Progressive steps and the bone fide paths .

The Srimad Bhagavatam reinforces the importance of recognizing bone fide theological texts from all the  religious cultures that  distinguish reality from illusion for the welfare of all beings . This recognition is based on  dualism and the need for a scientific approach as to what consciousness is . Enquiries into spiritual cultures and philisophical thought are essentially something that satisfy the inner human spirit on so many different levels .The metaphysical and beyond . Western cultures that are  unnecessary slanted in extreme and overly extravagant ways and geared to satisfying unbridled minds and unbridled senses that are being stoked up by atheistic speculators  who also teach scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis as fact based sciences , have a lot to answer for . They team up with the commercial world , the terrible twins . Every theological text places an emphasis on regulated and disciplined lives ,and control of minds and senses opens up the consciousness to its full communicative potential with others and with Divinity Himself . Humans are not supposed to live like  sophisticated animals, and ultra liberalism is always condemned , but so are those that  claim to be religious,  but who cannot see the true equality of all beings or who show disregard for other cultures and theologies . The unbridled senses lead to greater anxiety and entanglements , something the  businessmen and political classes are clueless about, and they dont care to know  . The Vedas  recognize  every theological text and religious culture that pursues and teaches these types of lifestyle   . These methods of gradually developing scientific realisations about our consciousness and  many  methods are explained in the Vedas . Karma yoga , jnana yoga , and astanga yoga and Bhakti yoga bring us these different approaches . In other words, consciousness development through  1, Good works linked to recognised pious activities, and that elevates our consciousness.  2 . Seeking knowledge through science , philosophy, and learning of the  mind , matter and consciousness , and  3 , Deep inward  religious or spiritual meditations and prayer centred on  God  leading ultimately to an esoteric and spiritual plane . The Bhagavatam seeks to link all these different processes to Bhakti or direct devotion to Divinity in services to Him  and in  the development of love . These systematic processes , when followed properly , bring  progressive steps that benefit the individual, and pure knowledge of dualism is thoroughly revived , leading to knowledge and stronger faith and greaterv love and  remembrances of  God . These truths of the Bhagavatam are specifically taught by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, whose hidden appearance is predicted in the 11th canto of the Bhagavatam as the incarnation for this age . He taught that one should study the Bhagavatam in the association of self realised persons and follow these  prescribed methods . Chanting  the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra , or any of the names of God in current times , the Bhagavatam says , can quickly bestow all the truths of the Vedas upon  persons who can chant without offence and in great humility .  It is said in many theological texts sound can bind one or liberate one , if one speaks in anger and envy one is bound in ignorance , if one speaks in peace and knowledge and compassion one can become liberated and full of knowledge. In this way, there are incalculable benefits when one vibrates any  trancendental sound vibrations that properly glorify God with sincerity.  They have effects on the inner workings of our consciousness , and truth follows truth . When one has become purified by such trancendental sounds  , one’s  community , one’s society , one’s country , and ultimately the universal order and its originator Divinity are all immensely pleased . By such purified actions of speaking truths and vibrating Gods names in sacrifice,  with the aim of serving Gods interests , as well as a studying and hearing the trancendental sounds of the  Srimad Bhagavatam  everyone’s life becomes perfected . HIGHLIGHTED IN 1.1.2 THE CULTURE OF PURE DEVTION AS OPPOSED TO MIXED MOTIVATED OR CHEATING DECEITFUL SO CALLED DEVOTION .  RSABDEVA TAUGHT NOT TO BECOME TEACHER. PARENT HUSBAND FATHER , UNLESS YOU CAN DELIVER DEPENDENTS BACK TO GÒDHEAD.

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Beyond Dualities to the absolute realm .

Curious it is that the word libertine has a relative and an absolute meaning.
In the absolute realm, all things that are relatively good can be bad, and things that are relatively bad can be good .
How this is so can be only understood by one who has escaped the dualities of this world, where the self-centred reckonings of conditioned consciousness are making calculations to serve self-centred purposes , be it even religious and good .

