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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 task is  carried out .
Similarly the Vedas itself  is like a great lake, 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 should be approached. They  know how to guide different people in their needs for a  gradual progression in spiritual consciousness and such a person is the knower of the Vedas , and can be compared to a ” lake like person” who can  apply Vedic knowledge  correctly  in a mature fashion . Such broadminded persons, who apply Vedic applications ,  supercede those who are unnecessarily fixated on one particular aspect of it , and who  lack the understanding of  its real purposes  , which is always  social and spiritual mobility for all . Some immature persons are too  attached to the set purpose of particular ponds and are unable to understand or access  or approach the” Vedic lakes “ The Vedas has also been compared to an immense tree ,an upside down tree , branches down,  roots upwards . The leaves of the tree are the different aspects of hymns of Vedic sounds , one who knows the purpose of the sounds and is able to correctly discriminate between them can cut down the tree of temporary affairs and point one to the origins of this reflected tree , in the spiritual realms of varigatedness.
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Krishna knows everything?…there is no Robotic rasa

The acaryas have  explained that an over emphasis on oneness or an over emphasis on difference is incorrect.
Thus, simultaneously and inconceivably one and difference is the correct tattva .
And Srila Jiva Goswami in his Tattva Sandarbha says God makes the impossible possible.

When we exhibit our inherant nature and volunteer our love to  God, this is an exhibition of the part and parcel of God ,who is different from God, uniting in love with God, who is different.  As such, there is no robotic rasa, and God does not exactly know when or how deeply our exhibition of love will occur. Love is volunteered, and love for the unlimited has an unlimited capacity to increase, and the ever increasing ocean of blissful life is described by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana.
The clue is ..
Prabhupada says we are not dead stones ..
The high court judge knows the destination of the criminal.
Do you think the high court judge knows the destination of an honest man ?

Further, to understand the principles of Bhakti in conditioned life , you have to learn to love ..
Why some spirit souls  spontaneously loved Krishna in His various forms and why some didn’t initially…is the exhibition of freewill , of  who or what we love ….We , being the expansions of Balarama or Mula Sankarsan . Some of the beings ,  it appears , due to independent spirit , were transferred to Mahavisnu, from the Tatastha regions or Brahman,  and the transportational glance into matter took place ,  where an attempt to find  loving relationships takes place , it is never found in fullness.

Thus, here we are .

Love is always voluntary..
When you choose to  love God  is your free will , the potential for love is inherant but sometimes misplaced .
Love is also ever expanding, so it’s  newer and newer in quality.
Krishna does not know exactly when we will fully love him or how it will feel in terms of intensity….that’s our choice of freedom.

As we previously noted, Prabhupada said ..
” We are not dead stones,”
As a high court judge knows the destination of the criminal, similarly, God knows how conditioned nature responds , i.e., determinism of the  responsive universe . Thus in conditioned life, God knows everything of our life and choices  and how exactly we are conditioned .
But Narada Muni is free to wonder because pure love is always trusted ….and exhibited freely and unpredictability.
The more we learn to love God, the more freedom and unpredictability of loves emotions , they are expressed without God knowing how they exactly will be ..that brings the highest pleasure to God .
We are not predicable downloads of God . There is no robotic rasa .

In the higher realms of Rasa, one can be at one with the residents of Vraja.( pranaya) and the unpredictability becomes even more unpredictable , such as the crooked path of Parikiya rasa . The union and separation of love are described by our acaryas. Directed by the assistants of the Supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani, one can be graced and enter into some understanding of this pranaya oneness of love .
The more conditioned a person is, the more predictable they become,  its a forgone conclusion how a sex , drug, or drink addict will act .

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“The primary difference between the Sun’s surface heat and the atmosphere just above it is a dramatic, counterintuitive temperature inversion: the atmosphere is significantly hotter than the surface. While the visible surface (photosphere) is roughly \(10,000^{\circ}\text{F}\) (\(5,500^{\circ}\text{C}\)), the atmosphere directly above it—specifically the solar corona—reaches temperatures between \(1.8\) million and \(3.6\) million \(^{\circ}\text{F}\) (\(1\text{–}2\) million \(^{\circ}\text{C}\)), making it hundreds of times hotter “

If you walk away from a fire , you should get cooler …

“Scientists have long been puzzled by why the corona is hotter than the photosphere, as it contradicts the expectation that things get cooler when moving away from a heat source its core”

The same energies within atoms are within the sun . The mysterious light source and energies of the sun are Krishna’s energies . Krishna declares in Bhagavad Gita, ” I am the light of the sun , moon and fire.” The whole of the material energies are His energies that are  devolved and engineered from the Bramhajyoti  the spiritual light . Atoms produce elements compounds and enwrap the light of the soul in the devolved light of the Bramhajyoti. The machine like body is manufactured and is connected to the subtle consciousness, which is connected to another form of electrical charges , the  brain waves . Everything is  connected to the responsive universe,   and all energies interconnected and under laws of nature and divine algorithms beyond the comprehension. Krishna directs light and energies His way , and sometimes unexpected results occur , like the unexpected differences of heat on the surface of the sun and the atmosphere just above.  The weak gravitational forces on earth are also mysterious,  being as the moons’ gravitational forces move oceans .

