Influential…

The more influential you are, good or bad, the more additions  to your karmic bank .

What you might  do and might say and  that affects others in various ways is your responsibility , and the effects are felt by others and ultimately by yourself in many unforseen ways . There are many witnesses the Vedas say unbeknown to many , the Demigods,  the Upadevas have ways and means of making observations,  the observer effect in the realms of quantum mechanics can be considered.  Ultimately, Divinity is situated within the hearts and minds of all , He is the supreme witness and the best of listeners and the best advisor.

Ultimately, trancendental life means becoming free from any good and bad action that binds one to the material energies . Although good is good and better than bad , it’s still not a trancendental action . In trancendental activities good can be bad and bad can be good . That needs understanding properly with maturity and not with the sentiments of a beginner devotee . Bhagavad Gita teaches any personal motivations cause endless cycles of rebirth  .

Acting exclusively for the pleasure of the Lord and his associates is something written of in the Vedas and learned from a pure devotee who is completely free from the universal cyclic cycles.

Bhagavad Gita gives the summary of this science of freedom from action .
Krishna says .
” One who sees action in inaction and inaction in action is wise among beings.”

Be sure …

Be sure you are being influenced by the right influencer .

So many seek to influence us  for their own selfish interests , and many claim to know the truth of any given topic .
How do they know they know .

What is their epistemology, or what are their motives , importantly what is their state of heart .

Bhagavad Gita indicates the symptoms of true expression and the qualities of those that express it .

Living objectively is important, but also accessibility to a super subjective realm and an origin of absolute truth will be essential, the Vedas indicates. .

Love and lust

The most essential feeling a child must have is love ..

Its the inherant nature of consciousness to love and be loved .

The origins of these feelings stem from Divinity…
The further one strays from Divinity, then love turns to lust .
The lust to be an independent enjoyer, it’s an artificial and impossible position.
Divinity Himself is the supreme autocrat and the most giving  person when it comes to love no one can give more or receive more . Although some say in trancendental tattva that the Supreme Goddess of fortune is the supreme giver and recipient of love , and Krishna is searching searching searching,  there is an eternal competition of love , Hare Krishna means an exchange of love .

That’s the Vedic way….to learn to love and accept love ..
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On a geopolitical note …

From the Vedic perspective, we can chime with those who advocate traditional theological cultures and family traditions .
But equally, the Vedic students understand the principles of non-violence . In Vedic terms, it means all around non violence,  and to every living being . The Vedic students are strict vegetarians , but putting that to one side , any Christian, Hindu , Muslim or Jew who is not calling out recent murderous campaign’s in Gazza and Africa by out of control atheistic leaders , or of those that may in their madness convince themselves God is on my side ,   killing  women and children with no regrets , they are at times  seriously misguided in their approach to scriptures .  If they are not called out , then religious persons are failing in their religious duty.
Defending ones homeland is  legitimate, of course,  so in those cases, warfare is sometimes necessary, and the rules of war are within the Vedas ,  as well as within international laws . No women and children, or non combatant persons, should be harmed .
In 2020 and beyond , Putin warned Nato not to move on to his Russian borders with militarism and attempts  to infiltrate Russian cultures with liberalism that threatened family and traditional cultures. The geopolitical scholars know he had legitimate concerns , which the current USA administration seems to understand.  It’s a Nato and EU  led lie that he wanted to invade the whole of Ukraine.
What Israel has done is  unacceptable by any sane man’s reckoning. The history of the Middle East is clear to legitimate scholars , and Palestinians have rights . Israel has been systematically taking away  those rights , and international law knows it and voices it .
The USA and ISRAEL Zionist movements are not God’s work . However, the extreme Hamas so-called ” Islamic ” response , killing civilizations, was demoniac.
Extremists are the work of the politically currupt who have infiltrated the democratic and religious world . They are sometimes ruthless businessmen who will stop at nothing. Even when brought to the international courts , they ignore rulings.  They will never admit to truths  . Bhagavad Gita gives the run down on the mind of such persons. Krishna speaks of the divine and demoniac qualities , a whole chapter is dedicated to that topic .
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Divinity is the original energetic source, and His energies are  of various kinds, ”Parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate” |”the Lord has a multitude of energies, and therefore He acts in multifarious ways.”  The individual particles of consciousness scattered by their own desires throughout the multidimensional universes are referred to as the marginal energies of the Lord . The responsive universes that capture them within the many possibilities  of an atomic realm are the inferia energies of the Lord . One fragmental particle of  consciouseness is facilitated by another conscious being . Divinity is everyones origins , as much as the sun is the origins of the photons of light particles .  Living beings have the same consciousness energies as Divinity, but are microscopic when compared to  Gods unlimited energies . Each living being express differently their individuality , both in the spiritual and material world . The material world is utilising material atomic electromagnetic energies  . In the spiritual realms, a ” spiritually based atom ” is at play . Everything is made of the same eternal consciouseness energies ,which are expanded into unlimited varigatedness, the Vedas say. We note in scientific circles that many aspects of nature are admitted to be unknown , and consciousness energies and what they are capable of is another unknown. The Vedas call the ” Spiritual atoms ”  Cintamani.
When the  marginal energies of consciousness leave the energetic source , their full potential are not realised, and they have to take shelter somewhere,  so they are facilitated and they become covered by the external inferia energies of the Supreme source of all energies,  Krishna.
These truths of the Supreme energetic source and the varigatedness energies are given in Bhagavad Gita , and the various explanations and comments of the Gaudia Vaisnava’s make every thing clear . Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada brought this wisdom to the USA in 1965.
The rest is history..
See ..this an example from science.