The great writers of trancendental rasa of the highest orders  , and they have  calculated there is perfect , more perfect , and most perfect trancendental lilas categories . Our Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas tell us , these lila pastimes in the ” trancendental playground of spontaneously felt love “are forever exhibited in the “eternal time frames ” of Goloka Vrndavana . This is where the carefree inhabitants are free to express and feel their individual and spontaneous love  for Krishna and his family and friends,  in their trancendental beautiful forms , forms that  have no karmic connections or any  dualites of the mundane forms  made of atoms , elements and compounds,  that are caught up in such things as like ,dislikes , love, hate, honour, dishonour ,etc . Great Gaudia acaryas like Srila Rupa Goswami,  Srila Ragganatha das Goswami and later Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur , to name but a few ,  explain in detail the absolute realms that are forever beyond the dualism of this relative realm . They explain how the supreme enjoyer of pleasure, who is known as Rasaraja Sri Krishna, is enjoying ever increasing trancendental bliss with His family friends and lovers . It is said the Supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani Herself,  who is the Queen of Vrndavana, ultimately directs everything and how all the rasa ultimately support each other but that the Madhurya rasa contains  all other rasa , thus it is the sweetest of sweet .

Srila Jayadeva Goswami has a particular benediction to offer in Kali yuga to the most degraded of all persons.

His benedictions are related to verses in the Srimad Bhagavatam , specifically.

Srimad Bhagavatam 10.33.39

vikrīḍitaṁ vraja-vadhūbhir idaṁ ca viṣṇoḥ
śraddhānvito ’nuśṛṇuyād atha varṇayed yaḥ
bhaktiṁ parāṁ bhagavati pratilabhya kāmaṁ
hṛd-rogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ

Translation

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.

Thus, the mysterious Srimad Bhagavatam unfolds, and its meaning must be heard from the pure devotees.

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“The universe’s puzzlingly fast expansion may defy explanation, cosmologists fret

The controversial “Hubble tension” promises deep insight but, like dark matter and dark energy, could remain just another mystery…”

The Srimad Bhagavatam 3rd Canto, entitled the fundermental principles of material nature, gives indications of the innumerable transformation of the energies of Visnu . He also  devolves power and delegates   the Demigods to see to universal affairs, and they have the  Upadevas , higher beings but not Demigods , to help them , The Vedic terms are   Adi atmika ,the living being ,  Adi devika ,  the Demigods,  and Adi bautika ,the material energies. The source of all three is the energetic Maha Visnu, who is an expansion of an expansion of Krishna.

So , the living beings are  controlled by the universal forms of Divinity within the universal powers of Divinity.

Such is the incalculably complex activity in the super subjective realm of Divinities intelligence, which is far-reaching, extending across  multidimensional universes and throughout the whole of the expanse of time . When time is added to the Maha Tattva , the material energies combined , and the living beings are injected within the womb of the material energies , the whole and complete entity begins to expand . It is consciousness and their  independent desires and  activities that are the cause of universal expansion. The third Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam describes Krishna within every atom, and yet also He emanates countless universes,  that come and go like bubbles on an ocean.

Within the material universes the Lord has a personalised automated administrative system,  following the desires and activities of an individual,   the many possibilities in the world of quantum mechanics springs to mind .  Conscious desires and the following consequences of the actions of uncountable living beings cause a universe to expand and contract.

First comes consciousness , matter is a result of the independent desires of the living beings . The Darwinian and the belief of those following scientific materialism think matter comes first , then consciousness . They are far from the truth . Matter is manifested from Divinity and is non different from Him .  Karmic synchronicity is at play of the individual beings , along with an inconceivable responsive universe engineered and supervised by Maha Visnu and His assistants . Recently A.I. is giving a hint of the capability and phenomenal administrative powers of such systems,  and the algorithmic processes follow us online . A fraction of a fraction of the power of Divinity . Sir Fred Hoyle, the great physicist , said that clearly someone has monkeyed with the universe.

