Spiritual …..Material……a land of love or a land of lust .
Spiritual life means soul to soul , ever new , relationships , absent are , atoms , elements, compounds , self centred lust , anger , greed ,envy madness in all its forms and illusions in all their forms . The movements of time causing the material gross and suble energy to break do not operate in the higher spiritual realms, where varigatedness, beauty , bliss and artistry is fully exhibited . Love and unlimited attractions play out beyond matter , which gives a flickering selfish experience of the reality of existence. The spiritual emotions and their reactions on the spiritual senses are deliniated by Srila Rupa and Ragganatha Goswami , and Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited them throughout His life . The fundermental nature of spontaneous love is depicted in the Srimad Bhagavatam ,the nature of the soul , or pure consciousness in association with God is shown. The supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani astounds Krishna with the unlimited depths and attractions She feels for Him , this is a mystery even for God Himself. Krishna is waiting for us to turn our attraction exclusively to Him , in that sense, love is extreme.
Material life means a temporary competition based on anger , greed and envy , either of possessions , of speculative exploitative minds or proud intellects. A sham of friendship and service with only dressed up concerns and compassions , that is localised as family , friends , commmunity country and nations . There is really no deep or profound service or love, and it’s based around so-called family and friends that can and will change at any time . Thus, Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita ” I am your only friend,” What does He mean ? You should know ..
It is the intrinsic nature of the living beings to feel love and effection. The most cultured feel it for every living being , the less so a family or friend. No question of evolution. Consciousness evolves and devolves according to how one acts . Theological cultures understand the best of the lovers of consciousness is Divinity Himself
Fundermental service is inherently within us all .
Life is made as such that rendering service is a fundermental and underlying principle , indirectly or directly practically all beings are serving somebody , or unknowingly playing a part in the harmonious and interconnected activities of nature . Thd 60s songwriter Bob Dylan saw that, among other things, and wrote his song ‘ everyone has to serve someone ‘. Of course, pure loving services rendered to someone who deserves it and who can properly reciprocate can not be compared to a crooked motivated politician who claims he is serving the people . In spiritual and philosophical terms, better be a servant in a superior realm that a master in an inferior one
It’s a universal law , according to the Vedas that if anybody takes a service from someone , and this applies throughout the whole of the material universes , or if they use somebody in any particular way a debt is owed , you can’t get something for nothing.
Ultimately, all kinds of debts are building up in our Karmic systems, which are carried with us and remain with us throughout our universal journey of fruitive work . For those that don’t properly reciprocate a service rendered , debts build up and need paying back . That is technically called karma, and the karmic synchronicities of life play out in the unpredictability of our lives , of long forgotten debts , like twigs floating in a fast flowing river debts and debtors are brought together then parted , never to meet again .
The ultimate service rendered to everyone is by Divinity Himself , as the supersoul or Holy Ghost , in everyone’s heart He facilitates the individual being , giving them remberance and forgetfulness and reminding them life after life of what they once desired as well as encouraging everyone to aquire the real wisdom and knowledge .He is always showing in many ways how best to escape the plane of the karmic self-centred word , with the temporary lives of material debtors . The greatest service is to show everyone what their best interests are and how that can be achieved , God is always rendering that service, and so are His pure representatives . He remains in the hearts of all beings whilst they wonder all over the universe in different situations looking for happiness and patiently waits for everyone to see sense and return back home back to Godhead
Ultimately , because by His own example of how He renders the greatest of all services , never forgetting any of the living beings ,we should reciprocate with Him and hear from Him of how we might reciprocate with Love , and render some services bringing happiness to Him along with His associates. The greatest of all service is rendered by the Supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani and the Gopies and Manjaris , her confidants, they are residents of Vrndavana.
This is carefully described by Sukadeva Goswami in the 10th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam and elaborated upon in the commentaries of the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas in their writings .
Child bearing means the pain of childbirth , but the pain and difficulties bring the sweetness of a loving child ..
