Discernment is an important quality to cultivate , especially in the world of mainstream media and social media, and it is also important in the world of science, philosophy, and religion. Truth is self-evident to the truthful person. One should understand the process by which one because honest in themselves and with others . In purity of consciousness, one can genuinely follow ones heart , but utalising God given logic and rationale. One should know the characteristics of a person who speaks truth and ask them how do you know you know ..
The Bhagavad Gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam give many indications of how discernment can take place in the correct ways .
Although God can be understood as the Supreme Father, and although God sent His son to rescue the entangled beings , still, God can not be limited in any way . He has unlimited sons or daughters who are expanded from Him . He has unlimited types of relationships , whatever we feel instinctively about all relationships has its origins within Divinity. The Vedas are essential to understanding the spiritual varigatedness of Divinity, unless one understands the original varigatedness one will be forever attracted to the distant reflection of it , the flickering material world . A reflection of a flower is an impression of it , but it can not ever hold the feelings , impressions, and fascination that the real flower holds ..
How to see reality…..
Caitanya Caratamrita.
jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ kṛṣṇera ‘taṭasthā-śakti’ ‘bhedābheda-prakāśa’ sūryāṁśa-kiraṇa, yaiche agni-jvālā-caya svābhāvika kṛṣṇera tina-prakāra ‘śakti’ haya
Translation “It is the living entity’s constitutional position to be an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa because he is the marginal energy of Kṛṣṇa and a manifestation simultaneously one with and different from the Lord, like a molecular particle of sunshine or fire. Kṛṣṇa has three varieties of energy…
We should not run away from who we really are , from the eternal comes the eternal. From the sun, uncountable photons appear. In conditioned life, we run away from reality and are trying to avoid dealing with our underlying issues of dissatisfaction .We do this in different ways , for example, in lust , anger , greed, envy , and in all kinds of madness and illusions . The recommendation of the Vedas is to offer ones natural occupational activities in a sacrifice to Divinity and follow ethical and moral responsibilities. This can be easily done if one calls for the help of Divinity who resides in the heart and who can help us feel inspired giving as strength to continue on fighting the good fight against the alluring illusion of forgetfulness of reality. The calling or chanting of God’s various authorised names and that He accepts are in theological text , within which the sciences of sound are being described . Sabdha Brahman is a pure sound of truth and sincerity. If one vibrates sounds of anger and envy, one result comes , if we vibrate truth , compassion, and understanding, another result comes .. The writings of the Gaudia Acaryas elaborate on these topics , Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada recently arrived in the West , he has many books in English translated with commentaries.
Generally, when one sees Sri Guru for the first time , there is suspicion and doubt .By enquiring gradually, the doubts are removed one by one, and faith increases in both Sri Guru and the words spoken . In some cases, immediately there is deep faith , no doubt , no suspicions. This , the Vedas say , is because of previous cultivation of consciousness of spiritualservicess to Sri Gur, who comes in many forms and represents God . In that way, they are non different from the Supreme Personality of Godhead http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The trancendental writings of the Goswami’s including Srila Rupa Goswami , Srila Ragganatha das Goswami, Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur ,Srila Jayadeva Goswami …Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvat Thakur are windows to the spiritual realms . In recent times Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has given his commentary to the Srimad Bhagavatam, the Bhagavad Gita and the Caitanya Caratamrita all of whom glorify the previous acaryas and indicate the importance of understanding their teachings . By chanting purely the Holy names without offences and by serving under the direction and guidance of Sri Guru within the mission of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu , those windows that are synonymous with the pure chanting of the Holy names are opened wide . The exact process of prizing open the window is to develop an extremely fixed and controlled mind by the Bhakti yoga process . The great science of self realisation and trancendental rasa has been clearly delineated by Rupa Goswami , thus , the scientific process of Krishna consciousness is clear , i.e. how to extract a conditioned consciousness from the entanglements of the material energies and establish it within the spiritual planes and the spiritual varigatedness thereof . By a five fold trancendental meditation process, beginning with hearing , chanting, and deep remembrance bring one in contact with the trancendental residents of Vrndavana who are the lovers , friends and family members of Krishna. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given everyone access, no previous qualifications are required. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The systematic process of Vedic life incorporates a fully comprehensive approach to everyone’s life, utilising the Vedas . The Artha sastra , the Karma sastra , the Jnana sastra, and the Bhakti Sastra are the main branches of learning . Life’s journey is nothing new , it has been going on since time immemorial . The calculations of the Vedas are imperative for humanity, so progressive social and spiritual mobility is enacted . New fangaled and overly liberal lifestyles are totally rejected , such libeterians make society into a society of sophisticated animals . Without consciousness progression after death, the animal kingdom awaits , eating ,sleeping ,sex, and defending property and territories are the symptoms of animal consciousness . Culture , arts , and all kinds of sciences centred around philisophical enquires are human life …
The Vedas are known as the strict command of the father , the more softer approach of family members members, an even softer approach by friends or a deal making arrangement of if you do one thing you will get good material return.
