It is our actions as well as Krishna’s desire we find ourselves in the situations we do . Just like a high court judge desires the rectification of the prisoner. But the prisoner sends himself to prison.
The supreme Autocrat is all good , and whatever he does is all good .
Understanding the workings of the Supreme Autocrat is like trying to count the grains of sand in a desert.
But His workings and understanding to degrees can be learnt from His pure representatives, they are self effulgent to the prospective sincere inquirer , not otherwise.
It is our actions as well as Krishna’s desire we find ourselves in the situations we do . Just like a high court judge desires the rectification of the prisoner. But the prisoner sends himself to prison.
The supreme Autocrat is all good , and whatever he does is all good .
Understanding the workings of the Supreme Autocrat is like trying to count the grains of sand in a desert.
But His workings and understanding to degrees can be learnt from His pure representatives, they are self effulgent to the prospective sincere inquirer , not otherwise. We should always remember they say . One who does wrong or suffers wrong is wrong. When Dharma is followed properly and leaders lead properly and still suffering comes , that’s Karma.
The Supreme Goddess of fortune accepts Divinity in all circumstances and never imposes her likes of dislikes on Him , only what He likes , and if it pleases Him that She expresses dislikes then She will happily do so . For instance Srila Rupa Goswami in his Sri Ujjvala Nilamani , speaks of one of Radharani’s friends in relation to Krishna, she said ” When I want look annoyed at him my eyes to the opposite and I glance lovingly, when I want to run away from Him , my legs carry me towards Him , when I want want to speak in anger towards Him , I find myself speaking sweetly to Him .”
The Supreme Goddess of fortune accepts Divinity in all circumstances and never imposes her likes of dislikes on Him , only what He likes , and if it pleases Him that She expresses dislikes then She will happily do so . For instance Srila Rupa Goswami in his Sri Ujjvala Nilamani , speaks of one of Radharani’s friends in relation to Krishna, she said ” When I want look annoyed at him my eyes to the opposite and I glance lovingly, when I want to run away from Him , my legs carry me towards Him , when I want want to speak in anger towards Him , I find myself speaking sweetly to Him .”
A great and important philosophical question posed by Vrajanatha in Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s Jiva Dharma, the occupation of the soul .
The Vedas indicates we are manifest from Lord Balarama, the first expansion of Krishna, and because the soul is part of Him , and Krishna always been , we could conclude, so have we . Within Krishna are unlimited expansions , thus the simultaneous one and difference can be looked at in this way , or as Jiva Goswami says in his Tattva Sandarbha verse 43 , Krishna makes the impossible possible , by manifesting totally separate entities with free will .
We also have to understand the expression , “ time immemorial ,” we can not fathom times beginnings.
Balarama brings forth the ” dormant ” Jivas , it could be understood in this way , because He wants to increase Krishna’s pleasure. We are not dead stones or downloads of Balarama , but we have free will . The more we use our free will for its intended purpose , the more freedom we can experience . On our being “manifest ” , just as a good father tells us all about the proper and beneficial way to conduct life for our greatest benefits , similarly Balarama , our original father , by His example brings freedom of expression, love and attraction . Spontaneously, the living beings reveal their consciousness by their own personality and personal attractions . Love is always voluntary and can never be forced . The complete and full existence of Divinity. the most complete, is only ever understood by love. Indeed Sanatana Goswami has shown in his litrature in the pastime of Gopa Kumar , that when Gopa Kumar finally returned to a spiritual world, the Lord was waiting and embraced him saying “where have you been I have missed you and have been waiting?” Such is the Love of the Supreme Father of all .
It’s indicted by Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur , the jiva enters a tatasta state , which is understood as the impersonal Brahman , those that are not inclined to share their consciousness remain in impersonal bliss . However , for want of activity , they come to the material planes , to ultimately refine their activity and experience life without God as their friend. Ultimately we must learn that Krishna is Rasaraja the king of exchanges of love .This movement of the jiva from the brahman energies is completed by a ” transporational” glance , the living being is injected into matter.
Each Jiva reveals their state of consciousness , thus the Jiva is connected automatically either to Maha maya or Yoga maya ,i.e., the spiritual or material energies , according to their free spirit . It appears our consciousness having this free spirit, connected itself to Maha maya , we are in the material realms . Balarama obviously detected such independence of desires and arrangements that they were made , automatically through ethereal planes in the multidimensional unlimited space time . Initially with relatively exalted consciousness . Mahamaya or Durga Devi has the task of providing an illusion of artificial lordship and thus temping one to enjoy, and further entanglements begin .
