Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur has clearly described who Sri Guru is .

He is not of this realm, and accordingly, he may, for preaching purposes, have one foot in the material world and one in the spiritual planes.

The materially motivated disciple may attempt to bring his Guru to the material plane by making their own material calculations why Sri Guru says and acts in ways that may go  against the grain of modern materialistically  accepted  norms . Essentially perhaps after being influenced by the current  new age hypocrisy of , ” let’s all me nice to each other,” but at the same time, practice cancel culture . The mundane disciple may give up on trancendental consciousness and loose faith in something truly sublime , ultimately, such a person places more faith in material sentiments.

Current times bring many fake narratives, and the net and mainstream media are awash .With so much new age thinking  and supercharged hypocrisy in the form of liberalism permeating the airwaves each giving subjective opinions as to what is  good or  what is bad . The prospective spiritual searcher may not  understand Sri Guru  and his position beyond the dualism of  good and bad . Sri Guru is a direct representation of Divinity Himself and thus  trancendental to material calculations.  He represents the all good Supreme trancendental autocrat . As such, by following his strict path along with all the  disciplines , we begin to leave the dualities of material life  far behind  us , those that are based on our own sensual or mental space . Then, and only then, we can begin to enter transcendence  , making Radha Krishna the original trancendental couple the objects of our sole  attention, not other mundane couples .

On the battlefield of Kuruksetra, Arjuna  initially had  so many material considerations  why he should not fight . Krishna, in His Bhagavad Gita, dismissed all of  them .

The real messages of the Rasika bhaktas  are capable of penatrating the hearts  of the sincere . It’s never dependent on perfect management strategies or any mundane considerations . In communicating their all-important messages , Divinity Himself appears in trancendental sound. Such  a trancendental sound enters the heart directly of the disciple.
Some persons who are expert at managment theory and its  applications   and who are  perceived as “nice ”  externally with perfect dealings along with  social customs , but within their own  hearts  carry duplicity and have no depths or taste for real krishna consciousness can never help us .  Rather, they can hinder us with material calculations. Whilst the Rasika bhakta can easily be misunderstood by his external behaviour , verses in the Vedas say that to understand the mind of the pure devotee is not easy , similarly,  occasionally his external behaviour and speaking .
Sometimes, Srila Prabhupada brought his disciples to tears with his trancendental anger .  Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja would smash his fists on the table and become red with anger . On one occasion, he said that a particular disciple could never directly come in touch with him ever again and could only  get his association  indirectly and only through  some of his leading  disciples . Many examples can be given of what might appear apparently as unreasonable and ” unvaisnava ” like behaviour of pure devotees throughout the  history of Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas.
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In Vedic Culures, the unfathomable complexities of the living beings are spoken of , not just in human life but also the 8400000 species of life,  400,000 of which are ” humanoids “

Generally , it is said that good and  pious activities bring greater facilities . These include and are in  terms of beauty , wealth , widom and insights , particular talents ,intelligence,  etc, etc .  If such facilities are  offered in services to humanity and ultimately Divinity Himself , a further progressed state of consciousness ensues that gives an opportunity to reach the Lands of Divinity Himself who has supremely cultured consciousness along with emotions .

The problems come when those who have karmically earned good credits and opulences become intoxicated by such gifted opulences .  They can become proud and exploitative . In that condition ,  great offences and harm  to others might take place , and instead of elevation of  consciousness on the back of pious credit , an opportunity is wasted and one takes a step  back in the great consciousness journey to Divinity.

In the same way , someone can quickly rise in their consciousness,  even though initially born with lesser facilities . They can become humble and learned , if their life is led according to Vedic directions.  An association with the good and great is possible for the humble .  Spiritual and material mobility works both ways , with plenty of swings and roundabouts or snakes and ladders going on .

Pick up Bhagavad Gita as it is Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains all .

The Srimad Bhagavatam delves even deeper into these topics , the science of consciousness and the responsive universe.

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Borrowed plumes and their origins .

Lord Krishna’s words

TEXT 15 Bhagavad Gita

sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto
mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca
vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham

TRANSLATION

I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas am I to be known; indeed I am the compiler of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.

Divinely has three aspects to Him , the Vedas tell us .

1. His impersonal effulgence that the atoms , elements compounds, and every aspect of electromagnetic energies, including light frequencies, are devolved from . The whole material world is built on this superior energy to matter , beyond Higgs Boson .

