Become expert at cleaning..

Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has brought everyone the process of congregational chanting of the Holy names , this trancendental sound purifies the atmosphere of the world and brings real intelligence to see things as they are . Chanting the Holy names congregationally or personalised jappa is both the means and the end of a perfection of spiritual life . Cleaning the heart is the essential task , and Mahāprabhu showed a wonderful example in His pastimes when  cleaning the Gundicha temple that is recorded in the Caitanya Caratamrita with extensive commentaries by Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada . He relates within his writings the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas thoughts on the processes of purification. Unwanted things are carried life after life , careful cleaning is needed and where to clean within the deep subtle heart and mind needs to be learned by those who are expert cleaners , all offences must be given up , not expecting respect or a following and giving respect to everyone is the key to success in chanting and reaching the esoteric trancendental planes of Krishna’s eternal pastimes with His family and friends .
The conclusion of Bhagavad Gita is “Think of Me become my devotee, ” Krishna says it, and Mahāprabhu demonstrated how to do it .
man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
mām evaiṣyasi satyaṁ te
pratijāne priyo ’si me
Translation
Always think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend

Here is overview..

“The Gundicha Temple cleaning, or Gundicha Marjana, is a significant annual ritual before the Rath Yatra, where Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His devotees thoroughly sweep and wash the temple, symbolizing the inner purification of the heart from unwanted desires (anarthas) to make it a fit place for Krishna. This act involves meticulous cleaning with brooms, water, and even personal garments, teaching devotees humility and selfless service (seva) through dedicated, loving effort.
Significance & Symbolism
Inner Cleansing: It’s a metaphor for cleansing one’s own heart of pride, envy, and selfish desires, much like cleaning the temple’s dust and dirt.
Spiritual Practice: The physical act of cleaning becomes a form of devotional service (seva) that helps remove anarthas (unwanted desires) from the heart, preparing it for Krishna’s presence.
Example of Lord Chaitanya: Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu personally led the cleaning with great enthusiasm, using His own clothes, demonstrating the ideal mood of selfless devotion. “.

Srila Rupa Goswami, in his writings, has given a thorough understanding of all things related to heart cleaning,  and Srila Ragganatha das Goswami’s book Sri Manah Siksa takes the matter into practical teachings and in other of his books the spiritual realms are revealed

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The real question is the “big bang”
The cause of the cause . The result was
Electromagnetism, gravity, weak neuclar forces, and strong neuclar forces.
From this combination came the atomic energies forming atoms that bring forth elements and compounds of every kind .The four fundamental forces are at work throughout the macro universe, the vastness of which is beyond our comprehension, and these same forces are at work in the microbial world of the virus .Sir Fred Hoyle said that someone has monkeyed with the universe . He said it’s too much of a coincidence that so many carbon atoms were spat out .The universe is not like a huge tumble dryer throwing matter around that is reacting in chance random ways with the four fundamental forces , as well , the four fundamental forces did not randomly throw atoms together either , this is the thinking of those that follow scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis Lea Cronin likes the tumble dryer examples.

It beggers belief that our leaders in science really expect the public to accept that whilst the “universal tumble dryer” was spinning, and keeps spinning in random ways , the interaction of the original four fundamental forces with their subsequent subsidiary forces, the atomic realms , began to spit out and continues to spit out the perfect  DNA codes for  every species of life . The information as to the origins of the big bang is unknown,  it implies a creation,  the origins of information is unknown,  it implies intelligence.

The constant nature of the constants are yet another mystery.

One thing for sure matter does not move on its own , when consciousness is present, matter gets moving , when we say nature we should say who’s nature . Forces may seem impersonal, but the power of force also  has a personal  element in our experience. The forces of the intellect are carrying this message via light waves , and carried man to the moon some say .

