Bg. 6.2. Lord Krishna यतो यतो निश्चलति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम् । ततस्ततो नियम्यैतदात्मन्येव वशं नयेत् ॥ २६ ॥ yato yato niścalati manaś cañcalam asthiram tatas tato niyamyaitad ātmany eva vaśaṁ nayet Synonyms yataḥ yataḥ — wherever; niścalati — becomes verily agitated; manaḥ — the mind; cañcalam — flickering; asthiram — unsteady; tataḥ tataḥ — from there; niyamya — regulating; etat — this; ātmani — in the Self; eva — certainly; vaśam — control; nayet — must bring under. Translation “From wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the Self.”
Yoga in all its forms , karma yoga, jnana yoga , niskarma karma yoga ,astanga yoga , and Bhakti yoga all give individuals the power to say .. NO . And the power to say YES to positive constructive and progressive paths leading to happy, healthy, and consciously aware lives . The yoga paths are various, and so are the people that follow them . The material world can be illuminating and highly beneficial for everyone or a place of degradation . Let the Vedic intelligentsia chart your course , dont be swept away into the ocean of sharks and poison givers of jellyfish that look externally soft and appealing . If anyone is overboard and sinking fast, seek help , addiction therapists also know the power of no and have systems to help . Lord Krishna is His Bhagavad Gita gives the complete summary of the power of saying No to one thing and Yes to another http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Objective science is the name of the game , the flavours of subjective speculations have no room on the table of the real scientific world The Copenhagen agreement suggests something profound. Bohr and Schrödinger studied the Vedas and understood the dualistic world of consciousness and matter . Scientific materialism and Darwinianism stem from the primordial soup.
The son is given freedom by the father at the appropriate age . The father does not accompany his son and stifle his sense of freedom. But the son is under the law of the land, which is reactionary and impersonal. To those who wonder why God does not make Himself known directly, the example of freedom and free will is the obvious answer. But as the son can know of the working of the impersonal state with its laws etc etc , similarly the obvious signs of organised structure are surrounding us wherever we look . Only the fools and rascals deny logic and objective observations , and then subjectively twist the obvious to suit . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Someone suggested, “Keep digging, and science will find the truth …” But .. With the endlessly mutable material energies that could be difficult, the cyclic motions of the volcanic eruptions that replenish the richness of the oceans that provide plankton with nourishment is essential . Replenishing is going on on many levels , everything in nature is in constant flux . The decending process of knowledge, i.e., insights and wisdom , based on purity of consciousness and an honest quest for knowledge is an important method for acquisition of truths and should not be dismissed . Beethoven himself wondered how his musical compositions flowed into him , why just music . The wisdom of all kinds of traditions, along with their histories, are worthy to explore , theological, and otherwise . Soley relying on a fragile and speculative and limited intelligence has its limitations . Unfortunately, in todays world, it is regarded as the only credible method, and it’s masquerading as the only fact based science. In reality , although it has its purpose, even in Vedic circles, i.e., jnana yoga , some things may be beyond the abilities of the intellectual capabilities . As Newton said whilst on a beach , I have one grain of sand of knowledge, but the whole of the world sands stands before me …..something like that . The value of objective science and logical truth should never be replaced by subjective speculations , for instance, no one now denies the highly organised and highly complex cell , and it has hundreds of nano like protein machines all serving special purposes. Darwin thought the cell was like a mutable cloud or jelly like substance. The reality is that the more science looks into workings of the universe or the microbial world, the more astounded they are at its organisation and what is increasingly looking like designed engineering. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The very essence of the Vedas is to love God . We are loving so many persons and creatures, so why not God ? Before loving someone, one must know who they are and what qualities they possess. In God’s case, we must know who He is and why He does what He does , both directly and indirectly and how he is all good . Learn to love is an expression we are familiar with . In learning to love someone else, one needs the help of a friend of the person . The unfriendly , speculative, or envious who has attitudes or misunderstandings towards the person we are trying to love can not possibly help us . If you learn to love God’s devotees they can give access to God in His most complete form , beyond the administrative form , beyond formalities , but rather bring us to a spontaneous heartfelt relationship with Divinity , similar to what you have with your children, your partner, your friend or your lover . The essence of spirituality is relationship with spontaneous love, which is ever new and inceasing in attraction with ones original spiritual form , not the covering made of atoms , elements, and compounds with a flickering mind and unsteady intelligence Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared in the Gaudia Vaisnava sampradaya to teach this the essence of the Vedas and its essential asset. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
AI .. conflict , confusion, and tension of the human lemmings .
