When on the battlefield of Kuruksetra, at the beginning of Bhagavad Gita,  Arjuna was  initially not prepared to fight, and in  the early parts of the Bhagavad Gita, one can read of why and the seemingly good reasons he gave Krishna .

Arjuna became bewildered because he had to consider every type of moral and ethical behaviour,  as a good warrior does , a good soldier is not a cold ruthless killer , and certainly will not kill women and children or citizens. Warfare is a tricky business, and many considerations should be made .Arjuna turned to Krishna and submitted himself ,  he asked Krishna what he should do and why it would be the right course of action to fight . Arjuna importantly and  obviously had initial faith that Krishna would give him good advice .

At the point Arjuna turned to Krishna and submitted himself in honesty and with humility Krishna took up the position as Arjuna’s spiritual Guru and thus  chastised Arjuna calling him Mudha , a fool , for thinking he was speaking learned words in giving the reasons why he was not prepared to fight . Krishna began to  point out his lack of real knowledge both materially and spiritually , in terms of what consciousness is , what duty is, and what morality of the highest order is . Spiritual consciousness and its development are always a priority, and Arjuna was only calculating things  to satisfy his own limited interests.

The important point here is that Arjuna initially turns to Krishna with faith and waits and is prepared to hear from Krishna .

After hearing from Krishna, who cleared up all  his misconceptions, Bhagavad Gita makes every clear to everyone, Arjuna intelligently surrendered WITHOUT  RESERVATIONS , and he spoke as follows

Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ultimate abode, the purest, the Absolute Truth. You are the eternal, transcendental, original person, the unborn, the greatest. All the great sages such as Nārada, Asita, Devala and Vyāsa confirm this truth about You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me.

This full surrender without reservations is required when it comes to  taking Sri Guru.  who comes in many forms , both Diksa and Siksa . Sadhu Sastra, after proper surrender and services, can be also consider as non different than Krishna or  Guru . Whether Diksa or Sisksa ,and in particular the highest sense of Siksa of the higher Madhyama or Uttama,  can not be doubted , he can be questioned, but we must be prepared to accept his answers.

It might take time to understand Sri Guru but we must be patient and Krishna will help us , but a bone fide Guru as Krishna was to Arjuna , explains everything logically with reference to authority , such a Uttama Guru can be and should be surrender to without reservation.

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Lord Krishna decends to this material plane very rarely . He enjoys  beautiful spiritual pastimes in Vrndavana. Displays of pure spiritual love are on full  show , and a Supreme artistry of relationship is exhibited ,  thus, the greatness of His ecstatic  personality is fully displayed in every conceivable way . He is known as Rasaraja . He decends to this material plane and  occasionally has to deal with  disturbing elements of the Demons , who envy the  trancendental goodness of pure relationships .
Similarly, Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared over 500 years ago  to relish Krishna’s magnificent pastimes and, importantly, to teach us also the means and methods to do so . Mahaprabhu also had to deal with some of the disturbing elements that opposed the  truths of spiritual bliss and  instead sought to  introduce speculations or deviations by misrepresentation of the Vedas . Those who failed to understand the greater purposes of the Vedas , that is likened to a  great reservoir,  that the  small ponds fail to emulate.
The preaching activities of Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami follow these examples in both relishing rasa and in pointing out the fools and rascals who pose themselves as learned as scientists or leading political figures but who cheat . The scientific community implies ” We know the answers  to all the big questions  its all very clear by our calculations.” And imposter political leaders , who are puppies of conglomerates, make endless promises they know they won’t keep .  ISKCON business is in challenging the political classes who have introduced “demon crazy,” i.e., so-called democracy that brings the crooked business man to power and silences the intelligentsia.
Those  following Gaudia Vaisnavas, who try to relish rasa as written of by Rupa Ragganatha Goswami’s and others, and who try to point out the work of the demons are following correctly the Gaudia vaisnava param para .

It should be carefully noted ..

