What happened to the beautiful dawn chorus

Mar 14th, 2023

Dawn chorus just isn’t what it used to be.

The following lists percentage declines of some bird species recorded in the Common Bird Census between 1970 and 1999

Tree sparrow  -95 per cent Corn bunting  -88 per cent Willow tit  -78 per cent Spotted flycatcher -77 per cent Woodcock  -74 per cent Starling  -71 per cent Turtle dove  -71 per cent Song thrush  -56 per cent Bullfinch  -53 per cent  Skylark  -52 per cent Cuckoo  -33 per cent

Bhagavad Gita 16.9.

Lord Krishna tells us  how to recognise the work of those with demoniac  mentality

…”.the demons, lost to themselves, and with no real intelligence, engage in unbeneficial ,horrible works meant to destroy the world.”

THE DEMONS DESTROY LIFE …Bhagavad Gita..

Such are the characteristics of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who indeed is the master and maintainer of billions of universes , He is situated in the hearts in countless of trillions of living entities , but is also situated outside…., ..Einstein coined the phrase ” spooky action at a distance ” but actually Krishna is such a wonderful personality that He becomes immediately responsive and submissive to the love given freely by the tiniest part of the consciousness creation , ie ..the souls ,perhaps something like the sun being submissive to a photon of light .

As the Beatles once sang …all you need is love .

The real exhibition of this unwavering love is exhibited by the residents of Vraja …..where spontaneous love is found between Krishna and His different devotees in various rasas.

If the unlimited can not make himself known to the limited He is not unlimited.

Srila Sridhar swami. Gaudia math .

Godhead overwhelmed by love

Srimad Bhagavatam contains.the .Sruti .Smriti. Tantra and Purana.
Jiva Goswami has accepted this authority as bone fide epistemology , and anything outside of those will not be transparent truth , but at the most , mixed speculations that may  or may not bring one close to understanding absolute truth , a truth spoken in the Bhagavad Gita, by Lord Kṛṣṇa,  and subsequently in the Srimad Bhagavatam and in the Caitanya Caritamrta . This is regarded as the postgraduate study of Gaudia sampradaya teaching.
Anything calculated utilising the 5  the 5 and the 3 will be tainted with material calculations, and it will forever fall within the conditioned modes of material nature., that being 5 knowledge acquiring senses , 5 active senses and the 3 … mind , intelligence, and false ego .

Trancendental topics are described as Pure Subdha brahman , knowledge in suddha sattva or pure goodness, untainted by lust , anger ,greed envy, and illusion pertaining to the body .
Such Trancendental vibrations are being empowered by Divinity and are of the same nature as the absolute . Divinity is always attributed to the teachings of the genuine Sadhus,  Guru’s, and Sastra of the Bramha Gaudia sampradaya . Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has begun to present these topics to a western audience, and his son Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja the spiritual master took matters further , and Srila A.C.BHAKTIVEDANTA Swami , Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja disciple ,  has taken all these matters and has made all our acaryas  teachings accessible and understandable to a world wide  audience.

While pantheism asserts that “all is God”, panentheism claims that God is greater than the universe.

Gaudia Tattva .
God is both the universe and not the universe , thus the full truth of Divinity is given in the Srimad Bhagavatam.

The following explains how different parts of the Vedas , that are  indirectly connected to ultimate spiritual emotions have been utilised by the great trancendental scholar Srila Rupa Goswami.

Bharat muni  completed his Natya sastra , a study of the rasa of mundane love.
Srila Rupa Gosvami adopted some of the rasa explanation  of Bharat Muni to explain the origins of unlimited rasa  of the spiritual realm from the reflected version that we find in the material worlds , both  in higher , middle and lower planetary systems explained in the fith Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam.  Rupa Goswami intentions were  to give some hint of spiritual rasas and  tastes  of  a spiritual body with spiritual mind ,intelligence and spiritual senses.
So  the technical sneha , mana ,  pranaya , raga , anuraga and bhava principles are explained  by Bharat Muni  and adopted by Rupa Goswami but minus the further and higher realms of pure prem and  mahabhava…that higher explanation of rasa is  introduced by Rupa Goswami to take the subject beyond the conception of material rasa  that can be experienced to a limited degree and is bringing us to the unlimited trancendental rasa displayed in Vraj , wherein the 64 excellences of spiritual unlimited qualities are displayed which are ever increasing and are ever new .

The Epistemology and etymology of the Srimad Bhagavatam….what is acceptable, what is rejected and how languages of trancendental realsions are inspired from within and given as a gift of Divinity…

All the above categories can be properly thought of in context.

Not all men are at the stage of pure devotional service to the Lord .

Some have devotional attitudes mixed with many other motives , political or personal , which are naturally reflected in societies religions

Birds of feathers flock together. The Vedas incorperate all these motivated persons and pure persons into four categories and bring connections between them all .

Karma yoga …jnana yoga …astanga yoga and pure Bhakti Yoga..

Each of the four categories have many subdivisions .

The person Bhagavat in disciplic succession and who is extremely well versed in the Vedas , taking into account time place and circumstances will be able to give a thorough analysis of all these topics .

Krishna says in 7th chapter of Bhagavad Gita..