The fundermental principles of material nature are summarised in the third Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam.

Some Vedic following think God an impersonal energy and impersonal light , but Srila Jiva Goswami points out in his Sandarbhas that light originates  from the trancendental form of Divinity. Consciousness is full of energies, and the light of everyone’s life and personality are self-evident.

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Today in the UK is the kings speech. He is setting out the government agenda for this term ..We are reminded attendees are members of the House of Lords .
The house of Lords are the perverted reflection of an original Brahminical Council, the intelligentsia , who are to advise and direct an administrative government who worked for the King or queen the Aristocratic leaders , who were dedicated to the people for life . It is they that choose their administration, but ultimately, the Brahminical intelligentsia check everything, including the monarchy. Unfortunately though, the administration who are voted in independently of the King or the Brahminical intelligentsia, by” fools who vote in fools ” ie. Uneducated democracies, the administration of government are controlled not by the Brahminical intelligentsia, and not by the king , but by Global conglomerates and financial institutions who tell them what they can and cannot do , so as to preserve their monopolies, although the public are convinced there is free trade widely on show .

AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains..

“Formerly, in practically all parts of the world, there were monarchies, but gradually as monarchy declined from the ideal life of religion to the godless life of sense gratification, monarchies all over the world were abolished. However, simply abolishing monarchy and replacing it with democracy is not sufficient unless the government men are religious and follow in the footsteps of great religious personalities.”

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One should ask oneself what have I learnt and who have I learnt it from , Common examples include BA/BSc for bachelor’s, MA/MSc/MBA for master’s, and PhD/MD for doctorates .Who were their teachers , in many cases , no doubt, valuable and based on genuine objective knowledge, but in many cases , not quite .So opinions after opinions after opinion .Sciences and modern-day psychology or teaching methods or training methods in business studies or economics are often based on exploitation .History is presented in certain ways , but who writes History,  or economics,  or sciences or psychology or child care theories  or modern management theories,  the list goes on . All of their teaching are based on a particular world veiw and can be seen to be failing in reality , opinions are subjective and not necessarily an objective reality . The students are blindly accepting what they are taught without understanding how persons have come to understand their particular topics , how do  they know their teachers know.  .Ultimately, knowledge is being taught based on a certain world views ,and a chain of teachers are presenting what they are taught , they have accepted it as truth and are paid to pass the information which may not be truth along the illusory pipeline. In many cases, it’s based on a world view that is totally incompatible with the reality.

What does the Vedas say about these matters..
The imperfect senses and speculative minds , the tendencies to cheat or become illusioned, have to be watched out for .
The Bhagavad Gita as it is explains all .
The successions of honesty are described, and the characteristics of honesty

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In spiritual life, one must try to practice humility, respectfulness, and tolerance , the more one can , the better off we are spiritually . Offending others or becoming unnecessary angry , or devoping subtle cancel culture is not conducive for pleasing Divinity,  who has perfect qualities.  One requires faith , because faith takes one a long way , our wrong mentality can result in  not having the faith that’s required to take one on the ultimate journeys of trancendance . Another effect of respect problems are one  can not hear very well trancendental messages when others speak them or have  conviction in the process of sastra sanga .The acaryas warn us all of the consequences of pride and how it delays the journey . A daily offering to Nityananda prabhu so He could give us the intelligence to see though our offences could be a valuable part of Sadhu Bhakti .

The complete journey of spirituality has been delineated by the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana who were personally taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. It must be followed to completion, nothing added or subtracted or speculated upon .
Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami is his purport to 1.1.2 Srimad Bhagavatam says .

“But the devotees of the Lord rise above such competitions. They do not compete with the materialist because they are on the path back to Godhead where life is eternal and blissful. Such transcendentalists are nonenvious and pure in heart. In the material world, everyone is envious of everyone else, and therefore there is competition. But the transcendental devotees of the Lord are not only free from material envy, but are well-wishers to everyone, and they strive to establish a competitionless society with God in the centre. The contemporary socialist’s conception of a competitionless society is artificial because in the socialist state, there is competition for the post of dictator.”

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Vedic goods and services…simple living high thinking.