Everyone’s talking about the potential of AI , but do they not see how in a world centred around competition and cut throat business, not only of individuals but between countries , the very thing that is supposed to make our lives easier could well end up being the very reasons why our world is torn apart . Ai can be said to be a collection of geek driven intellectuals who are all merged together and who probably follow Darwinian survival of the fittest philosophy and have no brains to understand consciousness and the implications of their input to other peoples lives or consciousness health .
The Vedic cultures are always centred around sharing resources for the benefits of everyone . The self-centred conglomerates vision is one of snatch , take , exploit, and even exterminate the opposition , so toxic our world has become .
Unfortunately, such conglomerates , who control contrived democracies , “free speech it has its price , the wealthy bed fellows of those that favor vice ” , I wrote in a song . These conglomerates have the power over the simple persons in the world who are easily fooled and are mislead like lemmings of a cliff , they are unaware of the onward dangerous exploitative goals of greedy persons who currently weild world power , victims of consumerism and adopted lifestyle.
The materials to make AI chips and the materials to make batteries for phones and cars are in short supply , there is not enough to go around. Like 100 alcoholic persons, who are untreated, fighting over one whisky bottle . Modern living based solely on technology’s advances is a recipe for disaster because it puts the individuals consciousness development to one side . Worse still , it degrades it . The goal of the conglomerates to make everyone into sophisticated but consumer led animals , who follow their minds and senses just about anywhere their computer tells them to go .
“While scientists have made significant strides in understanding the mechanics of sleep, including deep sleep, some aspects of how and why deep sleep happens remain a mystery. Deep sleep, also known as slow-wave sleep, is crucial for bodily restoration and recovery, but the precise mechanisms regulating its onset and maintenance are not fully elucidated. “ Srila Jiva Goswami has likened deep sleep to the Brahman, the spiritual effulgence of Divinity where many consciousness particles take shelter . How some of these consciousness particles arrive at , and are in the glance of Mahavisnu , who are consequently impregnated into matter, is contemplated upon differently by different Vedic schools of thought. But Srila BR Sridha Swami tells , just as it is not clear how a deep sleep condition is suddenly brought back to space time existence, ie , we suddenly awaken , its somewhat beyond the comprehension of how the jiva finds himself in the material world and within the glance of Visnu….the Tatasta sakti is key to understanding and a free will that is facilitated , by the supreme facilitator, thus Maha Visnu appears to take a functional role , indeed Srila Jiva Goswami in his Bhagavat Sandarbha says it is the individual living beings who want the material world not Him .
Translation The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.
Krishna has spoken objective science..
Education?….the Darwinian ?
What they may refer to as education. Basically, accepting, without any real evidence, random mutations originating from the primordial soup , the common ancestor model , of microbes mutating in a purely unguided and random process that somehow followed the particular environment they mysteriously found themselves in .These events, according to the Darwinian, are the cause of everything’s we see and experience in terms of living things , including plant life . However, logic and rationale are part of an education system, with that in mind can we suppose one billion monkeys typing on one billion typewriters for one billion years could produce a perfectly punctuated page of a Shakespeare script, including the spaces between the words. The dna coding and the informational exchanges by mrna molecules are akin to highly sophisticated engineering technologies and are producing the protein like machines in the cells and specifically shaping them using those codes producing bodies in every species of life . Regarding common ancestry, same engineer, different engineering is the Vedic truth . Do as much as a robotics assemble plant in a factory will, according to information of a computer chip , programmed by an intelligent source , assemble a specific part of a machine , that is what we objectively see in sciences. Where there is smoke, you know there is fire , or it just been extinguished .Whenever you experience information and a sequence that is functional.. You naturally assume something….that a consciousness is at work . What is the difficulty? Micro evolution, meaning exchanges of dna within species and variations according to an environment, that’s acceptable and Vedic. Macro evolution brings us back to the billion monkeys. Of course, unfortunately, at schools and universities ,scientific materialism , and Darwinian hypothesis is taught as fact based science, thats unfortunate. Everyone should consider dualism, mind matter, and consciousness as separated and entirely different energies. We experience the adult body, and the childhood body has long gone , as your current body will change drastically and quickly. . In a space of seven years, a completely different body is built as all the cells change, you, the consciousness experience this , the body is not you ..
The natural vedic learning process..