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The mysterious external energy of Lord Krishna needs much thinking about His Bahiranga sakti that covers the tatastha sakti, but that can never cover the Lord Himself or His pure devotee or the eternally liberated souls . The energy of independence and self-centred lust is accompanied by many subtle ingredients. The Svarupa Sakti ,Antaranga sakti is another matter , dedication , devotion , i.e. that of having no separate interest apart from sacrifice to Divinity and His trancendental entourage ,where pure blissful loving exchanges are described with spiritually surcharged senses , beauty, and love .
Ever-increasing ocean of trancendental bliss where in waves of ecstacy rise and fall .
It’s no wonder that one with such access will never ever be affected by the imitation, like broken glass can be mistaken for diamonds by a man caught up by intoxicated selfish greed .
We must understand why the lower energies are in existence and how there is no comparison to the highest , but they can look similar mysterious as it sounds.

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Only hope , hope against hope , as Srila Rupa Goswami says , is if  the world wakes up to the messages of the Vedas as defined by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. These all encompasing messages have been delivered by Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami which touch on just about everything that is valuable to mankind,  AC Bhaktivedanta Swami  offers hope as well as systematic and progressive education in all feilds creating social and spiritual mobility for everyone.  Its up to the current and later generations to elaborate on this Vedic wisdom and formulate them into practical teachings applicable to all classes of men in all circumstances. There’s no need to change much. Rather, just add this wisdom said AC Bhavtivedanta Swami.
Such is the Vedas , The congregational chanting says our acaryas bring immediate relief, a higher taste and supreme intelligence..
Will all this happen..?
Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and our acaryas say yes ….gradually it’s going on…

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You have heard of the individual and unique nature of a single snowflake, that alone is a difficult one to comprehend  seems incomprehensible. However, something that surpasses easily such a thought are the individual consciousness particles , each one of them is  experiencing unique conscious awareness . How many living beings , including all of the species, are on the planet at this moment.

What’s even more puzzling is that according to the Vedas, one person is simultaneously conscious of all of them , their bodies , minds and inner feelings.

Krishna, in His Bhagavad Gita, says this ……

Bhagavad-gita As It Is –

TEXT 3 chap.13

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.

An important point for us is Krishna says we must know our circumstances and how our body and mind is operating,  we must optimize our full potential not allowing the body mind and senses to control us , but we must control and tame them . We must also keep ourselves in the higher psychological modes of nature,  of which there are three , goodness,  passion and ignorance.

Krishna consciousness yoga practice means come to knowledge , and understand fully the circumstances we are in and why . Lord Krishna has given us the working manual of the body within nature , everything is discused , and both social and spiritual mobility is chalked out .We must understand it well and work  through it . Krishna is the engineer of the body and of the subtle energies , His purpose is served by helping us , and our purpose is served by helping Him ..

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God is easily detected by His Brahman or paramatma features, also known as His tatastha sakti and the workings of the Bahiranga sakti ..
These are the consciousness and organisational structures that surround us , that we have little or no control over .
Divinity is the Supreme engineer controller and originator of all of these energies. Thus, birth , death , old age, and disease are uncontrollable by us , as are the laws of nature or even the tiny fragments of consciousness that do ,say, and think what they please moment to moment .
We have no idea what is going to happen in one minute.
Understanding our real predicament and wondering why it’s come about is the beginnings of knowledge and the beginnings of the way out of the Bahiranga sakti and the entrance to the Antaranga sakti the Sakti of freedom and permanence..

There is strong scientific evidence for three main energy sources..
One is matter itself , consisting of atomic particles, one is consciousness that is present within the atomic particles that form different bodies and finally there is an unseen and unknown energy which is providing the laws of nature along with its precision and organisation in perfect ways seen as perfect math and symmetry as well as codes and informational exchanges within the processes of the structural engineering of body assembly .All the laws of nature have an unknown source , at least the followers of scientific materialism and those that except the Darwinian hypothesis .
The Vedas call these energies.
The Bahiranga sakti , the tatastha sakti and the Antaranga sakti ..

Scientific awareness and Christian teaching..

It’s a theological speculative hypothesis that someone goes to heaven or hell after one life ….

