When Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited His trancendental lila and the Six Goswami’s were preparing the world for Krishna consciousness philosophically based teachings and life-style,  the progressive steps from sadhana bhakti to the spontaneously felt mellows of devotion , India was under the rule of the Islamic rulers,  although they were somewhat flexible and like the British who came later , the Islamic leaders worked alongside Hindu cultures . Similarly, when Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj were beginning to formulate plans to establish the teachings of Lord Caitanya worldwide,  the country of India was under British rule . So it behoves trancendental thinkers not to get too caught up in external events of world geopolitical ambitions of certain illusioned leaders who seek to dominate and Lord it over others . However,  culture and traditions and family values are important and should be carefully valued . The battlefield of Kurukshetra were about preservation of cultures and establishing the correct intelligentsia who could guide society.

So, a balanced view of spiritual consciousness and cultures should be made , the material world are full of conditioned souls who are clueless of the sciences of self realisation or of even objective sciences that points to precision engineering,  perfect math and symmetry within nature , that obviously should get people thinking,  who or what and when caused  this highly organised universe to appear and be maintained so precisely. The sun’s temperature is pretty constant,  how can that be , neuclar fusion is not the answer..

Anyhow,  the current geopolitical situation is becoming critical….and our leaders are mostly emotional unthinking fools ….but keep on with the higher ideals of trancendental affairs,  as Mahaprabhu showed that example,  as did Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj.

The pretence that Nato , in its European version ,along with its ideals, libertine cultures , and conglomerate financial backing , is not already at war with Russia , and daily assisting in organising attacks directly into Russia with intelligence sources and military experts will unravel very soon , the consequences could be shocking…cultures need preservation, .as one way of another things will be settled .
In 1997, 50 prominent foreign policy experts, including former senators, military leaders, and diplomats, sent an open letter to then-President Bill Clinton outlining their opposition to NATO expansion. “It is a policy error of historic proportions,” they wrote.

Conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan wrote in his 1999 book ‘A Republic, Not an Empire’, “By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century confrontation.”

The current director of the CIA, William Burns, said in 2008 that for Russia, accession to NATO is the brightest of all red lines.”

“I have not yet found anyone who would consider Ukraine in NATO as something other than a direct challenge to Russia’s interests,” he said.

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Krishna lila Mahāprabhu lila ..

The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have taught Krishna lila and Mahaprabhu lila are very similar but in different trancendental ways . Both Krishna and Mahāprabhu came to establish religious principles and both also  relished the loving relationships of the residents in Vrndavana,  however in that respect Mahaprabhu taught the principles of separation and union and Krishna demonstrated union and separation..In the highest realms of trancendental affairs the union can bring the fear of separation and an intense separation brings union , such is the workings of trancendance

In trancendental tattva in the highest trancendental realms, the two opposites meet .The Tattva of Union and separation are elaborately explained by all our Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas.

When Krishna was carrying out lila pastimes ,  He danced in the forests of Vrndavana, He gave counselling to the Pandavas outside of Vrndavana,   and famously He gave counsel to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra .  Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu also carried out similar activities, giving counsel,  preaching and teaching Krishna consciousness within all kinds of society members , from the greatest of the scholars of the day to the general public by His chanting and dancing that everyone could access . In the house of Srinivasa Acarya, deep meditative chanting behind closed doors where union and separation became one in esoteric Kirtan of the highest orders took place , and this eventually spilt out into the towns and villages of Mayapur and in other parts of India ,and the Sankirtana movements were born . The process of how to systematically advance in Krishna consciousness began to be taught to one and all , and Caitanya Mahāprabhu particularly instructed the Goswami’s of Vrndavana headed by Rupa, Ragganatha. In Jagganath Puri towards the end of Mahaprabhu’s lila He exhibited the highest realms of the Vrndavana lilas by revealing   the glories of Srimati Radharani in Her moods of separation from Krishna. The Caitanya Caratamrita brings full details of the glories of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Devotees of the highest order appeared with Mahāprabhu, as they did with Krishna .  So , both in Krishna lila, where union with the residents of Vraja  was predominantly exhibited and in separation  from them that was demonstrated within Mahāprabhu lilas in Mayapur and Jagganath Puri  , the devotees  exhibited  and relished these  highest of trancendental moods of Union and separation , that originated from Srimati Radharani,  who is the abode of love in Her dealings with Krishna the object of love.

The current devotees follow Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and become absorbed in their preaching activities,  but who are they preaching about ?

Thus, the most advanced preachers are living in two lilas, the lila of Mahāprabhu in Mayapur and Puri and the Lila of Krishna and the residents of Vraja . The Acaryas have written on the daily activities of Krishna in Vraja and the daily activities of Mahāprabhu and demonstrated this union and separation tattva .