The daily study of Bhagavad Gita is essential, especially to the preacher , philosopher , deep thinker, or any politically minded person . Socialist who study social sciences or scientists of all descriptions should be understood by the preachers and the antithesis to modern society presented. Bhagavad Gita covers every topic . It gives a summary or outline,  everything is systematically presented . Answer to all inquiries are  given by Lord Krishna . We could say any questions that anyone might pose will be   given answers  . There are no questions left unanswered, and further details of answers are elaborated upon throughout the Srimad Bhagavatam .  The established param para acaryas commentaries are like   elaborations of the Bhagavatam , namely the Smriti .  Written by Srila Rupa Goswami , Srila Ragganatha das Goswami , Srila Jiva Goswami , and Srila Sanantan Goswami and also written by  their following can be accessed .
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It is demonstrated in the Vedas that Krishna develops the desire to help others, and that might be expressed in many many   ways .

The Jivas have always been, but it can be understood they are ” expressed ” or “manifested” from Krishna.  As Srila Jiva Goswami in Tattva Sandarbha says, Krishna is  inconceivably making the impossible possible. The living beings are simultaneously and inconceivably one and different , this is how the philosophers of Gaudia Vaisnavism explain these truths . It appears and is my  understanding that some of the Jivas originate  from Maha Sankarsana , and some from Mula Sankarsan, some of  those who appear from Maha Sankarsan, are unable to reach out in  spontaneous love with Krishna. 

Maha Sankarsan then at a point manifests as Mahavisnu  ,  He  displays a  helping mood of the Lord , consequently  I would posit , Maha Visnu takes those Jivas from the tastasta brahman , who could not spontaneously love Krishna and who are stationed in the spiritual impersonal energies . Those  who originated from Maha Sankarsan . Because God  is all-knowing and wants to help them understand the feelings of relationships and rasa , He  gives  facilities for activities,  because they can not act spontaneously in love with Him directly they act materially

 “A pencil of light “, that I believe Srila Narayana Maharaja refers as the Jivas entering into Maya …from Sambu, sounds like they are arriving from somewhere , 

In that sense, Krishna as Maha Visnu is  manifesting and arranging the facilities and the ultimate rescue of the Jivas with His rectification programme that can take endless cycles. The Maha kalpa .

 Visnu appears in many incarnations to rectify and attract the lost souls .

In that way, Maha Visnu remains a functional form who exhibits the facilities, but  from Him come  other incarnations come to help the jiva .

Jiva Goswami indicates in the Tattva Sandarbha the Jiva is the cause of the material universes by their desire ,  Sadaputa would refer to a responsive universe,  with  many possibilities , akin to quantum physics. 

In that way  the origins of some of the  jivas are from Maha Sankarsan and then Maha Visnu Via Sambu  ,who  brings the tatasta jivas who cannot directly love Krishna , into the material realms to fulfil their independence and help them understand and  ultimately regain their original purpose. Its difficult to understand how God would impose death on Jivas without they themselves making a choice for false independence. 

Another question arises,  can Mahavisnu expand jivas , some of which can directly enter the spiritual realms, ?

 I believe He does not play that role 

Srila BR  Sridhar Swami ,  gives some references to the origins via tatasta and Brahman And Srila Gour Govinda Swami quotes Bhagavatam purport 4.30 .5 

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THE Cheaters and the cheated

If we teach our school children , science that is equivalent to saying effectively one billion monkeys in one billion years on one billion typewriters will complete perfectly 5 pages of a Shakespeare script including the punctuations and gaps between the words would be lying to them .?

( the unguided random events in the supposed mutational process that caused speciation is teaching the billion monkey example as fact based science )..but in our experience codes and information don’t by chance form by themselves , and would you be able to open a bike lock by chance with 26 rollers .

If we teach children that by our intelligent and scientific objective observations its apparant the physical world which operates most definitely according to fixed laws and is highly ordered , then we would be teaching truth ……and as Sir Fred Hoyle said ” it looks apparent someone has monkeyed with the universe,” teaching logical truth using scientific rationale , is the Vedic way .

