Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.9

All occupational engagements are certainly meant for ultimate liberation. They should never be performed for material gain. Furthermore, according to sages, one who is engaged in the ultimate occupational service should never use material gain to cultivate sense gratification.

Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.13

O best among the twice-born, it is therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve by discharging the duties prescribed for one’s own occupation according to caste divisions and orders of life is to please the Personality of Godhead

Krishna explains in His Bhagavad Gita that everyone naturally has to work and that  one can not even maintain a physical body  without work .

In every species of life, this principle applies . No person or creature can stop doing something not even for a moment,  either physically,  mentally, or intellectually , making arrangements for eating , sleeping , sex and defending territories or gains all require work .

Thus, the practical Srimad Bhagavatam recommends a  therapeutic process of linking ones natural occupational activities in a sacrifice toward Divinity for the purposes of understanding original occupations and the origin of all activity. What ever you do , do it as an offering to Me , live your life dedicated to Me and searching after Me , maintain yourself in a sacrifice for Me,  utalising any excessive energies of funds for My purposes,  My purposes are always for the ultimate benefit of every living being .

This can be done either directly for Krishna and that brings the best of sacrifices or indirectly a slower but systematic progress towards Divinity the Vedas say.

The peripheral goals of the Vedas always link to the cor values of the Vedas . They should be properly understood and  be heard with attention from the pure person Bhagavat , meaning a person who has understood the Vedas and can properly guide.

Depending on one’s circumstances, one chooses a  path suitable that is linked to the Vedas and is  recommended by the saintly persons who are in knowledge. One should stay on the elevator of sacrifice and not hop off on one particular floor and stay there becoming attached. One floor may be suitable for one stage of life but not for all stages .. one must always move forward in sacrifices .

Everything about the Vedas is perfectly complete, and one can find completeness within oneself at all stages of life , but still be forever increasing in knowledge and sacrifice.

The complete systems of social sciences are fully described in the Srimad Bhagavatam from start to finish , all kinds of people at every stage of their lives are facilitated , and the Param Gatim , the ultimate goal of pure loving services to Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead is elaborated on in full .

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The Vedic moon ….
Sadaputa analysis is that in an astrolabe model the moon is shown last on the layers of orbits , so it looks like the moon is further away than the sun , but that is just a feature of the astrolabe model.
Srila Prabhupada sent Sadaputa prabhu to South India to consult the followers of Ramanuja Acarya regarding details of 5th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam
So Prabhupada never claimed to be an expert at everything in cosmological matters and wanted Sastra evidence from the Vedas that Sadaputa collected and analysed along with other Vedic texts .
The multidimensional universe can mean the moon is most definitely a heavenly realm within one plane of Vision.Its moonlight flavours the vegetation according to the Vedas , as it transforms the suns rays to moonlight rays . The moons’ powers also pull the oceans’ currents, and it’s seen to affect the minds of the conditioned souls . In the tenth Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam the moon causes Lord Krishna to enter the most romantic of all romantics ,Rasa dance , He sees the beauty of the Gopies faces in the full moon ,and romance floods the reals of Vraja .So the moon is no ordinary lump of rock .
But conditioned senses and souls attached to the material atmosphere will not see or have any insights into these aspects of the moon .
Like bulls tethered to a post , they are limited in everything. Prabhupada says.
So , if they did land on the moon ,and the jury is out , but , the moon according to Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami’s Surya siddhant litrature , is 238.000 miles away , they may have landed ,and could simply only see rocks and collect dust ..and not its heavenly features.
Unable to enter into the other higher realms of the heavenly planes, that takes development of consciousness.
Prof Lisa Randall PhD Harvard Prof, writes on the multidimensional universe, akin to the Bhagavatam , recognition of planes of existence not seen with our senses .Her branes Hypothesis, as in membranes,.
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What Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja has taught, amongst many things, is that the Smarta Brahmanas of India who have gained their position by previous sacrifices propelling them in their Aprarabdha karmic synchronicities into their current Prarabdha state , are in danger of degrading themselves due to pride and misunderstandings and thus they are building up within their Prarabdha state further Aprarabdha karmic synchronicities , and pride and arrogance lead to degraded future Prarabdha states .

