In spiritual life one must remain humble , respectful and tollerant, without doing so one can offend , the result is not having the faith that’s required to take one on the journeys of trancendance, faith carries one a long way , and another effect is one cannot hear trancendental messages when others speak them or have any conviction in the process of sastra sanga .The acaryas warn of the consequences of pride and how it delays the journey.

The complete journey is delineated by the six Goswami’s who were personally taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. It must be followed to completion, nothing added or subtracted or speculated upon .
Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami is his purport to 1.1.2 Srimad Bhagavatam says .

“But the devotees of the Lord rise above such competitions. They do not compete with the materialist because they are on the path back to Godhead where life is eternal and blissful. Such transcendentalists are nonenvious and pure in heart. In the material world, everyone is envious of everyone else, and therefore there is competition. But the transcendental devotees of the Lord are not only free from material envy, but are well-wishers to everyone, and they strive to establish a competitionless society with God in the centre. The contemporary socialist’s conception of a competitionless society is artificial because in the socialist state, there is competition for the post of dictator.”

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Vedic goods and services…simple living high thinking.

The West appears out of balance , it’s got itself all caught up and entangled in its endless bid for pleasure , but solely centred around a temporary material body , an accepting and rejecting mind and a limited and deteriating intelligences,  as old age creeps up and takes everything away . Even their economic strategies based on producing unlimited goods from limited earthly resources are the workings of the unthinking.
Instead of living simply, with the clear objectives and realisations of a self-evident truth of shared resources and equality of rights Western people want to to increasingly exploit other countries and their citizens,  This Darwinian survival of the exploitative and the trickle down economics con is getting the world nowhere fast .
Western economics and world economics need rethinking.
Keeping everything small and  localised , goods and services should be produced locally and nationally, where possible, with local labour . Every country should depend on itself,  and not make itself dependent on other countries,  or on global conglomerates.  Essential trading, yes , but one man’s labour or a countries currency should be equalised.  By living lives based on a greater understanding of consciousness and higher culture of all sorts of natural sciences, the  potential for peace and natural happiness increases.  Do you know your Baker or farmer , or where your bread was baked or where the wheat came from ? The answer in 99.9 % of the time is NO .
That’s not the Vedic way .

The spiritual path..

What is relativity good for one person is bad for someone else , What is relativity bad for one person is relativity good for someone else .
Good .. bad …it’s all bad …because death , old age disease, and death awaits .We should place our energies  in dutiful ways but also within the wisdom of knowledge cultures. What is consciousness? That is the most important question,  never mind how much my bank balance is.
Come to the absolute plane, understand consciousness beyond the body , beyond material calculations for a material happiness ,  beyond mind, and senses, go beyond the intellectual platform , to the plane of the soul.
The great scholar Srila Sanatana Gosvami first question to Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu was, ” Why am I suffering and having to undergo all kinds of miserable and temporary conditions in a world of dualities ?
The Vedic way is to ask the right questions and seek the answers from those who know and to  understand how they know they know ..
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Amongst all civilizations, there are always seen four classes of men . There are the  first-class intelligentsia , who have first-class characters . They are well studied in the philosophically based world wide cultures as well as theological cultures . Sciences of dualism,  mind , matter, and consciousness and their various interactions are understood by them .  For example, the effects of matter in all its shapes and  forms will have on the psychological effects of different types of persons , the sciences of psychological conditioning are understood by the intelligensia. The effects of  excessive sense gratification in all its forms  cause consciousness to deteriate in its quality and purpose,  and thus, the need for regulatory lives is needed within civilised society . Lust , anger , greed , envy, and encroachment are systematic of unregulated societies . It causes huge problems on an individual , a community as well as a country. The Jewish leaders ,the Christian leaders, the Muslim leaders, and Hindu leaders of their countries (the political leaders we are referring to now) , need  not consider themselves leaders, pe say . Rather, they must regard themselves the followers of the real intelligensia, the first class persons . In each culture, they take different form.  The pure and spiritually realised Rabbi, in Jewish culture . The pure and spiritually realised monk in Christian culture .  The  pure and spiritually realised Imam in Islamic culture . The pure and spiritually realised Brahminical person in Hindu culture.. The  confused administrations of modern democracies are unfortunately currently serving the interests exclusively of the unintelligent and heartless who are forever searching for a profit and fail to listen to the real intelligensia.  Businessmen have been given control of the world its  bad news for the world and its citizens . They make very, very poor leaders for humanity and lack the character  and knowledge of mind , matter, and consciousness. Money is their only interest.

It’s clear businessmen are clueless and not leaders , they have all their priorities completely wrong . Such persons are never intended to be leaders or advisors . They have their purpose to create wealth in fair ways, creating  prosperity locally and nationally,  but not internationally . Every individual country should create its own business strategies, and some essential trade will naturally take place between countries . Unfortunately, modern democracies have  handed the unthinking businessmen the keys to power .  Unqualified persons endanger the world and its citizens as well as  every creature,  they poison the atmosphere in many many ways and even put chemicals on our foods  and  also within the good earth .
This was never the intention of Divinity,  He favours the well wishing and broad thinking intelligentsia , they are intended to be the advisors of the administrations but also remain independent of them and unpaid.

