We can understand from the Vedas that Divinity is the energetic source , the Supreme Brahman, Brahman is categorized as the superior spiritual energies , marginal spiritual energies, and inferia spiritual energies.Krishna is the supreme Brahman but because His energies are unlimitedly distributed in incomprehensible ways , Srila Jiva Goswami says they are all addressed as Brahman. An example is given that electricity can be used to heat or cool , likewise all categorized energies are spiritual , even so called material, for Krishna or His pure devotees , everything is Gods pure energies . When used purely, the so-called matter does not limit the spiritual person . Indeed, Krishna says in His Bhagavad Gita, ” One who sees me in everything and everything in me I am never lost to him he is never lost to me . There is a verse that says ” The moon is covered by the cloud but by the light of the moon the clouds can be seen ” Material energies can directly connect to the spiritual since they originate from the same source. The Vedas, along with its many mantras , names, and descriptions of Divinity , along with its complete wisdom of all energies , all stem from the supreme superior source , the supreme Brahman Krishna. Divinity is reaching down , making connections , bringing the spiritual wisdom to those who are in maya , and maya means forgetfulness . We should be confident the Lord has multiple methods in place for communication and clear insights about Himself . By way of examples, great scientific thinkers , philosophically minded people, artists, and musicians will all speak about the curious powers of inspiration and gaining insights.
Divinities energies work in very wonderful ways . Although the gross body has many limits , the mind , intellect , and especially consciousness are much more closely connected to the soul .
Thus, although the moon is covered by the cloud , but by the light of the moon , the clouds are seen . Similarly, although our consciousness is hazy, unpredictable, and fluctuating in so many ways , it’s by the original soul that all its fragility is detectable . Our consciousness is like original pure light travelling through coloured , broken , and somewhat strangely shaped class , giving us many distorted impressions. The names of Divinity and the wisdom of the Vedas , that Divinity allows us to understand put our broken and distorted impressions back in their original intended state . In that state, everything becomes clear, and an understanding of Divinity is revealed. Soul on soul vision and experiences ,and not consciousness passing through atoms , elements, and compounds within a distorted subtle ethereal world .
The Srimad Bhagavatam is considered Sruti . “The Bhagavatam is considered apauruseya (not created by a mortal human) and is the direct manifestation of the Lord’s internal potency.” The fact that the Bhagavatam is the “natural commentary ” on the Vedanta sutra indicates its origins are divine, the Vedas originates from the breathing of Visnu.. The Bhagavatam also utilises the Itihasas such as the Mahabharata to bring attention to and clarity to its purpose so it can be easily understood to common men . The Srimad Bhagavatam appears and dissappear in the course of history . It’s like the sun , it is always present but appears to appear and dissappear. The Srimad Bhagavatam is according to Srila BR Sridhar Swami , he indicates , that the Bhagavatam is not subject to the particular or defined opinions of the Vedas or Upanishads which can be relative truths according to individual searchers of truth or particular worshipers , but rather the Srimad Bhagavatam is the supreme, ultimate conclusion of them.
Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu taught the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana about the absolute position of the Srimad Bhagavatam and recommended its thorough study and understanding . The Srimad Bhagavatam culminates in one sense to the shining face of Lord Krishna along with His supremely ecstatic pastimes with Srimati Radharani in Vrndavana . Krishna exhibited his opulences in perfect , more perfect, and most perfect ways , Vrndavana lila with Srimati Radharani exhibited his most perfect sweetness .
Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu instructed the Goswami’s to elaborate on the Srimad Bhagavatam teachings and the trancendental pastimes within Sri Vrndavana Dharma, and thus, they have given to mankind the most perfect of all Smriti , Lord Krishna in Vrndavana can be only understood through these six Goswami’s and ultimately through the mercy or Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The ministers and prime minister, although only temporarily in post , consider themselves leaders , however, are not to be considered ultimate leaders , rather, ministers of every kind are the representatives of the real leaders . In Vedic times that meant an Autocratic king who , under the directions of the intelligentsia , who were composed of Vipras , scholars of various categories, Brahminical persons , who were advanced in spiritual sciences , and who realised the self-evident truths of the consciousness in all beings , and also the Bhagavat acaryas full self realised persons , fully representative of theological texts such as the Srimad Bhagavatam. These three are essential, and the king or ministers should regard those three as the ultimate authority .So , ministers should never consider themselves our leaders , they are ministers who must follow the intelligentsia. Today’s democracies fail because ministers seriously consider themselves like Kings or they consider they need no guiding intelligentsia. Rather, they choose their own advisors who are as unfit as they are to be advising because they also fail to listen to the real intelligensia..
Prabhupāda: Well, democracy means anyone gives vote to anyone, so the man who takes the vote he may not be trained up, so there is danger in democracy. Just like in America it is now failed. You know such an exalted person president Nixon he is now charged with so many faults. You know that. So this is the defect of democracy, by simply votes you may elect somebody then again you will charge him with so many faults. Therefore the administrator class of men must be trained up, satyam, śaucam, titikṣā, like that. If he is not trained up, simply by votes if one is exalted in a post then again the reaction will be that Nixon was voted again he is charged with so many faults, that is the defect of democracy.
Guest 2: who can train.
Prabhupāda: The university will train, what for this Educational Department, this should be the process of training. The first class men should be trained like this, second class men should be trained like this, third class men should be trained like this.
Guest 2: By whom?
Prabhupāda: Here, the direction is in the Bhagavad-gītā, take the direction, and educational directors may take help and do that.
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The complete Vedic literature of which the Srimad Bhagavatam and the Bhagavad Gita are bringing key essentials to humanity are available . There is nothing new . To understand the wisdom and apply it , the intelligentsia have their realised knowledge source, the Vedas , and through Sabdha Brahman , pure vibration , and through pure intelligence , of the genuine intelligentsia , every thing is revealed , truth and widom follow the truthful and wise . Lord Visnu, who has created the world for the educational purposes of the living beings, has already said everything on educational matters of all sorts . The intelligentsia understand them by His grace, and by their purity, these two circumstances bring perfection .
Educated democracies under the care of the intelligentsia would work , but ministers must know they are ministers and not leaders .
The Vedic way of justice..
Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj and Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami said the Vedic way is to call out injustices,.. one who does wrong or suffers wrong is wrong . In the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage, these great teachers (acharyas) emphasized that upholding dharma (righteousness) means refusing to be passive in the face of adharma (injustice or wrongdoing). Tolerating or silently watching injustice is considered a dereliction of moral and spiritual duty, because both the perpetrator of a wrong , the passive enabler ,or sufferer who accepts degradation or as karma ,without a righteous stand miss the standard of truth and the purposes of the Vedas. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The blogsite, the Vedic spectator, writes about the different yoga systems within the Vedas , karma yoga , jnana yoga , niskama karma yoga , astanga yoga , and how by adding progressions in Bhakti yoga , this leads one to the perfect state of pure Bhakti , spontaneous and unalloyed pure love of God . Yoga represents the progressive march of the soul within the material world through the process of natural social and spiritual mobility . Yoga can also be taken to mean adjustment to ones psychology . The idea is somehow our originally intended destination of our consciousness has alluded us , we find our selves locked out looking in , looking inwards helps , but ultimately spiritual yoga is about rediscovered rasa or spontaneous love and entering the land of love and spiritual varigatedness , where Divinity resides along with the supreme Goddess of fortune. Spiritual yoga and spiritual life are not about psychological issues, pe say , but adjustments bringing us back to our natural condition , back home back to Godhead, one may say .
Chapter 6: Sankhya-yoga
TEXT 47
yoginam api sarvesam mad-gatenantar-atmana sraddhavan bhajate yo mam sa me yuktatamo matah
And of all yogis, he who always abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all.
Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu , who is Krishna Himself in the mood of Srimati Radharani , has taught the world of the glories of the love that Srimati Radharani possesses , if we want to love Krishna or understand Him in His most intimate and sweetest of moods , then we must learn from Srimati Radharani . Learning from Srimati Radharani means learning from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in this age of Kali. That is the topmost of yoga , a yoga of spontaneous love within the realms of Sri Vrndavana Dharma , without Srimati Radharani it is not learned of .
The soul , using the yoga processes , when it’s linked with increasing levels of bhakti or pure devotional moods , can free the atma from all its entanglements within the material world , billions of lives worth . Ultimately, yoga means to link with God. Goloka Vrndavana and the Vaikuntha planets are where God resides with all His associates .
Yes, The Vedic Spectator explores core themes of Vedic philosophy, viewing yoga systems as a progressive spiritual journey. It emphasizes that true yoga connects the soul (atma) to Krishna, the supreme Personality of Godhead , leaving past material entanglements behind bringing one toward spiritual abodes like Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrndavana through bhakti , pure devotion . Core Themes of Vedic Yoga and Liberation Progressive Elevation: Different yoga branches act as steps for the soul’s upward movement through material and spiritual layers. Role of Bhakti: Combining yoga disciplines with pure devotional service (bhakti) purifies the heart and cuts all material ties. The Ultimate Goal: Yoga culminates in re-establishing the living entity’s loving personal relationship with the Supreme. The Spiritual Abodes: Reaching eternal realms , of which Goloka Vrndavana is the topmost abode where God lives with His intimate associates , spontaneous love is exhibited, with awe and reverence put to one side .
The sciences of yoga .
The scientific yoga …free will , free wont , and neuron interaction.
Lord Krishna speaks about the glorious yoga system . Yoga means to link with God . To link with God, we need to know the uncoupling process , we can not be coupled with the illusions of this world if we want to understand pure trancendental knowledge. It’s like embracing a person tightly and screaming, “Let me go.” The commercial yoga groups understand very little of yoga. It’s a monetary show as far as they understand, good for money good for some fame , that’s not yoga .
Lord Krishna says this in His Bhagavad Gita.
“Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he has acquired from the modes of material nature; therefore, no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment.”
Lord Krishna has defined a systematic process , from karma yoga to niskama karma yoga, then jnana yoga, then jnana sunya bhakti , this is the beginnings of much more development of the yoga of devotion process which has began to be accompanied by stronger trancendental knowledge. Trancendental knowledge also comes in various stages of development , there is in reality, no limits to trancendental knowledge. Bhakti is accompanied by and takes help from karma and jnana in the beginnings of the Bhakti process. In the phase of jnana sunya Bhakti , the stronger development phase of trancendental knowledge, the devotees hear from pure devotees and increasingly and directly from the Srimad Bhagavatam , and by the blessings and grace of all the param para acaryas they can study some of their many litratures and meditate on the lila pastimes described by them in their books . This process accompanied by rich” jnana sunya bhakti ” leads to increasingly deeper meditation, one could say the perfection of Astanga yoga, so this is pure Bhakti , and it is leading to purely enriched Astanga like yoga , unique because of being soaked with devotion and remembrances of Krishna lila gained through the processes of hearing , chanting and remembrances . Srila Ragganatha das Goswami in his meditations and instructions on Krishna consciousness lead us to the glories and science of yoga , as does Srila Rupa Goswami as well as Sanantan and Jiva Goswami’s. All were taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
The Professor of neuroscience Michael Egnor has made a point that brain neurons fire in different ways according to discipline and habit changes , those addicted to certain behaviours are almost forced to act due to psychological modes of nature . Modes of nature can change, and patterns of life and habits can change, and brain neurons will change with practice and habits . That Krishna is clearly telling us , we have free will , we can strengthen our consciousness and exercise a free wont . Ie .we will not let bad things degrade our consciousness , but we will rather elevate our consciousness through better choices and feel the benefit.