” When energy separates from its source, it becomes dissipated, meaning it transforms into a less useful or “wasted” form, most often as heat, though sometimes as sound. This dissipated energy spreads out and is transferred to the surroundings, becoming difficult to use for other purposes, even though the total amount of energy is conserved.

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This scientific perspective is also applicable to spiritual consciousness . If it leaves the association of Divinity, the potential of consciousness is dissipated as it enters the self-centred material world, and its spiritual bliss is covered by any number of material combinations of matter . However, the original spiritual energy remains preserved . When  it returns to the energetic source,  it can realise its full potential, also increasing its own blissful consciousness energies , in the association of Divinity and other particles of consciousness who thrive in such a spiritual state .

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Today, on Srila Jagganatha das Babajis’ Appearance day we can remember the trancendental position and importance of both Diksa and Siksa Gurus.

Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur was a Siksa disciple of Srila Jagganatha das Babaji,  who was in turn a Diksa disciple of Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur,  he in turn was a Siksa disciple of Srila Narottama das Thakur,  even though Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur had been born after Srila Narottama had departed the world. The Diksa Gurus of both Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur and Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur were also greatly respected by them .

The importance of understanding Diksa Siksa tattva is important,  and Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami in his books refers to it .

When understanding Guru tattva, we must always refer to Sastra . Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja says the Guru is self effulgent to the sincere prospective disciple.

Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur says in his commentary in Srila Ragganatha das Goswami’s Mana Siksa that we should regard the Goswami’s taught personally by Mahāprabhu as our own personal Siksa Gurus

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Flawed calculations…fooled again

According to a computer security expert, Ai will greatly increase cyber security breaches, amongst other difficulties it will inevitably bring us all . For instance, a shortage of high power memory chips , everyone should prepare themselves for a massive increase in prices for technology using such chips , cars , and smart phones included .This world means working hard and then working harder still . The Vedas say Purvarga …means work hard , foam at the mouth , anxiety,  fear , and death . Aparvarga means trancendental life and liberation from working like an Ass . Simple living and high thinking is the Vedic way .
The security expert said cyber attacks aided by Ai will be a daily feature of life in the increasingly technological world  , more fear , more anxiety.
Materalistic life means a continual struggle to avoid misery and to try to increase happiness , but in doing so, anxiety increases, and happiness is decreased . Happiness and distress like winter and summer seasons can not be avoided .
The whole basis for materialism and especially scientific materialism is flawed philosophically because of the obvious reality of dualism. Consciousness and matter are objectively seen and felt as two separate energies . What are we trying to make happy a body or our inner consciousness? Material energies are complicated  and are plugged into our consciousness. Karmic synchronicities of all kinds are played out , although little free will and deterministic consequences can change . The responsive universe sucks one in, and innumerable entanglements are in fast mode beyond the comprehension of any Ai modelling creators.
That’s the nature of the material world , every theologically driven culture knows it, and the Vedas examines it in detail.
Therefore simple living high thinking is the Vedic way , the peaceful way , and the most progressive and rewarding way for mankind.  Development of consciousness and becoming conscious of the origin of consciousness, and by the way ,  it’s not the primordial soup .

