some devotees plunge deep into the Sankirtana movement and others never plunge but dip their toes in and slowly and carefully try to enter the oceans of the Sankirtana movements . Sometimes, they have attachments to material life and the material trappings of material success , opulences, and hopes of high social standing . Such devotees can progress and make progress through Dharmic approaches. However , a try at a complete sacrifice and attempts of deep surrender that may be  carried out by some devotee will carry  them a long way , their faith is deep , and they have not forgotten Krishna . Their sacrifice to the eternal remains eternal, and Krishna has not forgotten them . Very quickly, at any moment, deep hankering and remembrances will  return in many profound ways . This is promised by Krishna to those who have deeply sacrificed for Him and His representatives . Nothing is ever lost in spiritual life , and there is everything to gain .There is a verse that indicates one can do ones Dharma perfectly,  but if such a person does not take their sacrifices further and deeper  ,remaining in material comfort,  they miss out on a greater realising of the knowledge and detachment that Krishna consciousness brings . However , the person who made a deep sacrifice,  seemingly prematurely,  has this treasure eternally situated within them , and it will automatically  engulf them again and  irresistibly the depths of Krishna consciousness will rise  within their hearts and carry them much further than they could have imagined.

Such are the results of the mercy of sacrifices to please Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhus representatives, and particularly, we can say ,  Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada establishment of Krishna consciousness all over the world .Those early devotees worked wonders .

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AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada says .

The great mistake of modern civilization is to encroach upon others’ property as though it were one’s own and to thereby create an unnecessary disturbance of the laws of nature. These laws are very strong. No living entity can violate them.Only one who is Krishna conscious can easily overcome the stringency of the laws of nature and thus become happy and peaceful in the world.

As a state is protected by the department of law and order, so the state of Universe, of which this earth is only an insignificant fragment, is protected by the laws of nature.This material nature is one of the different potencies of God, who is the ultimate proprietor of everything that be. This earth is, therefore, the property of God, but we, the living entities, especially the so-called civilized human beings, are claiming God’s property as our own, under both an individual and collective false conception.If you want peace, you have to remove this false conception from your mind and from the world. This false claim of proprietorship by the human race on earth is partly or wholly the cause of all disturbances of peace on earth.

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We should know of the self-evident truth of all living beings and respect others’ cultures and lands .

Modern-day global conglomerates that drive greed  monopolies worldwide are  destroying ancient cultures and family traditions. They also destroy the local environments, destroy creatures of all kind , and exploit endlessly local resources for their needs and very often poison the land filling it full of plastics and chemicals.

We should all understand simple living and the high thinking associated with the principles of karma yoga,  jnana yoga,  niskama karma yoga,  astanga yoga, and ultimately the unifying force of Bhakti yoga and described in the Vedas .

The absolute truth can never be understood by a cheating heart that generates its own disinformation campaigns. The material world is a place full of denial and disinformation. There are many specialists in this field , and unfortunately, many become leaders , and the crooked attract the crooked , so its no surprise they get voted in . In political affairs , scientific affairs, and religious affairs , and especially in media affairs, disinformation is regularly spilling and spewing out in ever increasing volumes , no doubt Ai will be the king of misinformation.

What does Krishna say on these matters ,

BG 4.34: Learn the Truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him with reverence and render service unto him. Such an enlightened Saint can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the Truth.

Importantly, it’s the character and qualities of a Saint that are important. One should understand the qualities of a person who lives in truth , Arjuna asked Krishna what are the symptoms of one who lives in truth .

Arjuna said: What are the symptoms of one whose consciousness is thus merged in Transcendence? How does he speak, and what is his language? How does he sit, and how does he walk?

Krishna answers in Bhagavad Gita as it is

From text 54 onwards, chapter two .

Look it up …..

Everything is clear ..

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12 bar blues …..