The Vraja Gopies of Vrndavana create a festival of happiness in the heart of Krishna, who displays His unlimited pastimes . He exhibits these pastimes to demonstrate the wonderful qualities of ever increasing love and attraction in the highest of spiritual realms , that of pure spontaneous unmotivated spiritual love , a competition of love . Perverted reflections and hints of pure love are seen here in this earthly plane , but we should learn of its origins and the selfless beauty of Krishna’s spiritual planes along with the science and nature of spiritual senses . Krishna attracts His devotees and those pious souls who have properly cultivated higher consciousness and practice high culture by His activities , the all attractive Krishna becomes especially attractive to such persons.
The trancendental method Krishna employs when wishing to attract the Vraja Gopies is to send personified messages through His flute music . Music takes on much greater dimensions in the super subjective plane of a varigated spiritual world. Having heard the call of the personified Cupid , a call that enters the depths of the Gopies hearts , they abandoned their sobriety, fear , shyness, and any sense of discrimination, and immediately answered the call .
Complete sacrifice is required in the ultimate plane of love , and nothing short of that will suffice.
The Catholic order of the bride’s of Christ , or Nuns living in convents , or monks living in monasteries, perhaps could understand.
Krishna is our greatest friend , master , lover, and relative . The sound of His flute is calling everyone to service . God is calling us all He is always enthusiastic and all inclusive , and His Vraja Gopi friends all dance and play music at the dead of night in a artistic festival beyond comprehension , with the sixty four excellences of trancendance on display , a trancendental festival that lasted millions of years , the time dimensions are adjusted by Krishna , from our 12 hours to the 12 hours of Lord Bramha, lasting 4.5 billion years . As Einstein said, time is relative, its also interchangeable, it seems .
Currently the flute sound has been transformed into the Nama Sankirtana , the chanting of Gods names , this chanting is calling us all to the service of Mahaprabhu and through Him the service of the residents of Vraja headed by Vrsabhanu Nandini Srimati Radharani . Anyone hearing or vibrating God’s names can transport themselves to the spiritual world.
Srila Prabhupada, wonderful Godbrother and great friend of Prabhupada once gave that comparison , H.H. Srila Sridhar Swami , he is a brilliant scholar and deep thinker .
On arrival ,to the dancing ground, having responded to the call to come to the forests of Vraja , Krishna tested the Gopies love and determination by externally appearing to ask them to return to their family lives and duties , He appeared to reject their services.
Srila Kavi karnapura in his Ananda Vrndavana Campa indicates to us all that Krishna sometimes appears very harsh . It’s very difficult to overcome all difficulties of a body and mind to properly develop unalloyed devotion toward Him . This harshness and the external difficulties experienced by us are the workings of His external energies , they are like the outside of the coconut . Krishna is very very sweet by nature ,and any difficulties we maybe experiencing are gradually cracking the shell of our conditioned nature , and they serve a purpose in helping us aquire hearts of sweetness , like the inside of the coconut . Dedication and devotion towards His eternal service need cultivating, and that means at times difficulties, but in difficulties by determination, we can aquire the characteristics of pure devotees that are impeccable, to say the least . Through the service of such residents of Vrndavana , the pure devotees , who Krishna dearly loves , we get the good fortune of assisting as they serve the emaculate senses of Dhira Lalita Krishna, or His devotees in Mathura or Dwarka ..
So, austerities and hardships cause pain in many ways even in material life , but in Krishna consciousness, it opens up a spiritual heart and brings the sweetest of all hearts .
It’s natural to be suspicious of things and the motivation of people , that is a good use of intelligence. As suspicion subside, still doubt remains , so further applications of intelligence is needed , enquiring and further understanding are most essential .
As those doubts clear, further understanding of knowledge and its practical applications develop , the beginnings of faith . Faith begins to increase , faith of the beginner, faith of the intermediate, and faith of the advanced spiritualist takes place by services and enquiries and progressive intelligent submission.
At no stage is intelligence given up , nor do we give up referring to Sri Guru in his forms as Siksa or Diksa , or the established Sadhu’s , current and past and always always the Sastra . Scriptures in the form of the Sruti and Smrit can never be ignored and must always be a reference point as checks and balance is never given up .
