The essence of ISKCON..

AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Arrival Address…
“At the present moment, the human society is giving stress on the mercantile class of men and worker class Actually, there is no intelligent class of men or administrative class of men. So our movement is creating some intelligent class of men. According to our Vedic knowledge, the first-class intelligent man is he who knows what is God. He’s first-class intelligent man.”…………

Unless this happens..
Fools will continue to vote in fools.
Society is becoming influenced by the lowest classes of men who are  infused with scientific materialism.  Darwinian hypothesis is the name of the game  with rampant materialism the results. The conclusions of this speculative science are not based on objective scientific methods. Everything concluded is based on subjectivity , best guessing. So the whole of the modern world is following the best guessing of proud atheistic and clueless persons. Sophisticated animals ask them what consciousness is..that is the most important question,  and they can not give an answer.

Interfaith.

Although the immature followers of different faiths have problems with each other ,  the most spiritually advanced of them don’t . They rightly have much respect for each other and can easily share in their experiences of Divinity .
So , it’s important for faiths to be primarily judged on the most advanced of each one . The lesser advanced who see so many differences in religious theological texts in time by becoming spiritual maturity will also be able to share faith with no insecurities and with realized knowledge.
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The differences of a person in knowledge and a person who is not can be calculated,  as well as what we mean by knowledge,  the Vedic description tells of knowledge of an impersonal all pervasiveness of Divinity,  His localised and more personal feature that gives everything form and substance and His confidential original forms , those that exhibit His Godhead originating in Lord Krishna.  That person in knowledge of some or all these features would have acquired Jnana , or buddhi yoga , the yoga of intelligence .
This knowledge is brought about in various ways and generally through many lives . Sacrifices of many kinds and following honest duties and morality ethics kindness and compassion brings knowledge very close , the honest attract truth and can easily accept truth .
It is recommended in the Vedas , that a person who is inhabited by a ghost , needs to engage himself in purificatory processes of different kinds , and after acting accordingly,  like an ordinary man should do , he will regain knowledge of who he is , ie . He is a man, not a ghost .When one is inhabited by ghostly elements,  the ghosts affect thinking and actions and subdue the good sense of a person.
By repeatedly telling the man he is not a ghost won’t do ,the ghost will overpower him . He must engage in purificatory actions to revive his true position and cast out the ghost.
Karma yoga, as in Niskama karma yoga, leads to knowledge of God and knowledge of ones true self as an associate of God . The process of jnana alone is not suitable for 99.9 % of people, but  by Niskama karma yoga, one automatically aquires knowledge by working correctly under the directions of the spiritual intelligentsia .The candidate can realise the original source of  all energies within and outside the body . Also, how best they can be  employed for the benefit of an individual and everyone else will be realised . An offering of energy  back to the energetic source is the prescribed methods  .By Niskama karma yoga ,  one soon realises the futility of temporary action within matter , and a strong realisation comes about , dualism and consciousness and  its origins  are gradually realised in full . Jnana or buddhi yoga are the result of pure actions. Automatically reviving pure knowledge of a person who is artificially trying to enjoy matter.  The inner consciousness is not made of matter , so matter will never satisfy consciousness.  The ghost like illusion of being something one is not is cleared up by Niskama karma yoga leading to pure Jnana .  Then, pure Bhakti, the yoga of pure devotional service can be understood and practised to perfection,  its only this which reveals one’s spiritual form in relation to God , that is carried out under the directions of a Diksa Guru and many Siksa Gurus including Sastra sanga.
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The bread you consume daily should be made from locally  gown wheat purchased from local farmers . Farmers that you may even know or be somewhat acquainted with . The Miller who grinds the wheat is also  situated locally and is trustworthy character , neither the farmer nor the Miller add chemicals or additives to something that is already perfect and naturally grown , no one is complaining if insects , birds or mice take a share .Everyone should place their order with the local bakers, of which there are many , people are on first term names with their bakers and they are expert.
Unfortunately, someone in Brighton, for example, is buying his bread that has been baked in Northern England, and it has been  transported hundreds of miles  down the motorway , its been baked in huge factories that add chemicals and additives to the mix . The wheat has been grown and imported from Canada and is full of chemicals so as to kill creatures and increase profits. The Vedic Culures understand the beauty and goodness of local economies and having relationships with the people that grow the wheat , mill the wheat, and bake the bread . The consciousness of the persons enter the bread  , especially the baker . Simple living and high thinking along with locally supported communities is the Vedic way , the communities supports other communities within a nation. Fare share , fair deals for a fair days work . International trading obviously goes on with some goods and trades , that’s occurred for thousands of years . But global conglomerates want cheap labour , and worldwide markets , and when such global conglomerates capture markets , they then capture the farms and dismiss locally thriving industries of all kinds , then they turn their hands to the commodity markets and with their massive profits they buy political power , thus the man with too much money overpowered by greed starts to run the world , democracies infiltrated by the unthinking,  only one thing comes into their hearts money and power to make more and set the whole world to suit their purposes.

