Can a microbe living in a petri dish conceptualise anything of the world outside his dish ,  the laboratory where the petri dish resides  , or the  town the laboratory is situated , everyone one would probably give the same resounding answer….NO !

Could a frog born in a well conceptualise the oceans , he has some experience of water after all , and theoretically   could compare his experiences of the water within his  well to the oceans of the world , he might say is the ocean 10 times or 100 times or 1000 times bigger than my well  ? , his well is his only reference point, after all , his own  limited experiences.

Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita wherever the mind wonders bring it back under the control of the self . A mind is limited , but not the consciousness that the mind covers.

In the Srimad Bhagavatam, there are passages describing great souls leaving their bodies at the time of death . How  before reaching Goloka which the Vedas says is the top most planet in a spiritual realm , they  pass through the many different planetary systems , lower , middle, and higher . Traversing  on they are  carried by the speed of their pure minds , past all the heavenly  abodes ,  past  Lord Bramha’s abode , past even all the  Vaikuntha planets , which are also parts of the spiritual realms .  The great souls watch all those  various planet’s  pass  them by before reaching  their destined abode , Goloka Vrndavana.

These passages given in the Bhagavatam give an understanding of the inconceivable  vastness of the material and spiritual realms . It is said that to understand  Krishna or Divinity  it is imperative to  accept that He possesses inconceivable energies . We are like a microbe of consciousness,  God is like the size of the Sun if we want to draw comparisons.

So intellectually using  rationale , we should accept that  just as the microbial creature in his petri dish could never have capacities to understand anything of the vastness of his laboratory  , or Dr Frogg PHD could never really understand the vastness of the oceans by using his well as a comparison . A sane person will  accept the  limited senses , limited mind , as well as  limited intelligence , will limit us greatly . Not to say we should not use our facilities to advance our understanding .

We should definitely do so , Oxford and Cambridge universities originated  for that purpose . We should understand how great our universe is. But the real greatness of Divinity is beyond our capacity to understand , although a fraction may be comprehended perhaps.   The Vedas says  His  very sweet personality ,  which He is only more than willing to share , along with His playful and artistic nature, can greatly expand, allowing the limited to begin to directly relate with the unlimited . Understanding Divinity is a decending process rather than an ascending one .

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Tosca Puccini

Tosca Puccini 

Through the expressive power of music, opera conveys the deepest and most complex human emotions. It allows us to enter the psyche of characters and experience the drama on a gut level. Opera, with its far flung story lines and sung libretto, can’t be approached literally, as if you’re watching a movie or a play. It has to be experienced as metaphor…a story unfolding through music.

I lived for art 

I lived for art, I lived for love,
I never harmed a living soul!
With a discreet hand
I relieved all misfortunes I encountered.
Always with sincere faith
my prayer
rose to the holy tabernacles.
Always with sincere faith
I decorated the altars with flowers.
In this hour of grief,
why, why, Lord,
why do you reward me this way 
I donated jewels to the Madonna’s mantle,
and offered songs to the stars and heaven,
which thus shone with more beauty.
In this hour of grief,
why, why, Lord,
ah, why do you reward me this way .

In the Vedas , Srimad Bhagavatam, and Bhagavad Gita, unalloyed devotion is described .  Giving oneself fully to Divinity without any expectations,  and if any difficulties  are experienced , they are tolerated and one calculates,  in the words of Srila Sridhar Swami,  Prabhupada’s Godbrother, “I take the whole thing on my head , it is my doing and deserve ” 

Devotional service is not a business transaction. 

That  is the consciousness of the pure practitioners , we must strive for that , be patient and regularly apply ourselves , causeless mercy is just that causeless , same time Krishna says one who wants to know Me and sincerely takes shelter in the proccesses I outline , I will give the intelligence and inspiration to come to Me . Its a decending process , not an academic ascending one .

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The universal and eternal history of misinformation.

