Opera houses all over the world sing of love and intrigues ,and the condition souls are forever attracted to these types of duplicitous love , a secret love . However, in the material world , there is no purity of purposes. It is full of self-centred duplicitous dealing . What appears one way is most properly something quite the opposite,  rascals and cheaters of every kind including within love affairs..Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita “I am your true friend ” and eternally so .”

Inebrieties mean more than just physical drunkenness; philosophically and culturally, they often symbolize a profound disruption, corruption, or  “contamination” of clear, rational thought. Throughout history, altered states or revolutionary thinking have been viewed alternately as a sacred bridge to the divine , or a dangerous pollution of the mind and social order .

In regards to the position and pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna,  He is the supreme Nayaka,  the Supreme Autocrat,  the Supreme hero , God is all good , what appears bad is good in the absolute,  and what appears good in men can be veiwed as bad .

The Supreme and ultimate mysterious workings of the Vedas are revealed to one who is beyond the good , the bad , and the ugly of this world . Thus, in Bhagavad, Gita Krishna says, “Give up all varieties of religion and Dharma and just surrender to Me.” Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur writes in his book “Jiva Dharma” of what Krishna means by His words.

The materialistic are on an imitation programme,  but in doing so they may come to understand the workings of the Supreme Autocrat.

Krishna recommended in Bhagavad Gita many gradually calibrated steps in yoga ,and Dharma,  but mysterious it is that towards the end of the Bhagavad Gita He says , now give up these lower paths and immediately come to the best of the best ..Krishna says those things , but Srila Gour Govinda Swami points out He did not show how . So , Srila Gour Govinda Swami points out Krishna comes as Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and demonstrated how to do what Krishna recommended.

We have to carefully examine cut glass and diamonds.

One can be good at imitating another. The whole material world is a reflected perversion of absolute good , the illusions are so very strong , and everyone becomes mad after the “will of the wisp.”

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” first written by Charles Caleb Colton in 1820.

Famous Quotes on Imitation

• Confucius: “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
• Vedic parallels….yes
• Herman Melville: “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”..
• Vedic thought…not necessarily
• Marcus Aurelius: “To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”….
• Vedic thoughts ..not always ..it can be an envious approach.
• Jean-Luc Godard: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”..
• Vedic thought both the from and to are essential…but .authorities are essential
• I wrote a lyric ,” night time dream day time dream ,where will reality be ? stuck inside illusions vaults with my so-called history. “
• Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami would say life is  like a dream , but just a longer dream .
• http://www.thevedicspectator.com