Hell is a broad term , it means many things including the here and now .
Einstein rightly says religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame. …
Thus one who understands consciousness scientifically and sees it in every creature as well as mankind is in knowledge. The question the Christian has to address …what’s consciousness doing in all bodies and what is the symptom of the soul , the Vedas clearly says consciousness. Thus thou shall not kill unnecessarily.
God is a rational being , how can God send someone to hell eternally , the Vedas say this means one stays in the cycle of birth and death …..

“Jesus speaks about eternal life in heaven for believers and a place of torment/punishment (often called hell/Gehenna) for the unrighteous, notably in the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25:31-46), the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31), and teachings in John 3:16-18, emphasizing belief in Him for salvation and judgment for disbelief/evil deeds, though interpretations vary on the immediacy or nature of the afterlife. “.
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What are the origins of magnetic forces , how did they come to be the way they are and functioning so precisely and critically ,  they are “all important ” with many uses that are known and many no doubt unknown.  Electromagnetic forces are just as much a mystery as the origins of Dna information. Although scientific communities study natural phenomena and utilize these various energies, they have no idea of their origins or how the constant laws  remain constant or how the Dna  information within the genome came about .
The Bhagavad Gita tells of the cause of all causes  and that everything is designed purposely and perfectly. Nyaya logic says when we see smoke, we know there is or was fire . Similarly, the sane and humble person submits to the logic of if it looks intelligently designed, it probably is , every ancient theological culture speaks like that . Thus, Einstein says religion   without science is blind and science without religion is lame . God must be a rational person and have ways to communicate with us, but at the same time, he  grants  and respects our free will .

Consciousness is one question, and what one is conscious of is another .
Everyone is conscious, including the birds, bees , insects , animals, and fish , but what are they conscious of.. What is shaping their consciousness and why ?, what is shaping our consciousness and why ?
Can we be conscious of something others are not conscious of , or can others be conscious of things we are not conscious of ?…sure ….

Thus , the Vedas says we must study consciousness and bring it to its full potential, its a gift of the human form of life that everyone can take advantage of .
By connecting to the unlimited consciousness, the limits of conditioned consciousness become greatly expanded and enhanced . The process of this enhancement is given in the Vedas . It moves one systematically from ignorance to passion to goodness and finally to pure goodness called Suddha Sattva .
The Bhagavad Gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam give us the analysis .
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami has translated and given comments to all its verses

Bhagavad Gita 9.10

Translation

This material nature, which is one of My energies, is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, producing all moving and nonmoving beings. Under its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.

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“Light frequencies encompass a vast continuous spectrum beyond just atomic electromagnetic frequencies. This spectrum is typically divided into several regions based on increasing frequency and energy, including radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. “

The original spiritual energy emanating from Divinity is called the Brahmajyoti. The whole of the spiritual worlds are built of spiritual energies the ” trancendental electromagnetism ” one might say …

AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on a morning walk says this …..”Prabhupāda: Yes. And that is confirmed in the Brahmā-saṁhitā that yasya prabhā. Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagadaṇḍa-koṭi-koṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi vibhūti-bhinnam (Bs. 5.40). This creation, all the whole creation, even this material, that is depending on the brahma-jyotir. Therefore, it is said, sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma. Everything depends on the brahma-jyotir. And that is confirmed also in the Bhagavad-gītā: mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni (BG 9.4). This mat-sthāni means..”

The electromagnetic light energies and all light frequency contained within the material universes as well as within atom is devolved from its original sources.

Like light waves having various features and functions within the universe , it’s not too difficult to understand other unseen or undiscovered elements  or dimensions of light within a multidimensional universe that emnate from this Brahmajyoti,  as, for instance the mysterious dark energies and dark matter .

Atoms are thought to have different formats say some physicists, a counterpart , there are various studies taking place , but beyond the difference in atoms are the constructs of a spiritual kingdom with spiritual varigatedness and beauty beyond comprehension.