The whole  of the material energies are built and programmed  around  misinformation , a conditioned consciousness is placed within an inferior energy,  inferior to its own true self , truth and beauty can be found only in its originally intended position. With the help of many agencies , the conditioned soul is eternally fooled  into thinking one thing is a truth and another an illusion or a lie , the very word Maya , a Vedic term , means that which is not .

It’s very easy to deceive oneself ,  what to speak of others who have more karmic influences , who have  the power to  deceive us . It is said in the Vedas that once one thing is known, everything can be known.  It is a fact that those  who can  familiarise  themselves with Bhagavad Gita , everything can become clear and clearer still for them . We  can calculate that in this world of self-centred illusion, everyone is out to establish themselves as the masters of all they survey in one way or another and that we truly have a toxic mix .

Deceit is nothing new , and although the internet can help quicken the pace,  it’s the same old game being played by operators who have the karmic powers  to weild undue influences over the unintelligent.

Many unintelligent people think they can catch out the intelligent ,  but its not that easy . Many influences are being played out, and sometimes the demons are favoured , sometimes the Divine . Srimad Bhagavatam shows universal histories within its many pages. The puranas are historic references within many universal cyclic cycles.

What to do ? The answer given in all theological texts is to come to the platform of knowledge and renunciation by acknowledgement of the Supreme  a

Autocrat,  and understand Him along with His associates and The Supreme Goddess of Fortune , who are all our greatest well wishers , by doing so one can clearly lift oneself out of the world of the cheaters and the cheated,  that will be good for us and good for all those we may be able to help so they may  also give up the illusion of unintelligent  enjoyment seeking of a fast deteriating situation in the association of unsavoury characters.

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One could well ask what does all that mean and what possible relevance could all that  have on the topic of life , consciouseness, and the world and universe that surrounds us .

Well, very soon , I shall attempt to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. After all, a puzzle itself has a kind of coded system . You can’t put any piece of the puzzle anywhere , it just won’t work.

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The original gain of function research paper is the Bhagavad Gita .

Actually , gain of function research is encouraged by Krishna in Bhagavad Gita , in reality its a  re-establishment of an original purpose that  bring ever increasing  gains of all descriptions , something that’s  deep within everyone’s psyche , in other words directly or indirectly  love and pleasure are everyone’s innermost need

Never mind the cleavage site of a virus in a Wuhan Laboratory.  Which incidentally , the news is coming down the line on the origins of covid . The inserted DNA within a cleavage site of a Viras , giving it a gain of function,  namely being easily able to enter the chest of a human and kill was engineered and cross contamination caused the leak , USA EU and UK and private pharmaceutical industries have been all involved in funding gain of function research.

Krishna encourages  us in His Bhagavad Gita to research a lost function  of our consciousness and to understand original spiritual senses  , we currently have mutated into a material plane and endlessly wonder following our  material minds and senses , causing the physical body to mutate into the 8,400000 species of life in our multidimensional universes,  higher lower and middle planetary systems.

This mutated process is under the complete supervision of Divinity and His agents , nothing is happening by chance , and a responsive universe follows  our desire and free will , along with automated responses.

So nothing by chance  , but rather by the Supreme desire of Krishna and His judiciary systems  . The complexities of the  entanglements in matter  of consciousness  are seemingly unfathomable to us ,  but this administrative process takes up by a miniscule fraction of Krishna’s consciousness.

So, as a matter of priority, find out about gain of function research of the consciousness and begin the journey for which you were meant to take , and stop artificial mutations of a material body and mind . Urgently pick up a copy of Bhagavad-Gita as it is , AC Bhaktivedanta Swami is most expert at explaining to Western audiences the secret of all secrets

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‘Ananda moya bhyasat ‘

Every being is pleasure seeking , that is the nature of consciousness . Looking for happiness and pleasure is the constitution of the soul.

Everyone in material life is struggling hard with conditioned minds and conditioned senses trying to avoid difficulties and are always rooting for pleasure either personally , communally , or nationally. The problem is that even if some pleasurable situation comes about , it’s fleeting and generally leads to more frustration.