The complications come in life when we separate ourselves from the obvious intelligently made arrangements in nature .  The Renaissance period tries to separate the arts,  philosophy, and political structures  from its intended connections , Divinity, and higher consciousness. Art explains many things and should make everyone think deeply. Any artist attempting to deny  Divinity and  obvious Dualism and thrust scientific materialism to the forefront is not a clever artist but has sold out .

One should not ignore the obvious math , symmetry , coded information, or any of the  historical theological cultures throughout history . The objective sciences, in reality, are seen to bring the obvious to our attention and make it even more obvious.
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The mysterious goings on in Gaudia Vaisnavism

Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur was a magistrate who worked for the British Raja in the earlier part of his life during the later part of the 19th century. He was also a prolific writer and philosopher in his youthful days . As he grew older, he became more and more drawn toward the teachings of Gaudia Vaisnavism and particularly the conclusions that were presented by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Mahaprabhu had brought new insights into the trancendentally  mysterious lives of the Gopies of Vrndavana.  He revealed to the world the supreme position of the Supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani.

At first , Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur was puzzled about the extraordinary wonders of Caitanya Mahāprabhu , who was known to be a great scholar and Pandit . Mahaprabhu was most definitely a first-class scholar who could , for instance, explain the Srimad Bhagavatam Atmarama verse in 108 ways , which astounded all the Vedic intelligentsia . However Srila Bhaktivinod thought it , at least initially strange , that later in Mahāprabhu’s life , He had  became so absorbed in the  meditations and pastimes of Lord Krishna in Vrndavana , those of Sri Sri  Radha Krishna which appeared , at least  externally , as being quite  immoral , Srila BR Sridhar Swami tells us these recollection of the life of the Thakur.

Indeed , Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja , the son of Srila Bhaktivinod , was once questioned  by Lord Suthers  , who was a British government minister in the early part of the 20th century . Lord Suthers made the point in a question, ” That your Lord Krishna appears to be quite immoral. How is it that He is worshipped as God ? ”  Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja gave the perfect answer ……”that Lord Krishna’s activities in Vrndavana were a display of the highest morality.”

There are two verses , one in the Srimad Bhagavatam  and one in the Caitanya Caratamrita scriptures that need understanding in depth along with their  purpose . When one is able , after much  practice of devotional life and by the causeless mercy of a devotee of Sri Caitanya , understand these two verses  the mysterious nature of Gaudia Vaisnavism may  open up .

First verse is …

CC Madhyama 11.8

Greatly lamenting, the Lord then informed Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, “ ‘Alas, for a person who is seriously desiring to cross the material ocean and engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord without material motives, seeing a materialist engaged in sense gratification or seeing a woman who is similarly interested is more abominable than drinking poison willingly.’ ”

Then .

ŚB 10.33.39

Anyone who faithfully hears or describes the Lord’s playful affairs with the young gopīs of Vṛndāvana will attain the Lord’s pure devotional service. Thus, he will quickly become sober and conquer lust, the disease of the heart.

One should consult the mature Gaudia Vaisnava about these two verses and their trancendental mysteries and how the two verses can be reconciled.

It is a fact in current times liberalism has run wild , so practically speaking, how can one properly practice spiritual life in the Western world.

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Goswami Maharaja gave insights and  instructions. He would say all the beautiful ladies who are in this world  in their spiritual beauty should go to Krishna.  They have temporary borrowed plumes originating from Srimati Radharani from a higher spiritual realm . Such a reflection is a temporary show , borrowed plumes from an eternal reality , where diamonds are on show and not broken glass . This  trancendentally beauty and its playground can be understood with purified trancendental senses , senses that are engaged in eternal sacrifice  , with no separate interest other than serving the emaculate senses of Krishna .There is a competition of love between Radha Krishna  on full display. A perfect  exhibition of the origins of romantic love in a spiritual plane where selfish materially motivated lust has no place

Ultimately, the Srimad Bhagavatam teaches us that in spiritual life, there are no voids or impersonal energies but rather everything there is full of beauty and spiritual varigatedness ,  Krishna is the Supreme Autocrat and He  unlimitedly shares and exchanges trancendental bliss and beauty unlimitedly in ever new ways  , known as anuraga , and in innumerable ways the trancendental blissful exchanges increase and increase.

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Nov 8, 2025

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In India, Srila Prabhupada had little details changed regarding Deity services than those he employed in the West , Prabhupada was  conscious of local traditions and culture, particularly in Mayapur and Vrndavana.

Srila Haridas Thakur himself, although the most qualified to enter the temple of Lord Jagganath, did not do so ,because of his ” birth ” and certain sensitivity was shown by Srila Rupa and Sanantana Goswami’s because of their previous employer. Certainly, for preaching purposes, some degree of acknowledgement of local customs and cultural expectations should be considered.

