Knowledge means to know Knowledge and ignorance side by side , discernment is required,  ultimately if we want truth God will show us truth .There are ways of becoming truthful and there are ways of becoming duplicitous. Character building along with morality,  ethics and humility open the doors to receive truth and identify it . Unwanted things in the heart means we are not serious about truth, and we can not understand the full path to absolute truth , the unwanted things are like chains that bind us to the world of deceptions.

Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami says ..

“Doubt is one of the important functions of intelligence; blind acceptance of something does not give evidence of intelligence. Therefore the word saṁśaya is very important; in order to cultivate intelligence, one should be doubtful in the beginning. But doubting is not very favorable when information is received from the proper source. In Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says that doubting the words of the authority is the cause of destruction.

As described in the Patañjali yoga system, pramāṇa-viparyaya-vikalpa-nidra-smṛtyaḥ. By intelligence only one can understand things as they are. By intelligence only can one understand whether or not he is the body. The study to determine whether one’s identity is spiritual or material begins in doubt. When one is able to analyze his actual position, the false identification with the body is detected. This is viparyāsa. When false identification is detected, then real identification can be understood. Real understanding is described here as niścayaḥ, or proved experimental knowledge. This experimental knowledge can be achieved when one has understood the false knowledge. By experimental or proved knowledge, one can understand that he is not the body but spirit soul.

The Christian bible says to use intelligence, and so does the Srimad Bhagavatam.

Don’t be a blind follower..

Good advice from the Christian bible..

The Bible consistently encourages using your intelligence and reasoning. It values an active mind, urging believers to acquire knowledge, seek understanding, and make intelligent, reasoned choices.Key verses on this topic include:Reasoning and Thinking: “Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord (Isaiah 1:18).Acquiring Knowledge: “An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge” (Proverbs 18:15).Using Your Mind: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37).Discernment: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Romans 12:2).While the Bible celebrates using your intellect, it also highlights the difference between human intelligence and divine wisdom. It warns against relying solely on human cleverness without moral guidance or humility before God, stating, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7)…
The Srimad Bhagavatam.
ŚB 2.2.35

bhagavān sarva-bhūteṣu
lakṣitaḥ svātmanā hariḥ
dṛśyair buddhy-ādibhir draṣṭā
lakṣaṇair anumāpakaiḥ

Translation
The Personality of Godhead Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is in every living being along with the individual soul. And this fact is perceived and hypothesized in our acts of seeing and taking help from the intelligence.

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A divisive world tainted with envy and hatred are the results of populations voting in unqualified leaders. Ignorance breeds ignorance and then breeds violence,  division, and hatred , all based on race and culture or religion.  Unless the world wakes up and listens and takes note of the intelligentsia who understand scientific dualism and thus the self evident truth of the equality of all beings the world will increasingly become a world of sophisticated animals,  like street dogs fighting with mobile phones under their collars. What’s required is inclusive cultures,  every one working in civilised ways , fair trade deals can be easily struck and a sharing of technologies that will help each nation state to develop their individual nation state and its economy . Currently, the greed of global conglomerates and their political puppies are  continuously snatching the world and creating poverty, death, and miseries to others . The cause of migration is global conglomerates politics , when they create wars and poverty in other countries, those poor citizens flee to where they can escape death and poverty.

Go further in consciousness…

Putting it quite simply , Following scientific materialism or Darwinian hypothesis or a theological presentation without scientific knowledge of dualism,the results of both are , in the case of the atheistic ,  a life of a sophisticated animal bound but sensual demands  and the shackles of the limits of a fluctuating mind and decreasing intelligence , and in the case of the unscientific theological following , who cannot even understand that the  consciousness within themselves and  that is within all creatures is of the same spiritual nature , in their case , some elevation of culture can occur, but beginnings of spiritual culture must be followed through to the end , very often religious persons hate other religious persons,  thats dog mentality not theological sciences. Real spiritual cultures culminates in understanding a life beyond the demands of the body, mind and intellect and bring one to the highest of high of spiritual realisations , the finest elements of consciousness.  Something sometimes the greatest of the artistic community sings of and aspire for through their great performances of highly cultured music . Sometimes, it is said music is the language of the soul . The most genuinely cultured person may get some snippets occasionally of the finest of consciousness, of the spiritual realms where Divinity is  predominant , along with the supreme Goddess of fortune .
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The Gaudia Vaisnava’s systematic approach to esoteric pathways.