Meanwhile, those in poorer Prarabdha states , but who accept wholeheartedly the pure Vaisnava into their hearts and are engaged in devotional services under their direction are surpassing any influences of conditioning of their Prarabdha states , and are being propelled either into a highly elevated Aprarabdha state in future destinations or as Mahaprabhu has decreed to immediately enter the spiritual kingdoms.  Thus, the power of the Holy names is exhibiting the power  to bring the lowest classes of persons , who ordinarily could not have expected to be immediately elevated to the platform of a top most Vaisnava, beyond even the topmost  Brahminical person, in trancendental terms , but when magnanimity is in the hands of Mahaprabhu the meaning of the world is fully expressed and exhibited,  the very highest of spiritual culture is handed down  to the lowly of persons.

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Great cultures throughout history have always left their mark on society literally, by construction of huge buildings, all over the world you will find such structures which keep the memories of the cultures and their teachings alive .
Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada has done wonders all over the world in innumerable and incalculable ways , none more so than the under-construction Temple of the Vedic Planetarium (TOVP), designed to be one of the world’s largest Hindu temples. Sadaputa prabhu one of ISKCON’S greatest PhD scientists had said this temple is the greatest challenge to the speculative ramblings of those societies world wide who teach scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis as fact based sciences, the cheating sciences, in the sense of guessing presented to vulnerable school children and students as facts .
The great multidimensional Vedic universe is being presented and the sciences of Dualism, mind , matter, and consciousness. This temple is a direct challenge to the world veiw of the majority of the planet .When this science is accepted, the goals of life and economic priorities change, and the world and its societies and people’s can be rebalanced as respect for one and all will sweep throughout the world.
Is there anything that Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada could not achieve?.
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The simplicity of the Vedic messaging is apparent within every text , somehow or another recognise and connect with the cause of all causes , the master of the material and spiritual energies .  Everything anyone does or thinks or intellectualises over is contained within His energies . We have borrowed plumes and borrowed energies granted and bestowed . There is not one of us who is unable to fully connect and fully understand the master of the multifarious and multidimensional energies  that surround us . By sacrifices of many kinds that are mentioned in the Vedas , various aspects of life’s gifts are realised . Everyone should connect to a  sacrifice in one way or another . However, one should be careful and understand the gifts of goodness that are awarded by sacrifices are meant to be used for further gains , and not self centred glory , if not used properly the results of sacrifices can easily degrade one’s consciousness plunging it back into ignorance and passion and away from the progressive goodness , which is its real purpose.

The path of the Vedas is meant to bring us to connectivity to all things and all beings that result  in an illuminated , humble, and respectful heart . In that consciousness, we are able to approach the supreme personality of Godhead Hrisikesa, the Master of the senses and the bestower of the results of sacrifices.  The culmination of all sacrifices brings one the greatest of fortune, which is the blissful association of the Supreme Goddess of Fortune and all the residents of the spiritual kingdoms whose lives are forever associated with Divinity in ever new and increasing blissful exchanges in a playground of spontaneously felt love towards each other .

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Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur indicates in his Bhagavad Gita purport chap.4 text 36

That if one has been able to acquire knowledge of mind , body , and consciousness to a standard of at least Brahman consciousness , ie. The   knowledge of the consciousness as separate from the material body , known as dualism,  then bliss and peace are established within the heart , and there is no longer hankering and lamenting  or chasing down sense gratification . Knowledge is acquired by sacrifices,  and the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita enlightens us in all processes of sacrifice. Another key feature to knowledge is that it destroys Aprarabdha karma , future sufferings that were due , because the karmic chain has been broken,  the senses are no longer functioning without control like an animals. Senses out of control is the cause of the responsive universe awarding further karmic synchronicities.

Although Aprarabdha karma is destroyed through knowledge, Prarabdha karma is not , so karmic synchronicities follow from previous conditioning in the current body , however Bhakti pure knowledge of devotion to Krishna and reestablished devotion destroys Aprarabdha and Prarabdha karma.

Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has brought to this world the easier process of sacrifices,  of knowledge and of pure Bhakti.

Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami explains all and has spread this process all over the world and some of the most sinful persons have very quickly become knowledgeable of Bhakti and devotion to Krishna. By Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu mercy, a lame man can walk , a blind man can see, and a dumb man can compose eloquent poetry.

Knowledge of a higher plane , some trancendental insights,  some faith , and some mercy decending from a spiritual realms can carry one a long way .

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Both Lord Sri Krishna and Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu acted in similar ways , but Krishna predominantly in Union with the residents of Vraja and Sri Caitanya in separation from them . Krishna also exhibited separation from Vraja in His Dwarka lila pastimes , but again, in His Kurukshetra lila , He met them all again .