Thus , Sruti , Smriti, Puranas, and Tantra .
Free will …….some phycological students wonder if we have it in full …
Yes …its a puzzle……Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita one is forced to act according to previous conditioning from previous consciousnesss experience , mind is best friend or worst enemy. Yoga and specifically Bhakti yoga means make it a friend, then free will can be experienced in full ….
Michael Egnor …..free will or free won’t. I won’t do what my mind and senses are crying for me to do . Michael is confirming Bhagavad Gita .. When you practice yoga, your neurological signalling changes . Literally . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
God is the greatest of listeners . Whether it be of free minds , free speech, or freedoms of action, He hears and facilitates . Free will and determinism within a responsive universe are the divine arrangement for all within the 8,400,000 species of life who reside within the upper , middle and lower planetary systems , that is a testimony to this freedom principle. How such divine arrangements are carried out are discussed in the third Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam. Suffice to say that the Supreme engineer has Divine algorithmic processes at work . Matter follows consciousness , and those following quantum Bohr or Schrödinger and the like may grasp the idea . These arrangements and entanglements are for those who with their own karmic synchronicities, experience being ” freedom lovers ” , Divinity , along with all His agents , quietly watches over proceedings and awaits any signs of sanity , as the state governor might watch over the prisoner. When the prisoner has done with his independent expression of what he or she called freedom , the prisoner is let out to experience real freedoms . In absolute terms, real freedoms are calculated by those who are free from any karmic synchronicities , those who are free from causes of frictions , bias, and hatred . Such pure hearted and wise persons can bring into focus harmonized affairs and the greater picture of what freedoms mean beyond the conditioned self-centred state . One should also know all discord is harmonized in the absolute.
Actually, freedom of expression with purity of consciousness and spontaneous love are unlimitedly exhibited by those who are able to add bliss to the overall spiritual and harmonious affairs where the Supreme Personality, who is the most generous spiritual beneficiary resides . Krishna is the master of love , as such, the ever increasing ocean of trancendental bliss continues to expand.
Lord Krishna indicates there are four ways of understanding how the temporarily situated and engineered universe exits. With such knowledge, one can become free from its attractions and the dualities that bring . 1, Vedic knowledge 2,direct perception 3 traditional wisdom 4. Logical induction. Thanks to modern scientific research, it’s clear and easily seen that the orderly universe has an order supplier . Codes and informational exchanges in the making of each individual body clearly show that , and the unexplained stability of the laws of physics is also a self-evident truth . It is witnessed by direct perception and objective sciences. It’s something that generations of ancestors experienced and wrote about within cultures in every part of the world . Also, applying Nyaya logical induction , one knows for sure that smoke means fire . Equally code’s and informational exchanges mean there is certainty that consciousness is behind it . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
In India, as in other countries, there are many wells and small ponds . The system of village folk is such that they use a particular pond for different purposes . Some for drinking , some for washing clothes , some to bath in . Each pond is allocated for various reasons for a set of purposes . A great lake, however, can simultaneously serve all purposes of all ponds because of the lakes immense size, which means the purity is always maintained whatever is carried out . Similarly the Vedas itself is like a great lake, and the Vedas serves many purposes for different classes of persons . Some persons are very absorbed in enjoying matter , some less so , and some on the verge of trancendental affairs, others deeply absorbed. The person who understands the real purposes of the Vedas in practical ways and can apply them accordingly knowing how to guide different people in their needs for a gradual progression in spiritual consciousness is compared to a person who applies Vedic knowledge correctly . Such broadminded persons full of knowledge of the Vedas supercede those who are unnecessarily fixated on one particular aspect without properly understanding its real purpose , which is social and spiritual mobility , such persons are attached to ponds and can’t access the” Vedic lakes “ http://www.thevedicspectator.com
“Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained the well-known Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam verse beginning ātmārāmāś ca munayaḥ. He explained this verse in sixty-one different ways. He analyzed all the words and described each word with its different connotations. Adding the words ca and api, He described all the different meanings of the verse. He then concluded that different classes of transcendentalists (jñānīs, karmīs, yogīs) utilize this verse according to their own interpretation, but if they would give up this process and surrender to Kṛṣṇa, as indicated by the verse itself, they would be able to comprehend the real meaning of the verse. “
Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu also spend eighteen years in Puri relishing the mellows of the devotional sentiments of Srimati Radharani and Her friends and associates. The Krishna consciousness distributor’s work in two ways , whether its explaining Krishna consciousness in many convincing ways to the public at large , or entering into and trying to understand what Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu was teaching by example in Puri , one supports the other . The more they distribute the more they relish the mellows , the more they relish the mellows the more they can distribute.
Philosophy is more powerful than politics.
Or the pen mightier than the sword.
The distribution of Krishna consciousness is carried out by those who are astute philosophers, following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu who explained the Atmarama verse in 61 different ways .
