Material universes have the greatest purpose,  unlike the Darwinian or those that follow scientific materialism the Vedas depicts the multiple purposes of the universe, its purposes can be known by one who knows the consciousness behind all things ,one who knows one thing can know everything.

The ultimate searching of all consciousness is pleasure , no one wants to suffer , even if you try to harm an ant , if will protest.

So pleasure is the name of the game,  and how to find it in innumerable ways , throughout numerous universes by innumerable particles of consciousness is what’s going on .

In our experience of life in human form , in childhood, in  youth , middle age or old age , there is flickering experience of pleasures, a taste of something and an enthusiasm for something, but it dies back , changes and situations are thrust upon us that we would rather do without.

Contrast this to the descriptions of the state of consciousness in the very highest planes of existence that are described in detail  by  Srila Rupa Goswami and many other scholars of the Vedas , and the state of matter ,mind and consciousness is looked at very differently as well as  our existing at all  in time and space .

Ultimately, the science of consciousness, mind, and matter should be of great interest to everyone , it could well be the ultimate solution to any difficulties,  certainly that is the message of the Vedas .

A good start is reading Bhagavad Gita,  it speaks of five topics, but  broadly consciousness, mind matter time, and free will as well as  determinism are discussed , it also gives descriptions of upper , middle and lower planetary systems and the ways time and different kinds of physics operate in those systems,  along with the types of bodies who reside in such places .

The goal of Bhagavad Gita is to get us to a place where having once gone , one is never to return to another temporary place,  and in a body that is permanently in enthusiastic playful mode , surrounded by similar persons and ultimately the Supreme Goddess of fortune along with Divinity Himself Krishna.

Many ancient cultures spoke of the universe  being an  enclosed unit  with lower , middle, and upper planetary systems within a “shell ” , this indicates that the original cosmological knowledge of the Vedas , in former times was  widely distributed and worldwide cultures were influenced by it due to the distribution of it . This was done by ancient trade routes as well as wondering  mendicants as well as exiled kings forming new kingdoms .

Outside of a universal shell , within which the upper , middle , and lower planetary systems were situated ,  cultures aligned with Vedic cosmology  understood was a place where  Divinity and His  super subjective planes existed , with all the splendour of  its  spiritual varigatedness , unaffected by time or any physical laws .

The Greeks and later the Arabic cultures as well as a  Vedic culture and other cultures from the South Americas all held this  similar understandings , thus  cultures were intertwined and evidence for  a much earlier concept of a global world can be thought of .

When the Roman empire  conquered most of  Europe, having  taken in previously within their own cultures some aspects of Christianity,   blind unscientific religious fanaticism began to develop , some or most of the traditional Vedic ways  of understanding our universe , along with a  greater scientific approach  to consciousness in general came to  decline , as unscientific fanatical religious doctrine was forced by use of militant might onto the public . Later , when the  Roman empire came to an end , Christians predominanted and scientific thinking outside the bible came to a complete halt .  But the old Arabic and Greek texts were still available, and  the  Mogal empires preserved  some of this  thinking of our universal structures .which was essentially theological in nature . In India, of course, this Vedic cosmological remained in tact .

The Renaissance period gave a rebirth to science and shunned religious fanatical 7 a  rethinking of  the universe was formed  .Modern geometric systems and euclidean math was the new way of looking at life , so much so , that God was pushed out the picture, and so was dualism , the mind and body as a seperate unit .  The mechanistic Darwinian world had begun, scientific materialism, that used  math and mechanistic thinking  , placed our stars millions of miles away,  and a concept of an infinite space,  with no God outside of a universal shell was developed and taught in educational systems. If there were a God ,  some thought,  it’s  probably an impersonal energy . The idea of a separate mind to matter was written off  because the mind could not be measured , and math could not be applied .

Measurements of the distance of planets in a multidimensional space,  as spoken about by Lisa Randall the Harvard Prof,  may not be so easy to calculate ,   the laws of physics are said in the Vedas to operate differently in different parts of the universe, so what  is far is near ,what is near is far in a multidimensional universe.

The ancient culture and sciences should not be hastily discarded and rubbished , or  replaced by scientific materialism , which in itself is dogma , it cannot even account for a mind , but rather believe  it to  only be simple neurons firing in a mechanistic mathematical brain , these events all supposedly happening by chance in a chance universe . This mechanistic veiw could be said to be  ludicrously absurd , and discards the notion of the  intelligence and obvious design in just about everything we see ,  as well it ignores the perfect math in nature , where there is perfect mathematics you can bet your bottom dollar there is a perfect mathematician behind it .

