Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur indicates in his Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 text 10 that by performing jnana tapasya, one can attain realisations of the eternal nature and appearance of Divinity. “One becomes purified by austerity in the form of tolerating the burning poison of wrong ideas  or thinking , wrong logic, and wrong arguments.” he says .
The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have some stalwart scholars amongst them Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Jiva Goswami to begin with and of course Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur and in recent times ,Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami, Srila BR Sridhar Swami and the extremely intelligent and very practical Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami who miraculously brought Krishna consciousness all over the world inspiring and teaching some of his leading disciples…

Ramanuja acarya says wise persons give up attachments,  effections or fears, or anger for those who speak nonsensical ways ,  because the wise are throughly absorbed in meditations,  hearing,  chanting and singing and speaking of the glories of Krishna and His associates and cannot really be disturbed .

Material calculations of every kind ….within modern societies

Much unthinking much speculation.

Mass education in the West centred around scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis is facilitating a host of unoriginal and unthinking persons , each of whom follow like sheep or lemmings off a cliff previously established speculative persons. The world veiw of the West in saturated with the influences of these two fallacies. The exploitative economy of the world centred on trickle down economics on a  world scale is a falsehood.  The self-evident truth of the equality and equal rights of all is swallowed up by the Darwinian survival of the fittest macro model . The educational systems generally grant pieces of paper they call a degree after being indoctrinated,  and persons think themselves  smart . Generally, such people who even have  higher degrees or PHD’S step up as government advisors and bring with them their unoriginal and unthinking indoctrinated worldview. If we take a look at Western societies and their so-called  governance and compliance systems , we can see the mess they get the world in and its getting worse. The speculative sciences that  they continue to present ,and  their unthinking ideas ,  are taught to other unthinking persons , in the name of objective sciences , although they are clearly not .  It’s no wonder that the great and very honest and objective Richard Feynman said, “that you can have a pocket full of PHD’S and still be a complete idiot “…look at the world. The world is immediately put back on track with scientific dualism , knowledge of consciousness and matter as two distinct substances , this knowledge has deep implications and ramifications , about the way we treat the world and other people within it . Knowledge of the equality of all and a  respect of all cultures is the Vedic way,  and the way of the sensitive philosophically astute intelligentsia.These persons are the only and true leaders worth hearing from .
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