Unfortunately , low class leaders and scientific materialism, as well as the Darwinian hypothesis , have driven everyone to become like street dogs following their senses anywhere and lifting their legs on anyone. The Vedic way is one of elevated consciousness and progressive social and spiritual mobility for all , and the yoga systems are set out for that purpose. When the intelligentsia return, so will real education, the sophisticated animals will be forced back in their baskets .
Opinions and methods of how best to engage in devotional services to Krishna are accepted by Him if they align with His pure representatives . The example is generally given of the nine fold processes of bhaki , as general principles.
1. HEARING (sravanam) Maharaja Pariksit(the last seven days of his life, he constantly heard the Srimad Bhagavatam).
2. CHANTING (kirtanam) Sukadeva Goswami(spoke the Bhagavatam to Maharaja Pariksit)
3. REMEMBERING( visnu smaranam) Prahlada Maharaja(never forgot Krsna despite constant tortures from his father- Hiranyakashipu)
4. SERVING THE LORD’S LOTUS FEET (pada sevanam) Laxmi, the Goddess of Fortune, is always engaged in serving the lotus feet of the Lord.
5. DEITY-WORSHIP (arcanam) Maharaja Prthu used all of his royal possessions in order to offer them in pure devotion to the Lord.
6.PRAYING (vandanam) Akura offered prayers to Krsna when he was traveling to Vrndavana in order to see Krsna.
7. EXECUTING ORDERS (dasyam) Hanuman, the intimate servant of Ramacandra executed all of Sri Ramacandra’s orders despite all kinds of difficulties.
8. SERVING AS A FRIEND (sakhyam) Arjuna was so close to Krsna, that the Lord offered Himself to become his chariot driver and serve Arjuna and his brothers in various ways.
9. COMPLETE SURRENDER (atma nivedanam) Bali Maharaja gave Sri Vamanadeva his entire kingdom, his possessions as well as his own body, although his own spiritual master was against it.
These types of devotional services are spoken of in the Srimad Bhagavatam and are demonstrated by the Goswami’s of Vrndavana, and elaborations are taught by them throughout their litratures Such loving services automatically and spontaneously aligns a devotees’ heart with the absolute , because they follow His devotees , although we can aspire to please Krishna, we must learn what pleases Him best . The param para acaryas will know spontaneously in advance and be fully conscious of what is pleasing to Radha Krishna. Such devotional efforts will be soaked with devotional sentiments and based on understanding the absolute truth .There will be a complete absence of localised interests, thus they are all immediately harmonized with the absolute spiritual objective reality of a spiritual kingdom, and relished by Srimati Radharani, Sri Krishna and Their unlimited family and friends. We could say in the words of Srila BR Sridhar Swami, the spiritually minded subjective thinker communes with the super subjective plane .The working of Sabdha Brahman pure sound and the Svarupa Sakti of the unlimited supreme Brahman are at work.
Much more on the developing devotional service soon .
The complete science of the sciences of trancendental matters with its various nomenclature are given by Srila Rupa Goswami in his Bhakti Rasamrta sindu.
Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu is a classic Sanskrit masterpiece by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī that details the complete science of bhakti-yoga. It outlines the structural steps of pure devotion, the progression of spiritual emotions, and the sweet mellows of loving service to Krishna. It is famously summarized in English as The Nectar of Devotion. By Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Core Themes and Structure
Author: Composed in the 16th century by Rūpa Gosvāmī, a primary disciple of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Meaning: Translates to “the nectarean ocean of the sweet taste of devotional service”.
Three Main Divisions: Divided into Sādhana-bhakti (practice), Bhāva-bhakti (emotional stage), and Prema-bhakti (pure love of God).
Qualities of Devotion: Highlights traits like Kleśaghnī (removal of distress) and Śrī kṛṣṇākarṣiṇī (attracting Krishna).
