You will find in my accompanying essays much further history of  the Srimad Bhagavatam  which we are presenting along with the  history and the writings of His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , but here is an  introduction to the highly esteemed  trancendental works,  all of which  are well recognized by leading scholars worldwide , ISKCON has an Oxford branch , introducing Gaudia Vaisnavism to various departments in the Universities , along with the Proffesors .

In modern times, the word WHY is said to be the most popular word on Google it is  punched into unlimited keyboards on a  regular basis.  Indeed , unless the human asks , who am I  ? why do I exist ? What is my real purpose ? , one can  consider it a lost opportunity and a  waste of a human form of life . Consider ,  animals don’t have such  facilities of  rational , logical  enquiries .

With logic in mind , William Paley intelligently concluded that  someone finding a watch  whilst walking on  a Moor in the long grass , bearing in mind in 1850 many country folk would have never set eyes on a watch , on examination they  would naturally assume its fine engineering and design are certainly the work of a creative brain and exceptional   intelligence .  Isaac Newton thought that each individual thumb print of human being was clear  evidence  for individual design . The teleological argument ,  design permeates everything we see in nature  as  well as throughout the universe remains as strong as it ever did and becomes stronger as scientific research progresses . Studies of the entropy of the cell , shows low entropy,  meaning high organisational levels , but with high energies operating within the cell , usually high energy leads to high entropy , so that alone suggests a deliberation . The fine tuning of the universe , the   so-called goldilocks phenomena  , ie. that    everything is just right ,  not too much  heat ,  or too cold ,  much gravitational force is perfect ,  just the right amount of oxygen etc  etc .  These  are some  examples one can give , there are many more .

Certainly, the opening pages  of the Srimad Bhagavatam confirm this , the famous opening sloka declares Divinity is directly and indirectly conscious of every aspect of creation , a creation  that emnates from consciousness . Life comes from life… Molecules don’t move towards life , something brings them together.
The Srimad Bhagavatam  itself is a series of one to one conversations through time frames , there are dialogue partners , and these constantly  weave in and out of space time , over billions of years.  So  not in any  chronological order , and  there are references to appropriate histories and  certain lessons that can be learned either from Divinity Himself or His devotees . These are defined as factual events relating to Krishna and His devotees or illustrative stories , like  fables bringing home key and important philosophical points .

The Bhagavatam appears and dissappears in the long course of 311 trillion years of the set time of this universe, as much as the sun rises and sets and appears to appear and disappear.
The creator god Lord Bramha has  inconceivably 4.5 billion of our years as his 12 hours , its recorded in the Bhagavatam as he sleeps , a partial shut down of the universe lasting for  4.5 billion years begins , before being rebooted ,  although our total universe is trillions of years old ,  anc not all it is shutdown , only the lower and some of the middle planetary systems close up , the highest planetary systems remain.

Lord Krishna , who comes to reestablished  forgotten Dharma or principles of religion , appeared  on this earth  planet  5000 years ago, and when He left after completing His purpose the question arose what happened to Dharma ,  Dharma is a living thing , through ethereal energies it has a supervisory system,  if one acts within Dharma ones  life is reasonably fulfilled and peaceful and  progress and  elevation of consciousness takes place . If one acts  against Dharma, one  degrades one’s consciousness and becomes helplessly entangled  in reactions and sufferings of material conditioning .  The key to understanding the Bhagavatam is to gain knowledge and faith in Sanatana Dharma, the  eternal occupation of the soul , and  the symptom of the soul is consciousness .