Gaudia Vaisnavism and its  distribution

Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur particularly wanted to bring Vedic culture inclusive of all its  aspects , both the peripheral systematic teaching , within Varna Ashram and further what he referred to as Devi Varna Ashram , and that would gradually culminate in an approach and gradual systematic understanding of the cor esoteric truths that Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu  revealed in His recent pastimes . The Thakur wanted all these teaching made available and distributed to modernity . In current times the cream of the Vedas in the form of the Srimad Bhagavatam as well as Caitanya Caratamrita  the essence of the Gaudia Vaisnava conclusions as taught by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu to the Goswami’s of Vrndavana , are bring  presented and taught by ISKCON  devotees and other Gaudia Vaisnava’s from other institutions all over the world. It was Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who originally brought them to the shores of the USA  in 1965 . Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur had prayed for a son who could continue and expand his desire to  establish Krishna consciousness in all its forms world wide including the Raga Marg , spontaneous love , of the  residents of Vrndavana where everyone is ultimately under the service and shelter of Srimati Radharani in one way or another , who is  giving all pleasure to Krishna . Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja appeared as the son of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, and he  served his father’s trancendental wishes and began to form a Vedic institution called the Gaudia math. He began  extensively reintroding Gaudia Vaisnavism , as taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana , in truely authentic and balanced ways as Mahāprabhu had originally done within India . In doing so, Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati was correcting the many misunderstandings that former generations had introduced , of the smarta Brahminical classes and those who practised esoteric devotion without the qualifications of life style . His two leading disciples who specialised in presenting Krishna consciousness scientifically , philosophically, and culturally as well as appropriately to the Western audience are Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada as well as Srila BR Sridhar Swami , other prominent disciples also have made major contributions mostly within India. Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada has given the Western world a chance to practically explore the Vedic Culures and examine its many benefits , introducing its untapped and unlimited wealth . He was a most prolific writer and teacher. There is no doubt Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami, who brought , under the orders of his spiritual master , the  Gaudia Vaisnava teachings worldwide, was extremely successful and still is . This was the same mission that was originally desired by Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja . Its noteworthy to say that when Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami left the world , he instructed his disciples that if they had questions about Gaudia Vaisnava tattva they should approach Srila BR Sridhar Swami , Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja commented that he was content that Srila BR Sridha Swami had understood everything of his ,  Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati’s  teachings .
Many other Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have contributed and are contributing . Some are  presenting more esoteric aspects that are required to be delved into by the mature student , the teachings of  Srila Rupa Ragganatha  Goswami’s should be learned.

Both Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami and Srila BR Sridhar Swami could have at any time elaborated  unlimitedly on the deepest aspects of Gaudia teachings and occasionally did so  . Although bringing the whole of the Western world and helping everyone enter into and understand the Vedic  topics in systematic ways as is  recommended in the Srimad Bhagavatam was their  general approach and, of course, it needed to be. One can not dive immediately into spontaneous love , first learn to be spontaneous.
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As a response to unthinking religionists who had a lack of understanding of scientific dualism, particularly presented by Christian cultures, the Renaissance perspective and period came about. However, it’s led to similar unthinking dogmas in many cases , and dogmas similarly presented as truths . Scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis are based on speculations and guessing, a guessing of  the gaps .There are no linear fossil records. The Renaissance period is a valuable contribution in many other ways of course , every aspect of art , culture, science, and political science including social sciences can be directly or indirectly linked to God , no need of a dogmatic approach .  Rather, an approach that shows and highlights gradual and clear  objectives . Steps for some and giant leaps for others
Thus, Albert Einstein was right to say .. Religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame.
The Vedas provides the link between the two objective sciences , utilising logic and rational thinking.