What can you see and feel within augmented realities ?
In the world of Ai algorithms, robotics, and augmented realities, it should not be too difficult for us to comprehend devolved existences . A devolved existence stemming from the originally intended home of homes , that everyone in their heart of hearts is searching for . One could say paradise lost perhaps. The independent mind that’s driven by free will , the Vedas say , is the cause of the material world and the 8,400,000 augmented life forms that interact with the atoms , elements and compounds that our conditioned senses call reality. Srila Jiva Goswami in his Bhagavata Sandarbha says the cause of this world is not God per se, but rather the living beings , its those that God is providing the augmented reality for ” artificial life ” forms are fully explained throughout the Vedas from their beginnings to their universal annihilation , and the cyclic cycles the living beings are caught up within. The sincere , honest, and inquisitive person has every question answered within the Vedas in regards to the various life forms and their purposes and importantly why a particular particle of consciousness finds itself in a particular body . The Vedas also pertinently describes how every form of life originates from one original life form . An original form and the cause of all causes, and He is the supreme engineer Himself . Divinity or Krishna, the master of the genome and Dna codes that are spread throughout the universes in multidimensional existences or planes of existence .The Vedas address as Brahman, this address covers all His multidimensional energies which are incomprehensible to tiny brains . The senses and awareness of one particular plane of existence or even life forms are unable to veiw or understand another . Such is the versatility of the Lord and His arrangements from an original cause . The evidence of His intelligence , or Brahman existence, is detected very easily within the creation . The original spiritual existence is personal , from a personal God comes innumerable persons. In the spiritual plane, they enjoy the unlimited and fully varigatedness spiritual kingdoms . There are no deteriorating factors , death , old age , disease, etc . Life is ever new and permanently situated in blissful spiritual bodies, and in association with Radha and Krishna, as family or friends is the ultimate reality.
Changing conditions caused by time that accompany atoms , elements, or compounds also inflict miseries, and the machine like bodies of this world and the prolific speciation found here are the Ai and algorithmic augmented systems of Divinity . Everything is perfectly complete and inconceivably engineered ,so much so that the ” robots ” produce other ” robots ” by sexual union . To support “robotic ” human life comes all the other varieties of tweaked designs of species . There is an unlimited source of living beings who want opportunities to enjoy matter , so mix and match . The Vedas say, same engineer different engineering very well explains life , similar dna codes , but adjusted. These life forms are intertwined within complex living systems that are all dependent on each other . Each of the life forms have similar goals of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending territories or possessions , they are all enjoying and suffering in the world of dualism.
The third Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam, as well as the first Canto, describe Maha Visnu as a portion of a portion of the Original personality of Godhead who lies down in a mysterious sleeping condition and in his spiritually surcharged ” dreamlike state ” using the “original patterns ” from His own trancendental form and existence, He manufactures the blueprints to all the species of life , its a reflection from a reality . Maha Visnu manifests not just one planet with forms of life but millions situated within the fourteen planetary systems of the universe. Our senses limit us , but existence is not limited .
Everyone has their opinions shaped by somebody….but who ? The Daily Rag , the mainstreamers, the alternatives , or Ai ..scientific materialism, Darwinian hypothesis, or the Bhaktivedanta institute or the Discovery institute. Or will it be cultured traditions , family cultures, theological cultures, objective sciences , Truth follows the truthful that has always been, its a fundamental truth of universal affairs… Instinctively, one can understand the truth . The absolute truth , the expansion of Divinity sits in the heart , he can bring you truth or fool you , your choices…every theological culture or philosophy of life speaks this ….are we to ignore it , because someone says different, how do they know they know ?
In regards to deep spiritual search for Divinity..
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura taught that the Absolute Truth is not reached by mental speculation, logic, or mere negation. Ultimate truth is a personal, non-dual spiritual reality—realized fully through surrendered devotional service (bhakti) and divine mercy rather than dry philosophical deduction.
