yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajaty ante kalevaram taṁ tam evaiti kaunteya sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ
Translation
Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, O son of Kuntī, that state he will attain without fail.
Moving on …..onwards and upwards
Listening to radio 3 in the UK a very successful violin player had come to the stage where retirement loomed , she was in anxiety after so many years of travelling and performing, how would she cope with her new life ?.She spoke of how new opportunities dawned , new directions , new interests , new and rewarding projects came up automatically as if sent by destiny. So, in everyone’s lives , especially if we connect with good positive energies connected to mode of goodness duties and a service for the betterment of ourselves or others , inspired actions will be following us . Death is also like that. New opportunities new progressions , if we stay within the framework of duty and philosophically driven cultures, there is no loss at death but everything to gain . That’s the Vedic way. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Calculations of non interventions or replenishment is the thinking of the atheistic Darwinian who are convinced of scientific materialism…
They say .. “High entropy, driven by the second law of thermodynamics, leads to a “heat death” (or Big Freeze), where the universe reaches maximum disorder and becomes cold, dark, and empty. As energy spreads evenly, no further work can be done. Accelerated expansion ensures this, dispersing all matter and energy, leaving only a cold, thin haze of photons and decaying matter. “
But within the cell there is high entropy but also an ordered low entropy, order and tidiness is seen in the microbial world and through out the universe, nothing is in disorder , if there appears disorder its under the control of the order . The multidimensional universe alongside dark matter and dark energies are a complete unknown to those who advocate the heat death hypothesis, like the Darwinian hypothesis is guessing and making conclusions that go against the objective grain , likewise heatdeath.
Although everything in the universe is created , maintained, and destroyed, including the universe one should refer to the Vedas about how the collapse of the universe takes place and how everything is brought back inside Karanadaksyi Visnu before again being let loose . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The Srimad Bhagavatam opening verse can be seen to be objectively true. The sciences of Krishna consciousness apply right across the board. Everything is about the absolute, and it’s all interrelated, nothing lies outside the absolute truth. The founder Acarya of ISKCON Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada in his writings emphasised though sciences, through social sciences, through political science, through economics, through the arts Krishna consciousness is to be understood.
This Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.1. opening verse can be seen an an overview of the majesty and opulences of Krishna.
O my Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa because He is the absolute truth and the primaeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance, and destruction of the manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. It is He only who first imparted the Vedic knowledge unto the heart of Brahmājī, the original living being. By Him, even the great sages and demigods are placed into illusion, as one is bewildered by the illusory representations of water seen in fire or land seen on water. Only because of Him do the material universes, temporarily manifested by the reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although they are unreal. I therefore meditate upon Him, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is eternally existent in the transcendental abode, which is forever free from the illusory representations of the material world. I meditate upon Him, for He is the absolute truth.
If God exists He must leave traits in his works , Sir Francis Crick said he finds profound awe in the genome that he and other discovered and he interpretated it as being a literal “fingerprint” of God .That’s an intelligent logical conclusion, ie .information in our experience comes from a consciousness. Sir Fred Hoyle also concluded that ” someone has monkeyed with the universe, as scientific studies progress the further and deeper they look the more obvious design is found in everything examined , perfect math symmetry and supreme engineering. The big bang proves a start a creation , everything has a cause , Sir Richard Feynman has an amusing video on you tube discussing causes , everything is caused by something and the never ending question of why can be asked. One should come to the original why .Granny slipped on the ice and was taken to hospital at the beginning of the “why” questions in Richard Feynman’s amusing but informative film
Everyone and everything is being maintained somehow arrangements are in place for food and shelter and psychological needs as well as bodily demands including sex , no species is falling short . Within the hearts of all being knowledge is inspired , from the weaver birds nest building to the workings of quantum physics , or the composition of pieces of art , music of drama.
The illusory energy is so strong that a foolish man thinks himself clever and the master of all he surveys, only to find out later he was completely wrong , its a fact looking at a sunset , the clouds appear as land , we cannot rely on imperfect senses or the limitations of intellectual ability to see things as they are .The psychological modes of nature throw us in all directions, but Divinity remains always the consistent factor and maintainer of everything and everyone. Krishna is easily understood in His universal form, and He can be further understood by yogic proccesses, yoga means to link. Through karma yoga ,niskarma karma yoga, astanga yoga, jnana yoga, and pure Bhakti yoga, Krishna is understood and realised in full .