The very, very broad Vedas, particularly the Puranas, brings everyone in all walks of life and within different social positions towards the same conclusions . Some immediately and some through a progressive learning process. Social and spiritual mobility is clearly seen within the Vedas . However Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has bypassed all processes and has offered to  give  immediate access to the highest levels of consciousness of Divinity along with His associates . The most unqualified , who would generally have to take a slower root to spiritual perfection because of a lack of culture and pious activities , are able to trancend all conditioning immediately. Mercy above justice,  magnanimity one can say .

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Our universe…

When we say our universe is a responsive universe , it’s responsive to the continuous independent actions of the countless living particles of consciousness who reside within its fourteen planetary systems . We mean, of course, there is a  personal element to all these affairs . Everything is ultimately personal and stems from originally one creative personality that becomes many . This is Divinity or God or Krishna, the supreme Personality of Godhead .  Every theologically driven culture indicates God , and each theological culture will find different things to say about the unlimited . Time , place, and circumstance differ and naturally  their different accounts are born
Nothing automated anywhere gets automated of its own accord, of course. There is a plan  , a course of action, and a high degree of expertise, and engineering, along with technologies.
Throughout our vastly situated universe, there are thirty-three million Demigod assistants who run universal affairs of every kind the fifth Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam tells . There are many more Upadevas who are the assistances of the assistances of Maha Visnu and Bramha, the empowered engineer .
Everything is happening by the supreme desire of Krishna. This consciousness is Krishna consciousness, says Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Another point to consider is that there are 400,000 species of “humanoids “within the universe. The universe is functioning within multidimensional levels, utalising gross and ethereal energies and varieties of combinations of them each in different ways. The Vedic cosmological  picture has been well written on . Recently, Dr Richard Thompson PhD , also known as Sadaputa das , has written and lectured on this topics.. What we can see and hear others can not ,  and that works both ways.. The Harvard Prof Lisa Randall and many others know of multidimensional universes and pure  mathematics are used in calculations to show this existence. There are unlimited points, unlimited lines , unlimited planes, and unlimited solids , all corresponding and interactive with each other .
Such is a tiny fragment of the power of Divinity who has manifested billions of such universes ..
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When Albert Einstein said the measurement of intelligence is the ability to change, he makes an excellent point . In Vedic circles, the essence of all change is to change one’s conditioned nature  brought about by countless entanglements within a responsive universe and reorientate it, discovering the original spiritual nature .Those types of considerations and deep contemplations take intelligence ,and God says he helps those that help themselves and further in the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says directly “I will give you the intelligence to untangle yourself and come to me “
Albert Einstein also said, “religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame.”
If one can understand why he said such a thing , then one will certainly be well on the way to intelligently change  outlooks and worldviews .
Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami, through his litratures and translations of the Srimad Bhagavatam, explains all , and especially the path of change….

Now the question comes , it’s not so easy to change , old thinking and old habits die hard . Remembering the Vedic standpoint that the consciousness is eternal and has had many many dips into the material energies and has become covered over and over again , the rejuvenation of an  original spiritual nature would take some doing .

It’s a fact, and Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita confirms this , Arjuna says, ” It’s more difficult to control the mind and our conditioned nature that controlling a gale force wind “

Krishna agrees it’s difficult ” But by constant practice and detachment it’s done “

Krishna says, “I will help you. I will give you the intelligence with which you can come to me . Simply hear my messages “

And Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu says in this age, ” I will make it easy , simply chant My Holy names with sincerity.” Call to Me , like a child crying to a mother . Associating  with pure devotees  is essential,  and reading the literature of the param para acaryas is imperative. By this process, a certain intelligence is brought to bear . The Holy Names will award a higher taste of spiritual bliss  when chanted in humility , by a higher taste, a lower taste is easily left behind. The windows of the spiritual worlds open through the Holy Names , God, and His pastimes are spiritually fully  present. The  litratures of Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Ragganatha das Goswami, and their followers in Gaudiya Vaisnava param para enable one to walk spiritually into the the spiritual kingdoms.