Some people say God knows everything, but does He know when you will turn in Love towards Him , and how you will love Him and the intensity ?
In conditioned consciousness, one is firmly in God’s energy, as the high court judge knows the destination of the criminal, so a harmful soul is under God’s grips , with predicable consequences . Not a pure soul , he has his full freedom and is consequently unpredictable, love is dynamic. Ever increasing loving exchanges with the master of love Divinity or Krishna takes place unlimitedly.
Not too much oneness , not too much difference..this needs considering..
“That means we all individual beings, we are individual constitutionally. God is the father or creator or whatever, or the source of all life, or source of our existence. Whatever you like, you can say. So we have…, we have been created in that way. Eko bahu syāma. God has become many. This is also version of the Vedas that many, all these many, we are also god. Just like the fire diffuses its sparks. The sparks coming out of the fire, it is the…, they are also part and parcel of the fire. Similarly we, we are all parts and parcels of the Supreme.”
“Now, He wanted to become many. He wanted to become many, so He has become many, and we are that many. So we are not different from God. We are not different from God, but because He wanted to become many, so we are the many. Now, thing is, when God wanted to become many, there must be some purpose behind this. Otherwise, why did He like to become many? He was one, one without second. That’s all right. But why did He become many? So that is a question, one must like to put, that “Why God became many?”
“So that is, that answer is that because God is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha [Bs 5.1],”
“[Kṛṣṇa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.]”
“He’s all-pleasure—therefore, without many, there is no pleasure. Just like here I sit down the whole day alone, but I become more active and more pleasing when you come. Whenever we want to enjoy some pleasure, pleasure is not enjoyed alone. Pleasure is enjoyed with many. Now God is by nature… He’s ānandamayo ‘bhyāsāt [Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12].”
The words of Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The founding Acarya of ISKCON
Curious it is that the word libertine has a relative and an absolute meaning. In the absolute realm, all things that are good can be bad, and things that are bad can be good . How this is so can be only understood by one who has escaped the dualities of this world, where the self-centred consciousness is making relative reckonings to serve self-centred purposes.
The great writers of trancendental rasa explain in detail the absolute realms beyond the dualism of this relative realm and how the supreme enjoyer of pleasure who is known as Rasaraja is enjoying ever increasing trancendental bliss .
Srila Jayadeva Goswami has a particular benediction to offer in Kali yuga to the most degraded of all persons.
His benedictions are related to verses in the Srimad Bhagavatam , specifically.
Anyone who faithfully hears or describes the Lord’s playful affairs with the young gopīs of Vṛndāvana will attain the Lord’s pure devotional service. Thus, he will quickly become sober and conquer lust, the disease of the heart.
His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has made an attempt to use the educational systems of the Vedas and create a world free from the ignorance of scientific materialism ,after all a world that does not understand dualism is a world of sophisticated animals who exploit hunt and kill in sophisticatedand underhand ways . In forming ISKCON AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , the Vedas is being brought to light . The idea is that everyone can live in a harmonized atmosphere where differences are respected and facilities that everyone needs, including the creatures of the earth ,can all be easily obtained and shared .In order for this to be achieved the intelligentsia must be prominent and recognised for who they are in every feild. Different classes of men have specific qualities , for instance a business man can only think of profit , thats good , but such persons are clueless when it comes to how to govern or protect society. ISKCON is based on the Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhagavad Gita, as well as the eighteen puranas that bring a natural and systematic education through its various cultures. This also naturally allows for all 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 for their efforts, and immature thinkers probably dont understand the significance of their work and their long-term vision. Bringing Devi varna ashram within a modern world is the goal , and it’s a long-term goal .
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 interactions with society were limited.
In creating ISKCON Srila AC, Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada had the vision that the whole world should be given the opportunity to practice deep Krishna consciousness every varna and every ashram included . In so doing , ISKCON and Prabhupada have successfully brought Krishna consciousness opportunities to one and all in very practical ways all over the world. The revolution has begun, but we need to learn more .
If Prabhupada had created traditional Ashram systems , many aspects of society would not have been included in the cultivation of Krishna consciousness . Currently, it’s witnessed that ISKCON is successful and is fast permeating everywhere in the world. Its influences are growing in all of the varnas and ashrams.