We could say that inadvertently, the British coming to India contributed to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s Sankirtana movement . They introduced Western sciences , different technologies, and educational system’s and taught the citizens of India world cultures . The British were practically all over the world. This new order needed understanding, and persons like Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja who were highly learned scholars in their own right were exposed to it . Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja made many extremely cultured and learned persons into his leading disciples , including Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada . They were all well schooled and educated in British led educational system’s and colleges. Prabhupada had great respect for his professors, whom he described as kind gentleman. Those of the British who were political leaders and who were influenced by the East India company were the ruthless ones . Influences of businessmen were deeply imbeded within the colonial consciousness, and they take profit at any cost, literally, including cutting the thumbs of weavers . The British wanted sown cloth imported from the UK from the Lancashire Mills. With the education and the communications given to India’s citizens , the western thinking they introduced meant it was very easy for our acaryas to understand something of the new modern world and then subsequently bring Vedic Culures to the West itself . They transposed Vedanta philisophical life into the Western cultures . In time and especially in todays world , Vedic sciences are becoming more and more recognised and respected . Both Niels Bohr and Erwin Schrödinger studied aspects of the Vedas dealing with consciousness. The many possibilities of quantum physics stem from the Vedic responsive universe and brings it to light .This is the universe the Vedas defines in detail, dualism, means consciousness and matter interactions. Although the British invaded India , that invasion led to a different sort of invasion, The Vedas is infiltrating every corner of the world with its effects increasingly being appreciated. The mission of Mahaprabhu has only just begun. We have seen nothing yet .
Lord Krishna speaks about the glorious yoga system . Yoga means to link with God . To link with God, we need to know the uncoupling process , we can not be coupled with the illusions of this world if we want to understand pure trancendental knowledge. It’s like embracing a person tightly and screaming, “Let me go.” The commercial yoga groups understand very little of yoga. It’s a monetary show as far as they understand, good for money good for some fame , that’s not yoga .
Lord Krishna says this in His Bhagavad Gita.
“Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he has acquired from the modes of material nature; therefore, no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment.”
Lord Krishna has defined a systematic process , from karma yoga to niskama karma yoga, then jnana yoga, then jnana sunya bhakti , this is the beginnings of much more development of the yoga of devotion process which has began to be accompanied by stronger trancendental knowledge. Trancendental knowledge also comes in various stages of development , there is reality no limits to trancendental knowledge. Bhakti is accompanied by and takes help from karma and jnana in the beginnings of the Bhakti process. In phase of jnana sunya Bhakti ,the stronger development phase of trancendental knowledge, the devotees hear directly the Srimad Bhagavatam and by the blessings and grace of all the param para acaryas can study their litratures and meditate on the lila pastimes described by them in their books . This accompanied by a rich jnana sunya bhakti leads to increasingly deeper meditation, so this is pure Bhakti and it is leading to purely enriched Astanga like yoga , but unique because of being soaked with devotion and remembrances of Krishna lila gained through the processes of hearing , chanting and remembrances . Srila Ragganatha das Goswami in his meditations and instructions on Krishna consciousness lead us to the glories and science of yoga .
The Professor of neuroscience Michael Egnor has made a point that brain neurons fire in different ways according to discipline and habit changes , those addicted to certain behaviours are almost forced to act due to psychological modes of nature . Modes of nature can change, and patterns of life and habits can change .That Krishna is clearly telling us , we have free will , we can strengthen our consciousness and exercise a free wont . Ie .we will not let bad things degrade our consciousnes, but we will rather elevate our consciousness through better choices and feel the benefit.
Unfortunately, low class leaders and scientific materialism, as well as the Darwinian hypothesis, drive everyone to become like street dogs following their senses anywhere and lifting their legs on anyone. The Vedic way is one of elevated consciousness and progressive social and spiritual mobility for all . When the intelligentsia return so will real education, the sophisticated animals will be forced back in their baskets .
We should not light is not made of atoms, like the material world.
“Light frequencies encompass a vast continuous spectrum beyond just atomic electromagnetic frequencies. This spectrum is typically divided into several regions based on increasing frequency and energy, including radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. “
The original spiritual energy emanating from Divinity is called the Brahmajyoti. The whole of the spiritual worlds are built of spiritual energies the ” trancendental electromagnetism ” one might say …
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on a morning walk says this …..”Prabhupāda: Yes. And that is confirmed in the Brahmā-saṁhitā that yasya prabhā. Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagadaṇḍa-koṭi-koṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi vibhūti-bhinnam (Bs. 5.40). This creation, all the whole creation, even this material, that is depending on the brahma-jyotir. Therefore, it is said, sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma. Everything depends on the brahma-jyotir. And that is confirmed also in the Bhagavad-gītā: mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni (BG 9.4). This mat-sthāni means..”