2,  He is also situated in everyone’s heart, providing remembrance and forgetfulness , He is  reminding us of our previous desires and directs everyone’s activities accordingly. Inspiration of all sorts originates from His supreme majesty, in one sense everything we have, at least in the material world , are borrowed plumes .
3. Above and beyond those two aspects, He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and He  exchanges love in an unlimited variety of ways  with unlimited living beings. These affairs take place within His own abode with all His associates, and we are all invited to participate.
Any artist worth their salt will convey something of Divinity and increase our inquisitive nature of life . Art is meant for that purpose.  to inspire us to  further understand life’s sometimes hidden purposes . We can say Krishna is the obvious cause of all causes because, scientifically,  everything must have a cause . So , the origins should be thought about and learned about . Something never comes out of nothing after all , that’s an absurdity .
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“The speed of an ocean wave generally decreases as it recedes onto the shore in shallower water due to friction with the seafloor, which causes the wave to slow down, shorten its wavelength, and increase its height. This phenomenon, known as the shoaling effect, is the reason why waves build up and break as they approach land. “

In Srimati Radharani’s case , She in known as Suratarangani,  the great wave , an unstoppable force of love for Krishna,  there  is no stronger force in the spiritual or material realms than that of  Her determination to meet and give all pleasure to Krishna, as She runs through Vrndavana’s forests assisted by her friends,  who can hardly keep up the pace , having heard the flute sound of Kṛṣṇa.

This strong wave breaks the barriers of family traditions, principles of  normally calculated moral discrimination , and any  sobriety one should have, as well as any sense of fear or shyness .

Having met with Krishna,  the return or the receeding wave of  Srimati Radharani back to her Mother in laws house is at a slower pace , having feelings of separation from Krishna and the dread of having again to return to her ” family duties ” causing “shoaling “

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For itself by itself

Hegel was a somewhat enlightened German philosophical deeper thinker . In his philosophy, he has given a concept:
The Absolute Truth, the Prime Cause of everything, must have two qualifications. What are they? It must be by itself and for itself.

“Please try to pay attention. ‘By itself’ means that He is His own cause—nothing else created Him. If anything has created Him, that creator will have the primary importance. Therefore, to be the Absolute He must be anadi, eternally existing, and not created by anything. The absolute must have this qualification.”

The teaching of HH Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Swami.

Vedas indicates Krishna is the cause of all causes , and He has become many to expand His pleasure . His first expansion is Balarama , who expands into Mula Sankarsana and then Maha Sankarsan , who the jivas respectively expand from,   and from Maha Sankarsana comes Maha Visnu  , who is one could say a functional form of Divinity,  it was the jiva who desired independence from God , but that’s impossible,  so God gives the impressions of independence. Thus, both the spiritual and material realms are facilitated .

God is the supreme enjoyer , and He attracts and entices all His parts and parcels to independently and by their own volition and free will join Him in His ecstatic blissful life .

Love is an action word and love must necessarily be voluntary , one has to consider..why do you love someone ?

And see what answers you might come up with .

Ultimately, we are not dead stones or downloads of God , but we have free will , and if we want, we can love Krishna and His family or any of His expansions. Learning to love is a very important expression , and a reality , Krishna is unlimited in all respects , there is always something new to be relished and understood about Him .

Or , the alternative,  we can wonder wonder wonder all over the universes  in different species of life to see if there is anything that might be better . Krishna knows our independent nature, and in our wonderings within the material universes , He also makes arrangements for a rescue mission by incarnations of Himself as well as sending His pure devotees to carry out that task .

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Demoniac libeterians…and blowing on boils

“The report also found more children are stumbling across pornography accidentally, with some of the 16 to 21-year-olds surveyed saying they had viewed it “aged six or younger”.

More than half of respondents to the survey had viewed strangulation as children, prompting Dame Rachel to also ask the government to ban depictions of it.

Pornography depicting rape of a sleeping person was also seen by 44% of respondents as children.

The data was gathered prior to the amendments to the Online Safety Act in July, which brought in age verification tools for pornography.

Dame Rachel described the findings as “rock bottom”.

“This tells us how much of the problem is about the design of platforms, algorithms and recommendation systems that put harmful content in front of children who never sought it out,” the commissioner said, calling for the report to act as a “line in the sand”.

The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology told the BBC “children have been left to grow up in a lawless online world for too long” and “the Online Safety Act is changing that.”

The reality is something quite different.
They are blowing on a boil , it needs cutting out .

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It’s a question of  applying  theological and social cultures intelligently to every individual in every walk of life who are  obviously at different stages of their journeys . This approach can offer  and is designed to   take everyone to   more elevated consciousness based on the real science of self realisation. One could say meaningful mindfulness .That means meaningful authorities giving guidance and protection as a good parent does to a child . Offering  balanced and educated choices is the Vedic way ,  currently, for instance, in science. For example, a  one-sided Darwinian hypothesis  is presented as fact based science to school children . In  reality, the Darwinion offers a subjective opinion of an  observed  world , a world that looks to all intent and purposes to be highly organised with ridged laws , the kind of things described in theological sciences. The Darwinians philosophy is one life one death . Their perverse science presentation is pummelled into school children they lie  and say  science has proved it . This Darwinian model suits the global conglomerates , they both work hand in hand . These conglomorates are ruining peoples minds and lives , they infiltrate cultures everywhere and sell at any cost . In this libertine cultures children at young as six download free pornography and by the age of twelve half of children have watched pornography.  The real spiritual intelligensia along with decent scholars, know how to guide societies . Political classes must be guided by them , not businessmen .Under their care, appropriate measures can be illuminating to all. Vedic societies were not theocratic but a balanced approach for all societies. Attachments to traditional cultures and family values based on theologies are  found to be  middle ground , but the teachings of objective sciences are crucial.