I going down the graveyard

That’s where I’m destined to go

I’m going down to the graveyard just when no-one knows

I’ll see my friends a weeping

As my family bids me goodbye

But hold on to your hats, my friends

Cuz I’m never gonna die

My soul it is immortal

All the great thinkers , it’s what they say

I’ve had so many bodies

And another’s coming my way

Even in this life, a boy, a youth a man

My consciousness stayed with me, and that’s who I really am

Don’t care for Darwins evolution

And the guessing of professors who 

Use unmathematical manipulations

Imposed on so  many by so  few

Their  subjective speculative mumbo jumbo requires so much blind  faith

Objective science  points the other way , so let’s not act in haste

I’m going down the graveyard

With a lifted spirit on high

I’m going down the graveyard but I’m never gonna die.

If this truth is known and lived out, then progress, we will call

Night time dream daytime dream this is the reality for all .

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Radha and Krishna are the most “ancient” but ever new lovers ..

The origins of everything are in the Supreme Brahman , Sri  Krishna, He is the original personality of Godhead . He has unlimited saktis and attributes displayed  unlimitedly throughout the spiritual and material realms . The superior,  the marginal and inferia energies are all described in the Srimad Bhagavatam, and we should know of them .

The most attractive and captivating features of life are said to be the attraction between the trancendental lovers ,  Radha Krishna, these affairs overwhelm all other emotions and are a cause of the greatest trancendental happiness or trancendental distress .We can say these are  reflected in  miniscule ways within the material energies.

Radha Krishna eternal pastimes and their eternal dancing ,which they enjoy along with their associates , also feature all the trancendental intrigues of the twists and turns of spiritual loving affairs and they are  delineated in the writing of the six Gosvamis . Sri Krishna of Goloka Vrndavana has nothing to do but enjoy , a big business boss leaves everything to his staff and enjoys his wealth , one could say . The Goswami’s of Vrndavana, although appearing as men in the 15th century  , were in spiritual truth ,  internally situated within their spiritual forms . Their original spiritual forms are young maidens who are the assistants and intimate friends of Srimati Radharani. The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have brought everything together through their writings.

Anybody hearing or studying can enter into the spirit of their literature , but only under the guidance and blessings of a pure devotee , just one moments association is enough . By their blessings, one can be freed from mundane lust and be transferred into a spiritual realm . One can aspire to be an assistant of the assistant of the assistant and try to relish the mellows of the every new but most ancient love affairs of Radha Krishna.

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When describing spiritual affairs, many may want to give a comparison or what can be called reflection of the spiritual and material planes. In some senses reflection has been used by our acaryas in terms of the varigatedness of the material and spiritual words,  but a broken mirror brings warped reflections . So we are warned not to mix the spiritual trancendental rasa or spiritual emotions , especially of the residents of Vrndavana , with our affairs or emotions . Our emotions are carried out within the conditioned modes of nature , or sometimes  through a semblance of spirituality that can  enter by following the  order of the spiritual masters in the param para and by engaging in Sadhana Bhakti ,  in an approach to Ragganuga spontaneous Bhakti.

The atoms , elements and compounds, and emotions based on the modes of material nature can not possibly mimic the trancendental pure existence where soul on soul exchanges of unalloyed pure love exists,  especially of Srimati Radharani and Her companions.

If you were on a beach alone , some forty-five years later, after visiting it with your family on a regular basis,  and if your children were in far distant lands and your partner had died , how would you feel ? You would be overcome by memories and separation from them , but can that separation and memories compare to the feelings Krishna and Radharani feel when they are separated , even for short times ? The original spiritual emotions have been written on by the Goswami’s of Vrndavana as directed by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu . For instance when  Vishakha was once clicking her fingernails , Krishna was sent into waves of trancendental ecstatic bliss , or when He hears the voices of the Gopies , surging spiritual emotions erupt within His heart . When the Gopies hear Krishna’s flute calling them for union , tears of emotions and joy flow through them uncontrollably . In seperation from Krishna, the Srimad Bhagavatam clearly describes those emotions , and Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu demonstrated these deep feelings of spiritual seperation,  His trancendental body became contorted,  this is described in the Caitanya Caratamrita.