So, it’s not a lone process , Bhakti Devi is  injected into the heart by the devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu . This process is simply for the simple hearted and  sincere person,  and even  for rouges,  by association, purification occurs immediately, and the last journey begins , one never returns back to the material worlds
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Space time and changes to destiny .

Space time , the Vedic way.

The Vedas tells us of space time.  Space as  being the multifarious energies of the material universes  made up of fourteen planetary systems , within which multidimensional aspects are functioning . What one set of senses is aware of another set of senses are not . Prof Lisa Randall lectures and  writes on this topic . She calls it her  membrane theory , she is a theoretical physicist  at  Harvard . How the Vedic  responsive and personal universe makes the calculations that bring a  past , a present, and a future together that react with each other , but can also make immediate adjustments so a destination is changed , such sciences of reactionary circumstances are spoken of in the Vedas . Krishna Himself, in His Bhagavad Gita, says, “I will protect you from your sinful reactions,”  for instance.  One’s consciousness, along with its activities from the past, affects our  present . The present will certainly affect our  future , including the long distant future . However, destinations and destinies can be changed , and nothing is set in stone.  What should have affected us because of the past  in current times may not do so . The conclusion is that our present activities can change what is going to be due from our past  .  Equally, unless something is triggered in terms of atonement and sacrifices, our future situations will continue to be affected by both our long distant past as well as our current activity.  Or the future will be predominantly affected by only the recent past and not the long distant past . In this way , the past , present, and future and our conscious actions are deeply entangled within space time , and it behoves us all  to figure out the  systems of atonement and sacrifices that can help us avoid things that may catch up with us . Results of actions of course are not always inconvenient for us or bad , some could be classed as good , but there again what’s thought of as good could ultimately be bad because its brings pride and offensive mentality towards others . It’s complicated,  and it’s entangling  . It’s our consciousness and the  choices it makes and who it follows that  cause  activities within spacetime.  These influences can be  reversed or halted . Thus, the Vedic veiw is Einstein was correct to say past , present, and futures are intertwined .  We can by our activities affect the past , but not necessarily step back into the past or suddenly jump into a future,  the future is awaiting , but as said before can be adjusted . However, because the material universes are cyclic and eternally in existence but  created maintained and destroyed time and time again . So , who is to say that history is not repeating itself over and over again but with some  variations.  It’s the modes of nature that are functional goodness,  passion, and ignorance with practically unlimited  mixes and consequences . Bhagavad Gita indicates that no one can stop doing something for a moment. The main recommendation in Gaudiya Vaisnavism is to not get entangled in the parts of the Vedas that deal with improving material affairs or avoiding miseries . The Bhakti yoga sastras of the Gaudia Vaisnavas  solve the  good ,the bad, and the ugly . It says, ” Rise above the material aspects of the modes of nature offered in the Vedas for improved material lives and be established in the self , pure Krishna consciousness.

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The origins and dual purposes of sex life

“The question of how sexual reproduction, and specifically the two distinct sexes (anisogamy—small motile sperm and large sessile eggs), evolved from asexual ancestors is considered a major topic of research in evolutionary biology, sometimes referred to as the “queen of problems”. While Charles Darwin himself acknowledged he did not know the final cause of sexuality, modern evolutionary biology has developed several, though not definitively proven, hypotheses to explain it. “