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 , the residents of Vraja  and the residents of Dwarka,  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 , spilt out into the towns and villages of Mayapur and in other parts of India , and the process of how to systematically advance in Krishna consciousness began to be taught to one and all . In Jagganath Puri towards the end of Mahaprabhu’s lila He exhibited the highest realms of the Vrndavana lilas by revealing  some of 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 in Union with the residents of Vraja and in separation within Mahāprabhu lilas in Mayapur and Jagganath Puri  , the devotees  exhibited these moods of Union and separation .

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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Bg. 18.61 Bhagavad Gita .

īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
hṛd-deśe ’rjuna tiṣṭhati
bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni
yantrārūḍhāni māyayā

Translation
The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.

Krishna has spoken clearly objective science, and by scientific exploration of mind , matter, and consciousness, this scientific truth, as it is , is  discovered and understood . There is much evidence in the world , clear evidence of precision engineering and perfection in engineering design. Consciousness exploration and psychological sciences and the subtle energies bring further evidence of how the machine of the body is carrying consciousness . Life comes from life .

The scientific community convinces itself, and others, it is bringing education to mankind , but education means you must  know a topic . If you don’t know the topic , then admit it’s guessing . In the case of scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis, it’s bad guessing and not scientifically led objective observations.

What do they refer to as education ?
Basically,  accepting,  without any real evidence, random mutations originating from the primordial soup , the common ancestor model , of microbes spilling out of chemicals . Although they cannot  bind chemical combinations in synthetic chemistry very easily at all , little success . In chemistry, everything is ordered as much as the Dna coding or the atomic realms that are governed, i.e .,, according to protons in the atoms, it results in a specific element… In chemistry, binding chemicals together is very, very difficult. So, there is no chance mixing  involved but rather precision chemistry . It’s a fact molecules dont move towards life or are seen to mutate in a purely unguided and random process that somehow follow a  particular environment they mysteriously found themselves in .These life  events all around us , according to the Darwinian, are random chemistry,  random biology and random physics that holds everything together , where chance events in the universe produce , gravitational pulls and the precise mix of atoms and elements,  with carbon as the predominant element.   Everything’s we see and experience in terms of living things , including plant life . However, logic and rationale are part of an education system,  with that in mind can we suppose one billion monkeys typing on one billion typewriters for one billion years could  produce a perfectly punctuated page of a Shakespeare script, including the spaces between the words.
The dna coding and the informational exchanges by mrna molecules are akin to highly sophisticated engineering technologies and are producing the protein like machines in the cells and specifically shaping them using those  codes  producing bodies in every species of life . Regarding common ancestry,  same engineer, different engineering is the Vedic truth . So , as much as the robotics assemble plant in any factory will, according to information of a computer chip , programmed by an intelligent source ,  assemble a specific part of a machine , that is what we objectively see in sciences.
Where there is smoke, you know there is fire , or it just been extinguished .Whenever you experience information and a sequence that is functional..
You naturally assume something….that a consciousness is at work .
What is the difficulty?
Micro evolution, meaning exchanges of dna within species and variations according to an environment, that’s acceptable and Vedic.
Macro evolution brings us back to the billion monkeys.
Of course, unfortunately, at schools and universities ,scientific materialism , and Darwinian hypothesis is taught as fact based science,  thats unfortunate.  Everyone should consider  dualism,  mind matter, and consciousness as separated and entirely different energies.
We experience the adult body, and the childhood body has long gone , as your current body will change drastically and quickly. . In a space of seven  years, a completely different body is built as all the cells change, you, the consciousness experience this , the body is not you ..

The natural vedic learning process..

If we conform to the good principles in life as taught by the good and pure over many many  generations , these  universal principles and easily recognisable , instinctively we come to understand this depth of knowledge of the consciousness. Irresistibly knowledge builds on the back of piety. In humble spirit, we will see the benefits of learning from others in every  walk of life . Because of previous practice of consciousness cultivation, many greater persons both in karmic , philosophical jnana , or Bhakti pure devotional attitudes  can help us along . This was the beauty of the  original Varna Ashram systems that peoples good fortune were recognised and shared and accepted with others .This overarching principle of life is a valuable asset for everyone to know .  This good fortune originates from  the Vedic intelligensia, who are  pure in heart and mind and well studied in the Vedas in all its formats .
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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 , so in Vedic terms, it means all around non violence , 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 non godly persons who are atheistic leaders in reality , but in  their madness convince themselves God is on their side , are not living up to their faith , they are hypocrites .  Killing  women and children without any condemnation by so-called religious persons shows they are not following God . Such persons are seriously misguided in their  approaches 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 and is  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 .The current war in Iran has all the hallmarks of the ungodly.
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