Free will simply put is….do you want to love and appreciate Divinity and His associates and become intimately united in His affairs giving your life to love ? Love can be either mixed with various degrees of awe and reverence or it can be completely spontaneous with no formalities.
Or do you want to deny Divinity and His spontaneous love for you , and live independently of Him , and somewhat selfishly to one degree or another.
The residents of Vrndavana featured in the tenth Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam , and particularly the Gopies and Srimati Radharani, demonstrate an absolute platform of spontaneous love .
Elsewhere in the Bhagavatam, the residents of Dwarka demonstrate love mixed with awe and reverence.
Srila Rupa Gosvami has written on topics of love very elaborately, and to understand love and free will, one should read his works .
The Bhagavatam discriminates between an intelligentsia that are worth following in matters of social development, sciences of all kinds , economics , philosophy & religion . The top most of the intelligentsia are able to distinguish matter from consciousness , persons unable to do so are the highest of the Brahminical intelligensia, but can be classed as learned Vipras , who are scholars in various feilds, and who always work under the direction of self realised Brahminical persons .
The Srimad Bhagavatam contained many references to the proper adjustments to societies. It indicates that we have to understand academics alongside realized knowledge of the origins of consciousness. In that way, know what is clearly entanglements , illusion and deceit against what is knowledge , knowledge of knowledge and ignorance side by side , is essential . There are two energies functioning , matter, and consciousness in this existence. In philosophy, this is technically called dualism .
Unless one understands these truths , any knowledge one may have is like so many zeros , and limits one in a real progressive path of lifes ultimate purpose and potential
When one is added to zeros, then substantially comes about , the fundermental principles of material nature are elaborated upon in the third canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam.
Srila Sarasvati Thakura said “that it is imperative not only to elucidate the truth but also to criticize anything false, because in Kali-yuga there is so much false propaganda that we have to be very clear; there cannot be any ambiguity in our message:”
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness follows this principle, because its founder AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is a direct disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami.
Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami mostly concentrated his preaching work in India ,pulling apart falsehood in Hinduism that had built up over generations, and presenting the original meaning of the Vedas ,as well as the relatively contemporary teachings by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu of the real goals of the Vedas.
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada came to the west ,and in the same spirit, challenging religions who do follow correctly, as well.as political parties who have corrupted democracies or unsavoury connections to business persons who lobby political parties . He essentially called out cheaters and rascals and especially called out scientific teachers and the general scientific community who present speculation and guesses as fact based science, its not ,Dr Richard Thompson or Sadaputa prabhu, was a member of the Bhagavatam institute. The scientific wing of ISKCON, sadly, he passed away a few years ago but go to YouTube, and all His scientific and extremely informative films and lectures can be viewed .
The famous teacher of Gaudia Vaisnavism, Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja, challenged just about everything about Hinduism , as he sought to correct generations of continued misunderstandings of the Vedas , the establishment dispised him .
Nevertheless, a bold spiritual or political leader , if he or she is a real leader , and not a paid servant duty , and not controlled by lobby groups, is absolutely duty bound to speak truth , and set an example of dutifully carrying out service ,Krishna or Divinity has responsibility because over many many generations values can change so much that truths can be left behind and societies deteriorates as every one becomes subjected to self centred untruths , thus Divinity carries out His responsibilities and comes again and again to set societies straight , He comes personally or sends inspiration pure persons , who are always listened to .
There is no compromise when it comes to absolute truth ,but certainly, there are different approaches and practices and rates of understanding this truth , depending on a person’s state of consciousness or where they are situated in their practical lives.
The Vedas is so very very broad that all discord is harmonized, great knowledgeable teachers who know how to apply the Vedas to individual persons or societies are needed and this is one of the activities , on going , of the members of the International Society for Krishna consciousness, who have been tasked by their inspirational leader and founder to do so . There is no room for personal vanity or sentiments based on imperfect senses or catering to weakness of character .
The Vedic political systems are very much situated in the middle ground , in the sense that all members of societies are understood in psychological ways , and everyone is valued and key to a thriving society. Political leaders in Vedic culture always seek advice from Brahminical persons, who know scientifically a body mind and consciousness, and Vipras who have specialisations in specific fields , so this was all arranged for all citizens and social mobility and progressive paths were in place for everyone . ISKCON is destined to greatly influence the world in good time , bit by bit , persons will gain wisdom of the Vedas and see its values for living in todays world.
Divinity is a multidimensional personality. He has expanded His energies into the trillions of universes. But He remains outside of them . He is in His fullness within every single atom along with His connections to His whole creation , but also simultaneously lives outside in His fullness . Thus, within the atoms are also trillions of universes and total existence . How can this be ? Once the engineer of this universe came to see Krishna , Krishna servant said Lord Bramha’s arrived , Krishna immediately said, “Which Bramha ? ” Bramha’s puzzlement at why Krishna asked this question was solved , when Krishna brought all the Bramha’s from millions of universes before Him , in the one room He was sitting in , some had thousands of ” heads ” some had less .
The third Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam, the chapter entitled the fundermental principles of material nature, there is a discussion on this topic, and one can delve into it the multidimensional personality of Krishna.
The principle of our limited senses are discussed, for instance we cannot see radio waves or certain frequency of light , we cannot hear certain sound pitches ,and generally we cannot read minds , although some people can .