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In current times, a country is measured by its wealth and not its culture, which is ignored . Europe built its wealth based on exploiting other countries and pilfering and later through unfare trade deals .USA has done the same , first through exploitation and pilfering and encroachment and later through unfair trade deals . In the multipolar world, a new sense of responsibility , a sharing, and a  cooperation is building , fair trade is key, and a  sharing of  technologies and resources . Let every country and culture prosper , the old UK , European, and USA days are over , Brics may well lead the way , and the USA are not liking it one bit. However ,  this is more the Vedic way.

Local people,  local industries , resources, and cultures are shared and respected . Everything is based on the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings,  although situated differently. In Vedic cultures, that sense of equality and respect and rights of existence were  extended to all beings ,including the animals,  insects, and birds . Everything is sacred because it is God-given, and God is situated in everyone’s heart . This type of  culture , based on scientific dualism and advanced understanding of consciousness, is practised and understood by the intelligensia . The intelligentsia are situated within every culture…more and more in a newly educated world people will come to understand them and turn to them for the desperately needed guidance,  currently we live in a world where leaders are teaching hatred and division
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Ugra-karma is a Sanskrit term that translates to “horrible,” “ferocious,” or “violent work.” In Vedic philosophy, it refers to destructive actions, exploitation, or work that brings great suffering and distress to oneself or other living beings.

The real explanation ,and this very much applies to Western cultures , with its libertine ideals , along with desperate searches for happiness . They think fixing what they see as a problem with what they think is a solution improves lives .Obviously, there are practical adjustments and improvements to everyday life , but the West has gotten out of balance.Take a close look at the supposed comfort and easier lives that a modern world brings , and see the huge problems that are a consequence. The motor car is a prime example,  oil , pollution,  wars , and whilst we sit in traffic queues  . One has to wonder if this is the best life can offer . A reality is quite different to what our scientific community have promised.  Life becomes more and more complex as the sciences try to make it easy . It’s the nature of the material energies ,  complexities occur when nature is interfered with and exploited or the creatures and environments,  the responsive universe kicks back . Nature is self-reliant and self-regulating in more ways than one might think  .Nature is conscious in its own right because it stems from the supreme consciousness. Nature functions perfectly well , no scientific community can regulate its symbiotic nature and  relationships . The Vedic way is simple living high philosophically led thinking, the Western way is complicated, expensive lives  of sophisticated animals,  and increasing destruction in everything we do, along with increasing material miseries and anxiety.  The vedas describes this as parvarga…. work hard , foam at the mouth , anxiety, fear , death ….Apavarga is the spiritually intelligent path , the sciences of self realisation.
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Sri Siksastakam

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ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha–davagni-nirvapanam
shreyah-kairava-chandrika-vitaranam vidya-vadhu-jivanam
anandambudhi-vardhanam prati-padam purnamritaswadanam
sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate sri-krishna-sankirtanam

Glory to the Sri Krishna Sankirtana, which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death. This sankirtana movement is the prime benediction for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the benediction moon. It is the life of all transcendental knowledge. It increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always anxious.

This verse indicates a process of cleansing and, as a result , a systematic development of realised knowledge an outcome of the carefully carried out  cleansing . It does not indicate an academic exercise where one thing is lived in the head but not in the heart .This sankirtana movement is all inclusive in terms of its attraction beyond all borders and cultures,  but its all-inclusive nature will prevade and  includes every area of learning , science,  arts , social sciences , political science economics.  This is because a pure consciousness that has realised itself as something beyond matter views the world differently and acts within the world with a different perspective,  priorities change , the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings brings  respect and humility. Leaders of humans currently are difficult to find , because when one is in darkness the light is not seen , ignorance breeds ignorance.

The ultimate” param gatim” goal of life is spiritual consciousness and spiritual consciousness that has realised  all phases of spiritual consciousness , this means ,  the all pervasiveness of Divinity,  the localised aspect of Divinity , and the personality of Godhead .  The benedictions of the Sankirtana movement bring one into a direct relationship with Divinity .  Krishna in His most complete aspects , within Goloka Vrndavana along with Srimati Radharani and Balarama and all His friends and family. The full spiritual varigatedness is revealed,  the origins of this reflected world are revealed, and the origins of the broad and extensive multidimensional universes which are exhibiting different aspects from the original reflection .

Religious

When a Christian or Muslim tells you you’re going to hell forever, you immediately know you’re dealing with clueless fanatics who are like the Jewish Zionist, all three are full of arrogance and pride they cannot understand the simplist of spiritual truths .
They should all be rejected, but you can ask each one of them can you point me to your most advanced pure scholars , you are sure to get a different statement as well as unity between all of their saints..lessons to learn …approach someone who knows and lives in truth , who humbly respects all beings and is very aware of the self evident truth of the equality of all beings , although situated differently.