Ultimately Dharma takes one to a place where consciousness can thrive ,  where it is surrounded by consciousness energy , and not deteriating and fluctuating matter made of atomic particals …….The sages ,who question  Sukadeva Goswami , in the Bhagavatam,  were told that when Krishna leaves  this world  , after His activities,  Dharma and all its directions  take shape in the form of the Srimad Bhagavatam.
Everything for mankind is contained within its pages , and the expert person Bhagavat is able to extract and understand its mystery,  and they  give applications to  particular time , place, and circumstances . No matter who we are or what we are , progressive steps are chalked out for every section of society .
It is said one who does wrong or suffers wrong is wrong , and Krishna always favours good Brahminical council that  brings  justice to all proceedings in  administrations , without which there is always  turmoil in society  reflected in the functioning and workings of the planet . Today, we see unnecessary suffering  and deliberate  misguidance brought about by so-called leaders who are absolutely not fit to lead . One who studies the Srimad Bhagavatam will bring  great security  and wisdom to himself as well as his or her family . History science and religion are all essential ingredients to life , otherwise , mistaken ideas develop, leading to misfortune.
Wherever there is Krishna, there is always great fortune and victory.
Krishna lies within all the pages of the Bhagavatam directly or indirectly.

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Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja once  said that he wished for the greatest good  for those who regarded him as their  greatest enemy .

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is considered the most magnanimous incarnation of God , He is distributing  something of the understanding and feelings of a  most exalted state of consciousness ,  The most blissful and compassionate consciousness of the Supreme Goddess of fortune , Her inner state of mind ,  along with the supporting consciousness of  Her associates , the manjaris.  This supremely good fortune is an unlimited and tumultuous ocean of the Love , the love between Radha and Krishna . It is said that just one drop of this ocean of love  can inundate the entire universe.  This wonderful gift for mankind can be seen in this way ….. It’s like offering the greatest of fortune descending from the highest plane from a spiritual realm and then  freely distributing it to the most fallen and degraded persons  , it’s called  causeless mercy , or mercy above justice ,

The highest planes  of spiritual truths have been discussed by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu in his conversation with Ramananda Roy in the Caitanya Caritamrta , along with the progressive paths that lead  to it .

If we examine the all the relative paths that lead to the most magnanimous path  offered by Mahāprabhu,  we will find they are all useful tools and each one is valuable in its own right , but nevertheless , we should  set for  ourselves the highest  spiritual goal and the greatest of all expectations in this  life ,  and this is  being miraculously offered to one and  all  , both those qualified to receive it and those who are not . These trancendental mysteries are  understood only  by coming into the association of those who have tasted the sweetness that Mahaprabhu  is distributing,  just one moments association is enough to connect us .

To understand this process , one should read and understand the Caitanya Caritamrita , AC BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI has translated it and given explanations .

Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur is one of the great writers of what’s referred to in the Vedas as trancendental rasa .

It is said material life is like oil in water , meaning our permanent consciousness is a different substance than what it is surrounded by , namely ever changing matter in all its forms both subtle and gross . Spiritual kingdoms can be compared to oil in oil ,  means the whole spiritual kingdom is made of consciousness energies , so consciousness and the land it lives in is of the same recipro catory substance .  Playful trancendental emotions are played out by extremely charismatic trancendental personalities  in ever new and ever enthusistic ways the absolute nature means intense  emotions become  palpable literally , and Pranaya the oneness of sharing trancendental feelings is experienced in full .When Krishna hears the gopies try to  explain what they are doing in  what He considers His flower garden , their voices alone send deep ripples of ecstatic emotions through His body . Once  He was watching Vishakha, click her nails together, and waves of ecstacy entered His heart . What to speak of when the Rasa dance begins and the greatest of spontaneous musicians begin to uniquely perfect newer and newer musical combinations , and newer and newer expressive dance and glances begin to playfully exhibited by the gopies. These spiritual glances are full of the emotions of the very soul of such persons and they are directly felt by others .

We should remember this world and the best of its artistry and the  best of its cultures and behaviour are  a fragmental preview of the super subjective realms  of the eternal Goloka Vrndavana , which we are all welcome to explore , the Vedas give us access and yogic processes

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Globalisation and industrialisation are obviously based on  unsound and unscientific principles of  knowledge.

It’s impossible that everyone can live with the same recourses and paraphernalia , there are not enough materials on the planet to go around , but still, the marketing powers and the wealth of global conglomerates are such that no governments world wide can stop this out of control fast train to disaster for societies and the environments and the creatures that live within them , nothing is spared , the power of the green back , and its status is all that counts .