Richard Feynman once famously said you can have a PHD. and still be stupid , and in Vedic and theological terms , one could be academically astute but be very questionable in character, and morality of all kinds .

In Vedic culture we have social mobility in real terms , and the highest perfection in everyone’s life is to be brahman realised ,and actually go even beyond those  realisations and reach Paramatma and Bhagavan consciousness,  and even in Bhagavan consciousness , those that can enter into the understanding of Dhira Lalita Krishna are most complete.

Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has granted access to the secrets of Srimati Radharani playgrounds , and by Her grace is giving the highest ideal to the lowest of persons,  thus the world magnanimity is applied to Mahāprabhu,  the greatest show of magnanimity that there can be .

By reading the trancendental literature of all the Gaudia vaisnavas and by humbly associating  with a  service attitude. just about anyone can become knowledgeable and see the material world for what it is and enter into the spiritual world with a well trained yogic mind and a mentally conceived spiritual form

Many times, you’ll hear someone say ,” I can identify with that “

But who or what should we identify with ?  Our childhood, our youth ,our middle age , or old age ?  Or how about our political leanings  ?  Which  political movement  suits us  ? left leaning,  right leaning, or centre ground ? Persons are forever  changing who or what they identify with . Sometimes someone is our friend sometimes the same  person becomes our enemy , sometimes someone is very attractive as a partner to us , and a short time  later we reject them , and find someone else . The Vedas indicate that the minds   business is forever accepting and rejecting the  sense objects . This world of ever fluctuating duality has to be understood , and the real observer should learn to advance the consciousness to a state beyond the duality of material life , when we examine the disturbances of dualities  , we  begin to realise such states  occur because of excess and our own  selfish motivations , we , at that point  can climb higher in consciousness , and begin to contribute real  happiness to others , without  selfish calculations and ultimately undertake the ultimate sacrifice,  contributing  happiness in the planes of Divinity.  Sacrificing for the  sake of others without considering my own feelings is an elevated state .  You’ll be pleased to hear such a sacrifice becomes very rewarding as the universal material and spiritual energies work in such a way that nothing goes in vain .

The Vedas encourages us to dive deeper into states of consciousness and explore a different sort of happiness , a happier  state of mind , beyond the sense of  sense satisfaction that even animals can easily obtain . The Vedas encourages us to consider whether we are boy , a  girl , young , old , black ,white ,  rich, poor, intelligent, or not so ? , or are we just an  observer of such conditions that are thrown upon us? And are we becoming overly  affected , because of selfishness.

Let’s see what Sastra say .

nāhaṁ vipro na ca nara-patir nāpi vaiśyo na śūdro
nāhaṁ varṇī na ca gṛha-patir no vanastho yatir vā
kintu prodyan-nikhila-paramānanda-pūrnāmṛtābdher
gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ

Translation

“ ‘I am not a brāhmaṇa, I am not a kṣatriya, I am not a vaiśya or a śūdra. Nor am I a brahmacārī, a householder, a vānaprastha or a sannyāsī. I identify Myself only as the servant of the servant of the servant of the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the maintainer of the gopīs. He is like an ocean of nectar, and He is the cause of universal transcendental bliss. He is always existing with brilliance.’ ”

This verse , with Vedic terms for our  different social status  and stages of life , offers an insight into the permanent identity of a soul in a  specific relationship with Divinity , This may be a little esoteric for many to understand,  but the principle is given , you are not the body , not the changing mind , not a  deteriating and frustrated intelligence , but something beyond material calculations , and this super subjective realm is understood by sacrifice,  and the ultimate sacrifice is one of pure service to Divinity , in a  cooperative spirit , with others who have similar goals. 

The Vedas delineate many other permanent relationships , that have nothing to do with atoms ,elements or compounds or an ethereal ever-changing mind and intelligence.

The original consciousness belongs in a permanent identity, which is ever new and ever enthusiastic to exchange love and as the song goes

Somewhere over the rainbow

Way up high

There’s a land that I heard of

Once in a lullaby

Maybe your fairy tale child hood imaginings have something to them

Read the Vedas to find out yourself,  literally.

So far, an accurate and objective account has not been fully written or recorded in terms of the  mistakes  that were made during the 80s in  those difficult early days of ISKCON, as  Prabhupāda finished his services  externally, having established ISKCON.

The truths  of Guru Tattva or the origins of the soul has been recorded   by the Goswamis and our acaryas,  we should never have strayed independently from  traditions  of Gaudia Vaisnavism its a serious mistake and should be accounted for and corrected.

The founder acarya of ISKCON His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada had intended for Gaudia Vaisnava to continue in its historic traditions , it does not take much research to understand what they are.

Every historical account ever  written by our  Gaudia acaryas  that are contained in the Sruti should  not differ  from  ISKCON .