The third and fifth canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam bring attention to these universal affairs.

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It was Albert Einstein who discovered some aspects of spacetime continuum. His thinking parallels some aspects of the Vedic sciences. Looking into a future or understanding a past is somewhat calculated in approximate ways through astrological calculations,  although in current times the readers have lost the potency they used to have due to their consciousness and the lack of accuracy of planets movements,  according to Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami,  he studied and was a master of Vedic cosmological affairs and the connections with astrological calculations.

Another aspect of spacetime continuum can be thought of through quantum physics which describes the many possibilities and an observer effect,  this can be thought of as the free will acting within the atoms , elements and compounds as well as the ethereal subtle energies,  ie mental and intellectual pools of which everyone is accessing.

As such it is said in previous ages, a mystic with specific powers in ethereal readings could somehow see the future events and the make up of a next life that connected the past , the present and a  future,  so the kind of space time continuum that Einstein spoke of . How one could change  a destiny is also described in the Vedas , and actually in every theological text .The neuroscientist Michael Egnore calls it free will or free won’t .

This means our bodies and minds are running almost pre  programmed from our previous activities from other lives . The body mind and senses are set in motion , and Lord Krishna virtually says so in the Bhagavad Gita . He says we are forced to act according to the body we have by the gross and subtle modes of nature that we acquired from our previous life .

Michael Egnore describes the religious thinker or yogi who wishes to overcome his mind, body, and senses . As such , if the senses are dragging us somewhere or our mind is , we develop the strength to say No .

So free will and free wont .Those who dont develop this power , and ultimately its Divinity who gives such power if they want it , are predominantly thrown around helplessly in matter , within the many possibilities and as such a future is already forming within the responsive universe , a new spell of Karmic synchronicities are underway . The many possibilities and the observer effect and the living being subjected to it have made some minor choices that everyone has within free will . Or other persons who may have begun to break the cycle by applying free wont to a degree , learning of the dualism as well as a process of purification of consciousness .So, as such, taking  control of a mind instead of it controlling them  and sending the living being into an inevitable fate .

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The instant communication in quantum physics that Einstein calls spooky action at a distance is explained by Srila Jiva Goswami in his Bhagavat Sandarbha, when he refers to Krishna marrying 16,108 wives. It wasn’t a separate expansion of Krishna, but it was the same Krishna , whose hands and legs are everywhere , as confirmed in the Bhagavad Gita verse . Because a person in a body instantaneously knows what’s going on in his body , similarly Krishna is within every atom and within the heart of all beings . it’s the same Krishna who is everywhere . So not a blade of grass moves without him knowing even if the grass is countless of billions of miles away , thus, the mysterious of Krishna’s form and consciousness should be considered. ..
The key to understanding all things is consciousness and particularly the original unlimited source namely God , consciousness always means a particular person , we can compare the original consciousness or person to the Sun and the countless photons or expansions of light to be the living beings , The Original light the same light is everywhere, similarly God ,although the same person is also everywhere, His personality is in everything and everyone, but our personality is not ..
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The Bhajans of the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas are not just songs but rather deep meditations, realisations, and prayers, and it behoves us all to regularly enter into the spirit of these hymns on a regular daily basis as well as  discuss and meditate on their meanings , as much as we do with our acaryas writings. Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada was an excellent musician and composer of melodies and regularly sang the songs of our acaryas so beautifully and the sounds of the Sabdha Brahman emanating from his lotus mouth are still being heard all over the world on a daily basis .

At Bhaktivedanta Manor, every first Ekadasi of the month , starting in March , devotees are to assemble in Srila Prabhupada’s rooms and together learn , sing, and discuss systematically all the Bhajanas Srila Prabhupada was so fond of singing and that immediately took everyone in his presence to the spiritual planes of Vraj. So kindly join in and together , let’s all  understand the meanings and the real spirit of Bhajan .Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Narottam das Thakur are but  some of the writers of these wondrous trancendental masterpieces .

