Greta Thunberg

I really do hope Lord Nrsingadeva steps on to the freedom flotilla, at least for a while. I very much appreciate Greta Thunberg as she rightly calls out bad leaders . Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada would often do the same…. “Rascals “he would say , the majority of them ,and the majority of the scientists “cheaters “. Greta is extremely intelligent and a real humanitarian , she puts herself on the line and stands up for what is right .
May God bless that ship and all who sail in her .

If every international charity and even more locally well situated charities like BBC children in need followed the inspirational and practical actions of Greta Thunberg and her team with their own flotilla’s , that would send a message to the world “leaders ” , of course they are not .  Humanity lives on in the people of the world and not in ” Democratic ” so-called leaders .. I suggest such charities immediately make such plans  and do something constructive .
Religious organisations can also do the same, including Jewish ones who oppose Zionism in its extreme forms.

One simple tweak to societal arrangements will cure the problems of mankind…

What is that .?

The administrative classes , the politicians, should have no direct relationships  with the business classes either for funding or advice . Instead their sole advisors should be the scholarly intelligensia who are very much connected to those that understand the philosophy of science and consciousness , who are familiar with Theological cultures , those  who possess the vision of seeing the true equality of all beings ..
Vote in administrators , provided they are administered .

Prince William and David Attenborough are completely wasting their time addressing hypocritically based conferences addressing the state of the ocean attended by the those  very political classes, and paid for by those global conglomerates , both of who are the persons and companies responsible for the state of the ocean . Deep sea mining for metals used for a computer age has already  started ….we have seen nothing yet , the world has arrived at a critical moment. God has given us the real intelligensia. We must give them  empowerment .
Better the Prince invites Greta Thunberg to the Palace along with her activists…..but he will be forbidden to do so . http://www.thevedicspectator.com

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By serving the pure representatives of Divinity and by accessing their thoughts , writings, and teachings , all that one once was is gone and all that one is eternally destined to become unfolds itself.
The past influences within the material energies no longer have any taste for such a person, and a new enthusiasm builds for the ever new , the highest taste always defeats the lower .
Krishna, in His Bhagavad Gita, explains the perfection of yoga , the therapeutic process systematically leading one to the absolute truth..

Lord Krishna..

visaya vinivartante
niraharasya dehinah
rasa-varjam raso ‘py asya
param drstva nivartate

SYNONYMS

visayah—objects for sense enjoyment; vinivartante—are practiced to be refrained from; niraharasya—by negative restrictions; dehinah—for the embodied; rasa-varjam—giving up the taste; rasah—sense of enjoyment; api—although there is; asya—his; param—far superior things; drstva—by experiencing; nivartate—ceases from.

TRANSLATION

The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness.

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I suggest that when unthinking politicians declare religion has no place in political affairs, the public should immediately throw them out of their office.
Who are they to declare themselves independent of Divinity or assume they know how to guide societies better than He .
Take a look at the world led by unthinking politicians who are led by global conglomerates and a  cheating scientific community who are fond of presenting their subjective thinking as objective fact based science.
The Vedas indicates that indeed the theological intelligentsia do not directly lead society, but provide the ethics , morals and sciences of every kind in order for societal progression for everyone based on body , minds , intelligences and consciousness.
The current unthinking exploitative political classes cater only for the bodily demands in a consumer driven world where profits are king and the unguided people are slaves .

Who is who ?

Governance, compliance, and the role of an independent intelligentsia are very well documented in the Vedas.
Society was taken as a whole body.
Without the head , the body has no value and is going nowhere.
The belly , arms, and legs are all valuable parts of the body, no doubt when the intelligence is properly integrated .
Social mobility , consciousness mobility , and systematic and appropriate education for everyone have always been integral within the histories of the Vedic societies , and their applications are well understood by the intelligentsia.
Fraudulent persons , who do not understand the greater picture are posing as the intelligentsia and do great harm to society, but the checks and balances of who is and who isn’t a member of the intelligensia and what their symptoms are are also given within Vedas. .
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Fundermental truth applies at all times in all places and is interconnected and connected with everything.

Once one fundermental truth is  actually understood in full, all truths are understood . Everything and everyone are  connected to truth , nothing lies outside it , even illusions  and deceitfulness are indirectly connected to truth .

Krishna says, ” I am your only friend.” He further says, ” All beings are my parts and parcels and belong to Me, but they are currently entangled within material nature. ⁰” The relative karmic synchronicities are all connected to an original absolute truth

The expression back home back to Godhead should be understood carefully, and the philosophy of the Vedas provides a full analysis of who we are and what a  permanent home looks  and feels like . The absolute truth is understood only if He wants Himself  to be known to  someone. Otherwise, He is not known and indeed He remains the biggest mystery to mankind.

