” What is that? Brāhmaṇa. Brāhmaṇa means the most intelligent class of men of the society. Philosophers, scientists, astronomers, so many, intelligent class. So in every society there is a class of men who are very intelligent than ordinary men “
In Vedic societies the intelligentsia ultimately watched over the governance and the governor’s and made sure they stayed on track . A society based on Dualism and progressive paths of social and spiritual mobility..
Democracies had their place as did elements of autocracies. The perfect balance was achieved..
The essential elements in Vedic societies…
Thus, also in Vedic culture the ladies are very much respected and listened to ..many examples are given in the Srimad Bhagavatam, they have hearts that are soft and sensitive , they are very intelligent in particular ways , and they create the essential elements in governance in societal affairs. .
We should try not to have differences with people ……and especially , of course , with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although the Gaudia Vaisnava tattva states , as living beings , we are inconceivably and simultaneously one and different from Divinity, but in matters of love the oneness is accentuated and the differences simultaneously serve to fuel the beauty of the oneness in love . But one thing is… such Gaudia Vaisnava tattva is spot on , neither overly emphasizing the oneness nor the difference . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The Srimad Bhagavatams’ final goal is to explain the essence of loving consciousness . This is inherently situated within the heart of all beings, and when we learn to love God , love and its ever increasing attractions are experienced in ever new ways and qualities , there is no limit . This is something quite incomprehensible within the purview of our limited material senses that generally are motivated to act in selfish pursuits , although love is also seen to a degree , even in the animal kingdom effection , respect and caring is seen . This searching for love stems from an ultimate plane of existence and the Srimad Bhagavatam clearly and scientifically explains its origins. Such higher planes of beauty and love everyone is searching for , either knowingly or unknowingly . The Srimad Bhagavatam tells us our material conditioning is hampering us from experiencing pure unalloyed love and that we are the cause of our problems and are the architects of our own misfortune . We should understand that beyond the limits of atoms , elements, and compounds and a mind that accepts and rejects and beyond a limited intellectual platform lies greater planes of existence .Consciousness is the greatest mystery for science. Curiously, modern physicists refer to the multidimensional space time and also accept the concept of the worlds of many possibilities . Religion and spiritual searching collide within the science of the Bhagavatam. The Bhagavatam highlights the ultimate expansion of consciousness into its original purposeful spiritual forms . Such forms experience finer and finer emotions bringing ever increasing blissful experiences in the company of Divinity Himself , who is the master of these loving exchanges, technically called rasa or mellows . It’s a playground of consciousness with perfected spiritual forms in a perfected spiritual state . This can be exhibited under the direct supervision and company of the associates of Radharani’s friends called Manjaris, who serve the emaculate spiritual senses of Divinity known as Krishna . Krishna is always accompanied by the personification of His own pleasure potency , representative of the female aspect of Divinity , namely Srimati Radharani , and She is always in the company of Her confidential companions , they are imbued with ever blissful spiritual rasa .
The middle portion of the 10th canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam is said to be the smiling face of Krishna, those persons who have throughly studied the previous Cantos and who have understood Krishna as the supreme personality of Godhead along with His varigatedness energies, can eventually take to spontaneous loving service in a trancendental informal relationship based on pure love . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
God is all good. Everything that breaks down naturally in nature’s course goes on to take another useful and purposeful place within a universal structure, energies transform, and are never lost , and particles of consciousness within these energies are subjected automatically to this responsive and ever-changing and endlessly mutable substance. Perfect design brings all perfection in all its purposes. Divinity is the Supreme engineer , thus, the book by Jonathan Wells “the myth of Junk Dna,” is a good read The atheistic Darwinian wonders why God’s designed bodies break down and appear imperfect in their eyes . They do not understand the responsive universe ,personal responsibility, or karmic synchronicities . Dualism is beyond their purview. Ultimately, there is a perfection in all so-called imperfections if the “imperfection ” brings you closer to perfection , its perfect. The clue to understand this world is dualim and to put scientific materialism on hold . Bhagavad Gita tells all there is to know on the working of mind , matter , consciousness and activity, and the cause of the causes .
A heating engineer came to my house, I gave him a Bhagavad Gita, he said he didn’t know if he would read it , but I told him he could study the heating and plumbing of God .
The natural flow of the oceans’ currents causes the movements of all the waters of the ocean , they are constantly recycling it takes over a 1000 years to complete the global circuit.
The movement of the waters cause heating and cooling of air and along with the seasonal sunshine that brings the entropic atmospheres, which eventually causes and dumps the oceans waters , having been condensed and purified on to the land in the form of rain creating rivers and lakes , and yet more facilities for life .
This is something of the plumbing and heating of Divinity within the planet , yet similarly, flows of direction of heat and liquid are taking place in our bodies daily , we are not even aware .