Ananta Gopal prabhu ,who oversees Srila Prabhupadas’ rooms, has discussed with the Temple Council, and they like the idea of such gatherings in His Divine Grace’s presence.

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Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada would say Hare Krishna means an exchange of love .

Ultimately, central to the highest exchanges of love is the love  which is forever expanding in trancendental bliss and attractions and with curious uncertainties between The Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krishna and the Supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani.

A love of absolute dependency, which is interrupted by separations and united by unions , both serve as expansion elements to the love , for union and separation expand the ecstacy of love .

This verse brings explains the mystery of Radha Krishna.

This text is from the diary of Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. It appears as the fifth of the first fourteen verses of Śrī Caitanya–caritāmṛta.

rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād

ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau

caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptaṁ

rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam

TRANSLATION

“The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, They separated Themselves eternally. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself.”

Within Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu we find both union and separation in one form .

Srimati Radharani also exhibited these features in Her union and separation. In pure trancendental loving attraction in union, Srimati Radharani felt at times separation and in separation , She felt union .These trancendental feelings of Srimati Radharani are written of by Srila Rupa and Ragganatha das Goswami’s and their followers.

Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and our param para acaryas have described these trancendental affairs by reference to the Goswami’s of Vrndavana who were personal associates of Srimati Radharani and were themselves experiencing pranaya oneness in love with Srimati Radharani in Her oneness of love for Krishna.

In the material world, everyone is chasing the thrills of the excitement of romantic love , endless books , theatre, and films are made . This hankering and searching is a natural quality of the deepest part of our existence and it is discovered in full when we become a servant of love not a master of it in self centred lust in the material world.

There is a vast difference between broken glass and the highest quality of diamonds,  although to some,they look similar.

Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami would say we enjoy our trancendental senses in pure service through Radha Krishna in satisfying Their , what Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja described as Their emaculate senses .

In that state, we can join the dance of eternal love . The Goswami’s litratures are windows to the spiritual kingdom and services to Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu will bring us to such windows,  in this age we must understand Radha Krishna through Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu.

How to know ….

Sri Guru is self effulgent to the prospective disciple , Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj says , and the sastra say the jiva is wondering wondering wondering all over the universe and if they really want Krishna Krishna will send Sri Guru, Srila BR Sridhar Swami says Guru comes in many forms, Caitanya Caratamrita speaks of Diksa and Siksa our Gaudia Vaisnava line is predominantly made up of Siksa Gurus.
When Srila Prabhupada made his first offering to Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja on the anniversary of his disappearance, Srila Prabhupada wrote no question of your Guru my Guru, Guru is one .
If you want to understand the most highest truths of Krishna Krishna will make arrangements, the litratures of the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas are like Sastra sanga to one who has mercy of what Srila Prabhupada described as the “current link ” thus humility and respect and surrender to all the Vaisnavas carry one a long way .
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Religion is an aftermath….of life’s arrival…says Dawkins and Cronin

But this is ..
Foolish and based on scientific materialism.
Dualism is the real consciousness connection.
If consciousness is accepted as a phenomenon different from matter , which it is , it needs examining.
Thus theological cultures present the natural conclusion that any origin of consciousness , namely God , would have the responsibility to introduce an educational experience to all the ever wondering particles of consciousness who find themselves enclosed in matter and having to deal with all the consequences that brings , that logical
If Divinity did not do so , that would be cruel.
There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever molecules themselves move towards life , in fact, the chemistry behind molecules are so inconceivably complicated in their own right , ask a synthetic chemist .All evidence points to Dualism , ie matter and consciousness as two different substances, along with the superior engineering from top to bottom of the machine like body , which points logically to an engineer but beyond our comprehension, although the more we look the more we see more and more sophisticated engineering.
Those advocates who sing the glory of scientific materialism fool only themselves and try to take their brand to the true unthinking . Best to study objective sciences and bypass subjective guessing that claims to be objective science..