Poor people work themselves to the bone in third world countries so their governments can export  important minerals to the USA , and their respective governments receive prices of green paper , called the dollar.

The whole world economy is based on fragile balances and dishonest dealings and actually faith , we have to remember USA is 38 trillion in debt , if all is debtors ask for the loans returned,  USA could not do so .

So this economic model of global  economics is a fairy tale existence, unfair and unsustainable,  the Vedic systems based on individual countries taking care of their individual societies along with preservation of family traditions, cultural traditions and their  theological sciences  , living with respect for nature and all living beings along with equal and fair trading based on Gold or  aspects of bartering should be reintroduced in time . Sanity should prevail , and the intelligentsia should put out  this  fire of control greed . How so ? History will show us clearly the destination of empires that have been based on unsound and ungodly principles.

You are not intelligent,  but you have a degree of intelligence given to you .  Applying intelligence intelligently is crucial, and it should be done in logical and rational ways . It is  said a proud man , thinking himself intelligent can hang himself by his own intelligence,  so humility is the first asset that a really intelligent person possesses and Bhagavad Gita lists humility at the first symptom of a wise man .

If we look at the various species of life , incredible intelligence is present within each creature,  the weaver bird is able to construct such a wonderful home for family affairs,  the bees can produce perfect math in their honeycomb systems., so intelligence is present within all beings , its a given intelligence unique to each species.  An intelligent person will consider this with applied intelligence and come to the conclusion that any  given intelligence  causing any intelligent arrangements must  originate from intelligence , and that is confirmed in Bhagavad Gita .

As the Nyaya logical systems suggest in simple ways , where there is smoke, there is fire , that’s intelligence , if one thinks otherwise , one would conclude the person has lost his intelligence.

The Vedic Culture stresses understanding consciousness and its source, and it calculates that above intelligence is consciousness . Every particle of consciousness has a given intelligence , even in the microbial world , there is an accepted microbial intelligence.

Mankind is so proud of his big buildings and structures throughout the world , and spends all his time formulating various structures or computer technologies. Thinking himself intelligent,  yet foolishly forgets to understand consciousness , or proudly thinks that the arrangements and intelligence in nature or that are  present in all creatures is simply chance events of physical laws , thus He hangs himself with his intelligence and wastes his life constructing things , that he will not be able to enjoy , because death will arrive very quickly.

One of the most important statements in Bhagavad Gita is when Krishna says , I will give you the intelligence to come to Me , He says that because His illusory energies are impossible to overcome

Some followers of Vedic culture misunderstand the position of the leading  artists in society , be it musicians , painters ,   dramatic actors, or writers .

They should all be considered learned and like the Vipras in Vedic culture, ie .scholars of philosophy,  some can be considered Brahminical who have further understood consciousness and the position of Divinity.

When the classic music of any culture is played , it brings one to experience human and perhaps emotional states beyond the humans , a glimpse into a greater experience of being , music of the soul .

Music and it’s formation is highly mathematical like the universe around us , physicists have discovered atoms  give of vibrations , perhaps the original sound of  “let there be light and life ,” as the Bible says , remains reverberating within the creation in various scales .

So , yes, artists , particularly creative artists , should never be thought of as belonging to anything other than the philosophical classes and great  thinkers who inspire society to think  and look differently at the world.

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Bring the mind back ,? But where should it be ?

” From whatever and wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the Self. The nature of the mind is flickering and unsteady. But a self-realized yogi has to control the mind; the mind should not control him.: “

THE greatest of the psychologists should be consulted , the personality who originates the material mind , via His Annirudha expansion coming from  His Mahavishnu form , that’s Krishna.  If we really want to understand psychological processes and the processes of the  mind, it is many fold . In material nature , a mind spends a lot of its time in the duality of the material world , accepting and rejecting objects of the senses , based entirely on selfish actions , either directly selfish , or selfishness connected to family , friends  , community or country . A sane man follows ethical moral  behaviour and laws of the land or theological texts using intelligence , however, the mind is strong .