Faith carries one a long long way , and ultimately to unreserved faith , without any reservation , in matters of Bhava and Prema
ŚB 1.2.20
एवं प्रसन्नमनसो भगवद्भक्तियोगत: । भगवत्तत्त्वविज्ञानं मुक्तसङ्गस्य जायते ॥ २० ॥
Thus established in the mode of unalloyed goodness, the man whose mind has been enlivened by contact with devotional service to the Lord gains positive scientific knowledge of the Personality of Godhead in the stage of liberation from all material association.
The real problem of the global world is that one man wants to snatch all the trade for himself, making promises that everyone and every country will benefit . it’s the nature of a businessman to lie . Having gotten all the trade, through dubious and underhand methods, he becomes unimaginably wealthy , but he does not know how to use his wealth beneficially. Thus, he makes a bad situation worse . The Vedas indicates free market economics , but one should not encroach on others’ territories. A balance is struck . Only the pure intelligensia knows how to benefit from wealth. Thus, the Vedas condemn the global conglomerates who exploit Mother Earth and its people and recommend much more simple living , higher thinking, and local economies for local people with only essential imports and exports . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
“Religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame.” Einstein .
Bohr accepted both classical and quantum physics. As the Vedas do . The world is real but temporary. The consciousness and the universe are linked together by the interests and desires of the consciousness. When the consciousness understands that he or she is something different than the universe , ie . being freed from scientific materialism and coming to clearly understand dualism. Intelligently, one should question why the living beings have become subjected to the laws of the universe , if they so do, they gradually acquire knowledge and detachment from universal connections and that is the beginning of liberation . Gradually, by understanding and by engaging in devotional activities, to the cause of all causes , a purified living being can enter a plane where consciousness and the energy surrounding it are of the same nature . The Vedas say the spiritual symptoms of that realm are that things are eternally situated and fully blissful without any neglect or ignorance of Divinity .Rather, a relationship with Him is acted out in full . Once Edward Teller had tea with Neils Bohr, and he said to Bohr, ” You have changed everything in the way we view the world, and in the future, everyone will see the world much differently..” After a long pause, Bohr said, ” Are you saying this world is not real but like a dream?” http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Qualities of the Supreme reflected in His expansions ,
We see many wonderful qualities in mankind , actually , we see wonderful qualities in the whole of the creation and here we refer to just one planet look at the night sky the mind boggles at the inconceivable nature of this one galaxy with its system of planets . This is one small part of the universe, and the Vedas confirms millions of universes are in existence , as the string theorists postulate.
What’s even more inconceivable is that each planet has a purpose and is inhabited , the Vedas tell us , Lisa Randall, the Harvard of theoretical physics, quite rightly points out the obvious implications of multidimensional space , our senses are limited to three dimensions . This means each of us has limited senses , and we see things only in three dimensions . She points out why there could well be more dimensions “out there” and also refers to dark space and dark energies as unknown energies.
The Vedas indicates God is full of multiple energies and how He expands His energies in multitudes of ways. This includes His expansions of internal energies, which are the conscious beings scattered within the material and spiritual planetary systems. The Vedas broadly categorise His internal, marginal, and external energies and give explicit details to each .
So, as God is full of unlimited wonderful qualities , the living beings naturally reflect a minute portion of those qualities, as does everything in creation , He is a supreme scientist and engineer but also someone overflowing with love for all beings.
There is systematic supervisory management in place. The right type of action brings forth particular superior and inherent qualities, and the wrong actions suppress the flow, causing entanglements . In the familiar language of many, one can say one’s good or bad karma . Freedoms and progressions can be tapped into at any time, and in no time at all, one can reestablish all of one’s inherent spiritual qualities that stem from and are reflected from Divinity.
The Bhagavad Gita tells us how in detail and many prescribed methods are outlined.
Endless possibilities of benedictions offered by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu the Vedas indicate as the most munificent incarnation of Godhead , who along with His intimate associates , give unlimited benedictions to one and all everyone will gain , to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill , “never has so much “trancendence ” been given by so few to so many .” This trancendental unprecedented ocean of bliss has decended into this world , its fast increasing in its capacities and is imperceptible influencing the whole of society . At the same time, its a mystery to those persons currently deeply absorbed in material affairs , they can’t understand Mahaprabhu or these benediction he is pouring upon on the hapless and unfortunate souls of Kali yuga .