Why is it we allow our children to be so cheated in the 21st century, particularly when modern scientific methods that peer into the microbial world see things so clearly .
Do we live in a world of the cheaters and the cheated , as Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami once said .
Importantly, if one’s main calculations are skew whiff every other calculations will be , after all 1+1=1 , if we calculate 1+1=3, every other mathematical calculation will be incorrect .The importance of getting scientific observations correct are imperative, the whole world veiw and one’s very existence can be dominated , the Darwinian world led by scientific materialism has huge implications for how we run the world or treat the people and creatures who live with us , priorities are different, the human is not a sophisticated animal the Vedas says .
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Maya Sakti is one of the energies of the Lord , its an energy that entraps the self seeking souls, but not the spiritual self , rather the selfish self who in one way or another wants to take a stand of being an independent enjoyer .He is actually a theif because the energies he seeks to enjoy dont belong to him . The original proprietor and the original enjoyer gives a spectacular display of full enjoyment and is most capable of fully satifying all others , sharing enjoyment with the utmost care , unlimited capabilites and a fully open heart are permanently on show .
Taking the position of God , who shares His life fully with others, is foolhardy and absolutely impossible. Those who presume to take that artificial position automatically find themselves within the Maya Sakti and become completely lost to truth and within ignorance , i.e., ignoring God .
Srila Jiva Goswami in His Bhagavat Sandarbha discusses the Maya Sakti and also the superior Svarupa Sakti within which the illusion is finally broken and bliss in every relationship which increases exponentially with no limit can be arrived at
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Re waves and particles and the dual energies of atoms …
The Vedas would say .. something along these lines ….(.3rd Canto of the Bhagavatam , AC Bhaktivedanta Swami says , the connections between desire , actions and actuality should be deeply studies scientifically certainly Bohr and Schrödinger did , they are said to have been interested in Vedic texts . )

The Vedas remind us in the Bramha Samita that the material energies are situated and devolved from the light of the Bramhajyoti .
As the observer of matter , it’s not just your observation but the way you observe , the observer is entangled by his or her subtle energies affected by the past and present observations . Observations come along with contemplations as well as the willingness to act, and the body provides the powers of actions .Those actions are to determine how the wave like or particle like atoms become the actual defined particle form of a future , as such alloted atoms are bestowed they bring the compounds and elements you are meant for and wished for or worked for . This is Ai on a universal scale , but just as Ai has a programming team , and so to your destined life
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Material matrix, and universal affairs

The never-ending cycles of a material matrix and universal dreams

Einstein spoke of the space time continuum.  This also parallels  Vedic scientific truths. The journeys of the individual particles of consciousness , the  soul , and the consequences of their own desires and actions . A self-propelled journey ,  within the total material energies of a multiuniversal universe , that they were injected into  utalising the  God-given free will . The original choice was made by each individual , God did not make it for them . God given free will also means ” free wont ” Free wont means ,  by his or her own endeavour controls the demands of the mind and senses that are imploring us to act ..In materialism we are subjected to bodily and mental demands , they must be overcome. This is the beginning of a  disciplined life and a way out of the universal entanglements.

Re space time in Vedic terms.

The past is affecting the present , and the present will affect the future and curiously enough also the past on some occasions , because by sacrifice and penance, your bad reactions may not arrive.

Ultimately, it’s said in the Vedas that the independent life of the living beings , who are in reality completely dependent on Divinity for everything , has been awarded,  given, or   sanctioned by Divinity . The power to act or have restrictions placed on one are calculated according to previous interactions within a  particular beings’  universal journeying Indeed, Divinity Himself, it’s told in the Vedas, has to give the impetus , and the help, and intelligence for the living beings to enter into the material machine like body and take up his tiny artificial and temporary material life .It’s an artificial life, and the soul remains in a lot of ways aloof . Everything is  happening under the watch of the supersoul , or as the Christian says , Holy Ghost.  Such are the complexities of the material matrix that Divinity Himself has to inspire the living  directly or indirectly, of how to utilise life and become a first-class  independent enjoyer . Divinity can liberate us or condition us , He follows our desire and facilitates us .He can take us to Heaven or Hell or the spiritual kingdoms. Hell means lower species generally.