The minds activities allows for a  free reign its also influenced by previous lives , the free will wonders into the material energies and within  the  universal responsive universe wherein the many possibilities of the quantum atomic plane automate the next stage of our life . What the mind wants , takes time to manifest , it may take years or many lives to come to fruition,  , thus the  finer ethereal plane of a mind , reacts within a universal order  , which   manifest as  the classical plane that  we currently experience and the lives  we lead , all these  activities are the complexity of  karmic synchronicity influences , the astrological influence . It means things happen in our lives we did not bargain for , but our minds contemplation and our actions always  bring reactions,  good or   bad .  As such, the Supreme psychologist must be consulted so we can all understand ,  just exactly where our minds are best situated , thus, Krishna speaks Bhagavad Gita ,and gives the ultimate rundown on mind and psychology.

That’s a complex topic to understand. It also comes  with a range of  relative answers , according to a prescription that is appropriate to a particular state of a conscious being . The Supreme psychologist Krishna, in His conversation with Arjuna on the battlefield of Kuruksetra, touches upon all the ranges and methods of controlling and understanding the mind . The Vedas elaborate further on these topics of psychology.

Divinity brings wisdom and knowledge to everyone , that’s His kindness

One who knows that Krishna knows all bodies is in knowledge.

ksetra-jnam capi mam viddhi
sarva-ksetresu bharata
ksetra-ksetrajnayor jnanam
yat taj jnanam matam mama

TRANSLATION

O scion of Bharata, you should understand that I am also the knower in all bodies, and to understand this body and its owner is called knowledge. That is My opinion.

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When the individual consciousness makes a choice to go it alone and become an independent enjoyer , an artificial position in reality , because everyone needs someone to enjoy with .

Krishna’s wish was that we had  turned our attention toward Him , because Krishna , is the most expert at enjoying and has all the qualities to enliven everyone unlimitedly , so for our happiness He desires us to associate with Him and His associates.

Nevertheless , we decided to” go it alone,” and in so doing, all facilities are given , that are contained within the fourteen planetary systems of our material universe.

The individual consciousness finds itself wondering, wondering in and out of these systems,  picking up various pious and impious credits or penalties , and throughout the course of time,  burning them out by enjoying pious credits or suffering due to penalties , thus constantly accruing and shedding results of actions

This automated system is in place and supervised like a gigantic universal AI system that connects our consciousness to our activities and attitudes . The physicists Bohr , Schrödinger , Feynman , and Einstein of  Teller would understand easily this system , the Darwinians and the scientific materialism” lot ” cannot accept , although every ancient culture you can think of , agree fully or partially with this Vedic truth of consciousness.

It’s interesting that good or bad actions are stored within consciousness and within the responsive universe,  they are said to be those we are experiencing now , those in the near future and those far ahead of us in our futures .

We can understand there is so much order in the physical universe along with its laws ,perfect math is seen in nature , down to the codes in the DNA systems building bodies  tailor made to suit , take this thinking and logic   a step further by understanding an ethereal plane, a  self selection system , and future combinations of atoms , elements and compounds that are  coming our way , as well as certain attitudes and other types of consciousness association ..

Read Bhagavad Gita as it is,  AC BHAKTIVEDANTA Swami.

He explains everything perfectly.

In Vedic writings, there are many accounts recorded , giving  details of how inevitable degradation of society takes place ,  and how Krishna in His various capacities and incarnations has to repeatedly reestablish correct management , governance , compliance and risk assessments  by putting back in place the original systems of administration that He originally intends for mankind , but which become degraded , because of misuse of  free will and an overly independent self seeking enjoying spirit,  that leads to suffering and exploitation. Millions of years of the history of the ever fluctuating degradation of society are written .

The intelligentsia of the Brahminical order are meant to remain pure , detached, and spiritually strong , in that way keep intimate contact with Divinity and have deep insights into His desires and wishes for the direction for mankind .