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The Renaissance (approx. 14th–17th centuries) marked a profound cultural shift from medieval theocentrism (God-centered) to anthropocentrism (human-centered), prioritizing human achievement, reason, and empirical observation over the theological .

In reality, nothing can be separate from Divinity,  the world of scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis is proving to be the wrong turn in a  world veiw , the clear scientific evidence flows the other way . When fanaticism took over in the Renaissance period, materialism increased, and the world we live in today is the result. Political systems failing , a failure to see the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings,  an exploitation of other countries and cultures,  a separation of the arts from its only connection to Divinity,  the economic strangulation of  exploitation and cheating in the stocks and commodity and currency markets,  and bad trade deals . All these things and more happen when a renaissance movement turns away from reality and attempts to present illusions as truths .

Nothing is seperated from Divinity,  but the mature theological student knows there are many strokes for many folks , many prescribed methods and gradual proccess by which the truth is understood. The Vedic Culures have the four Vedas, which reflect the arts , political, religious, and philosophical sections and the  sciences of all kinds . There should never be extremism , rather an understanding of psychological conditioning.  Extreme religious dogma led to extremes in the Renaissance which brought scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis taught to children as fact based sciences and the debacle of infiltrated democracies where fools vote in fools.

The Vedic way is the balance.

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Nityananda prabhu showed the example of respecting all persons and tolerating all kinds of difficulties.  He even declared to Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu when Mahāprabhu was about to act strongly against offenders to kindly show your kindness and mercy.

“Jagai and Madhai were notorious, sinful brothers in Nabadwip who were transformed into pure devotees by the extreme mercy of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, who forgave them despite being injured by Madhai. This event solidified Nityananda’s reputation as patita-pavana, or saviour of the most fallen, prompting Lord Chaitanya to accept them as devotees”

Many cruel and nasty things are happening in the world currently,  but what can we do , we may point out or protest and try to talk sense , but ultimately we must depend on Divinity to make arrangements to do things as He sees fit .God achieves many things in one action . He is supremely intelligent and has many purposes in His actions.

The Gaudia Vaisnava never become violent revolutionaries,  rather they with the strength of the Holy names change the energies in the world.  They leave the details to Divinity, and they pray for His mercy on all being , the sinners, and the saints .

In that spirit, Divinity feels an obligation to serve His devotees’ desire.

Those who hate or show discrimination can not properly understand the mercy and nature of Divinity.

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Living in love and living in truth is important , human consciousness reaches out a long way and incalculably further when it does so .Truth brings freedom from all sorts of illusions and deceits . One may wonder how one can be placed in truth, which can bring all kinds of insights and realisations .

These inescapable truths , although those living in deceit try to escape , are not  mere academic exercises or fanciful analytical studies , although a trancendental intelligence is involved . Buddhi yoga, the yoga of intelligence is dependent on another source , the decending process works in different ways . Through Divinity directly,  through His representatives and through the Sruti and Smriti that is properly reflected upon and  understood . Living within the laws of the land one dwells within is also not exactly an academic exercise. There are systems and laws to follow, and a government that is enforcing them , these laws are designed for peace , happiness,  and security. Deepest feelings are within everyones hearts and there we will find inherant truthfulness , honesty and feelings of effection, and love .  Consciousness, our soul is made up like that , the material coverings place an artificial layer on our soul and should be shaken off . Theological sciences teach that process,  the scientific process of self-evident dualism.
The soul becomes covered by the  spell of illusions , the spell  of becoming an independent enjoyer and the master of all it surveys . Thus, it gradually appears to lose the inherant truth of its cooperative position . In such a condition, an increase in deceitful entanglements takes place . The Vedas call this Maya , that which is not .Underlying this artificial positioning, though , truth and beaulty remains , that is never destroyed . One should take advice and revive ones original pure consciousness and become happy , blissful, and nonenvious .

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How does truth arrive in the heart , what causes a person to accept truth and another to accept illusion or untruth .

Truth attracts truth , the process of purification and honesty is important , we may have to own up to our inner motivations , we have to know the process of honesty,  introspection and humility , in that condition truth can be approached and be accepted. In current times, truth appears through trancendental sound vibrations, Chanting God’s names are the means and the end , the means of obtaining truth , and the personality of Godhead is fully present in all his forms ,pastimes , and lilas  , through His  trancendental names . He is absolute, there is  no difference in His name and form .One who sincerely calls is immediately recipricated with .

The Srimad Bhagavatam tells us of truth and warns us of cheating.

