The Renaissance (approx. 14th–17th centuries) marked a profound cultural shift from medieval theocentrism (God-centered) to anthropocentrism (human-centered), prioritizing human achievement, reason, and empirical observation over the theological .
In reality, nothing can be separate from Divinity, the world of scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis is proving to be the wrong turn in a world veiw , the clear scientific evidence flows the other way . When fanaticism took over in the Renaissance period, materialism increased, and the world we live in today is the result. Political systems failing , a failure to see the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings, an exploitation of other countries and cultures, a separation of the arts from its only connection to Divinity, the economic strangulation of exploitation and cheating in the stocks and commodity and currency markets, and bad trade deals . All these things and more happen when a renaissance movement turns away from reality and attempts to present illusions as truths .
Nothing is seperated from Divinity, but the mature theological student knows there are many strokes for many folks , many prescribed methods and gradual proccess by which the truth is understood. The Vedic Culures have the four Vedas, which reflect the arts , political, religious, and philosophical sections and the sciences of all kinds . There should never be extremism , rather an understanding of psychological conditioning. Extreme religious dogma led to extremes in the Renaissance which brought scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis taught to children as fact based sciences and the debacle of infiltrated democracies where fools vote in fools.
Nityananda prabhu showed the example of respecting all persons and tolerating all kinds of difficulties. He even declared to Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu when Mahāprabhu was about to act strongly against offenders to kindly show your kindness and mercy.
“Jagai and Madhai were notorious, sinful brothers in Nabadwip who were transformed into pure devotees by the extreme mercy of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, who forgave them despite being injured by Madhai. This event solidified Nityananda’s reputation as patita-pavana, or saviour of the most fallen, prompting Lord Chaitanya to accept them as devotees”
Many cruel and nasty things are happening in the world currently, but what can we do , we may point out or protest and try to talk sense , but ultimately we must depend on Divinity to make arrangements to do things as He sees fit .God achieves many things in one action . He is supremely intelligent and has many purposes in His actions.
The Gaudia Vaisnava never become violent revolutionaries, rather they with the strength of the Holy names change the energies in the world. They leave the details to Divinity, and they pray for His mercy on all being , the sinners, and the saints .
In that spirit, Divinity feels an obligation to serve His devotees’ desire.
Those who hate or show discrimination can not properly understand the mercy and nature of Divinity.
Living in love and living in truth is important , human consciousness reaches out a long way and incalculably further when it does so .Truth brings freedom from all sorts of illusions and deceits . One may wonder how one can be placed in truth, which can bring all kinds of insights and realisations .
These inescapable truths , although those living in deceit try to escape , are not mere academic exercises or fanciful analytical studies , although a trancendental intelligence is involved . Buddhi yoga, the yoga of intelligence is dependent on another source , the decending process works in different ways . Through Divinity directly, through His representatives and through the Sruti and Smriti that is properly reflected upon and understood . Living within the laws of the land one dwells within is also not exactly an academic exercise. There are systems and laws to follow, and a government that is enforcing them , these laws are designed for peace , happiness, and security. Deepest feelings are within everyones hearts and there we will find inherant truthfulness , honesty and feelings of effection, and love . Consciousness, our soul is made up like that , the material coverings place an artificial layer on our soul and should be shaken off . Theological sciences teach that process, the scientific process of self-evident dualism. The soul becomes covered by the spell of illusions , the spell of becoming an independent enjoyer and the master of all it surveys . Thus, it gradually appears to lose the inherant truth of its cooperative position . In such a condition, an increase in deceitful entanglements takes place . The Vedas call this Maya , that which is not .Underlying this artificial positioning, though , truth and beaulty remains , that is never destroyed . One should take advice and revive ones original pure consciousness and become happy , blissful, and nonenvious .
How does truth arrive in the heart , what causes a person to accept truth and another to accept illusion or untruth .
Truth attracts truth , the process of purification and honesty is important , we may have to own up to our inner motivations , we have to know the process of honesty, introspection and humility , in that condition truth can be approached and be accepted. In current times, truth appears through trancendental sound vibrations, Chanting God’s names are the means and the end , the means of obtaining truth , and the personality of Godhead is fully present in all his forms ,pastimes , and lilas , through His trancendental names . He is absolute, there is no difference in His name and form .One who sincerely calls is immediately recipricated with .
The Srimad Bhagavatam tells us of truth and warns us of cheating.
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धर्म: प्रोज्झितकैतवोऽत्र परमो निर्मत्सराणां सतां वेद्यं वास्तवमत्र वस्तु शिवदं तापत्रयोन्मूलनम् । श्रीमद्भागवते महामुनिकृते किं वा परैरीश्वर: सद्यो हृद्यवरुध्यतेऽत्र कृतिभि: शुश्रूषुभिस्तत्क्षणात् ॥ २ ॥
Completely rejecting all religious activities that are materially motivated, this Bhāgavata Purāṇa propounds the highest truth, which is understandable by those devotees who are fully pure in heart. The highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Such truth uproots the threefold miseries. This beautiful Bhāgavatam, compiled by the great sage Vyāsadeva [in his maturity], is sufficient in itself for God realization. What is the need for any other scripture? As soon as one attentively and submissively hears the message of Bhāgavatam, by this culture of knowledge, the Supreme Lord is established within his heart.