When such pure hearted persons are correctly situated,  the Kings,  leaders, and administration as a whole automatically listen to their directions and greatly respect their wishes , the problem comes when the Brahminical order , in time becomes week and currupted for many complex reasons,  at that time the Kings and administrations feel they should take exclusive power , without having to consult the Brahminical order .

This leads to an increase in passion and ignorance in society because such kings and administrative orders are too inclined to establish kingdoms on earth, and forgetfulness of spiritual direction occurs .

In time the Kings become currupt and their ministers seek to replace them , thus governments and democracy take over , this causes further degradation and a further step into ignorance,  because mere political administrative persons are even more inclined to forget spiritual affairs and increase material affairs and take society in the wrong path .

History shows that such mundane administrative orders having no spiritual or proper wise king to guide them , seek guidance instead of money men , because money makers can easily currupt low class administrative persons , in todays world Globalist and international conglomerates own the world and introduce scientific materialism,  liberalism , false educational systems teaching scientific matters in tainted subjective ways , and in general,  such Globalist have not a clue of the deeper meaning or potential of life , and the ruin , ravage and pillage the earth and destroy communities and countries.

Take a look at the world.

ISKCON are pointing these things out and have solutions and systems to reestablish order back into society and they have the process of how the brahman order can easily remain pure in current times

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Aug 24th, 2024

Ethical trading is an important term , just how ethical , ethical trading is , one would have to research the traders and financiers that make such claims.

What is the Vedic veiw of trading currency, commodities , oil, stocks and shares, an in depth study of micro and macro economics is needed , along with  trading standards,  practically speaking the public are unaware of what goes on behind closed doors,  with micro second trading and the easy access to groups of persons setting up insider trading , its common knowledge  the dark Webb is full of deceptive crooked persons making the most of such  facilities to exploit , with very little legislators or law enforcement looking into such dodgy dealers , they can very easily make a fast buck and cheat others . Unfortunately, this is all far too acceptable in current times, and central governance is lightweight, with lobby groups working to keep lightweight legislation loaded in their favour .

The Vedic view , simple , if knowing that others are being exploited ,  one turns a blind eye , casting  ethics and morality  to one side , one becomes implicated and the slice of the financial action comes along with a slice of  a different kind ,  karma . For instance African farmers being cheated in  the commodity market, with deliberate and fixed artificial fluctuations in prices , caused by  greed for  money ,  such as buying up vast majority of certain commodities as conglomerates and monopolies , paying the farmers poorly,  then holding such commodities , not selling  to cause artificial shortages , thus causing inflated prices , to sell later , its all unethical trading . Persons who loose money caused by insider trader information, is obviously common place  , anyone benifiting in an  existing port follio , will be  implicated , karmic reaction  is at work,   this is a universe   that runs  by compliance and governance,  with unavoidable administration powers from a super subjective realm .

The Vedic systems would thoroughly overhaul ,  simplify investments , making it more localised and beneficial for home nations and local businesses as well as  local communities ,and  not geared up for the global conglomerates.

Because  Western democracies,  although originally having good intentions in the early stages , have become infiltrated and overly influenced by conglomerates and global finance companies, global financial powers now rule over the political classes , actually, they run rings around them , such conglomerates and global finance companies can afford to pay some of the smartest people and they have trillions of dollars to invest in computer technologies and now AI .which is not understood by standard politicians. Both the political classes and the global conglomerates have no idea where their buisness models are going long term, and what effects it has on the communities or the environment or the stability of finance for individual countries. If one listens to Sandra Boss , chair of black rock UK. You will see how she runs rings around the political committee who is supposed to regulate what her company does .

Democracy has lost its way , the original idea is to vote for good leaders , but unfortunately nobody knows what the qualifications of good leader are , and the  real intelligentsia are being silenced by the media companies who are owned by Globalist ,   every one of them political animals , so  now  free thinking journalists are few and far between.

The Vedic reformation, which is under way, will educate people to see through deceit and redirect society for everyones progresssion and benefits.

Aug 24, 2024

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