ŚB 1.1.2

धर्म: प्रोज्झितकैतवोऽत्र परमो निर्मत्सराणां सतां
वेद्यं वास्तवमत्र वस्तु शिवदं तापत्रयोन्मूलनम् ।
श्रीमद्भागवते महामुनिकृते किं वा परैरीश्वर:
सद्यो हृद्यवरुध्यतेऽत्र कृतिभि: शुश्रूषुभिस्तत्क्षणात् ॥ २ ॥

dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo ’tra paramo nirmatsarāṇāṁ satāṁ
vedyaṁ vāstavam atra vastu śivadaṁ tāpa-trayonmūlanam
śrīmad-bhāgavate mahā-muni-kṛte kiṁ vā parair īśvaraḥ
sadyo hṛdy avarudhyate ’tra kṛtibhiḥ śuśrūṣubhis tat-kṣaṇāt

Translation

Completely rejecting all religious activities that are materially motivated, this Bhāgavata Purāṇa propounds the highest truth, which is understandable by those devotees who are fully pure in heart. The highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Such truth uproots the threefold miseries. This beautiful Bhāgavatam, compiled by the great sage Vyāsadeva [in his maturity], is sufficient in itself for God realization. What is the need for any other scripture? As soon as one attentively and submissively hears the message of Bhāgavatam, by this culture of knowledge, the Supreme Lord is established within his heart.

The book Bhagavat or the  person Bhagavat , one who has understood the conclusions and can expertly apply them to time,  place , circumstances and importantly to an individual should be heard from , and questions should be submitted about truth and the ways of preparing oneself to receive truth .

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Srila Jiva Goswami says, ” The word Manomayah means the Lord is understand by concentration of the very pure mind.” Krishna is the support of the giver of Pranas , the various life airs .
Krishna is the most subtle , pure, and supremely spiritual personality . He is performing directly and indirectly all actions , and all of  the universal actions  are Him . This is also indicated in the First Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam first text , where it says Krishna is directly and indirectly conscious  of all all living being and the activities they undertake as well as reactions they receive within the responsive universe.
He is the supreme autocrat . Everything serves His purposes, and when harmonized, everyone  can enjoy their trancendentally situated senses through His senses in cooperation and services to the senses of His associates . The supreme Goddess of fortune Srimati Radharani is forever and increasingly attracted to Krishna, and Krishna is forever and increasingly attracted to Her . This competition in love is compared to an unlimited ocean. One drop of this  blissful, loving ocean can drown the material universe and merge all  the residents in an ocean of love of God .
To understand all matters of  Vedic conclusion and the deepest truths as spoken of by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and all of their applications , Srila Jiva Goswami reminds us of our need for the concentration of a very pure mind . This process is  begun and perfected generally by practice within many many lives . It is the case that everyone is at different staging points  .
Don’t be surprised at how wisdom arrives , and the methods that the Lord uses to transplant wisdom , its generally comes from the least expected quarters. Sukadeva Goswami was a very young man who wondered the county without proper attire. But  it also may come  from the old and wise and established cultures. The fact that pure knowledge decends through the Holy names in fullness is also astounding to many .

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Using logical math , God may or may not be understood..
There is perfect math and symmetry and perfectly calculated codes which cause the construction of everything around us in nature , including our bodies and those in every species.
Without perfect math , there cannot be perfect construction.
However..
In absolute realms .
1+1=1
1-1=1
1×1=1
1÷1=1
Don’t mess with Divinity….

The vedas say this ..about the original mathematician.

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TEXT 10

mayadhyaksena prakrtih
suyate sa-caracaram
hetunanena kaunteya
jagad viparivartate
TRANSLATION

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

The complete can produce completeness. Completed mathematical formulas set to work with no errors.

Iso Invocation

oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ
pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate
pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya
pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate

Translation

The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the complete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.

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May I suggest all political parties shut up shop ..
Bring back the king or queen , dedicated for life to every citizen and every creature, let him or her choose their trusted and unmotivated advisors….but always
under the guidance of a scientifically led theological Council. Who knows very well how mind , matter, and consciousness function in it best states and who knows how it can degrade within the material energies. Modern democracies have been infiltrated, and global conglomerates and cheating science have led everyone down the garden path into the quagmire of illusions and fake narratives .the political classes are their pawns and representatives they are products of the corrupted systems.
Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind and what Einstein says is so true .
One who fails to understand dualism has failed in their lives and are no more than sophisticated animals.

AC Bhaktivedanta Swami says .

“sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhokṣaje
ahaituky apratihatā
yayātmā suprasīdati

[SB 1.2.6]

Translation = “The supreme occupation, dharma, for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the Supreme…, unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted in order to completely satisfy the self.”

iti sampraśna saṁhṛṣṭo
viprāṇāṁ raumaharṣaṇiḥ
pratipūjya vacas teṣāṁ
pravaktum upacakrame

[SB 1.2.1]

There was a great meeting, and… Meeting means… In those days, there was no political meeting. Political meetings were not necessary because there was no democracy. It was monarchy. The kings, they were so trained up that there was no necessity of democracy. Actually, the modern government, democracy… We are experiencing, especially the great democratic country, America, so the democracy, the president elected by popular vote, is now being condemned. So, what is the value of this democracy? You elect somebody by your vote; again, condemn. That means the electors, the voters, have also no experience, and neither the man who is voted . Otherwise, why should you change your opinion once you have elected a person to act as your head executive?

So the democracy has proved a farce. It has no meaning because people are not educated.”

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