The philosophy of science and every kind of social science is also well understood by the mature Vedic thinker .
Perfect philosophy means perfect politics can be achieved easily.
Thoughtfulness is important, but thoughtfulness linked to the broad ranging theological sciences and culture are the workings of the wise .
In the world of Ai algorithms and robotics, it should not be too difficult to comprehend devolved existences from an original source . In fact, the Vedas say the material world is one such place , and the purposes of such ” artificial life ” forms are explained throughout the Vedas. The sincere , honest, and inquisitive person has every question answered in regards to the various life forms and their purposes and importantly why a particular particle of consciousness finds itself in a particular robotic like body . The Vedas also pertinently describes how every form of life originates from one original form , the original form the ” original patten,” That being the supreme engineer Divinity Himself. As much as a robot life is only a contrived existence, similarly the machine like bodies and the lives they lead are artificially imposed on the original pure consciousness . However, the original spiritual existence is experienced with bodies full of varigatedness and unlimited quality. There is no deterioration or changing states that accompany atoms , elements, or compounds . The machine, like bodies and the prolific speciation, are the Ai and algorithmic systems of Divinity and are perfectly complete and inconceivably engineered, so much so that the ” robots ” produce other” robots ” by sexual union . To support “robotic ” human life comes other varieties of tweaked designs, same engineer, and different engineering. These life forms ” that are intertwined within complex living systems that are all dependent on each other . Each of the life forms has similar goals , eating, sleeping, mating, and defending territories or possessions.
The third Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam, as well as the first Canto, describe Maha Visnu as a portion of a portion of the Original personality of Godhead who lies down in a mysterious sleeping condition and in his spiritually surcharged ” dreamlike state ” using the original pattern of His own trancendental form along with the adjustments of designs for speciation the total of 8400000 are explained ,and these are partially manifested in the Dna coding in everything that lives that scientific members have recently discovered. Maha Visnu manifests not only one planet with forms of life but also millions , such life forms exist within the fourteen and systems of the universe.
Importantly, the elements of this planet have other expansions and thus we hear in the words of the physicists multidimensional space time .
The senses limit us , but existence is not limited by our limited senses , for instance, at night, you can not see , but a cat can .
The Vedic cultures are far superior to Darwinian scientific materialism, those who puff themselves up greatly, thinking they understand the sciences of the material energies and even take their speculations beyond this planet and into our universe , they assume laws of physics and time are identical throughout .
Their scientific weaknesses and childish attempts all end in failure, because they completely ignore the essence of life, which is consciousness , the Darwinians do not accept dualism. Thus, their inferior position is revealed.
The Vedic followers, even if atheistic or impersonal or those of whom are full of material desires, at least understand consciousness . They understand scientific dualism, and because of this, firm realisations and experience mean they have the means to transfer their consciousness into better locations of their choice .
The Darwinians unfortunately die in ignorance of consciousness with so many attachments to this earthly plane , without understanding the opulences within the fourteen planetary systems of the universe and the choices of further opulences and locations. Being attached to this planet, they may well return as apes , who they ‘worship’ as ancestors.
By cultivating knowledge of both body , mind, and consciousness, many things can be materially achieved in this world and beyond . The yoga systems, along with preset processes of sacrifice with communication channels open with the agents of Divinity, will mean a much greater level of material opulences can be facilitated . Time is relative and operates at different levels, so the short life of this world is bypassed for a different region. Atoms , elements, and compounds restrict ones consciousness experience and bring early deaths
The acaryas teach by example, they are capable of delivering Krishna consciousness from its beginning to its perfection….twenty four hours daily they are engaged in giving all pleasure to Krishna , both externally and internally within what Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur calls the spiritual minds realised spiritual form within a spiritual realm .
Whatever they speak is always a valuable lesson in a practical and spiritual sense. When Krishna Katha emanates from their lips , it can enter deep within the heart . Either it is immediately relished or , as advancement comes about , it will be relished , it is never forgotten . Such Krishna Katha decends from the eternal realms and it decends by its own sweet will by the mercy of Bhakti Devi , who gives the acaryas freedoms to distribute such trancendental vibrations . As such, the Lila’s spoken of are eternal , and entrance is eternally taking place whre such loving services are flourishing
The acaryas perfectly describe the other param para acaryas in their songs and teachings . Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja said , “Those acaryas are self effulgent to the sincere prospective disciple.” They are present by Sadhu sanga and sastra sanga , if one has had their grace , time space are of no consequence, nor generations. These acaryas are merciful to one and all because they are Bhaktas of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu who is in the mood of Srimati Radharani . They , by Krishna desire , rescue the stricken living entities from all their entangled circumstances.
Ultimately speading Krishna is pleasing to Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and all those who follow Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu . In current times and previously, wherever that can be done is perfect . Within or outside ISKCON in one sense, is a relative term , some outside ISKCON could be within in an absolute sense, and some within ISKCON could be outside in a relative sense.
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