This out of balance world stems from those of follow the subjective speculations,  those who follow the Darwinians’ goals as well as those following scientific materialism . They have lost touch with nature and people , Darwinian trickle down economics is absurd in every way . Any calculations based on absurdities lead to further absurdities. The Vedic way of Dualism sets the correct path , personslism,  the rights of all beings , and appreciation for the environment and of the joy of localised economies.
When democracies have been infiltrated people become fooled and consequently fools vote  in fools , it leads to mayhem , take a look at the world as it currently stands.
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Before the appearance of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu further extensive knowledge that was already given in the Bhagavatam  of Radha Krishna and the residents of  Vrndavana was  accessed through the teachings of Visnu Swami and further details from Vallabha acarya , those from the four Kumara sampradaya and Rudra sampradaya.

However, the extent and depths of Srimati Radharani love as well that of her assistants, the Manjaris, became revealed by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and this knowledge , by His order to Nityananda prabhu , was distributed widely to one and all . Another feature of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s teachings was to make clear what the truth of Varna Ashram is , and its deliberate progressive paths towards ,niskarma karma,  jnana yoga and buddhi yoga  aiming towards all the levels of Bhakti yoga which  culminate in pure spontaneous love that follows  the residents of Vrndavana . Those  who give their whole attention to Krishna in five types of relationships.

This trancendental theological position has been explained by Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami in his series of Caitanya Caratamrita, which can be accessed.

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Pleasure seeking

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 are  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.

Get access to them in book form or on line .

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There is a very good reason why when describing aquiring knowledge, Lord Krishna puts humility as the first step to knowledge..
Try speaking sense to someone who puts up pride shutters within their consciousness..
It becomes so obvious that they hang on so tightly to preconceptions , and their minds go into overdrive as defence mechanisms kick in and kick all good sense out..

The BBC were at it again last night they had their scientific presenter dive deep into the oceans to find the source of our brains , they said it came from a volcanic vent deep within the oceans , thus speculations are openly presented as fact based sciences by mainstream media.

The BBC editor and the presenter should have left their brains in a glass jar at the bottom of the sea for all the good they are .Truthfulness and honesty are essential in objective sciences.

Subjective opinion must be clearly made to look life relatively uniformed opinion.

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Take care of your own cultural traditions

Sep 29th, 2025

Every one of the citizens of countries worldwide should realise and learn of their own cultural traditions and historic values , practically all of them have some connections to Divinity in one way or another . It is the arrangement of Divinity that knowledge is always present and available through the wise . Progressive paths have been given .for thousands upon thousands of years .One of the youngest countries , USA , seeks to spread its influences , but in setting up the USA the forefathers sought to exploit and destroy the ancient culture of the natives , those persons who came to America , soon forgot or never practiced humanitarian values it seems .Although the forefathers constitution includes the words , self-evident truth of the equality  of all men , one can speak big words with an empty heart, it seems .
The ancient Greeks, the Vedic culture, the ancient Chinese cultures, and many others should not be forgotten . The world should not become a global world led by those who haven’t got much in the way of historic values, rampant materialism, and distorted theological thinking is not anything wonderful to spread worldwide.
Rather, individual nations should look to their own traditions, live simply and peacefully, producing their own needs , with only essentials imported .The cultivation of fine consciousness with humility , family values, and equal vision are the teachings of the now forgotten great civilizations .
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Every one of the citizens of countries worldwide should realise and learn of their own cultural traditions and historic values , practically all of them have some connections to Divinity in one way or another . It is the arrangement of Divinity that knowledge is always present and available through the wise . Progressive paths have been given .for thousands upon thousands of years .One of the youngest countries , USA , seeks to spread its influences , but in setting up the USA the forefathers sought to exploit and destroy the ancient culture of the natives , those persons who came to America , soon forgot or never practiced humanitarian values it seems .Although the forefathers constitution includes the words , self-evident truth of the equality  of all men , one can speak big words with an empty heart, it seems .
The ancient Greeks, the Vedic culture, the ancient Chinese cultures, and many others should not be forgotten . The world should not become a global world led by those who haven’t got much in the way of historic values, rampant materialism, and distorted theological thinking is not anything wonderful to spread worldwide.
Rather, individual nations should look to their own traditions, live simply and peacefully, producing their own needs , with only essentials imported .The cultivation of fine consciousness with humility , family values, and equal vision are the teachings of the now forgotten great civilizations .
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A lost cause to bring perfection to imperfection or a  reality of a reflection of a  perfection .