So, the multidimensional space time entanglements are first enacted by Divinity , this is elaborated upon by Srila Jiva Goswami in his Bhagavat Sandarbha,  with that in mind and considering  what Shakespeare said ,” life is like a stage , we are actors ,”  who is to say that , the 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s  and all of  those  inconsequential activities that took place , that are inconsequential when compared to the eternal energies , are not constantly  being played out somewhere within the multidimensional universes . After all, how many planets are in our universe, and according to the Vedas,  there are countless universes .

The inconceivable energies and consciousness of Divinity have to be accepted as a reality before one can progress in knowledge of Divinity and His workings . One has to admit one is firmly in the grips of His energies…The Darwinian hypothesis has to be shed …Everything is happening by the supreme desire of Divinity , this consciousness is scientifically a fact and much objective calculations  and observations can be made

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Sometimes subjective scientific materialism or subjective Darwinian hypothesis pose themselves as something credible and factual . However in the face of an objective reality, that is especially now being demonstrated by new objective scientific progress that utilises modern technologies, like for example peering into one individual cell , at that point inferior subjective speculations that have in the past been presented as facts are shown for what they are .  The subjective scientific ” facts ” are no longer able to distort  self evident truths , rather, those that use illusion and speculation to destroy truth become destroyed .
Srimad Bhagavatam points this out here….

“As the darkness of snow on a dark night and the light of a glowworm in the light of day have no value, the mystic power of an inferior person who tries to use it against a person of great power is unable to accomplish anything; instead, the power of that inferior person is diminished.”
10.13.45 .
Purport
When one wants to supersede a superior power, one’s own inferior power becomes ludicrous. Just as a glowworm in the daytime and snow at night have no value .

End .

Srila Jiva Goswami also discusses in his Tattva Sandarbha how a truth supersedes something inferior.

Truth leads to knowledge.

Within each community, you find a community within that specific community and another within that community and a community within that community . In fact, there are communities within communities ad infinitum . When one is conscious of speciation in all their capacities and their communities within other communities, the full picture can be understood,  life and consciousness is everywhere are being facilitated by a facilitator
The supreme personality of Godhead is fully conscious of each community and as well each individual of those communities.
This he discussed in Bhagavad Gita 13.3
The saints see equally all beings and see the relevance and importance of all communities .
Thus in Vedic Cultures only a person in knowledge can guide and direct societies not those in ignorance, who ignore the importance of all communities ,  there is a purpose to all community and there is an origin of all community.
The Srimad Bhagavatam tells all
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Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur was a magistrate who worked for the British Raja for some time in his life during the later part of the 19th century. He  was also a  prolific writer and philosopher  in his youthful days . As he grew older, he became more and more drawn to the teachings of Gaudia Vaisnavism and particularly the conclusions that were  presented by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Mahaprabhu brought new insights into the mysterious and wonderful lives of the Gopies of Vrndavana and  revealed to the world the supreme position of Srimati Radharani.

At first, Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur was puzzled about the great Caitanya Mahāprabhu,  who was known to be a great scholar and Pandit, He was  most definitely a first-class scholar who could, for instance, explain the Srimad Bhagavatam Atmarama verse in 108 ways which astounded all the Vedic intelligentsia. The Thakur thought it , at least initially strange that later in Mahāprabhu’s life , He had  became so  absorbed in meditations and pastimes of Lord Krishna in Vrndavana, those of Sri Sri  Radha Krishna which appeared , at least  externally as being quite  immoral , Srila BR Sridhar Swami tells us .

Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja , the son of Srila Bhaktivinod , himself was once was questioned  by Lord Suthers  , who was a British government minister  in the early part of the 20th century . Lord Suthers made the point in a question, ” That your Lord Krishna appears to be quite immoral. How is it that He is worshipped as God ? ”  Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja gave the perfect answer ……that Lord Krishna’s activities in Vrndavana were a display of the highest morality.