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 . There is no excuse for irresponsible and harmful behaviour, but we can not assume the utopian dream that all is rosey as soon as someone walks into an Ashram . Risks are there, and now manage a lot better , as in all religious institutions as well as other types of institutions.
Certainly, Prabhupada, through his preaching methods , 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.
Absolute truth is a decending process , its also the opinions of Divinity Himself….if one can objectively see in this material world absolute truth manifested clearly in one form or another , and truth manifests itself in numerous ways , it means honesty has come about in someone , and such persons are worthy of association..
Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth. http://www.www.thevedicspectator.com
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
One can tell how dumb Ai is by the algorithmic systems it is predicting .It, in reality, is an unthinking mechanistic system that churns over information is similarly mechanistic ways . The mechanistically driven Darwinians think it wonderful and use computer models to try to explain mutational math , which they fail to do . At most, your algorithmic profile represents .00001 % of who you really are , and ultimately, is an assistant marketing tool that tries to influence you to think like the materialistic geeks who built it http://www.www.thevedicspectator.com
“Is a concise way to express the law of conservation of energy. This fundamental law of physics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another. While energy transformations often result in energy becoming less useful (e.g., heat dissipating into the surroundings), the total amount of energy in a closed system remains constant. .”
Likewise the Vedas says that in visiting the peaceful graveyards, one should understand not only the material energies are transformed and never lost but also mental energies, intellectual energies, and ultimately, the consciousare never lost .Lord Krishna says in His Bhagavad Gita , ” Never has there been a time you didn’t exist nor in the future will you cease to be “ Scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis is just plane wrong and unscientific.
Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita says .
brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām
Translation One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to have anything. He is equally disposed toward every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.
On a scientific note, and utilising the work of the great scientists as well as the greatest of philosophers, one could think of persons in the world like this .. What a wonderful combination of atoms , elements , and compounds arranged in wonderfully varied ways with each particular parcel of consciousness enwrapped according to particular karmic algorithmic synchronicities caused by their choices of acting within the responsive universe . The oneness of God’s energies acting in multifarious ways is fully described in the Vedas . When one fully understands the reality of this life , such a person qualify themselves to understand the past lives along with the present and future lives . Most importantly, they begin to get insights into existences without atoms, elements, and compounds . Where repetitions of births and deaths are absent . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
With the extensive preaching efforts of the International Society for Krishna consciousness and other Gaudia Vaisnava’s inevitably, societies are changing. Initially the out and out fruitive workers and the ungodly are taken to the position of beginners , Kanistha devotees , and as they progress inevitably some become advanced and become Madhyama devotees and out of the Madhyama some will become advanced Uttama Bhaktas. Things can only get better in terms of the sincere followers of Gaudia Vaisnavism . No doubt, as well, such as Gaudia Vaisnava teachings are having effects, and the transition of world consciousness is beginning. At first little effect , like the Kanistha, then later more significantly effecting , like the Madhyama, and eventually, as Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur indicates the work of the Uttama consciousness infiltrates science, religion , philosopher, social sciences and the political realms . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
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“Every snowflake is unique. While snowflakes can be broadly categorized into different shapes, the specific details of each individual snowflake’s intricate structure are highly unlikely to be identical to another. This is because snowflakes form in a dynamic environment, and the conditions they encounter as they fall, such as temperature and humidity, constantly change, leading to unique growth patterns.”
Whilst it seems impossible to comprehend that each snowflake could exhibit such unique appearance, it’s equally incomprehensible that each particle of consciousness , a living being , are feeling and undergoing a unique emotional and sensual experience in their own right. even when in very similar circumstances . No individual feels and experiences in exactly the same way , and that goes for every creature throughout the universe . “Think of a huge shoal of fish in the Caribbean.”
The power and unlimited potencies of God are on display in innumerable ways and can be seen easily exhibited , or , for some, not exhibited at all .That’s another side of Krishna’s innumerable and incalculable energies . Those energies can enlighten or cause confusion and doubt .
Ultimately, every individual has an individual relationship with the Supreme Autocrat Krishna , Krishna is very, very personable and is awaiting us to uniquely turn our attention to him .
Jivera svarupa hoy .
We are all intimately related to Krishna, our real well wisher , and His devotees reflect those feelings.
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