The theolgical and philosophical and I might add scientific problem is how can the consciousness be in a state where it can experience what it craves for , after all why should it or anyone settle for less , are  we to  really assume that we don’t deserve happiness and blissful lives ?  look at little children , they certainly don’t think like that , they are full of expectations , and that’s healthy good living.

Throughout the 8,400,000 species of life , all of whom are pleasure seeking , there is an evolutionary consciousness experience taking place , the human condition is in the middle range , higher insights and culture of consciousness takes place in middle planetary systems and further still in the higher planetary regions , further still are the beginnings of the spiritual planets ultimately leading to the very centre and perfection of blissful relationships in a variegated spiritual environment .

This evolutionary process is driven by an individuals search and desires as well as cultural development.

So never mind scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis , the Vedas has the handle on the realities of evolutionary theory , which is fact based theory,  tested and seen in nature , unlike a Darwinian hypothesis.

Srila Rupa Goswami gives the example of a man watching a play , the gentleman is so absorbed in the play that when the main hero dies , he also dies .

Yoga means a shift in identity .

Perhaps you may experience yourself being carried away by a beautiful piece of music on occasions , music is also a type of  yoga .

One  critically disabled person was asked how she coped with such a what appeared a limited life , she answered thst she had the freedoms of her inner life , and  in her inner self takes herself to innumerable places and carries out innumerable activities. It’s a fact our life is only partially led with a body and immediate senses , the mind and intelligence are providing what some will argue as the essence,  and the spiritual meditation takes that concept incalculably further .

Our immediate circumstances are very fast flowing. fleeting and limiting  experiences within a set time in our current bodies that are always changing . Everyone’s differing  because of differences of individual karmic synchronicities , nevertheless, no one should feel themselves limited in any way .

The instant communication spoken of in quantum physics , according to the Vedas, can be taken further , to an instant transportation and the devoted and well practiced yogi can  live simultaneously in fullness both within the material worlds and the  higher realms of spiritual dimensions and ultimately with Divinity along with his associates. These yogic aspects are described in the Vedas , in Bhagavad Gita krishna tells of who  the best of the Yogis .

The Darwinian mechanic scientific materialism is dismissed in the Bhagavad Gita,  wherein Krishna speaks of those in the lower speculative modes who consider themselves matter.

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It’s always good and healthy to be grateful.
By the interventions of Sri Guru , Mahaprabhu, and Nityananda, our Aprarabdha and prarabdha karma are being  dissolved, and everything changes .
Devotees who engage in assisting ISKCON or any Gaudia Vaisnava branches can be sure  Krishna protects them all  from the influences of the material world and inconveniences due to astrological or karmic influences that inevitably arrive , but these are minimised or nullified.  Krishna also  maintains devotees , the devotees have a lot of special things to think about and meditate on, unlike the fruitive worker who is forever thinking of money , fame , adoration , profit , and distinction . Thus, the sincere devotees are not anxious and are forever grateful to the Lord and His devotees , for their medative lives and spiritual contemplations.

This mindset can  be applied to any persons who are  genuinely following  theological cultures and who always seek is some way or another to assist others in ways that can bring good fortune . Everyone is entitled to and able to receive good fortune, which comes along  with good sense and good intelligence,  and I don’t mean academics.

Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has appeared in this world and He displays the good fortune that everyone can take , He appears for external reasons and internal reasons . Similarly the devotees have their external responsibility to assist in helping Mahāprabhu in His external mission,  but they should also  relish internally and understand the depths of the treasure house of Gaudia Vaisnavism , that is essential,  this was  taught  and demonstrated by the Goswami’s of Vrndavana , and as Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja would say Srila Rupa and Srila Ragganatha das Goswamis.

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Somewhere over the rainbow..

The great identity problem..