The inconceivable and simultaneously oneness & difference of Divinity and His multidimensional existence should be accepted and contemplated , we should understand just how great God is and understand the energies and the energetic source . We, of course, can not expect that our insights and sence perception are the same as everyone’s , some persons have greater insights , and in Bhagavad Gita krishna who has the greatest of insights is telling us about them , our duty is to try to understand the inconceivable nature of Divinity, who expands his unlimited sweetness are stands before us like an ordinary person .
The destination of a Darwinian is obviously to accept another material body. Actually, two forms of evolution are accepted. Micro evolution, according to environmental changes ,and an evolution of consciousness,traversing throughout the universe in different bodies ,high ,low and mediocre, which can culminate in seeing the true equality of all living things , and from that platform advance further in consciousness to understand the supreme personality of Godhead and His consciousness, which is eternal bliss and knowledge, sat cit ananda
A recent BBC narrative. That mental health in young people is due to poor education results .
Actually, it’s due to society selling the narrative unless you have good academics, you’re a failure . In reality, there are numerous things causing these mental health problems . Social media is the prime candidate , with ever increasing artificial stimulus and unrealistic expectations of what is a happy life , taught in 99% of the time by people who are clueless , and who themselves repeat narratives.
The Darwinian narrative is another cause of a sense of hopelessness for some , not understanding that theologically and philosophically the mind is an ever changing substance that can and should be trained to become one’s friend. Based on a deep sense of well-being within everyone.
Personal habits of excess in meat eating , drinking and drugs, and Liberal and promiscuous sex , that is plastered all over the internet, especially add to the woes of the mind .
Other complications such as family lives being disrupted by Liberal views on , self first , duty later , to eager to promote changing partners ,without considering the effects on children, or even people’s own lives is another malady , obviously there may be differences in relationships, but first work hard to resolve them , through a sence of higher duties. And obviously many, many more reasons for poor mental health could be given .
The Vedas indicate previous unhealthy and insulting exchanges with other people, either physical violence or mental violence and verbal offensive behaviour, will ultimately do harm to mental health in the long run .
So ,BBC , get real , if your going to run a story , run it throughly and not thoughtlessly.
By the unlimited mercy of the unlimited, the limited can begin to know something of the unlimited, AC BhaktivedantaSwami writes in his Bhagavatam purport.
We can also add the unlimited conditioning imposed on the limited by the unlimited becomes limited and eventually ceases , by mercy above justice.
Mercy above justice is important and is practised by truly civilised countries and cultures and obviously by Divinity Himself , the pastimes of Krishna and Indra, one obvious exactly amongst many others , Indra lost his composure and became intoxicated with pride, and attempted to destroy Vrndavana with incessant rain .
The unbalanced passionate and judicially naive , who have no real sense of advanced culture and who are not familiar as properly trained lawyers and judges are , have obvious unbalanced and insensitive ways of understanding the purpose of justice or how applying carefully is essential . There are currently and most unfortunately many such characters on the internet who consider themselves as good as barristers, they generally practice Judge , jury, and executioner principles . They greatly encourage themselves giving a public portrayal of themselves with far superior morals and ethics than most , which they like to display , whilst condemning persons with other opinions who may be interested in applying judicial matters the ways this Harvard Prof recommend.
“Nationally recognized as an author and expert on criminal justice, Natapoff said that the law is often about choices. She urged the graduating students to think hard about the choices they make. “You can do justice with law; you can also do injustice. There is nothing inherently moral or good about law or about being a lawyer. Some laws are good, and some are terrible. Some lawyers lift up and save people, and some lawyers crush them. The point is that it’s up to you, and it is your choice.”
“Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustices I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
When we speak of justice, one requires a cool detached and experienced head. Thus, in the great cultures throughout history, the intelligentsia always were given a seat to supervise and administer judicial matters.
I say to Western media of all kinds , your ill-informed narrative about Russian aggression can be stopped in its tracks by one interview with scholars and the intelligentsia. John Mearsheimer or Jonathan Sachs , a start . Kindly stop peddling lies for political purposes under the guise of independent thoughtful journalism.
Putin has no intentions of expanding Russian territory rather his intentions are to protect Russian culture and for the West to keep to agreements of not expanding Natto, the private army of USA , up to its borders .
Listen to John Mearsheimer he knows the history and facts, Biden and USA politics which has been infiltrated by Globalists will do whatever it takes to service its 1 trillion interest repayments on its debt mountain including destroying countries and their peoples .
“You can not hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.” – Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Krishna or Divinity says in Bhagavad Gita , He has the responsibility to guide societies, He does this throughout the history of the universe in many many ways either directly or indirectly.
Persons who are learned and of good character help inspire those who have yet to develop their character and learning. By learning, we don’t mean solely academics , but something much more profound.
There are always learned persons in societies, and the failings of democracy, it seems, is that they are pushed into the background or even as is today’s case silenced on important issues, and rather than the Brahminical class and learned Vipras influencing populations we have 5th grade men , who have no idea what long term harm they are causing . Generally, in democratic society, unfortunately, the ruthless Buisness man has been pushed to the head of society, and the real intelligentsia are silenced .
The founder of ISKCON said he has come to the west to form an intelligent class of men who know the in’s and out’s of body mind and consciousness and the origins of consciousness , that being Divinity Himself , known in the Vedas as Visnu or Krishna . The sound vibration of such divinely inspired persons gradually permeates the atmosphere and, in time, influence is brought to bear on the demoniac dark energies , so join in the good vibrations . Sound is the origin of the material creation. It can change the ether , the very subtle thinking of mankind.