If we conform to the good principles in life as taught by the good and pure over many many generations , these universal principles and easily recognisable , instinctively we come to understand this depth of knowledge of the consciousness. Irresistibly knowledge builds on the back of piety. In humble spirit, we will see the benefits of learning from others in every walk of life . Because of previous practice of consciousness cultivation, many greater persons both in karmic , philosophical jnana , or Bhakti pure devotional attitudes can help us along . This was the beauty of the original Varna Ashram systems that peoples good fortune were recognised and shared and accepted with others .This overarching principle of life is a valuable asset for everyone to know . This good fortune originates from the Vedic intelligensia, who are pure in heart and mind and well studied in the Vedas in all its formats . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The twelve who really know the goal of the Vedas .
The mature Vedic scholar knows the Vedas are extremely broad and are able to comprehend concisely and expertly the various applications according to time place and circumstance that are contained. As for example, Vedas contain and include eighteen puranas and of those , six are for those persons firmly situated goodness , six for those in the somewhat endless material activities in passion, and finally there are six for those who live in darkness , intoxicated with wines and meat eating , described as the mode of ignorance . These puranas advise and give systematic applications and lifestyle recommendations for progression in spiritual knowledge to all those groups of people. So it is concluded that the Vedic knowledge ultimately encourages everyone towards the association of those persons who know the ” param Gatim ” the ultimate and real purposes of life and its full potentials and the Vedic intelligensia set methods of a social and spiritual progression for one and all .It’s goal is to help society understand consciousness and learn to love God in any one of His features and forms . The puranas are meant to take us beyond any material benedictions for wealth or a thirst for knowledge for the sake of knowledge and beyond mystic powers or liberation.
The real goal is clear , a pure loving relationship and friendship and service to Divinity , Lord Krishna , nothing else will ultimately satisfy the soul . Every one of us is deep down hankering and searching for happiness, and we want to avoid suffering. So , either knowingly or unknowingly, Divinity is sought after, and those who know this truth are to be contacted.
The “twelve mahajanas” who are considered the greatest devotees of Vishnu, and are listed in the Srimad-Bhagavatam as Brahma, Narada, Shiva, the Four Kumaras, Kapila, Svayambhuva Manu, Prahlada, Janaka, Bhishma, Bali, Sukadeva Gosvami, and Yamaraja.
Here’s a more detailed look at each of the twelve mahajanas:
Brahma: The creator of the universe.
Narada: A great devotee who travels the universe, glorifying the Lord.
Shiva: A great demigod, a spiritual master, and a devotee of Vishnu.
The Four Kumaras: Four sages who are known for their renunciation and devotion.
Kapila: A great sage and son of Devahuti.
Svayambhuva Manu: The first man and the father of humanity.
Prahlada: A devotee who was persecuted for his faith but remained steadfast in his devotion to Vishnu.
Janaka: A king known for his knowledge and devotion.
Bhishma: A great warrior and devotee who remained loyal to his vows even in the face of death.
Bali: A king known for his generosity and devotion to Vishnu.
Sukadeva Gosvami: A great sage who taught the Srimad-Bhagavatam to Parikshit.
Yamaraja: The Lord of Death, who is also a devotee of Vishnu.
The Gaudia Vaisnava sampradaya represents all these truths
Scientific materialism ignores consciousness because it is clueless about it . Scientific materialism views the Goldilocks phenomenon in one way, and the Vedic intelligensia views it in another . Scientific materialism ignores rationale math calculations and introduces unthinking math , the Vedic cultures that introduced 0 into math calculate math logically and rationally . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The Vedic followers are not doom watchers , they don’t curse those who seek pleasure.
Indeed, the very nature of the living being is pleasure seeking , and that is said in the Vedas itself.
The Vedic aphorism.
Anandamayo bhyasat.
Pleasure seeking and a joyful life is the constitution of the living being.
The Vedic followers are simply seeking a place where this instinctive nature of the beings can be exhibited without the scientifically observed obstacles of birth , death , old age, and disease.
It is further noted by the Vedic following that although the body undergoes difficulties and has the above restrictions imposed upon it , the consciousness is only the witness to it .
So intelligence should calculate why am I suffering birth , death, old age, and disease and all the accompanying miseries akin to it ?
The Vedas itself explains scientifically what the material energies constitution is and the laws of nature that operate , as well , why they are set in place . Essentially, the Vedas explains why those living beings find themselves in the predicament they do .
To live in an environment where the consciousness and the energy that surround it are of the same nature is required, Lord Krishna and Srimati Radharani, and their associates do not possess “karmic ” material bodies .
When one chants Hare Krishna, this means that we want to bring Radha Krishna together and help and participate in Their ecstatic pastimes, assisting them in every way, by doing so we automatically become satisfied , as for example the leaves of the tree as satisfied when the root of the tree is watered.
The books of the Param Para teachers tells all , Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is most expert at teaching Vedic wisdom to Western audiences.
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