The  zonal acarya system set up was incorrect,  as was the over emphasise on Diksa Gurus , and a reluctance of teaching  the importance of Siksa Gurus , through the  current and previous Acaryas , as clearly described by Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur.

Unfortunately, we are left with a  silent history or, at most vague hints, at what  might have happened or who made decisions.  They were  difficult days,  the men and ladies were young , inexperienced , but Prabhupada instructed them to seek help with Tattva from Srila Sridhar Swami ,  they did not want to hear his advice , which was to follow traditions of Diksa and Siksa .

Because of  not following the  traditions of  Guru tattva ,  speculations were abound ,  early leaders forced Grhastas to be in a Sannyasa ashram to keep the management body strong ,  Guru tattva and management of the society were linked hand in hand , that was not Prabhupada’s desire or  specific orders  at that time , but rather is was a series of cobbled together ideas , and nothing to do with Gaudia Vaisnava historic traditions.

The  GBC , at that time  became  belligerent and head strong ,  Srila Sridhar Swami and later HH Narayana Maharaja were isolated , and ISKCON devotees found themselves locked into a system of management and spiritual guidance that was wrong .

Even though  bad mistakes were made , that jeopardised the faith  of spiritual lives of many , ISKCON stayed together as a society and is still functioning worldwide in wonderful ways . Its my belief that this is due to many reasons,  including and primarily because Prabhupada wanted it to , and also  its the desire of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja,  its also my belief that over the many  years the so called enemies of ISKCON,  Srila Sridhar Swami and Srila Narayana Maharaja, have greatly helped ISKSON,  to stabalise and to advance Prabhupada’s movement. Indeed, they were great friends of Prabhupada.

I would also like to see official acknowledgements of these events , to record the accurate histories and to make sure misunderstandings are cleared up and Tattva is reestablished in every way   Currently  there is  still an over emphasise on the position of Diksa , and also a misunderstanding , namely,  the need of   devotees to  study  our acaryas literatures in our historic param para , also still the  misunderstanding of our origins , which is with Krishna from His expansion as Balarama , needs to be taught , Ultimately we came from a spirtual world,  because Balarama is in the Spiritual world , He is offering us service there , those that don’t  not take the offer , experience  the Mahavishnu aspect of Balarama, through the three Visnu forms overseeing the independent jivas within the material worlds .

There are traditional systems of purification in Vedic  culture,  and these are progressed and changed according to time place and circumstances , currently in the age of Kali  , an age of quarrel and hypocrisy , the Goswamis of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu have introduced a system of  purification for men of the lowest qualities.

Such men can be made into Brahminical priests who can even conduct fire sacrifices .

The process of first initiation into the chanting of the Holy names of Krishna is followed after a time period by Gayatri mantra , which enables one to perform priestly services.

The Gayatri mantra ,is series of sacred chants that enable the person to realise that the real seer is the consciousness not the eye , of the fleshy body ,and the real experience of being is not because of a mind and intelligence,  but because of the soul within and trapped in thd bodh , the Gayatri mantra supposedly is directed at the sun , but the sun is synonymous with the light of consciousness.

Thus, the consciousness goes through a series of steps so that proper vision of the existence of Divinity is seen and felt everywhere and in all beings .

Did the British Government ever consider , or make a plan for the  assassination of Gerry Adams or even consider completely anhialating the IRA or Sinn Fein,  or did they ever consider carpet bombing Belfast, where practically most people supported the idea of Ireland without British influences.

Of course, the British would have never considered using such barbarity.

Yet currently, the Western world governments , who spout freedom and democracy, seem fine with the Murderous tactics of Israel , its abhorrent that the world looks on , as thousands of women and children are slaughtered,  a  Vedic culture would never consider such unnecessary violence and murder as legitimate,  what to speak of supporting it and supplying weapons to assist in the atrocities.

Shame on so-called peace loving Liberal democracies, the hypocrisy is clear to see .

Thus, aggressive militant democracy is being carried out all over the world, and the pen is more powerful than the sword. Ultimately, truth will out .

One simple example,  people can not get enough food to eat in many parts of the world and even in wealthy countries. Nor do the majority have sufficient shelter or stability in their lives , homelessness or home insecurity  , the mentally distressed are increasing and left untreated and drug addiction is a familiar sight along with addiction to many other things . The vast majority struggle financially, and their lives are artificial and contrived. The only relief is a mobile phone issuing messages and invitations to a  sensual life , where all kinds of prostitution take place  among the other types of promises of happiness , but that in reality bring  peoples consciousness to further entanglements and complications.