The electromagnetic light energies and all light frequency contained within the material universes and which is its very foundation, as well as within all atoms, is devolved from its original sources.
Like light waves have various features and functions within the universe , it’s not too difficult to understand other unseen or undiscovered elements or dimensions of light within a multidimensional universe that emnate from this Brahmajyoti, as, for instance the mysterious dark energies and dark matter .
Atoms are thought to have different formats say some physicists, a counterpart , there are various studies taking place , but beyond the difference in atoms are the constructs of a spiritual kingdom with spiritual varigatedness and beauty beyond comprehension.These can be referred to as anti matter.
The Vedas paints the picture of a multiuniversal material universe as well as the unlimited spiritual universes .The Harvard Prof Lisa Randall writes and lectures on this topic .Light energies of all qualities and forms are in existence and yet to be fully understood and much as smaller parts of atoms and ethereal connections between the brain waves and desires and deserves .
We can never limit nature, what to speak of a spiritual nature.
We are like tiny fire flies gazing out at billions of universes , but within each, our and everyone’s conscious is being facilitated in unlimited ways , one chief conscious being is the facilitator in whom the multifarious energies exude as the bliss and consciousness increases .
“Might be ,could be ,we think its like , its possibe , there is a strong possibility,” etc etc etc , the never ending speak of those chirping scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis. When one of Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s disciples was answering a question Prabhupada had asked about the local area and environment, the disciple piped up and said, “I think its …”… Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami immediately stopped in his tracks , thrust his cane into the ground, and exclaimed, ” You think .you think ..….but you don’t know “ The lessons that AC Bhaktivedanta Swami was giving were clear and learned by all the accompanying disciples…..
Here , in current scientific times, we have more of the same , the world of “it might be’s .and we think ..etc etc .”, although dishonestly presented to a gullible public and students at schools along with textbooks as all fact based objective sciences.
Here is the type of guessing they like … After modern humans made it to Europe from the ape like existence in Africa some 50,000 years ago, they hunted and gathered in small groups for scores of generations. The cavemen and apemens days were numbered. Then, 10,000 years ago, people in Europe began to farm and settle down. About 5000 years later, cattle herders from surged into Europe with the wheel and metal tools and weapons, ending the Stone Age and ushering in the Bronze. Cultural and technological changes accelerated no end , from the rise of the first cities to the spread of empires , eventually arriving to our modern age of trains, planes, cellphones, and artificial intelligence..
In Vedic historical texts , the universe is in a permanent cyclic cycle, the creation of all species has no accountable history, but rather the same species, accross the universes are regenerated , after the previous universe dies out , but the regenerated . Everbody given a particular body to suit consciousness , history repeats itself in one sense . The very highest development of consciousness existed previously where living beings lived in different ways , where minds were strongly developed and able to communicate with other parts of the multidimensional universe, where enjoying life takes on a different meaning . Enjoying gross matter or enjoying within the highest subtle and blissful states , is like chalk and cheese. Scientific materialism of a mere gross world , over spiritually led scientific dualism where the yogic inner consciousness is fully realised discovered which allows easy journeys to higher planes of existence.
When the greatest of musicians play or sing the greatest of music , it touches the heart in special ways , this is a hint and an indication of a greater state of mind that humans can ” evolve ” to by purity directed by the greatest of theological texts deep within the Vedas .