TEXT 16: O best among the Bhāratas, four kinds of pious men begin to render devotional service unto Me – the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute.

TEXT 17: Of these, the one who is in full knowledge and who is always engaged in pure devotional service is the best. For I am very dear to him, and he is dear to Me.TEXT 18: All these devotees are undoubtedly magnanimous souls, but he who is situated in knowledge of Me I consider to be just like My own self. Being engaged in My transcendental service, he is sure to attain Me, the highest and most perfect goal.TEXT 19: After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.TEXT 20: Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.

It’s is absolutely vital to find a pure representative of God , the person Bhagavat , because he can correctly assess someone who claims purity ….there are many who pose as devotees who are actually demons .

Thus the checks and balances are needed …ie ..Guru , sadhu , Sastra .

The pure teachers , other pure teachers from the past and present, and the scriptures with Sruti and Smriti understandings will help us .

But equally, we should identity and avoid those that will do us harm.

This is what Krishna tells us in Bhagavad Gita.

Chapter 16, Verse 13-15

The demoniac person thinks: So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in the future, more and more. He is my enemy, and I have killed him; and my other enemy will also be killed. I am the lord of everything, I am the enjoyer, I am perfect, powerful and happy. I am the richest man, surrounded by aristocratic relatives. There is none so powerful and happy as I am. I shall perform sacrifices, I shall give some charity, and thus I shall rejoice. In this way, such persons are deluded by ignorance.

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Protestant , Catholic , Suni , Shiiat , Zionist Rabbi , Smarta Brahmana ,of a cast system or the truth  of  by quality not birth.

“How is it I am to understand that you taught yogic principles to the sungod , he is senior in birth than you ?” This question is posed in forth chapter , and details of sacrifice , yoga, and the benefits of working in this world in compliance with the Vedas is mentioned.

In detail from chapter 7 onwards, the science of matter , mind, and consciousness are explained .

Krishna begins to explain His Godhood and His supreme dominion over all beings and His laws of all science , after Arjuna asks him the following question.

Never mind ” your religion or my religion……all religion in its true sense emnates from Divinity , provided its followed correctly.  Truth can be ascertained by Brahminical men or women  , you will find such honest representations in all religions   , alongside those who seek to misrepresent truth , for their own ends .

Four classes of men and women… descriptions given are given in Bhagavad Gita.

The key is to make sure we are led and guided by truthful men who are in knowledge and are detached from external circumstances .

The quality of such persons are clearly described in most scriptures.

Most definitely, we don’t want business persons or politicians to run our affairs….they cheat , tell lies, and bring disasters in many, many ways…

Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, wisdom, knowledge, and religiousness-these are the qualities by which the Brahminical persons work.

The 11th canto of Srimad Bhagavatam… chapter 21 gives us a hint of relatively and absolutes .

Within the configuration of the teachings contained in the Vedas , one will most definitely find the totality of all philosophical thinking , religious thinking , ..as well as a very broad general guide for systematically progressing everyone’s lives . At its heart, you’ll find social mobility  , overall wellbeing , and well-adjusted practical and scientific solutions to life problems , both in absolute and relative terms , and alongside that , deep richly sourced esoteric truths for an advanced practitioner , that are elaborated upon by the six Goswamis of Vrndavana , who were taught by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Luke Cassey from the intelligent design movement says ..

Critics wrongly charge that ID is just a negative argument against evolution, that ID makes no predictions, that it is a “god of the gaps” argument from ignorance, or that appealing to an intelligent cause means “giving up” or “stopping science.” These charges are misguided. 

Ironically, when critics claim that research is not permitted to detect design because that would stop science, it is they who hold science back by preventing scientists from investigating the scientific theory of intelligent design. When researchers are allowed to infer intelligent agency as the best explanation for information-rich structures in nature, this opens up many avenues of discovery that are bearing good fruit in the scientific community.

Here is the option of Bhagavad-Gita. Spoken by Lord Krishna..

Chapter 9: The Most Confidential Knowledge

TEXT 10

mayadhyaksena prakrtih
suyate sa-caracaram
hetunanena kaunteya
jagad viparivartate

SYNONYMS

TRANSLATION

This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kunté, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.

The founder of ISKCON AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada would have very much appreciated the work of the Discovery Institute in bringing relevant easy to understand scientific information to society at large .

The citations of the scientific community,  full of subjectivity and not really addressing objective facts , when it comes to the origins of life that are pointed out by honest scientific  community members , society  as a  whole owes them a great deal , they risk their scientific livelihoods , as academic circles seek to limit what they say and withdraw facilities.

The whole thrust and directions of civilised society will ultimately change when real science is presented because real science means intellgent design,  nyaya logic explains what conclusions logically should be drawn .

Intelligent design must always be seen as logical. When you see smoke ….you know there is fire .. When you see information and codes , you know that in your experience, it comes from consciousness..

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Scientific materialism is nothing new , in the sense that the Greek philosophical thinkers were both discussing atomism and dualism , in otherwords those like Plato and Socrates who understood mind and matter to be totally different substances and those like Democritus who believed the world is only made up of atoms and the mind is simply neurons firing and that causes mind and consciousness.

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