People’s lives today are not lived in harmony with nature but rather nature and its creatures are being destroyed  .Lives are also highly pressured , and the educational systems are biased and tainted towards the Darwinian hypothesis ,which suits the consumer society model. The Darwinians’ message is one life and oblivion. One life and die , scientific materialism is a life of apes and animals. There are also wars and conflicts in many  parts of  the world. Agitators from wealthy nations bring political instabilities, and then political puppets are planted so a counties resource can be exploited . A serious threat of a major world conflict can develop at any time with globalisation and exploitation of the  demons dressed well wishers.

The Vedas say buisness persons should never have any charge of society,  their only thoughts are profit at any cost , they have no idea of the need of people’s lives. They do not have an understanding of how society knits together,  and they are clueless scientifically and philosophically and theologically.

So society should wake up and understand only the intelligentsia who have first class qualities in all respects , should guide societies . In Vedic Culture,  the administrative classes and business classes were always under their supervision , and the modern democracies , have been infiltrated , with fake narratives with the help of social media only globalist can afford to be representatives of democracy .

Thus democracy is demon crazy , and its inevitably spiralling out of control.

The  Vedas , and the Mahabharata  explains why democracy is a system of fools voting in fools,  because unless you know how  a leader should lead and what it means to lead in ways  for the benefit of all beings , you shouldn’t vote .

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In the Vedas, it is stated there are four ages that  constantly turn in cyclic movement , whilst the 311 trillion years of Bramha’s life is being lived out ,  its interesting to note so far , approximately half has of his life has  passed.

Parts of the universe  partially close down, during the Bramha’s rest periods,  and its calculated   every  approximately 4.5 billion years  pass by , where the lower and parts of the middle planetary systems are rested before being  “rebooted.”

Treta, Satya ,Dvarpa, and Kali are the names of the time periods that operate in cyclic cycles.

Satya yuga lasts approx 1.8 million years

Treta yuga lasts approx 1.3 million years

Dvarpa yuga lasts approx 900,000 years

Kali yuga lasts approx 432.000 years .

Each  particular age has specific qualities of consciousness,  this  current age of Kali,  is symptomised , as the Vedas have  predicted by  quarrel and hypocrisy, and the degradation of consciousness towards animal type  consciousness,  the only real interests  of the vast majority of humanity is eating ,sleeping  sex and snatching and defending territories , the majority of people are Darwinians who think and act like sophisticated animals,  thinking….one life , death ,finished .

One of the  main tools  of Kali  perhaps ,  is current social media,  where just about anything goes , practically no legislation  is present,  with many  unforeseen future consequences for a younger generation , although governments make noises of concerns,  but leave it at that .

Theological sciences and good morals are falling by the wayside, and  instead, scientific materialism becomes the ” religion ” of faith , preached in universities and schools worldwide. Darker elements and dubious persons both within governments and in a myriad of other prominent and influential places , inflict disorder and uncertainty in people’s lives , creating havoc and poverty worldwide.

A glimmer of hope, though. The Vedas predict a golden age in Kali. A short burst of the most auspicious happenings , and that age is in its beginnings , and it began, at the time of the appearance of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, so desperate times but , as well , a gradual building of knowledge and awareness,  giving people the ability to discriminate between truth and lies .

Is it difficult using logic and reasoning to consider that higher , lower , and middle planetary systems could exist with full ranges of  different types of consciousness  experiencing countless bodies , some gross , some less so ,  designed and tailor made to satisfy , after all , take a look at our planet , everywhere you will living conscious beings living lives .

According to the Vedas , consciousness of both our past , present, and  future are all inextricably linked , as Einstein might  say, ” Space time continuum.” Also, everything has an origin , and so does individuality and form and free will.

The Vedas speak  of the form of Divinity,  Krishna, along with all of all His associates.  Personalities, along with forms that are forever exchanging  intimately all kinds of artistries and pleasantries along with humours , in the spontaneous beauties of pure consciousness .

Such description touch  on a mere  fraction of the opulence of the super subjective realm , way above the heavenly delights .

Whatever we see in this world has origins in the  absolute, the cause of all causes , who is the ever increasing catalysis of self perpetual bliss .

Looking carefully at mankind , and  every species , we see  scales of opulence .Why so ? The Vedas indicate that every  consciousness can access  esoteric beauty  far beyond its  comprehension , Divinity sends His representative to show the full potential of consciousness. While in the human form of life , such esoteric truths are accessible.

When we turn to the Vedas , the  real potential of our futures are drawn up , but the material energies and our attraction for them can  get in the way , both  knowledge and detachment come together as a package one must aquire.

Unless one understands the Vedas and its messages,  one  simply wastes one’s life as a temporary sophisticated animal.