As we can see, as usual, the Darwinians are clueless.
However the Vedas explains fully the origins of sex attraction and how the original sex attraction has been devolved from a higher spiritual plane and brought within the external energies by Divinities arrangements to serve  specific purposes . “Soul on soul ” those situated in sacrifice and blissful services centred exclusively on Divinity,  giving absolute sacrifice , better describes something of the origins of what the Vedas refere to as” conjugala priti ” ,pure spiritual sex  psychologies  in a spiritual kingdom with trancendental spiritual bodies . Can we compare broken glass to diamonds ? or street dog sex to the intimate life of a highly sophisticated and highly cultured man and lady ? The confidential cultures of the spiritual plane can never be understood by one who harbours  selfish desires for sensuality with the body made of earth , water ,air ,fire, and ether , simply impossible.  Sex pleasure within the material world is something the Darwinian can’t explain , although it’s clear every single being is bound by it and attracted to it .  It is the very binding force that keeps everyone in the material world along with its subtle corollaries , distinction,  adoration, and many profit calculation.  According to the Darwinian, the orgasm evolved , but they are completely clueless as to how , its another indicator that Darwinian hypothesis is literally a hodge podge of ever changing speculative narratives drawn from the speculative minds .We will find every species has overwhelming sex attraction , it’s not only restricted to humans , and the idea that each species is desperate to have sex so as to preserve its species is another complete nonsense. Each creature is overwhelmed by attraction, which culminates in sex pleasure.   The Vedas explains in detail how living beings who feel no immediate attraction for the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His families and friends are injected into the material energies , from the Brahman regions  , this region is like the shoreline , one step takes you into the sea or another  step onto the land , so its a choice . We originally expanded from the first expansion of Krishna,  Balarama. Krishna has always been , and we being part of Him have always been  . The injection of the living beings into the material energies takes place via the Supreme Lord and the Supreme Goddess of fortune , who are expanded as Sambhu or Sadasiva and Ramadevi or Durga Devi .
These transformations or expansions of Radha Krishna appear to be curiously in touch with the material energies , however,  the Vedas say  like yoghurt and milk  are one but different  ,  in a similar way , so too , Visnu and Laxi do not directly touch or become effected by matter . These expansions of Laxmi Narayana   provide the material bodies for the beings after being  injected into matter .The engineer who is working for Lord Visnu. he is called Bramha , has been given the technologies and systems to create each of the bodies , we now know  that each body carries an individual code , and we call  this the genomes. Each species is generated as either male or female  and equipped with sexual organs . The whole idea is that in order to receive a machine made of the material energy that the soul is to temporarily inhabiting  , Krishna has kind of automated the process,  using sex urges , repeatedly and automatically thd operation of new bodies are in place .  The material world requires a consistent and constant supply of such machine like bodies , there are innumerable souls waiting.  The time factor is added to our material activities and experiences, creating karma,  death , and rebirth, as well as reevaluation , that is a  healthy element . These movements  of  cyclic time are constantly in flux . This is so because the living beings need to fulfil their desire to continually experience , learn, and live out their particular  desires . The Karmic synchronicities of their independent meanderings within the universe are taking place.
Thus, the perfect arrangement of entanglements within a responsive universe has arisen to facilitate free will and determinism with the virtual machines of the material bodies . The supreme engineer has arranged a system that is producing many, many more machines within the 8,400,000 species of life . It is sex dedire that drives reincarnation and automatically produces more machines for the consciousness to reside within. Thus, the whole material world is working under strong sex desire within all species.

The original sex desire is a purely spiritual sacrifice. It is not connected to procreation, pe say ,  as its reflection is within matter . When one advances beyond matter, one can enter soul to soul communications in unlimited ways .The trancendental senses of the inhabitants are the same as their consciousness , each of the senses can carry out the function of the other senses. One should know the difference between broken glass and diamonds. Or spiritual consciousness and attractions and material consciousness and attractions .They look similar but are millions of miles apart .