Through the association of His devotees , through the chanting of the Holy names , through extensive educational programmes and the study of the Srimad Bhagavatam and the original Vedas , through distribution of prasadam sanctified food offered in sacrifice , His pure devotee representatives who represent the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas are executing this massive global relief work , and turning society away from the dark direction it was heading in .
Perhaps the most essential benediction for a mature student seeking the essence of Mahaprabhu’s teachings , is He has allowed them to dive deep into the ocean of bliss giving them access and increasing understandings by reading or hearing of the works of Rupa Ragganatha , and their representatives who intimately associated with Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu . Srila Svarūpa Damodar , one of the confidential servants of Mahāprabhu once stood in puzzlement as to how it was Srila Rupa Goswami had understood the inner heart of Caitanya Mahaprabhu which he conveyed on his writings . But on discussion with Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he soon realised Srila Rupa Goswami had the special benediction bestowed on by Mahāprabhu Himself . That same benediction is currently still available and is also bestowed to the most inquisitive in this current world , one requires a greed to want to know.
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada would say such teachings, and Lila descriptions about Krishna are like a sweet ball . Wherever you bite into it , its nectarine and fully relishable taste is experienced.
kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ
Translation
In the Age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead, who constantly sings the names of Kṛṣṇa. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is Kṛṣṇa Himself. He is accompanied by His associates, servants, weapons, and confidential companions.
In conversing with a priest recently at the Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha temple in Vrndavana, we came to see differences in tattva .
He said” Janhava mata was not Ananga Manjari . Why are you bringing in Dvarpa yuga to Kali yuga “
But we pointed out that Nityananda prabhu was Balarama Himself , and Krishna appears in all Yugas.
) Lord Krishna, who is the son of the King of Vraja, became the son of Saci (Lord Caitanya) and Balarama became Nitai. The holy name delivered all those souls who were lowly and wretched. The two sinners, Jagai and Madhai are evidence of this.
Srila Narottoma das Thakur is a representative of the Gaudia Vaisnava disciplic succession a member of the Bhagavat line of Siksa Gurus , who wrote this song .
Of course, the problems come because Krishna is a hidden incarnation in Kali yuga . Although the evidence in Sastra is there in some places and can be found , including the Mahabharata.
Another problem was when I asked him for the Sastra on his points , he said no Sastra are there but family traditions from family guru to family guru this knowledge is passed down .
Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur respected some family lineage of the Gaudia Vaisnavas , but the Bhagavat line is currently predominant in Gaudia Vaisnavism, and evidence from both guru , Sadhu and sastra are required so authentic tattva can be understood in this age .
The origins of the Gaudia Vaisnava sampradaya is Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu through His representatives, the six Goswamis. He has given real insights into the ever expanding Srimad Bhagavatam. Particularly the Pranaya the oneness of love and love in union and separation of The Supreme Goddess of fortune Srimati Radharani.
So we respect the family lineage of the Vrndavana priest’s but may not agree with their understanding of Tattva on all occasions
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada wanted to create an intelligent class of men and women, one of his main purposes of ISKCON , both Brahminical men and learned Vedic Vipras in particular fields . Prabhupada clearly says in his purports to teach krishna consciousness through science, the arts , through economics, political affairs, etc etc , he had in mind both cor spiritual goals and the peripherals that are essential in society that lead to the cor . The conversations that Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu had with Ramananda Raya makes all these things clear as do the trancendental activites of the Goswami’s who wanted to help all people understand religious principles and transcendence. In broad Vedic cultures whatever the religious tendency, even meat eating and certain intoxication under conditions are given allowance , as are the many types of religions , as Krishna makes clear in Bhagavad Gita , in discussions of the different types of faith of different types of persons . Eventually ISKCON will have to deeply research all aspects of the Vedas to bring its contents to the modern world , with time place and circumstances applications , many scholars are needed and the setting up of ” think tanks ” setting Vedic visionary recommendation giving advice for governance and compliance of future societies ISKCON is still in its beginning stages , Srila Prabhupada was quite serious, as was Srila Bhaktisiddanta and Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur in introducing and establishing principles of Varna Ashram , meaning establishing the real intelligentsia to be able to influence the directions that society heads in , every thing else automatically flows perfectly from there . . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
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