Sir Fred Hoyle said that someone has monkeyed with the universe everything is just too perfect.
Yes, this is good objective scientific awareness. Much like Dna codes and informational exchanges that cause the cells in each body to form, creating specific functions and forms .
The universal order allows us to be entangled in the responsive universe under certain conditions and progress in our consciousness journey . The Brahminical intelligentsia know what those conditions are and how they are used properly. The idea of freedom , every sane person knows is good, but equally, there are always restrictions to freedoms , which cause a superior freedom. The unintelligent sentimentalist who are no more than , at most , sophisticated animals are clueless and haven’t the faintest idea about dualim or the systematic proggression of the consciousness that is afforded in the human form of life . The Vedas is the breathing and directions of Divinity for our benefit http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Srila Sridhar Swami served his Guru Maharaja Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja in many essential and glorious ways . In one poem, Srila Sridhar Swami wrote about the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas , their connections to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and particularly of the Six Gosvamis of Vrndavana . It had been particularly noted by Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja because it clearly indicated Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur as fully understanding the Rasa Tattva of Vrndavana and particularly that of Radha Dasyam taught by Rupa Ragganatha and Sanatana Gosvamis.
Srila Sridhar Swami the great friend of Srila Prabhupada and ISKCON also served Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in many many ways , reinforcing Tattva and bringing complete clarity to the philosophy of Gaudia Vaisnavism, he was the master of it , and was appointed by Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja as the store keeper of it .
Although many early members of ISKCON were misunderstanding about his intentions, and some still today they should know the problem lies with them and not in the pure heart of Srila BR Sridhar Swami. That’s why Srila Prabhupada left instructions if philosophical matters of matters of Vaisnava tattva is unclear to any of my disciples when I leave ” Go and see Sridhar Swami “
ISKCON is moving forward nicely, and Srila BR Sridhar Swami served ISKCON very beautifully and continues to do so by his trancendental words and expressions of Krishna consciousness.
In terms of managing the details of a world wide movement, that is not the service of Srila Sridhar Swami , he never wanted or thought himself able , but in giving absolutely essential assistance to it , he was always happy to do . He greatly appreciates AC Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada preaching and found it astounding and he once remarked , ” something has gotten into my old friend Swami Bhaktivedanta ” meaning the spirit of Nityananda prabhu and Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Srila BR Sridhar Swami could clearly see it and was bowing down before it .
The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have clearly explained that an over emphasis on the oneness of the living being with God or an over emphasis on a difference from God is incorrect. Thus, simultaneously and inconceivably, oneness and difference is the correct tattva , or understanding, the progressive steps to this tattva are taught by Madhava ,Ramanuja, Visnu Swami , and Nimbarka acaryas. The great scholar Srila Jiva Goswami in his Tattva Sandarbha says God makes the impossible possible. Thus, simultaneously being one and different from God should be understood.
When we exhibit our inherant nature and volunteer our love to God, this is an exhibition of the part and parcel of God , who is different from God , uniting in love with God in a “oneness of love ” As such, there is no robotic rasa, love is not z pretence, and God does not exactly know when or how deeply our exhibition of love will occur. We are not machine like robots . As God is individual, so are we , we have tiny independence, and God has unlimited independence. Love is volunteered, and love for the unlimited has an unlimited capacity to increase, and the ever increasing ocean of blissful life is described by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana. The clue is .. Prabhupada says we are not dead stones .. The high court judge knows the destination of the criminal. Do you think the high court judge knows the destination of an honest man ?
Further, to understand the principles of Bhakti in conditioned life , you have to learn to love .. Why some spirit souls spontaneously loved Krishna in His various forms and why some didn’t initially…is the exhibition of freewill , of who or what we love ….We , being the expansions of Balarama or Mula Sankarsan , some of the expanded beings , it appears , due to an independent spirit , were transferred to Mahavisnu, from the Tatastha regions or Brahman . This was because they could not feel that pure spontaneous love immediately. The transportational glance from the Bramhajyoti into matter takes place , where the living beings attempt to find loving relationships . It is never found in fullness. Only Divinity can provide it .
Thus, here we are , still searching.
Love is always voluntary.. When you choose to love God is your free will , the potential for love is inherant but sometimes misplaced . Love is also ever expanding, so it’s newer and newer in quality. Krishna does not know exactly when we will fully love him or how it will feel in terms of intensity….that’s our choice of freedom.