Political

Demons and extreme capitalists are destroying everything…

Solution…let the intelligensia advise the stable and dedicated autocrat..
Democracies boil down to fools voting in fools and such fools selling themselves out to the ruthless capitalists..bring back localised free market economics.
Currently we have global conglomerates and fixed monopolies and a corrupted international money market, who trade the world away for their profits….at any cost , the result, war , death and destruction of the planet and its valuable and wonderful creatures that make up our symbiotic world .

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Every part of what we call nature , i.e. chemistry,  biology,  physics, quantum physics,  atoms,  compounds, elements,  light and radiation along with electromagnetism, are  interdependent and reactionary with another part of the whole , yet  at the same time each exhibition of nature is also complete in itself .The more the scientific community looks at nature, the more it reveals its complexity yet simplicity. The die-hard Darwinians and those following scientific materialism and its denial policy can’t quite yet bring themselves to the conclusions objective sciences are  taking them . However, in the Bhagavad, Gita Krishna says, ” Foolish persons think I am like themselves  and when they think of God they compare Him to themselves “

But can we compare Einstein, Bohr, or Richard Feynman to ordinary persons . Exhibited intelligence of every kind is on full display and in all species. The weaver bird is a first-class engineer and designer. Krishna, in His Bhagavad Gita, says what we see in nature of the universe is simply a spark of His splendour. Krishna, in the form of Maha Visnu, has spontaneously and immediately thought and immediately manifested every detail of every aspect of nature from the microbial to the planets and galaxies that surround our tiny planet , He has not sat af a desk puzzling for millions of years and finally come up with a working plan .

Now, although some find this incomprehensible,  still , look at the fingerprints of Divinity within nature . An artist ,  musician, or writer has a particular notable style with which they can be detected. One should use common sense and expand one’s thinking capacities , the human can easily do this,  children are very expert at it .

Can an ant understand a satellite,  its purposes and engineering?

But as a human, the supreme engineer says , He is with us  , He is the closest to us  , and interactions take place either directly or indirectly with us  , He is prepared to share anything with us .The ball is in our court , be in denial or start to share ..

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The un intelligentsia who are influenced by the lowest modes of nature , passion and ignorance have,  utalising those described in the Vedas as maya prakriti jnana , ( a so called intelligent person who knowledge is stolen by illusion ) these are the so called intelligentsia,  the guru like scientists , these scientific materialism speculative fellows  and as well teachers  of Darwinian hypothesis, are the ruination causes of society.  We have to remember Richard Feynman’s words , ” One can have a pocket full of Phds and still be a complete idiot “.

Certainly, such so-called intellectuals have cheated society in many many ways , they have led them down the proverbial garden path to the life of sophisticated animals . Lucy has the gait of an ape , she is an ape , she is no distant relative,  only in the minds of the cheating scientific community who present guessing as facts to children. Those children grow up to be political leaders and business leaders .Such overly influenced and unthinking leaders set policy and standards for society.

They are clueless about consciousness or the influences of the degrading modes of ignorance and passion that degrade the consciousness,  so much so that our leaders and political classes allow children and adults alike to be exposed to promiscuous life styles,  and children are exposed to nudity and porn . These degrading policies are in place because of scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis . There is a distinct lack of ethics , morality and sensitivity in leadership,  they are literally sophisticated and ruthless animals, who have no sense of consciousness,  philosophy, or the  psychological effects of woke libertine cultures,  that are based on scientific materialism .

They think that following neurons in the brain is freedom , however neuron firing changes when an addicted libertine takes hold of life and begins a life of regulations that lead to a peaceful happy state of mind , unlike street dogs agitated for sex and prepared to have sex at any time at any place and with any old dog that comes along .There is a vast difference between glass and diamonds . Superior cultures bring diamond like consciousness and pleasure,  inferia cultures based on bodily demands are glass , they appear like diamonds to fools .

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Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has left us many teaching through His activities,  dealings, and conversations . He was the original Acarya who taught by example . These verses of the Siksastakam are His teachings summarised and in one format,  and His conversation with Ramananda Roy brings more details as to how to perfect the Bhakti yoga process .

His verses..

Glory to the Sri-Krsna-Sankirtana, which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death. This sankirtana movement is the prime benediction for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the benediction moon. It is the life of all transcendental knowledge. It increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always anxious 
O my Lord, Your holy name alone can render all benediction to living beings, and thus You have hundreds and millions of names, like Krsna and Govinda. In these transcendental names You have invested all Your transcendental energies. There are not even hard and fast rules for chanting these names. O my Lord, out of kindness You enable us to easily approach You by Your holy names, but I am so unfortunate that I have no attraction for them.