The conclusions of the GBC in  ISKCON to recognise the position of Siksa Guru is sastric and, of course, correct , the Diksa and Siksa are non different  they represent Lord Krishna . Sastra says as  advanced Krishna consciousness developments occur it is mostly the case a devotee  will accept particular instructions needed for further advancements from a Siksa Guru who might be better  placed to guide a specific disciple in deeper aspects of Krishna consciousness , but not in all cases , sometimes the Diksa Guru is also the predominant Siksa .a devotee has one Diksa Guru, but there are no limits to Siksa . The sastra sanga is also Siksa , thus, Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur commented that one should accept the Goswami’s as one’s own personal Siksa Guru.

What’s important is the instructions and inspiration and the flow of trancendental Bhakti from one heart to another , and in trancendental tattva space time are of no consequence ,  if the consciousness is pure , humble and trained by the current links  mercy decends in many ways. The fact that the GBC in current times has taken into consideration Indian culture and, as such, placed on hold official Diksa services for ladies is not a major problem , providing it is for that purpose and not the purposes of downgrading ladies as inferia to men .The GBC appears to recognise the lady Siksa,  who in many cases could be more spiritually advanced than Diksa Guru, who is currently male . In my opinion, it could be that in the West , ladies could become both Diksa and Siksa Gurus because cultures differ, and it may increase ISKCON’S appeal  . That’s because, for sure , and times move on , ladies play a more prominent role in societies.   India will catch up to this reality,  but not quite yet .

As Prabhupada did within Deities services , ie . There were  slightly different standards regarding who could officially offer puja , mainly in Vrndavana and Mayapur , men can do so and not ladies , at least for the time being. This should also  be considered  and Diksa Guru services for ladies  in India openly on show could be revisited in five years’ time .

In spiritual life …..

There is the psychological approach , the philosophical approach and the Rasika approach, one without the other is not the complete picture of Gaudia Vaisnavism.

Thus the pure representative of Krishna is perfectly accomplished in all three , their characteristics are sublime they are well versed in understanding applications of the Vedas in all its meanings and he or she is an intimate servant of the servants in the spiritual realms of Vraj.
The qualities of the pure Vaisnava are clearly written by Srila Rupa Goswami, who was personally taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
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The Srimad Bhagavatam shows the importance of the philosophy of science , the Bhagavatam  itself summarises and gives accurate explanations either directly or indirectly to all known , and as yet unknown aspects of science yet to be discovered .Those aspects are particularly in terms of the underlying intelligence within the universe as well as its working through various agencies and also the ethereal subtle plane that the atomic reals sit upon , the foundations of the elements and compounds that are visible in innumerable forms . It is said in Vedic circles,  once one thing is known, everything is known . The Vedas teach that  sound is  the origins of a universal order , we can think of sound in many ways ,  as a desire to communicate or a  command or informational exchanges within coded systems . When it comes to understanding the atomic realms and the working of quantum mechanics , these are part of the makeup of a responsive universe. However ,there are finer particals of matter that interact with a subtle ethereal plane , a plane that covers an original pure consciousness, and places the covered  conditioned consciousness into the material energies .This is described in the Vedas and its where free will and determinism plays out in the algorithmic responsive universe.  Within the Vedas many other interesting sciences are explained for example,  measurements of time are indicated , the time it takes for the sun to pass over atoms are given as well as the 311 trillion years of a  universal expiry date . Bhagavatam’s emphasis is centred upon mind , matter, and consciousness as the full explanation of the world that surrounds us . The Bhagavatam is seen to corroborate what objective science discovers  but it also culminates in a full explanation and understanding of consciousness in its conditioned and liberated states  , its dismissive of atheistic scientific materialism.  Material energies within the universe at various points of its history within space time differ , time acts differently, and specific powers of the mind intelligence are developed to understand phenomena that at other times are not understood . Both within in our local galaxies and in the much greater picture of multidimensional universes .  Modern physicists , such as Lisa Randall,  the Harvard Prof. often describes our cosmos much like the Bhagavatam describes it, which is encouraging that some objective scientists can be truly objective and logical in their approach
The information within DNA along with the coding  procedures consisting of  a possible three billion combinations of letters within the 100 trillion cells in our bodies, has origins in Divinity . He is like the Supreme engineer , with His supreme intelligence . After all , information means someone who is informing  and purposely so . This  coded information is on both sets of dna strands and possesses data compression. In other words, many expressions from one set of letters at different times will be enacted , causing various changes in the body . Karmic synchronicities are played out , the Vedas indicates . Richard Dawkins was once asked for an example of  a mutation bringing new positive information to the genomes ,  meaning obvious transitions an example of macro evolution…..he could not give one example and after a long embarrassing pause asked for the camera to be switched off .
Mutations die out or are fixed automatically within the body building procedures. All this is common knowledge in scientific circles .
Information means intelligence. Just think of the combinations of 1 s and 0 s in your computer. All put there by intelligence design of a human , creating codes . Nyaya logical systems say if there is smoke, there is fire , likewise, codes mean a code giver an intelligent mind .