As we previously noted, Prabhupada said .. ” We are not dead stones,” As a high court judge knows the destination of the criminal . Similarly, God knows how conditioned nature responds , His energies bind the conditioned souls. i.e.,within the determinism of the responsive universe , karmic synchronicities. Thus, in conditioned life, God knows everything of our life and choices and how exactly we are conditioned . But Narada Muni is free to wonder anywhere because pure love is always trusted ….and exhibited freely and unpredictability. The more we learn to love God, the more freedom and unpredictability of our loves emotions , and they are expressed without God knowing how they exactly will be ..that brings the highest pleasure to God . We are not predicable downloads of God . There is no robotic rasa .
In the higher realms of Rasa, one can be at one with the residents of Vraja.( pranaya) and the unpredictability becomes even more unpredictable , such as the crooked path of Parikiya rasa . The union and separation of love are described by our acaryas. Directed by the assistants of the Supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani, one can be graced and enter into some understanding of this pranaya oneness of love . The more conditioned a person is, the more predictable they become, its a forgone conclusion how a sex , drug, or drink addict will act .
Socialism in every respect is the Vedic way , a system of governance that produces social and spiritual mobility based on the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings and their individual rights . The Vedic intelligentsia see to it that education and opportunities are readily available, the highly cultured share their good fortune. At times in every culture the intelligentsia are challenged by those of lower grade consciousness, but the best of men and ladies must be educators because the best of the best of life’s opportunities must be taught in society to everyone. Lower consciousness and lower lifestyles can be facilitated but carefully administered . The Vedas covers all practical topics in life , for instance, it allows for honest, free market economics that are primarily locally based , with only essentials needs imported .The Vedas encourage countries to depend on themselves, not interferences from other nations, so one looses independence. Capitalism is sold as free market economics but is not so , monopolies are the global conglomerates strategy , they want everyone to depend on them .Their narratives are cheating the public and other leaders of countries. They say that their capitalism is creating wealth for all the world and lifting it out of poverty , quite the opposite. Truth is, nature provides everything for every creature , every one is fed , clothed, and housed and live happily when they remain closely aligned to natures ways and relying on localised economies and localised workforces,
Worldwide trading has become so ludicrous that someone in the UK exports popcorn to the USA . A person buying his bread in the UK has it brought by a lorry hundreds of miles away from his hometown , and the wheat is imported from a country thousands of miles away . The major financial systems have become far too centralised and monopolised . The stock and currency markets, as well as worldwide commodities market and currency markets, have been designed to suit a few insiders and are clearly currupt. The world is so very, very far from free markets . Central government allows light touch regulations , and plenty of instant internet trading goes on with shares rising or falling in micro seconds. For those who actually monopolise such markets, they are doing very nicely, thank you . They effectively have centralised capitalism and world wide financial industries working with unintelligent governments control Capitalism lock stock and barrel. This currupt system has been sold as the idea greed is good and that the benefits of greed will trickle down to everyone all over the world. The reality is entirely different . Such ruthless capitalism benefits the most greedy of persons at the cost of the environment , it causes unfair trade deals , it causes poverty and wars with every country fighting over limited resources that will inevitably run dry in no time. Such unfortunate worldwide situations are instigated by the capitalist and their political freinds , who they sponsor. Currently, these demons are desperate for precious minerals and precious earth , essential for computer science. The unthinking capitalists should never have a free run and have any influence in politics. Rather, the Vedic societies were thankful for money makers who built economies, but they were legislated against , when encroachments were seen to be happening in any circumstances immediately it was halted . The communist idea was utilised in Vedic culture but in the sense of the equality of all beings , and the truth that ultimately everything is the property of God , and needs to be used in harmonious ways , but at the same time ownership was encouraged along with sensitivities and care , greed and encroachment were a no no . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
In the Srimad Bhagavatam 10th Canto, the autumn seasons and the various changes that take place within Vrndavana are described in very many wonderful and analogous ways that recount spiritual truths and material entanglements.
One such analogy is describing the pathways of Vrndavana that get washed over and covered in all kinds of twigs , branches ,stones, and mud .
The Vedic truths are very clear, but in the course of time, they become covered by speculations and interpretations, and original meanings become unclear , and those travelling down the Vedic path can become lost .Richard Feynman has said even a man with pockets full of PHD’S can be a “complete idiot ” what to speak of lesser degrees , the Vedic scholars are not idiots of course but they can loose their way due to speculative interpretation.
The seekers of truth must find a bone fide representative of the Srimad Bhagavatam, which is the summary of all the Vedas, and the natural commentary on the Bramha sutras . Such a person clears the path of all mishaps and all of the debris of interpretations and speculations .They are easily swept out the way, as once again, crystal clear knowledge is revealed.
The bone fide spiritual master is a representation of Divinity Himself, and the truth he or she imparts opens up the sincere heart who is inquisitive to understand absolute truth . Krishna Himself , within the heart , reveals the crystal clear path and bestows buddhi yoga ,meaning trancendental intelligence . All materially conditioned notions are eradicated, and the destination can be arrived at .