Srila Jiva Goswami, one of the greatest Vedic scholars, said ..”we are trying to bring perfection to imperfection..”

Ultimately, you could say atoms elements and compounds are an offering made by the material energies, they are so made by Divinity,  and reluctantly given by Him , reluctant ,  because the the living beings are attempting to bring a perfection in their lives , but in an atmosphere that is not suitable ,mostly because of a state of an impure heart and its consequences ,  atoms , elements and compounds that  can never satisfy our inner consciousnesss needs , pure loving relationships within an atmosphere of beuaty and attractions of every kind ,highest of artistic culture forever inspiring the deepest parts of our hearts in ever new ways . These higher states of beauty and consciousness are reflected at times in this world , but minuscule displays may prompt us to search further. That need for a blissful, happy life, is inherently there situated in everyone’s heart. We are looking for  relationships that are increasingly rewarding . Perhaps the closest to these happy spontaneous moments in this life  are the short-lived  youthful or child like excitements and increasing enthusiasms that schools out provide . Watch next time you pass you men and ladies at the school gates. The energies are immense, sweet, and attractive. It’s a kind of reflection of a spiritual perfection according to the Vedas , eternal youth ,a paradise lost . Ultimately, every theologically driven culture warns of the souls pure consciousness  entanglements  in the material world , and they provide analysis of the problems and offer solutions.  Entanglements in karmic activities and cyclic synchronicities can be very difficult to shift . Jiva Goswami indicates this in his Bhagavat Sandarbha….
The living beings conditioned concept of becoming an enjoyer of a substance that is ultimately alien to him is like the will of the wisp , AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada  said . Those fast-moving atoms, elements and compounds, and particular subtle mind with a  given intellect are awarded within a  stipulated space and stipulated time to the  individual consciousness particle , but they can not stay .The atoms are vibrating and producing forms that appear as permanent reality , with the material varigatedness that is indeed full of wonder , and no wonder , this is a reflection of a spiritual reality , and the material energies are Gods energies, but here the essence of the pure heart is missing as the soul gets lost in matter instead of spirit.
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Thinking and thinking practice , trancendental litratures and trancendental services bring trancendental thinking ..

“Regarding your first question, is it offensive to think of Krishna’s Pastimes while chanting, I think you should know that it is not offensive, but rather it is required. One must try for the point when he simply hears Krishna and immediately all of Krishna, His Pastimes, His Form, His Quality, are in his thoughts. So to always be immersed in thoughts of Krishna this is our process. When we are full in Krishna then where there can be any chance for maya in us? So this is our duty to remember Krishna’s Pastimes. One who cannot remember Krishna, let him always hear Hare Krishna and then when he has perfected this art, then always he will remember Krishna, His Activities, His Qualities, etc.”
Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada…

For some reason some devotees have problems with this understanding of Krishna consciousness , in an avoidance of being “too esoteric ” some devotees give the unbalanced veiw , that deeper spontaneous thoughts and aspirations of services are not for the Gaudia Vaisnava’s . Of course there is due course , as clearly defined in the books of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , and Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has given indications in His conversation with Ramananda Roy about the complete process and the goal .

From Karma yoga in Varna Ashram to Niskarma karma yoga to buddhi yoga to pure Bhakti yoga in spontaneous love and the different types of pure love exhibited by different devotees in different places .

Ultimately, Prabhupada puts it perfectly , work hard, Samadhi later ..

So Black , white , many shades of grey .

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Equivalents are used in Nyaya logic..
Consciousness is seen equally in all beings .

Life comes from life.
It will never arise out of chemicals.
The source of miniature Consciousness is larger consciousness.
Like the sun and sun molecules.
There has never been a time that consciousness did not exist , nor in the future will it cease to be ..matter has certain defined and changing properties.
Consciousness is a different sort of energy , a superior energy.

We can not equate something inferior to something superior
The ancients and their cultures were correctly based on dualism.
Scientific materialism is a recent construct ..and is a completely subjective speculation and is actually unscientific. it curiously practically ignores consciousness .Ignorance is bliss , so some say ,  maybe this  enables a madman to live in the illusion of enjoying dead matter .
We are the same Consciousness particle, as we were as children, but our body has changed .
When we  sleep and dream , our  body is acting , and our consciouseness is  involved in the  ethereal plane , a real life , so much so that if a man embraces a woman, he can  ejeculate . Curiously, though, we completely forget our  body lying in our beds in dreamland,  but we hear , speak , feel, and act .
On awakening, we  remember and identify with our day time body again ..at death your body is forgotten forever , but you wake up in a new one , only traces and some impressions of a previous consciousnesss conditioning is vaguely remembered .
Thus, your life is a daytime dream night-time dream .
But you should ask why am I subjected to this ?

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