The Vedas paints the picture of a multiuniversal material universe as well as the unlimited spiritual universes . Light energies of all qualities and forms are in existence.

We can never limit nature,  what to speak of a spiritual nature.

We are like tiny fire flies gazing out at billions of universes , but within  each, our  and everyone’s conscious  is being facilitated in unlimited ways , one chief conscious being is the facilitator in whom the multifarious energies exude as the bliss and consciousness increases .

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God has many, many  facilitating and functional forms , He also has responsive forms to particular circumstances , and of course, His glorious Lila pastimes forms . His original form is  the Supream personality of Godhead Lord Krishna , He is the original Supreme personality of Godhead . God is described  within the Vedas as being complete, more complete, and most complete, and this is reflected  in the way He reciprocates with His devotees . In Vrndavana, Krishna displays His most complete original form along with Srimati Radharani and all His family and various friends.  Srimati Radharani is the original Supreme Goddess of Fortune who  expands  Herself to bring unlimited blissful pastimes for the pleasure of Krishna who reciprocates accordingly.
The Srimad Bhagavatam and the Caitanya Caratamrita explain all these trancendental events ,  both of these works have been translated and commented on by Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and are available to read in English as well as other Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas.

Schrödinger, the famous physicist, thought there was only one mind ……much akin to Sankaracarya and the impersonal school

In that sence its a fact that Annirudha , the portion of Visnu , is the total material mind , that the individual living beings are covered by  and utalise in materialism.   However, the original pure spiritual mind has its spiritual independence and individual capacity . The  full meaning of simultaneously and inconceivably one and difference is exhibited in a spiritual realm .
Srila Jiva Goswami says we should not overstate the oneness or the difference in any of the realms . Conditioned natures exhibited in this world mean a greater covering  of knowledge and an illusion of freedoms , one’s full potential is suppresed by our own attractions to an illusory energy.
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Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has commented that someone with pure intent should lead the chanting of the Holy names . In leading the Holy names, one may enter and realise  something of a relationship with Krishna or a particular lila, and in congregational chanting , the Names  brings the awareness of everyone’s spiritual natures in one way or another and a purity and humility ensues.

When it comes to understanding Krishna consciousness in all its depths, it will depend on our sacrifice, our Sadhu sanga , and our  Sastra Sanga, each dependent on each other . Its a  decending process, and its by grace , all unwanted things should be removed by deep prayer .Without Sadhu sanga, there can not be Sastra sanga,  without Sastra sanga, there can not be discernment in Sadhu sanga.

The following verses indicate the importance of pure association and how one benefits.

Mahāprabhu told just one moments association with a pure devotee is highly beneficial,  and warned against association of materialistic calculating people

The verse Tasmad Gurum  prapadyeta .11.3.21.Srimad Bhagavatam. Tells of those who have realised the proper conclusions of the scriptures.

The following should be throughly understood .

There are 1st class 2nd class and 3rd class devotees , the verses refer to first class and at least well progressed 2nd class devotees

3.25.25

satāṁ prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvido
bhavanti hṛt-karṇa-rasāyanāḥ kathāḥ
taj-joṣaṇād āśv apavarga-vartmani

Translation
In the association of pure devotees, discussion of the pastimes and activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very pleasing and satisfying to the ear and the heart. By cultivating such knowledge, one gradually becomes advanced on the path of liberation, and thereafter, he is freed, and his attraction becomes fixed. Then real devotion and devotional service begin.

1.2.16

śuśrūṣoḥ śraddadhānasya
vāsudeva-kathā-ruciḥ
syān mahat-sevayā viprāḥ
puṇya-tīrtha-niṣevaṇāt
Synonyms

Translation
O twice-born sages, by serving those devotees who are completely freed from all vice, great service is done. By such service, one gains affinity for hearing the messages of Vāsudeva.

We should understand that Sri Guru comes as both Siksa and Diksa and also to one who is purified by association and services. The Sastra sanga of the previous acaryas can bestow great blessings .

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