The Vraja gopies know all the secret paths in Vrndavana that lead to the trysting grounds where Krishna enjoys unlimited trancendental bliss in their company
In Kali yuga, the current age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the great benedictions of Mahaprabhu are at play . He opens up the doors of the Bhajananandis, steals their nectar, and distributes it to one and all openly , even to those who are unqualified. The path of deep Bhajan and preaching collide , and many rough diamonds became perfectly polished as the wisdom of Devi Varna Ashram and deep bhajan collide and interact perfectly together. Thus, Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu in Navadwipa , South India, and importantly in Jagganath Puri . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Why, because they are fully balanced in character and well read in philosophy, sciences , social sciences, political Science and theological sciences.
They fully understand the psychological needs of members of society and guide the social and spiritual mobility . They also have room for those due to their particular place within the modes of goodness, passion, and ignorance, namely those in lower modes, i.e.,ignorance , who need facilities for life . However , in Vedic culture, the lower modes and lifestyle never supercedes the higher modes, which exhibit the highest of freedoms within culture . In the name of freedom and democracy , the lower modes are seen to degrade society and cause pain and misery to everyone.
Fanatical kings , fanatical political leaders, or fanatical religious leaders have no place in Vedic culture, and it’s clear by a thorough understanding of all of the sciences who those fanatics are .
Everyone has their place, and all have rights , including the ants .
Rascals always need removing and they are ” Self effulgent ” by their behaviour , as are saintly persons who are everyone’s well wisher .
Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has clearly outlined the Vedic themes. And in time they will be further researched , understood and the clear advantages to everyone will be clear to see .
Albert Einstein would say if you can’t explain things simply and in a short time , then you don’t understand them .
The founder acarya of ISKCON caused some controversy amongst the media in the USA in the 1960s pointing out that on average, men’s brains are larger than women’s brains.
Recently, studies show that male brains are typically 8-13% larger than female brains . This difference in size is not related to intelligence, as both male and female brains are, of course, similar, and it’s clear ladies and men are as equally intelligent in their own ways and also intelligence differs according to one’s karmic position and of course there are different types of intelligence . The Vedas indicates that the greatest use of intelligence is to have the wisdom and insights to be able to separate consciousness from matter . The objective world of dualism.
It’s the role that ladies play in modern times that have changed from former times . So has much in life and especially the economy. Everything is mighty expensive, and everyone is encouraged to become as rich as possible, and if you want a big house, big car , and big everything else, both mothers and fathers have to work hard . Schools and other educational institutions provide all kinds of directions to children and from an early age .
Ladies in historic times have always played an intelligent and important role in supporting their husbands and children, and they still do. In modern times however Vedic cultures can be and are adapted . The priorities and principles of ladies supporting their men , who do their duties properly, and work hard for the family is a good one, of course . It’s the essential that brings stabilised families that are healthy in body , mind, and spirit. With the mothers spending as much time as possible with their children. The choices are how much money we need , but equally how to give the best of times and security for the family.
So the Vedic life of simple living and high thinking with family orientated traditions and loyalties is good for everyone. Along with automatically further development in one’s consciousness without the hindrance of dealing with broken relationships and all that brings.
Modern life and liberalism can be troubling, especially if it’s centred around the speculations and teaching of Darwinian scientific materialism of one life, one death , so what the hell .
Srila Narrottama das Thakur who was the Siksa Guru of Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur, encourages us all to take to the mercy , and immediately so , of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu, putting down the baggage and burdens of our own Karmic synchronicities . He says we should associate with Gaudia Vaisnavas hear and serve their missions and understand the essence of Mahāprabhu’s teachings , which means to become an associate of Sri Sri Radha Krishna , making friends with Their freinds and taking up the process of Bhakti yoga with great devotion and follow the systematic methods of how to advance the consciousness to pure spontaneous attraction and devotion towards Radha Krishna . Once and for all be done with this material world . The material world will be what it will be ….
In the material world, we get the impressions of eternal youthful enjoyment we see this in generations after generations , but we also see them appearing and then disappearing , like waves rolling one after the other at the sea , unfortunately in no time at all they crash to the shore and disappear. However, the ever new waves of trancendental bliss that Srila Narrottama das Thakur speaks of are forever rolling in , this eternal and unlimited ocean of transcendental bliss is within Goloka Vrndavana , the personal abode of Radha Krishna. Just one drop of this type of ocean can drown all the inhabitants of the material world’s in trancendental Bliss …..what to speak of the trancendental ananda , spiritual bliss , of the ocean itself.
The Srimad Bhagavatam and the writings of the Rupa and Ragganatha Goswami’s elaborate on the teachings of the Srimad Bhagavatam. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