The speculations of the gross followers of Scientific Materialism or Darwinian hypothesis will guess ” All that societal upheaval in our history of evolution from the primordial soup may have supercharged our biological evolution as well, according to a study of nearly 16,000 ancient human genomes published in an artificial in Nature.” .. .note the words ” may have .” All this” might be , could be , we think so ,” is not at all Scientific , by mathematics mutational evaluation and statistics.. it’s the world of unstatistical tosh .. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
By Vedic Standards.. The modern world falls badly short.. 1, The crucial sciences are wrong 2, The political and social sciences are wrong 3, The economic systems are wrong 4,The general health of the citizens is wrong along with food production . 5, The interpretations and speculations of most theological modern-day updated religions are wrong . 6, The allowance of unintelligent businessmen to make global conglomerate profits by their governments encroachments on others lands is wrong , and using their ill gotten gains for political lobbying for further encroachment is wrong . 7,Uneducated citizens voting in fools is wrong , anyone who votes needs to have classes of what leaders look like , how they lead, and what they lead for . The list goes on .. All in all, a new intelligentsia is dawning those whose hearts and minds are not perverse but who see easily the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings and the rights of countries and cultures. . It should be understood that there are different types of intelligentsia classes .1, Those well versed in Artha sastra , living rules within societal affairs, 2, Dharma sastra , the journey of social and spiritual mobility,,3 Jnana sastra , the metaphysical referred to as Jnana sunya bhakti , understanding of laws beyond classical and quantum physics and extending to a subtle ethereal plane , the responsive universes workings , the link between matter , the ethereal and consciousness 4, Bhakti Sastra Pure knowledge of Divinity and the three realisations Brahman, paramatma and Bhagavan . In Vedic cultures, the different types of intelligentsia work in combined ways . They each are dedicated servants with no personal ambition or a private salary from any business person . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
A lame man can move mountains. A dumb man can compose eloquent poetry… don’t limit yourself, but be content in devotional service…
The implications of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta pointing out the calculations of astrology by not understanding moving planets .
“Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura’s pointing out the flaws in astrological calculations, particularly regarding the failure to properly account for the
precession of the equinoxes (the moving zodiac/ayanamsa) versus the fixed stars (sidereal), has several significant implications. His, and later A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s, critiques were aimed at shifting the focus from material fatalism to absolute dependence on spiritual, transcendental activity.
Here are the key implications of his stance:
Correction of “Fixed” vs. “Moving” Planets (Ayanamsa): Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati highlighted that conventional astrology often ignored the shift between the tropical (ayan) and sidereal (nirayan) zodiacs. By insisting on precise, mathematically sound calculations (as in the Surya-siddhanta), he underscored that neglecting the precession of the equinoxes (the moving planets/constellations) makes astronomical calculations outdated and inaccurate.
Marginalization of Fate and Materialism: The fundamental implication is that relying on astrological charts, which are based on “material karma,” is a sign of immature understanding. He emphasized that a devotee is not bound by mundane stellar influences. Astrology, at best, applies to the material body, but the soul is free.
Emphasis on “Transcending” Rather than “Managing” Karma: Instead of using astrology to calculate the best time for material actions (a key focus in the materialist world), Bhaktisiddhanta taught that one should transcend planetary influence altogether through surrender to God (Krishna).
The Inadequacy of “Blind” Astrology: By highlighting these calculation errors, he pointed out that many practitioners of astrology are incompetent, leading people to “bogus” conclusions.
Superiority of Spiritual Action: The ultimate implication is that the Sankirtan movement (congregational chanting) is the only truly effective “remedy” in the Kali-yuga, as it directly acts on the soul and alters destiny, rendering even “accurate” astrological predictions unnecessary. “
Many devotees overly account for their astrological situation, desperately trying to avoid suffering and gain happiness. This is Smarta Brahminism. Overly relying on misinterpreted tools and not having faith or an understanding of what devotional activities do for an individual within the confines of matter and a set of karmic synchronicities . Although Prabhupada said, “Clap your hands before the Deities everything changes “
Prarabdha and Aprarabdha karmic destinations both change . The smarta thinker can not understand.
Consciousness means personality, the two can never be separated, and the personality is exhibited in conditioned consciousness within the 8,400,000 species of life or in its original purity within higher realms . Dust on a mirror prevents a natural reciprocation of light , so a clean is required , similarly the cleansing of the heart by association with Divinity by deep meditation, deep prayer or calling His trancendental names reveals our pure personality free from the shackles of a personality contaminated by lust , anger , greed ,envy , and the madness and illusions associated with selfish consciousness. That is is dust of material existence. The Vedic Culures explore very deeply the phycologically contaminated personality as well as how to obtain freedom from it . Each personality is unique in their own right , as its thought scientifically that snowdrops are , which seems impossible or inconceivable in its own right . Divinity accompanies the individual personalities as the supersoul in conditioned life in more ” formal ” ways . However , when we become liberated from matter, Krishna reciprocates individually with each personality in a direct and personal way in loving exchanges with our originally intended spiritual forms . Personalities also have their original pure state , this is understood initially as Brahman realisations, such as realisations of the self-evident truth of an equality of all beings , although their external circumstances differ either spiritually or materially.
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