Many times, you’ll hear someone say ,” I can identify with that “

But who or what should we identify with ?  Our childhood, our youth , our middle age , or old age ?  Or how about our political leanings  ?  Which  political movement  suits us  ? left leaning,  right leaning, or centre ground ? Persons are forever  changing who or what they identify with . Sometimes someone is our friend sometimes the same  person becomes our enemy , sometimes someone is very attractive as a partner to us , and a short time  later we reject them , and find someone else . The Vedas indicate that the minds   business is forever accepting and rejecting the sense objects . This world of ever fluctuating duality has to be understood , and the real observer should learn to advance the consciousness to a state beyond the duality of material life . When we examine the disturbances of dualities  , we  begin to realise such states  occur because of excess and our own  selfish motivations , we , at that point  can climb higher in consciousness and begin to contribute real  happiness to others , without  selfish calculations .  Ultimately, it is undertaking  sacrifice as the utmost principle in contributing  happiness centred on  Divinity that the Vedas point us all to , no more local or provincial interests , but the satisfaction of Krishna . Such actions are like watering a tree , necessarily all the leaves are satisfied. Sacrificing for the  sake of others without considering my own feelings is an elevated state .  You’ll be pleased to hear such a sacrifice becomes very rewarding as the universal material and spiritual energies work in such a way that nothing goes in vain .

The Vedas encourages us to dive deeper into states of consciousness and explore a different sorts  of happiness , a happier  state of mind , beyond  sense satisfaction that even animals can easily obtain . The Vedas encourages us to consider whether we are boy , a  girl , young , old , black , white , rich, poor, intelligent, or not so  , or are we just an  observer of such external conditions that are thrown upon us? And are we becoming overly  affected , because of selfishness and misunderstanding who we are .

Let’s see what Sastra say .

nāhaṁ vipro na ca nara-patir nāpi vaiśyo na śūdro
nāhaṁ varṇī na ca gṛha-patir no vanastho yatir vā
kintu prodyan-nikhila-paramānanda-pūrnāmṛtābdher
gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ

Translation

“ ‘I am not a brāhmaṇa, I am not a kṣatriya, I am not a vaiśya or a śūdra. Nor am I a brahmacārī, a householder, a vānaprastha or a sannyāsī. I identify Myself only as the servant of the servant of the servant of the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the maintainer of the gopīs. He is like an ocean of nectar, and He is the cause of universal transcendental bliss. He is always existing with brilliance.’ ”

This verse , with Vedic terms for our  different social positions and stages of life , offers an insight into the permanent identity of a soul in a  specific relationship with Divinity , This may be a little esoteric for many to understand,  but the principle is given , you are not the body , not the changing mind , not a  deteriating and frustrated intelligence , but something beyond material calculations , and this super subjective realm is understood by sacrifice,  and the ultimate sacrifice is one of pure service to Divinity , in a  cooperative spirit , with others who have similar goals. 

The Vedas delineate many other permanent relationships that have nothing to do with atoms , elements, or compounds or an ethereal ever-changing mind and intelligence.

The original consciousness belongs in a permanent identity, which is ever new and ever enthusiastic to exchange love and as the song goes

Somewhere over the rainbow

Way up high

There’s a land that I heard of

Once in a lullaby

Maybe your fairy tale child hood imaginings have something to them

Read the Vedas to find out yourself,  literally.

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Unless one understands the conclusions of Bhagavad Gita, which is “Man mana bhava mad bhakto “
“Think of me and  become my devotee.” These  are the words of Krishna.

How to think of Krishna ? Absorbed in the topmost levels of pure love in deep meditation is  demonstrated by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu in his absorption of the mood of Srimati Radharani , damsels of Vraj and their young assistants the Manjaris. This truth of the life that  Mahāprabhu experienced was  taught  the Goswamis of Vrndavana  , headed by Srila Rupa Ragganatha, and  they and their followers record and delineate everything in their writings . One may miss out on the essence of Mahaprabhu’ purposes for appearing and get caught up in the  many peripheral aspects of a progressive path of spiritual life , things that Mahāprabhu recognised in his conversation with Ramananda Roy , but kept saying ” this is good but is there more “or ” that is also  good but is there more”

Everything of this conversation is in the Caitanya Caratamrita and Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has translated it to English along with explanations to all the peripherals and the essence of Bhakti yoga

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