One should chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind, thinking oneself lower than the straw in the street; one should be more tolerant than a tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige, and should be ready to offer all respect to others. In such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly.
O almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor do I desire beautiful women nor do I want any number of followers. I only want Your causeless devotional service, birth after birth.
O son of Maharaja Nanda (Krsna), I am Your eternal servitor, yet somehow or other I have fallen into the ocean of birth and death. Please pick me up from this ocean of death and place me as one of the atoms at Your lotus feet.
O my Lord, when will my eyes be decorated with tears of love flowing constantly when I chant Your holy name? When will my voice choke up, and when will the hairs of my body stand on end at the recitation of Your name?
O Govinda! Feeling Your separations I am considering a moment to be like twelve years or more. Tears are flowing from my eyes like torrents of rain, and I am feeling all vacant in the world in Your absence.

I know no one but Krsna as my Lord, and He shall remain so even if He handles me roughly by His embrace or makes me brokenhearted by not being present before me. He is completely free to do anything and everything, for He is always my worshipful Lord, unconditionally.

More on this later .

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Apart from the conversation with Ramananda Roy ,where Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu gets Ramananda Roy to reveal the Glories of Srimati Radharani ,  and in the last verse of Śikṣāṣṭaka, where Mahāprabhu indirectly Glorifies Her , are there any other examples of Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally glorifying Srimati Radharani…

Something that came to me ..and the reason why the Hare Krsna maha-mantra is not directly mentioned in the Caitanya Caratamrita .
Srila Rupa Goswami and our acaryas have taken that ancient Maha mantra , and via Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu have enthused the names with Radha Krishna nitya lila .and Madurya rasa as well as Parakiya and the other Rasas of Sri Vrndavana Dharma. The maha-mantra means Radha Krishna,  both Radharani and Krishna are prayed to and served , Mahāprabhu in the mood of Radharani would chant Hari and other names of the Lord .
Why is Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu not directly glorifying Srimati Radharani? because He is predominantly in the mood of Radharani, and it would be like Srimati Radharani glorifying Herself…Something She would never do …

Ai pulls up these examples from Sastra.

Apart from the famous conversation with Ramananda Roy and the 8th verse of the Śikṣāṣṭaka, Caitanya Mahāprabhu does personally glorify Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in several other places. Since Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Kṛṣṇa in the mood of Rādhā, most of His direct glorification comes out when He’s in bhāva as Rādhā Herself.

Here are the key examples:

1. In His prayers and lamentations at Gambhīrā, Jagannātha Purī
Caitanya Mahāprabhu spent 18 years in seclusion at the Gambhīrā. Biographers like Murāri Gupta, Svarūpa Dāmodara, and Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja record that He would constantly pray in Rādhā’s mood.

• “Rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir…” — the opening verse of Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Though written by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja, it states this is Mahāprabhu’s own understanding: He appeared to taste the sweetness of Rādhā’s love and to glorify Her greatness. So His whole incarnation is framed as glorification of Rādhā.
• Verses in Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya 14 & 15: When Mahāprabhu hears kīrtan of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa pastimes, He breaks into states describing Rādhā’s unique love. E.g. He says Rādhā’s prema is the highest, that Kṛṣṇa Himself cannot understand it without becoming Rādhā. This is direct glorification of Her mahābhāva.

2. In conversation with Svarūpa Dāmodara and Rāmānanda Rāya
Beyond the initial Rāya Rāmānanda dialogue, Mahāprabhu repeatedly asked them to sing verses glorifying Rādhā’s prema. He would weep and say no one can understand Rādhā except Kṛṣṇa Himself, and Kṛṣṇa can’t understand Her without taking Her position — which is why He came as Caitanya.

3. In the Śikṣāṣṭaka context
While verse 8 is indirect, the entire Śikṣāṣṭaka is spoken in the mood of Rādhā in separation. Verse 7: “yugāyitaṁ nimeṣeṇa…” is Rādhā’s feeling of separation from Kṛṣṇa. So the whole set is Mahāprabhu glorifying Rādhā by embodying Her mood.

4. In the Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta and other songs He relished
Mahāprabhu had Svarūpa Dāmodara read to Him texts like Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta by Bilvamaṅgala, which are saturated with Rādhā’s glories. He would go into ecstasy and explain how those verses reveal Rādhā’s superiority in mādhurya-rasa.

Core point in Gaudiya theology:
Caitanya Mahāprabhu rarely glorifies Rādhā using His “Kṛṣṇa” identity, because He came as Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa combined. His glorification of Rādhā is most fully expressed by becoming Her and tasting Her mood. That’s why Rāmānanda Rāya had to draw it out of Him — Mahāprabhu in Kṛṣṇa’s form is reticent, but in Rādhā’s mood He overflows with Her glories.

It appears that in Glorifying, Krishna, in the mood of Radharani,  Mahāprabhu is also , of course, even more so , i Glorifying Srimati Radharani .

Mahāprabhu has come to pay back the overwhelming love of Srimati Radharani, and her mood reveals Her glory.

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