There are two verses in the Srimad Bhagavatam scriptures that need understanding in depth along with their  purpose . When one is able , after much  practice of devotional life and by the causeless mercy of a devotee of Sri Caitanya , understand these two verses  the mysterious nature of Gaudia Vaisnavism may  open up .

First verse is …

CC Madhyama 11.8

niṣkiñcanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya
pāraṁ paraṁ jigamiṣor bhava-sāgarasya
sandarśanaṁ viṣayiṇām atha yoṣitāṁ ca
hā hanta hanta viṣa-bhakṣaṇato ’py asādhu

Translation

Greatly lamenting, the Lord then informed Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, “ ‘Alas, for a person who is seriously desiring to cross the material ocean and engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord without material motives, seeing a materialist engaged in sense gratification or seeing a woman who is similarly interested is more abominable than drinking poison willingly.’ ”

Then .

ŚB 10.33.39

vikrīḍitaṁ vraja-vadhūbhir idaṁ ca viṣṇoḥ
śraddhānvito ’nuśṛṇuyād atha varṇayed yaḥ
bhaktiṁ parāṁ bhagavati pratilabhya kāmaṁ
hṛd-rogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ

Translation

Anyone who faithfully hears or describes the Lord’s playful affairs with the young gopīs of Vṛndāvana will attain the Lord’s pure devotional service. Thus, he will quickly become sober and conquer lust, the disease of the heart.

One should consult the mature Gaudia Vaisnava about these two verses and their mysteries and how the two verses can be reconciled.

It is a fact in current times liberalism has run wild , so practically speaking, how can one properly practice spiritual life in the Western world.

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Goswami Maharaja gave several instructions. He would say all the beautiful ladies who are most definitely very attractive in this world have temporarily borrowed plumes from a higher realm  that in this world time eradicates . Such a reflection of an eternal reality finds its perfection in a spiritual plane only .

Ultimately, the Srimad Bhagavatam teaches us  in spiritual life, there are  no voids  but rather everything there  is full of beauty and spiritual varigatedness and that Krishna is  the Supreme Autocrat and He  unlimitedly shares  trancendental bliss and beauty in unlimitedly in numerous ways.

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If you go walking in the countryside today you are unlikely to hear many birds,  as the  proverbial saying  goes ” not a dickie bird ” or hardly any .

What happened to the greenfinch,  the chaffinch,  the skylark , the woodpecker,  the swifts and swallow,  the blackbird or the song thrush.

Do the governments  care , do the global conglomerates care , does anyone even think its a problem,  after all as long as we have our mobile phones and our  internet connections the world can go to hell ,and if people are being killed in wars …Well as long as its not on our doorstep.

The fools vote in fools , the intelligent select good leadership,  what does the current state of the world say for our education system?

Time to educate , but education based on objective science and the working  of mind , matter and consciousness.

The Darwinian and scientific materialism education systems fail the world, as does extremists who assume they understand the theological teachings of their set religions .

The real Intelligentsia should be sought , who understands  self-evident truths , once one knows one thing well, everything is known .

Bhagavad Gita is a training manual for the consciousness…

The Vedic therapeutic paths to perfect life .
Are all described in the Bhagavad Gita as it is .
Krishna is the greatest of psychological Proffesors , and the material world is the great training ground . There is a flavour of perfection in everything. The reflection always shows something of reality.
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains all in his explanations , specifically targeted at the Western audience.

Understanding and loving God and thus all of His creation and His parts and parcels is needed .

If you want to see God, you must have no other interest other than God . If you have other interests, you’ll see only His illusory energies.
Love works like that , a person in deep deep love cannot think of anything other than his or her lover .
When the mother sees the tiny slippers of her child , she immediately feels love in her heart .
The Srimad Bhagavatam gives an extremely thorough explanation of what love
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