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Srimad Bhagavatam contains the Sruti , the Smriti ,  Tantra, and Purana.
Srila Jiva Goswami has accepted this authority as bone fide epistemology . Anything outside of that as being  not transparent truth , but at the most , mixed speculations that may or may not bring one closer to understanding absolute truth . The absolute  truth is  spoken in the Bhagavad Gita, by Lord Kṛṣṇa,  and subsequently in the Srimad Bhagavatam and the Caitanya Caritamrta, which is regarded as the post graduate study.
Anything calculated utilising the 5  ,(the sences ) the 3 (mind ,intellect or speculations) or the nine , (senses along with sensual experiences) will be tainted with material calculations and it will forever fall within the conditioned modes of material nature.
Trancendental topics are described as Pure Subdha brahman , knowledge in suddha sattva or pure goodness, untainted by lust , anger ,greed envy, and illusion pertaining to the body .
Such Trancendental vibration being empowered by Divinity and of the same nature as the absolute  . Divinity is always present within the teachings of the Sadhus,  Guru’s, and Sastra of the Bramha Gaudia sampradaya.  Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has begun to present these topics to a western audience, and his son Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja the spiritual master took matters further and Srila A.C.BHAKTIVEDANTA Swami , Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja disciple ,  has taken those matters and has made all our acaryas  teachings accessible and understandable to a world wide  audience in recent times .

While pantheism asserts that “all is God”, panentheism claims that God is greater than the universe.

Gaudia Tattva .
God is both the universe and not the universe , thus the full truth of Divinity is given in the Srimad Bhagavatam.

The following explains how different parts of the Vedas that are indirectly connected to  ultimate spiritual emotions have been utilised by the great trancendental scholar Srila Rupa Goswami.

Bharat muni  completed his Natya sastra , a study of the rasa of mundane love.
Srila Rupa Gosvami adopted some of the rasa explanation  of Bharat Muni to explain the origins of unlimited rasa  of the spiritual realm from the reflected version that we find in the material worlds , both  in higher , middle and lower planetary systems explained in the fith Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam.  Srila Rupa Goswami intentions were  to give some hint of spiritual rasas and the  tastes  of  a spiritual varigatedness with a spiritual body with a spiritual mind ,intelligence, and spiritual senses.
So  the technical sneha , mana ,  pranaya , raga , anuraga,   principles are explained  by Bharat Muni  and adopted by Rupa Goswami.  Of course, Rupa Goswami adds the further and higher realms of pure prem and spiritual bhava and mahabhava.  Higher explanation of rasa are   introduced by Rupa Goswami to take the subject beyond the conception of material rasa  that can be experienced to a fractional and limited degree in the material world  bringing our attention to the unlimited trancendental rasa displayed in Vraj , wherein the 64 excellences of spiritual unlimited qualities are displayed which are ever increasing and are ever new .

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Varigatedness of touch , sound ,smell, taste, and sight within matter is one thing . It is experienced differently according to ones acquired senses, everything that lives has this experience along with a particular thinking , feeling, and willing .
The spiritual kingdom is not lacking varigatedness, except the bodies there are made of the same energies as the consciousness. In the spiritual kingdom, you are your body permanently.
But with ever-increasing enthusiasm and no feelings of stalemate or bring satiated , the thinking , feeling, and willing are full of ecstatic bliss, and each relationship increases this bliss .
The Supreme personality of Godhead and the Supreme Goddess of fortune instigate such wondrously playful pastimes.
One can not stop feeling thinking or feeling, that is the nature of the soul , the soul is consciousness.
Although it is a fact that the impersonal effulgence of Divinity is absent of varigatedness and there one can merge into a satifying deep sleep, wouldn’t you rather be awake and active?.

In Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s letter to Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja, we get a hint of what’s to come.
To establish Krishna consciousness within society at large the Sankirtana movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu would move both in peripheral and cor ways, in doing so the internal are brought to the externals and the internal are brought to the external as the cor and peripherals interface.
The founder of the International Society for Krishna consciousness has set firm footholds, there is no going back , irresistibly all souls are being caught up, and the demons will be defeated
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Absolute math ..

Is 1+1 always 2

Actually.
In the absolute realm .

I+1=1 and 1 – 1 = 1
The calculations are based on the Vedic aphorism.

Inconceivably one and different.

Inside outside .

Everywhere but nowhere

Thus the original consciousness is not subjected to material calculations. ….

Einstein and spooky action at a distance also refers to one part of the universe knowing immediately what another part is doing even trillions of miles apart ..

The mechanistic Darwinian and those who consider scientific materialism as absolute have  to take himself out of their own limitations.. imposed upon him by the laws of  time and nature , it’s a fact that only a tiny percentage of light frequency is observed by humans , what to speak of a limited mind and intellect.

The limited can not calculate the unlimited except if the unlimited allows it . If the unlimited could not allow the limited to know the unlimited, the unlimited would not be unlimited….

By the  unlimited mercy of the unlimited the limited can know something of the unlimited.

In Bhagavad Gita Krishna after explaining plenty of detail of the complete makeup of man , consciousness and material nature within a multidimensional universe declares ,” This is just but a spark of My splendour “

The Darwinian mantra for liberation

Math is everywhere everything is math ….
If they chant this 1008 times per day .
The acceptance of subjective speculations subside .
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Trancendental love and trancendental logic are the gifts of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu , He bestows these  gifts to His  devotees of  the param para systems of association . Such devotees  vibrate trancendental pure sound and trancendental logic, and their writings  further present them and explain them .