So we should be careful not to compare or bring conditioned emotions within the spiritual experiences. Such genuine spiritual emotions decend by their own will by the mercy of Radha Krishna, the more we feel a hankering for genuine spiritual consciousness the more that attracts the spiritual realms.

Something on Rasabhasa

Rasabhasa (Sanskrit: रसाभास, rasābhāsa) translates “to a “semblance of emotion” or a “shadow of a mellow”. Rather than simply mixing spiritual and material emotions, it specifically refers to an improper, mismatched, or incompatible blending of emotional sentiments (rasas).

In the context of Indian aesthetics and Bhakti theology (devotional philosophy), the term breaks down into:

• Rasa: Taste, flavor, or the essence of an emotional relationship.
• Abhasa: A shadow, reflection, or superficial appearance.

How Rasabhasa Occurs

1. Incompatible Mixing (Virasata):
   In classical Indian poetry and drama, rasabhasa occurs when two conflicting emotions are forced together. For example, trying to evoke comedic humor (hasya-rasa) directly out of deep terror or grief (karuna-rasa) creates an aesthetic clash. It disrupts the purity of the emotional experience.
2. Adulteration in Bhakti (Devotion):
   In the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition outlined by scholars like Rūpa Goswāmī, rasabhasa specifically happens when a devotee’s transcendental relationship with the divine becomes adulterated or overlapping with incompatible moods. It can manifest when a practitioner artificially projects mundane or material qualities onto pure spiritual exchanges, or when they mismatch the fundamental roles of spiritual relationships (such as treating a mood of pure servitude with inappropriate, cheeky arrogance).

Because rasabhasa results in a distorted or “adulterated” reflection rather than the genuine, pure experience of ultimate spiritual ecstasy (bhakti-rasa), ancient teachers advise practitioners to recognize and avoid it.

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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 experimentation Such fact-supported theories are not Darwinian”guesses” but reliable accounts of the real world.

The problem with the current scientific world , including educational systems , is they are forever presenting to students, the media, and the wider world that their citations and subjective opinions , based on objective observations , are practically ” done and dusted ”   fact based and indisputably true .It is clearly the impression they give , no doubt. Although behind closed doors , they know of the flaws and massive gaps in their thinking, but those doubts are not voiced in public , and if “insider ” scientific members voice the truths of subjective speculative science,  they find themselves without funding or without teaching posts .

People in general take sciences to be presented honestly, but it’s actually and unfortunately not the case .To present something in scientific terms dishonestly or as practically indisputable when, in reality, leaders of sciences know it’s not a secure observation is out and out misrepresentation of facts .

When we witness as laymen,  sophisticated design and signs of symmetry and perfect  math in  everything in nature , along with what appears a perfection in engineering within bodily construction,  it’s hardly surprising,  especially  because of our own experiences of our  technological world ,that we might logically assume codes ,  information exchanges,  organised math ,  and examples of super fine engineering originates from a mind and consciousness , a person . The flaws of the Darwinian evolution hypothesis have been nicely explained by Dr Jonathan Wells in his book The Ikons of Evolution.  Vedic Nyaya logic teaches simply that when we see smoke in a distant mountain, we can sensibly conclude there is fire .In the modern era , if we see sophisticated codes , incalculably more complex than our computer coding , that produces everything we experience online , logic will drive us to obvious conclusions. When we look out , the Vedas say we are seeing the Sakti of the Supreme Brahman,  everyone has a personality and Sakti , things they can do or create or react to .

The Srimad Bhagavatam third canto describes the fundermental principles of material nature , wherein the classical,  atomic and ethereal planes are highlighted along with multicultural spacetime and the superior spiritual realms.

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