The results of super liberalism and cheating science is plane to see , misery , mental health issues , etc etc along with the  destruction of  good sociopolitical influences. instead.  The wrong type of persons and fake leaders who are not advised by the intelligensia but only profit driven businessmen run democracies. The Varna Ashram system of the Vedas is a balanced application and takes in all the needs of the people,  the creatures, and the planet itself.

Extremists have no place , whatever their particular leaning .

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The Vedic spectator, unbiased, sound, and critical thinking from a Vedic point of view , much needed in a dark age of quarrel & hypocrisy .Ignorance appears to be currently permeating societies , wars, exploitation of the weak , a fake intelligentsia posing as authorities , and ruination of our planet and the creatures that rightly live everywhere are examples. The Vedas offers hope and direction to all .The spectator brings to the attention of everyone the current & historical personalites who have extensively written their realisations thry are readily accessible , thry illuminate the ancient but ever new Vedic texts . Furthermore the Vedic param para are competent and are expert at bringing out succinct Vedic truths , and can apply them to a time , place and a circumstance , Such persons most importantly feel deeply the suffering of others & have solutions for our leaders as well as the general
populace .
Such commentaries by these teachers distinguish reality from illusion for the benefit of all .
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UNFORTUNATELY it seems western democracies have been infiltrated by interest groups and has lost its deep seated original goals and intentions.
It looks now , like this .

1st .Profit driven Buisness….. who have become world leaders , directly or indirectly

2nd ,Servants of business , ( the politicians ). Who should legislate and control out of control business men , who want profit at any costs literally

3rd The working class , tradesman and craftsmen , the essentials to keep societal affairs running .

4th The intelligentsia . Who should be advising the political classes , but are either silenced or have become corrupted and they have sold twisted conclusions to support a big wage packet and have let society’s down .

Vedic culture get everything in the right order .

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The mission of AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The essence of Krishna consciousness

FOUNDER ACARYA OF ISKCON…

ISKCON has both cor and peripheral goals . The cor goals are the esoteric teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu as he laid out to Srila Rupa and Ragganatha das Goswami’s .AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has indicated in his books what they are and has summarised everything . The  peripheral goals are very important because they are to in time link all members of society to the cor , this can be achieved in one life or the many life approach. So to some , and I stress only some of the peripherals.  To fulfill the vision of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , the founder Acarya of ISKCON things like reintroducing lost aspects of Vedic culture that are said to have originally permeated societies world wide can be again introduced for the social benefits and progressive benefits of consciousness and mental health. ISKCON will be  highlighting the common traits and language connections  between many of the historical world cultures.  Many English words have their origins in Sanskrit ,  as does Latin . As well,  it’s easily seen that many existing cultures and religions have obvious Vedic connections. ISKCON’S nonsecterian outlook brings to the forefront the true equality of all beings, a self evident truth , Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the USA constitution, famously wanted that phrase in the constitution .

THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ISKCON And ITS VISION
Srila Prabhupada, under the inspiration and instructions of his spiritual master Srila Bhaktisiddanta Goswami Maharaja, established The Hare Krishna movement to fulfill the desire of Srila  Bhaktivinode Thakur, who envisioned a united world of philosophy science and religion . This  would be based on the very broad Vedic teaching that brings both  social and spiritual mobility. The all-encompassing understanding of Divinity is at the heart of ISKCON . Other Gaudia Vaisnava’s also know of these truths , but ISKCON has a large and effective organisational structure in place that is improving all the time , they are situated according to the teachings and practices of Rupa Goswami , Sanatana Gosvami and Ragganatha das Goswami , who were personally trained and taught by Lord Krishna in His appearance as Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu . His teachings are centred around a gradual evolution of consciousness initially through Devi Varna Ashram and culminating in full Love of God as exhibited by Srimati Radharani and her confidants in Goloka Vrndavana
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Bertrand Russell says the problem with fools and fanatics are they are so sure of themselves..

Yes …spot on

Checks and balance are part of the truth .
In Vedic systems, there are three ..

And most importantly everything someone says should be objectively varified.
Truth is self evident

But the crooked prefer speculations and the subjective world , and then spend their time convincing less intelligent fools they have access to truth .

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