The Goswamis of Vrndavana, headed by Srila Rupa Goswami and  Srila Ragganatha das Goswami , as well as Srila Sanatana Goswami and Srila Jiva Goswami who had further elaborated on the presentation and scholarship of Srila Gopal Bhatta Goswami have all demonstrated personally the trancendental love and logic of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu which is the essence of Krishna consciousness . This is liken to the new testament , in that Mahāprabhu is revealing the mysterious and glorious trancendental attractions between Radha and Krishna to its fullest extent ,something that had never been fully revealed previous to Mahaprabhu’s appearance.

This revelation of the glorious position in trancendental love that the Manjaris offer in service in assisting Radha Krishna is refered to as Radha Dasyam. The Manjaris assist  Srimati Radharani in many wonderful ways to assure that Radha Krishna can experience their trancendental loving affair under all circumstances where union and separation occur in sometimes unpredictable circumstances and that bring the great trancendental waves of blissful emotions both in union and seperation.

The Gaudia Vaisnava’s reflect on  these trancendental affairs through the writings  of the Goswami’s who  appeared with Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu as Rupa Goswami and Ragganatha das , they are Manjaris of Srimati Radharani and left their association through their direct  followers and through their writings in the form of Sastra sanga.  Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur  , Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja desired that this love and logic be widely distributed.  In  recent times, Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami has brought this to the attention of the world.

The traditional Gaudia Vaisnava teachings, along with all their branches and histories, are all unfolding , like beautiful lotus flowers .

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You can’t “moralize” your way out the material worlds.

Ultimately, sets of morals and ethics could be said to be like yogic practices .  Voluntarily controlling one’s mind and senses , for the benefit of one’s own self  mental well-being, and other’s mental well-being.  It can be understood as a  commitment to a higher cause , other than animalistic uncontrolled exploitation  for one’s own personal sense gratification .

The uncontrolled mind and senses are actually a great danger to us , warnings are  discussed elaborately in the Bhagavad Gita by Lord Krishna who says our minds that cause our  actions can be our greatest friend or our worse enemy. Although , in Western cultures, we are repeatedly given the narrative time and time again   to accept  libertarianism as a great device for real freedom. This is foolhardy.  Western litratures , the arts , social media, and mainstream all bring this idea to the forefront of everything.  “Take your mind and senses,  and do what you will …freedoms to do what you like , is a  great  happiness ,don’t let anyone or anything bring any form of  suppression ” You live once and die once is the underlying message.

The Vedas give an entirely different picture of freedom. Freedom from the material mind and material senses and an aquiring of a spiritual mind and senses if the goal . If  you put iron in fire, it acts like fire .  Ultimately, to gain association with Divinity and regain our spiritual identity, one has to learn to love God and understand His qualities and become familiar with His form and activities along with all His associates. The platform of yogic practices, as well as  morals and ethics, are an  essential step in freedom from the dictates of our conditioned nature . One automatically experiences a higher taste in a spiritual dimension , so lower tastes are automatically discarded .Bhagavad Gita discusses that path . Divinities association along with His associates , is so trancendentally intoxicating , and with grace and humility one can  be fortunate to receive it ,  but not if we are proud of our morals,  ethics and learning without God , or if we  consider rather proudly,  Divinity owes His love and reciprocation to us because of our practices .  All pride has to go . If one feels himself low and unworthy , the highest consciousness of Divinity is attracted because in love, there is dependency.

So , cut glass or diamonds?

When one has a liking for diamonds, the cut glass is automatically discarded. By Chanting the names of Divinity in a humbled spirit, one can begin to enter the Pastimes and activities of the Lord .

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Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur had commented that someone with pure intent should lead the chanting of the Holy names.

When it comes to understanding Krishna consciousness in its depths,  that will depend on our Sadhu sanga and Sastra Sanga each dependent on each other , without Sadhu sanga there cannot be Sastra sanga,  without Sastra sanga there cannot 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
śraddhā ratir bhaktir anukramiṣyati
Synonyms
satām — of pure devotees; prasaṅgāt — through the association; mama — My; vīrya — wonderful activities; saṁvidaḥ — by discussion of; bhavanti — become; hṛt — to the heart; karṇa — to the ear; rasa-ayanāḥ — pleasing; kathāḥ — the stories; tat — of that; joṣaṇāt — by cultivation; āśu — quickly; apavarga — of liberation; vartmani — on the path; śraddhā — firm faith; ratiḥ — attraction; bhaktiḥ — devotion; anukramiṣyati — will follow in order.
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
śuśrūṣoḥ — one who is engaged in hearing; śraddadhānasya — with care and attention; vāsudeva — in respect to Vāsudeva; kathā — the message; ruciḥ — affinity; syāt — is made possible; mahat-sevayā — by service rendered to pure devotees; viprāḥ — O twice-born; puṇya-tīrtha — those who are cleansed of all vice; niṣevaṇāt — by service.
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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