THE 3RD CANTO OF THE BHAGAVATAM CHAPTER 26 INCLUDES THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF MATERIAL NATURE .AND
THE MANY POSSIBILITIES OF QUANTUM PHYSICS IS PARALLELED AND EVEN MUCH  FURTHER STUDIES  BY LOOKING FOR ITS ORIGINS IN AN ETHEREAL PLANE .THE FINER ELEMENTS OF MATTER .

Chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra is enabling us , by the grace of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu , who brings with Him and bestows the mercy of the Queen of Vrndavana, who is the Supreme Goddess of fortune Srimati Radharani, to clear up our innumerable wrong choices from innumerable lives . We could say it’s a bit like going back to the “Tatastha regions ” where we as the Tatastha sakti jivas originated from , and once again having original spiritual choices granted. Being as Balarama, the first expansion of Krishna, is the origins of the Tatastha sakti jivas , its no wonder He has a part to play in the rescue mission as Nityananda prabhu.

The Tatastha regions  Srila BR Sridhar Swami says are the Brahman regions the spiritual light of the effulgent Lord .

Much more on this soon ..
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When Druva Maharaja left this material universe having been liberated from it by the grace of Krishna, this was after Druva had performed and perfected devotional services of various kinds . All these events have  been described within the Srimad Bhagavatam so we can  scientifically understand the processes of leaving our material bodies for good that bind our consciousness to matter . The proceedings of exactly how a living being sheds the material energies . In such cases, the material universes will stop responding  entirely to those  who engage in pure devotional services , unlike it will to those who seek to enjoy and live separately from God . Druva , consequently , left  behind all the material elements and their combinations from the  atomic realms that make up the elements like earth , water, fire , air , ether , and every one of their combinations that form the compounds within the machine like body . Druva also became liberated from the fluctuating material mind and the temporarily situated intelligence that deteriates with time . So ,the very constituents that make up the machine of the material body, one by one , he gave them up because he had no attraction for them, so they were permanently removed . He had experienced a higher taste and was transferred to the higher planes where  pure consciousness dominates and has a specific trancendental form to suit .

Albert Einstein’s  space time continuum hypothesis is very interesting and somewhat correct in Vedic sciences , if we look at it in terms of a responsive material universe and the many material  actions of the living beings centred around and utalising the gross and subtle energies for their own needs and that are  not connected to Divinity in pure ways . We could say the  living beings are leaving a kind of “print ” within the universal affairs within the ethereal plane that calculates the past , the present, and as such future facilities are offered by the ” algorithmic ” material energies they , the Vedas  say are supervised by Divinities agents the Demigods and the Updevas . However , Einstein thought that a gravitational pull that encircles the universe pulling  matter into  a sphere shape  had a  direct and immediate picture of our past and even futures , he thought by “jumping across”  the sphere like universe  at certain places we could jump back into our past or jump into a future. Thus, time he thought  would work at different rates of speed  at different points in the universe. However, time works at various speeds in different ways to what he suggested. The Mayfly lives for 24 hours but feels its life complete , thus, each species feels its life is full as much as anyones,  24 hours feels like 70 years psychologically. Time is relative .

Einstein although very intelligent was limited to matter , and engrossed within it not understanding fully or grasping   or contemplating an ethereal plane within a responsive universe  supervised by Divinity where one part of the universe knows what another part is doing instantaneously even billions of miles apart ,(spooky action at a distance). Albert Einstein had interesting thoughts but without understanding consciousness and its source or how the consciousness source also manifests multifarious energies both material and spiritual , that are one and different  simultaneously to its  originator , the cause of all causes , Divinity or Krishna , then the guessing goes adrift . So , we can say to Einstein, “That’s an interesting hypothesis, but no , space time curvature is not quite like that .”

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