How to know who is who in religious circles..

…if we find violence and hatred …this means the theologians and their religious representatives have it wrong.
Actually theological cultures of every kind have the systematic processes of gradual development of knowledge of mind , matter and consciousness that leads to pure consciousness..in all religions there are 1st class, 2nd class and 3rd class followers.
If anything is presented fanatically with hatred and intolerance, it’s because it’s being presented by 3rd class followers…who has little realisation of God’s consciousness ?
One should seek 1st class followers who understand God consciousness and the varied plights of the conditioned souls , and who can give a particular path to free them accordingly, they are of varying kinds depending on an individuals circumstances.
Practical applications are well understood by the Ist class representatives .Heaven and Hell preaching is a sign of a third class devotee.
In any religion, 1st class representatives should be sought, and their scriptures will tell them clearly their symptoms .common sense is required .
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Victim consciousness , where karma ends and injustices begin

No victim consciousness in Krishna consciousness says the unthinking..

That’s OK but , lets get things in perspective, when duties are carried out properly by persons who have the particular qualifications or skill sets for designated tasks , and still suffering comes upon us , then we can think there are times suffering is unavoidable and karma works like that . Yes, and also, there are times some  circumstances come about where injustices are justice, by karmic synchronicities . However,  Vedic culture works on the principle of Varna Ashram, the right person for the right job, and carried out correctly according to set standards that are ultimately legitimated by the Vedas and supervised by the  Vedic intelligentsia  who bring governance, compliance and justice to all proceedings.
Thus .
One who does wrong and suffers wrong is wrong .
When Lord Bramha went to see Maha Visnu with his concerns of the” goings on ” on the earth planet  that was being  overburdened with militarism.
Krishna did not say
” Why are you bothering me? This is everyone’s karma , there are no unnecessary sufferings. “
Rather he came to establish justice and reestablish good leadership and reestablish principles of religion in all senses , by doing so, the innocent are protected . In one sense, as Prabhupada says ,  no one is innocent in the material world….but that’s no licence for inflicting suffering. ..

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You cannot change your sex , some say , you are what you are …

This calculation is based on scientific materialism and not dualism.
If we understand the transmigration of consciousness from one body to another , indeed one may be stationed inside a body of a particular sex for reasons of karmic synchronicities, but nevertheless the predominant inside subtle body could be still  strongly associating with a previous body that was of the opposite sex than one finds oneself in , in a new life .
So , those who understand dualism can understand this could be a possibility in some cases , but this should not  be an excuse for sentimentalist to take their uncontrolled whimsical minds anywhere that might please them , which is fashionable in a  world of libertines.”If it feels good, do it ” they say , that is not human culture.
Taking the matter even . further your dog who sits with you daily in your house , or your pet parrot or the fish in your tropical fish tank could all be in the same boat , staring out at the world with an inner body , the subtle body , with continued feelings from their last incarnated visit…Look out!  your enemies from your previous visits of bodily life can end up where you don’t want them to be , within your family….says the Vedas .

Richard Feynman said religion is a culture of faith
And science is a culture of doubt.

Not really , religion means first suspicion, then doubt , then little faith due to experience, then an increasing attraction for something sublime, which is made possible with a scientific and theological and philosophical education along with the use of objective sciences that assist and reconfirm logic and rationale. This will be happening in every way conceivable .  Faith carries one a long way , thus, Divinity, who has always been on veiw in one way or another, becomes known  for sure and realised .The illusory energies of bodily consciousness subside, and Suddha Satva energies replace them . Knowledge in pure goodness that’s realised knowledge.

Subjective sciences that are solely based on interpretations and speculations of an objectively seen phenomenon should be doubted for sure , better go with objectives .
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