In being guided in general life in the material world, we need the help of Divinity. We live in a world of the cheaters and the cheated .
The Ai world…
Re.Ai
Think first ……Always think first , and after using Ai , check its calculations and combined options , and of course supposed facts , others opinions ..Use Ai ,sure , but don’t let it use you…use it intelligently. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has appeared to enable the residents of the world in Kali yuga to partake in the activities of Vrndavana , the whole of Vrndavana has decended by His grace , and by the supreme blessings of the Supreme Goddess of fortune Srimati Radharani . The Svarupa Sakti of Krishna manifests through His holy names and through the pure meditations of His pure devotees..
Narratom das Thakura sings of the glories of the Sankirtana movement.
golokera prema-dhana, hari-nama-sankirtana, rati na janmilo kene tay samsara-bishanale, diba-nisi hiya jwale, juraite na koinu upay
Translation:
(2) The treasure of divine love in Goloka Vrindavana has descended as the congregational chanting of Lord Hari’s holy names. Why did my attraction for that chanting never come about? Day and night my heart burns from the fire of the poison of worldliness, and I have not taken the means to relieve it.
In the Caitanya Caratamrita it is said .
CC Madhya 17.133
নাম চিন্তামণিঃ কৃষ্ণশ্চৈতন্যরসবিগ্রহঃ । পূর্ণঃ শুদ্ধো নিত্যমুক্তোঽভিন্নত্বান্নামনামিনোঃ ॥ ১৩৩ ॥
“ ‘The holy name of Kṛṣṇa is transcendentally blissful. It bestows all spiritual benedictions, for it is Kṛṣṇa Himself, the reservoir of all pleasure. Kṛṣṇa’s name is complete, and it is the form of all transcendental mellows. Kṛṣṇa’s name is not contaminated by the material qualities, It is a manifested form of the Svarupa Sakti , Kṛṣṇa’s name is purely spiritual; it is never conditioned by the laws of material nature. This is because the name of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa Himself are identical.’
Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu brings the whole of Vrndavana to this world , accompanied by Nityananda prabhu, Gadadha prabhu , Advaita acarya and Srinivasa prabhu . The five spiritual personalities are Krishna, Radharani , Balarama , Maha Visnu, and Narada muni.
In their deepest separations and deepest meditations they immediately transfer Themselves to Goloka Vrndavana , although they are supposedly in this world, and in doing so all the residents in Kali yuga get caught up in the trancendental festival of the ecstatic states of the highest degrees of separation from Radha Krishna , which immediately brings union with Them . As it is said in this world , separation makes the heart grow fonder , and that concept is taken to whole new and unlimited levels in the spiritual realms , when Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu manifests his moods of Separation and union , they become one . Whilst doing so He is his supreme magnanimity is conducting a rescue mission offering the highest of spiritual truths to the most unqualified who can accept it .
Maha Visnu has created this world , and Balarama has originally expanded the living beings . Some of them could not understand Radha Krishna so they , for want of an independent life , come to the material planes . Advaita Acarya calls the Lord to mount a rescue mission, and Balarama, as Nityananda , comes to help . By the mercy of Srimati Radharani and Krishna, they appear, and Their devotee Narada muni shows the devotees how to understand everything of the Sankirtana movements and understand its mystery.
Srila A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami has brought this rescue mission all over the world on the order of Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja and Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, thus the world is blessed .
We shall attempt to compose an article on these points tomorrow . In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna tells that the non devotees , or the immature devotees , do not understand His trancendental nature , thus they become confused , and misunderstand , or take His trancendental form and activities as Maya like theirs , driven by materialism. In that state, fools try to imitate Krishna’s pastimes. This is due to a lack of knowledge that brings material sentiments into play . It is essential to hear from and serve a pure devotee of Krishna , in doing so misconceptions are cleared , firm knowledge is established , and one can begin his or her further approaches towards Divinity in a humbled and trained spirit of devotion .