The book Bhagavat or the person Bhagavat , one who has understood the conclusions and can expertly apply them to time, place , circumstances and importantly to an individual should be heard from , and questions should be submitted about truth and the ways of preparing oneself to receive truth .
Srila Jiva Goswami says, ” The word Manomayah means the Lord is understand by concentration of the very pure mind.” Krishna is the support of the giver of Pranas , the various life airs . Krishna is the most subtle , pure, and supremely spiritual personality . He is performing directly and indirectly all actions within the material universes , and communication is open with Him simultaneously within the hearts of all who live .When considering the position of Krishna, we can never compare ourselves , although modern technologies bring us closer to understanding the incomprehensible . For example. Using synthetic DNA data storage, you could theoretically store millions of petabytes on a single pea. One gram of DNA can hold roughly 215 to 460 petabytes of data. Since a dried pea weighs about 0.25 grams, it could hold 53.7 to 115 petabytes (roughly 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 gigabytes.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna has capability trillions, and countless trillions of times grester , all of the universal actions are Him . This is also indicated in the First Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam first text , where it says Krishna is directly and indirectly conscious of all all living being , the activities they undertake , as well as reactions they receive within the responsive universe. He is the supreme autocrat . Everything ultimately serves His purposes . When we agree to be harmonized , all of us can enjoy trancendentally . Our current statuses can be upgraded, and we can regain the use of spiritually situated senses . Through His emaculate senses our senses can find supreme perfection, in cooperation and loving services in the company of His associates , friends, and lovers .The supreme Goddess of fortune Srimati Radharani is forever and increasingly attracted to Krishna, and Krishna is forever and increasingly attracted to Her . This competition in love is compared to an unlimited ocean of bliss . One drop of this blissful, loving ocean can drown the material universe and merge all the residents in an ocean of love of God . To understand all the matters of the Vedic conclusion as well as the deepest truths , as spoken of by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu , Srila Jiva Goswami reminds us of our need for the concentration of a very pure mind . This process is begun and perfected generally by practice over many many lives . It is the case that everyone is at different staging points right now , there are many mixes of the pure with the impure , like ink in milk . Don’t be surprised, however, at how wisdom may arrive and how suddenly . The methods that the Lord uses to transplant wisdom can come from the unexpected quarters. Sukadeva Goswami , the speaker of the Srimad Bhagavatam, was a very young man . He wondered the county without proper attire , practically naked . Trancendental wisdom is also captured by old and wise and established cultures , and the wise can bring it out . The fact that pure knowledge decends through the pure sounds of the Holy names in current times is also mysterious , yet it’s a fact .
golokera prema-dhana, hari-nama-sankirtana, rati na janmilo kene tay samsara-bishanale, diba-nisi hiya jwale, juraite na koinu upay
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.
Using logical math , God may or may not be understood.. There is perfect math and symmetry and perfectly calculated codes which cause the construction of everything around us in nature , including our bodies and those in every species. Without perfect math , there cannot be perfect construction. However.. In absolute realms . 1+1=1 1-1=1 1×1=1 1÷1=1 Don’t mess with Divinity….
The vedas say this ..about the original mathematician.
This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kunti, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule, this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.
The complete can produce completeness. Completed mathematical formulas set to work with no errors.
The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the complete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.
May I suggest all political parties shut up shop .. Bring back the king or queens , those dedicated for life to every citizen and every creature in their lands . Let them choose their trusted and unmotivated advisors….and always under the guidance of a scientifically led theological Council . Who know very well how mind , matter, and consciousness function in it best states and who knows how it can degrade within the material energies. Modern democracies have been infiltrated, and global conglomerates and cheating sciences have led everyone down the garden path into the quagmire of illusions and fake narratives . The political classes are their pawns and representatives they are products of the corrupted systems. Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind and what Einstein says is so true . One who fails to understand dualism has failed in their lives and are no more than sophisticated animals.
Translation = “The supreme occupation, dharma, for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the Supreme…, unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted in order to completely satisfy the self.”
There was a great meeting, and… Meeting means… In those days, there was no political meeting. Political meetings were not necessary because there was no democracy. It was monarchy. The kings, they were so trained up that there was no necessity of democracy. Actually, the modern government, democracy… We are experiencing, especially the great democratic country, America, so the democracy, the president elected by popular vote, is now being condemned. So, what is the value of this democracy? You elect somebody by your vote; again, condemn. That means the electors, the voters, have also no experience, and neither the man who is voted . Otherwise, why should you change your opinion once you have elected a person to act as your head executive?
So the democracy has proved a farce. It has no meaning because people are not educated.”