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Svarūpa means form , look around us everything has form , nothing with  consciousness origins is formless . Consciousness means there must be a form , although within the Bramhajyoti , the spiritual impersonal light , its a place where the ” deep sleep ” of a spiritual formless existence can be lived out .  However, the Vedas indicates that after some time in the spiritual formless spiritual light , the consciousness feels instinctively a need to express itself individually and  in relationships with others , the real nature of absolute truth . Relationships we know cause an exchange of love and give happiness . Exploitative impure relationships within the material world are fixed within the spiritual varigatedness where unmotivated pure love is found . Spiritual relationships centred on unmotivated love are eternally manifested in eternal forms .There , atoms , elements, and  compounds are absent . Material relationships are based on differing degrees of self-centred consciousness , and this consciousness is the cause of  repeated karmic synchronicities within the wide variety of material forms on offer by the responsive universe.

Divinity is known throughout the universes for His many different appearances. Krishna has His trancendental energies, and  through His Svarūpa Sakti, He manifests unlimited forms from His original form . Time, place, and circumstance and particular circumstances are the causes of these blissful and purposeful forms to appear . Time immemorial is an important word in spiritual calculations when it comes to the Lord’s manifested material universes or His multiple appearances within them , its impossible to calculate.  We also manifest different forms and moods . We have been a baby , a  toddler ,  a boy or girl , a youth , middle-aged , approaching old age , old age . Each is a different form , and then at death, the whole cycle starts all over again .  Again, for some within different species , within the bodily forms of 8,400,000 species , each of which has their  individual version of a particular body . In its  own way , this  reflects the Lords original Svarūpa Sakti, which manifests His eternally situated spiritual forms .
Srila Jiva Goswami , in his Bhagavat Sandarbha, brings many details to this aspect of Krishna and His unlimited existence

The perfection and goal of spiritual life is to regain or acquire our originally intended purposeful life , called Siddha Svarupa , we aquire our spiritual form and we enter into Krishna’s family group , or become one of His friends or as an assistant or a  friend of His lovers .  Srimati Radharani who brings the mellows of Parakiya rasa for the pleasure of Krishna is head of the Parakiya lovers .

So form and beaulty and personality is the inherant nature of consciousness , impersonal realised knowledge is a step , and a step one can not really be permanently situated on
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Innovation.

The most beneficial innovation…

Innovation is the introduction of something new, such as a new idea, product, or method, often to solve a problem or improve an existing one..

Our ever new spiritual consciousness can be accessed. However, it is currently covered by the material energies, which are imposed on our spiritual consciousness,  these influences of matter are the effects of endless karmic synchronicities .The revival of our original intended potential is enacted by coming in touch somehow  with the ever new spiritual rasa that forever permeates the higher planes of existence . In current times, the Maha mantra has been enthused by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His immediate associates with the full trancendental potency of the spiritual realm . This means Krishna is fully present within the trancendental sound of the Holy names of Divinity,  not only the Maha mantra , when they are correctly chanted with the spirit of devotion,  this is done under the directions of the acaryas in all their forms . Spiritual varigatedness is fully described in the Srimad Bhagavatam as are the activities and pastimes of Radha Krishna. On analysis, currently, we have four main problems , birth , death , old age, and disease . Other difficulties are calculated as the miseries of the mind , miseries of other living beings, and miseries of nature , i.e., too hot , too cold , floods , etc etc .
If we truly want to be innovative , let’s not do it the Elon Musk way and become like sophisticated animals , who may  shoot themselves into space but then  forced to return  to this world and all of its  imposed constraints. Rather, the Vedas recommends  spiritual innovation,  an easy journey to other planets . This is achieved by a deep inward and somewhat  innovative esoteric, carefully planned journey , the journey of spiritual elevation that leaves the material world behind for good its guaranteed to work . Once undertaken and mastered, it will bring  freedoms from the limited shackles of the material energies and its influences.
This process is called Krishna consciousness….
Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami and others teach the complete process from start to finish , beginning with understanding the sciences of self realisation,  Bhagavad Gita as it is , explains everything comprehensively
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