Unintelligent men, who do not know Me perfectly, think that I, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, was impersonal before and have now assumed this personality. Due to their small knowledge, they do not know My higher nature, which is imperishable and supreme.
It is quite a mystery to the world how the Vedas contain so much philosophy, psychology, religions of different kinds , and detailed sciences, yet it also contains what appear to be human like pastimes within the highest of spiritual realms , and personal activities in the upper lower and middle planetary systems . The question should be what type of bodies or atmospheres are these activities carried out ? and why assume they can be likened to our existence.
The consciousness journey described in Taittirya Upanishad 2.1-5
Take your consciousness on a progressive journey .
Progressing our consciousness from its covered states , its shrunken states , its budding states , or its blooming states , and tranforming it into a fully blossoming state is a curious method of describing consciousness progression . Such a description is given in the Caitanya Caratamrita within the teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu to Sanatana Gosvami . This tells us the story of the evolution of the consciousness state . Many people are familiar with the word evolution, which has been somewhat hijacked by the Darwinians , but the word evolution can be used in a number of ways . The Vedas describes the living beings wondering within the material universal energies . They are inhabiting all kinds of bodies , and having forgotten the last episode , take very seriously their new day time dream . The species of life have something in common , they are looking for pleasure and avoid suffering. From plants , to insects , to animals , to uncultured humans , to cultured humans , to humans connected to and in tune with universal affairs , to humans very much in tune with Divinity , to humans who have brought their consciousness to its originally intended state , its pure loving state and direct attraction for Krishna in Krishna , its originator , they are all pleasure seeking .
Unlike the Darwinians, who consider consciousness as simply chance events of neurons firing in a brain that originated from a primordial slime , the Vedas take a clear and objective look at consciousness . Using various sciences , with analytical construct , the Vedas clearly demonstrate that consciousness is made up of different substances from the gross and subtle influences of matter that are governed by physical laws . The Vedas shows a path of freedom from the shackles of material existence . This is what we refer to as scientific dualism , or the sciences of self realisation .
Bohr , Schrödinger , Feynman , Teller, and Einstein , as physicists , looked at consciouseness within our responsive universe, and unlike the gross biologists veiwed life’s fundermentals in entirely different ways .
The Vedic terms for states of consciousness are ….ana maya, pranna maya , jnana maya , vijnana maya, and ananda maya . The progressive path and the changes to the qualities of the bodies are given in the Taittiriya Upanishad 2.1-5 .
In English terms , these are compared to a flower throughout its life , first covered , then shrunken , then budding , then blossoming , then fully blooming .
The animals and other various creatures are categorised in terms of consciousness , they are considered to have covered consciousness , anu maya . The unthinking human who is living like a sophisticated animal without any philosophical position is in shrunken consciousness , The human who considers life and its purpose is considered to be in budding consciousness , the human who has realised some degree of the glory of consciousness in connections to Divinity is in blossoming consciousness , and finally, the human who has established a relationship in love with God is in fully blossoming consciousness.
So literally, the science of consciousness , consciousness awareness, and self realisation and its perfection has been summarised . Each of these categories is given a thorough run-through in the Vedas, and progressive and systematic programmes are recommended to realise these truths . This enables and empowers everyone to understand their consciousness state . Step by step guidance is given . One should seek an expert who is in Ananda maya consciousness to guide one in such consciousness progressions . Also, any person who is a little further progressed than ourselves will be of help by their association.
Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami explains the full spectrum of life’s journeys within his books .
Some scientific thinkers utalising quantum mechanics suggest we live simultaneously in different universes ..
However..
These versions are merely our subtle mind and what it may or may not enact . When it acts within the physical plane , the universe responds . Every action has an equal reaction, good , bad, or mediocre.. Thus ,free will and determinism within the responsive universe, the endless journey of trapped karmic synchronicities is described. The way out is described by Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami in all his writings. The full Vedic reality has been revealed