In political affairs, the right wing has been over run by extreme capitalist crusaders who promote illusory trickle-down economics . They take the concept to extremes , positing one or two dominant countries will bring wealth for the whole world. This trickledown is a trick, not a treat . Trickling remains blocked in the wallet of the wealthiest persons or countries, the literal few .The reality is increasing exploitation , wars , deaths , and countries infiltrated by political interferences. So called “trickle down” is creating degrading living standards worldwide and in ruinous of traditions and cultures that the self-centred capitalist temporarily predominate . Unforeseeable circumstances are developing in the new multipolar world , and the USA are being pushed off their perch , who were the big boys , formally empires, and exploitative entrepreneurs were in the hands of the British The left wing, , has a different outlook in some ways , but is also overrun by capitalists who are liberalists . They discard any family values, traditional cultures , and dismiss and dismantle through speculative scientific materialism any theological traditions . Their goal and aims are for one homogeneous world where liberalisation is the kingpin , anything goes, and no can object , if they do, they are cancelled . If it feels good, do it ,they say . However , pay for it and hand money over to the global conglomerates .. Your immorality is very good for business. Anything that gets in their way like traditions , nationalism, or conservative philosophy , the libertines try everything in their power to have it cancelled . The media in all its forms plays a crucial role . Fools vote in fools, and the engineers of the left know it well , as do the extreme right . They both exploit the unthinking and bamboozled . The new freedoms of “go with the flow culture” are to be spread worldwide , say the libertines , whatever it takes , even if that means war . Business and controlled markets need to keep building , and monopolies are growing, which is enabling freedoms , they think , from traditional cultures that are based on theological traditions and family values . Simple living and high thinking are not in vouge , rather , enjoy enjoy enjoy ,there is no God , scientific materialism, and Darwinian theory is the absolute truth ,it’s a proven science , death mean everything is finished. Consciousness is merely neurons firing. The Vedic way is the middle way with freedoms and protections based on progressive dualism along with social mobility and philosophically based consciousness development that brings respect for everything that lives , and , importantly , with no encroachments ..and full rights granted to every country and culture.
The intelligentsia always see to the essential elements and needs of societies and they can easily guide administrations , whatever form they take . The wise should always be heard above the unthinking http://www.thevedicspectator.com
A land beyond atoms , elements and compounds, a super subjective plane , as Srila BR Sridhar Swami says . This is a land where consciousness in its purest forms takes its form .Soul on soul exchanges, souls touching souls in an absolute realm far beyond the dualistic existence of the material energies. Seeing in this world you require light waves , hearing you require sound waves , you need the machineries of the ears and eyes , you need electrical impulses sending signals to a brain. Feeling touching smelling thinking or any intellectualism requires particular body parts . The original spiritual consciousness has been plugged into this machinery.
However, by spiritual cultures, one becomes less dependent on this machinery for absolute insight and directly dependent on the origins of the machinery and the ultimate origin of consciousness .The supreme Personality of Godhead is accessible and so is His spiritual realm . The process of connection has been clearly delineated in numerous theological texts , these are the instruction manuals, the transportation methods of how to regain something lost a long, long time ago .The highest of cultures always give hints about the greatest of the great , and are useful markers .Ultimately, though, one needs the association, and this comes in many forms , of pure trancendental knowledge.
The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have written on these topics and Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami brought this treasury to the Western audiences and explains all .
This verse from the Bramha Samhita gives the indications and points us toward trancendance.
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor who is tending the cows, yielding all desire, in abodes built with spiritual gems, surrounded by millions of purpose trees, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of lakṣmīs or gopīs.
A life is a life , any life , human or in Vedic circles , any creatures life , life is sacred and taking life has huge repercussions for individuals and nations. The person of knowledge sees unnecessary killings as the victim’s of circumstances caused by envy hate and ignorance driven by an ever increasing silencing and further suppressions of the influences of the intelligensia . Democracies have been hijacked by unthinking and unintelligent global conglomerates who have the political classes and practically all of the media in their pockets , the unthinking follow the unthinking like lemmings of a cliff .
The Vedas clearly defines the qualities of the intelligensia who bring wisdom , compassion, and clear thinking to any administrative body . Non encroachment and respect for the lives and rights of everything and everyone that lives and a countries resources and facilities respected rather than exploited or stolen . Puppet regimes are not true governments , those who sell their countries for self-interest are not leaders .
The self-evident truth of an equality of every living being is always within the heart of the self effulgent intelligentsia . Those who live in darkness and ignorance with a fire fly intellect try to convince others who are also in darkness that they have seen the light . The light of truth can never be covered by the darkness of those who ” democraticaly ” bring the clouds of mob rule that attempts to temporarily cover light with political or zionistic perversions .
The wise man of the Vedas says this ..
A human being who considers the land of his birth worshipable, and who goes to a place of pilgrimage simply to bath rather than to meet men of transcendental knowledge there, is to be considered like a cow or an ass .
Sophisticated animals are posing as great leaders, and smaller, sophisticated animals are running after the biggest animal. The biggest animals impose mob rule and attempts to silence the good .
The Vedic way is to keep the intelligentsia in the forefront and to understand Richard Feynman when he said someone could have a pocket full of phds and be a complete idiot.
Understanding what is intelligent is the Vedic way , It begins by being able to discriminate between matter and spirit , or between the body and consciousness. Dualism that Plato spoke about , scientific materialism, and Darwinian hypothesis and the political classes that stem from them have caused the world to be as it is today .