The West appears out of balance , it’s got itself all caught up and entangled in its endless bid for pleasure , but solely centred around a temporary material body , an accepting and rejecting mind and a limited and deteriating intelligences,  as old age creeps up and takes everything away . Even their economic strategies based on producing unlimited goods from limited earthly resources are the workings of the unthinking.
Instead of living simply, with the clear objectives and realisations of a self-evident truth of shared resources and equality of rights Western people want to to increasingly exploit other countries and their citizens,  This Darwinian survival of the exploitative and the trickle down economics con is getting the world nowhere fast .
Western economics and world economics need rethinking.
Keeping everything small and  localised , goods and services should be produced locally and nationally, where possible, with local labour . Every country should depend on itself,  and not make itself dependent on other countries,  or on global conglomerates.  Essential trading, yes , but one man’s labour or a countries currency should be equalised.  By living lives based on a greater understanding of consciousness and higher culture of all sorts of natural sciences, the  potential for peace and natural happiness increases.  Do you know your Baker or farmer , or where your bread was baked or where the wheat came from ? The answer in 99.9 % of the time is NO .
That’s not the Vedic way .

The spiritual path..

What is relativity good for one person is bad for someone else , What is relativity bad for one person is relativity good for someone else .
Good .. bad …it’s all bad …because death , old age disease, and death awaits .We should place our energies  in dutiful ways but also within the wisdom of knowledge cultures. What is consciousness? That is the most important question,  never mind how much my bank balance is.
Come to the absolute plane, understand consciousness beyond the body , beyond material calculations for a material happiness ,  beyond mind, and senses, go beyond the intellectual platform , to the plane of the soul.
The great scholar Srila Sanatana Gosvami first question to Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu was, ” Why am I suffering and having to undergo all kinds of miserable and temporary conditions in a world of dualities ?
The Vedic way is to ask the right questions and seek the answers from those who know and to  understand how they know they know ..
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Amongst all civilizations, there are always seen four classes of men . There are the  first-class intelligentsia , who have first-class characters . They are well studied in the philosophically based world wide cultures as well as theological cultures . Sciences of dualism,  mind , matter, and consciousness and their various interactions are understood by them .  For example, the effects of matter in all its shapes and  forms will have on the psychological effects of different types of persons , the sciences of psychological conditioning are understood by the intelligensia. The effects of  excessive sense gratification in all its forms  cause consciousness to deteriate in its quality and purpose,  and thus, the need for regulatory lives is needed within civilised society . Lust , anger , greed , envy, and encroachment are systematic of unregulated societies . It causes huge problems on an individual , a community as well as a country. The Jewish leaders ,the Christian leaders, the Muslim leaders, and Hindu leaders of their countries (the political leaders we are referring to now) , need  not consider themselves leaders, pe say . Rather, they must regard themselves the followers of the real intelligensia, the first class persons . In each culture, they take different form.  The pure and spiritually realised Rabbi, in Jewish culture . The pure and spiritually realised monk in Christian culture .  The  pure and spiritually realised Imam in Islamic culture . The pure and spiritually realised Brahminical person in Hindu culture.. The  confused administrations of modern democracies are unfortunately currently serving the interests exclusively of the unintelligent and heartless who are forever searching for a profit and fail to listen to the real intelligensia.  Businessmen have been given control of the world its  bad news for the world and its citizens . They make very, very poor leaders for humanity and lack the character  and knowledge of mind , matter, and consciousness. Money is their only interest.

It’s clear businessmen are clueless and not leaders , they have all their priorities completely wrong . Such persons are never intended to be leaders or advisors . They have their purpose to create wealth in fair ways, creating  prosperity locally and nationally,  but not internationally . Every individual country should create its own business strategies, and some essential trade will naturally take place between countries . Unfortunately, modern democracies have  handed the unthinking businessmen the keys to power .  Unqualified persons endanger the world and its citizens as well as  every creature,  they poison the atmosphere in many many ways and even put chemicals on our foods  and  also within the good earth .
This was never the intention of Divinity,  He favours the well wishing and broad thinking intelligentsia , they are intended to be the advisors of the administrations but also remain independent of them and unpaid.

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The Renaissance (approx. 14th–17th centuries) marked a profound cultural shift from medieval theocentrism (God-centered) to anthropocentrism (human-centered), prioritizing human achievement, reason, and empirical observation over the theological .

In reality, nothing can be separate from Divinity,  the world of scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis is proving to be the wrong turn in a  world veiw , the clear scientific evidence flows the other way . When fanaticism took over in the Renaissance period, materialism increased, and the world we live in today is the result. Political systems failing , a failure to see the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings,  an exploitation of other countries and cultures,  a separation of the arts from its only connection to Divinity,  the economic strangulation of  exploitation and cheating in the stocks and commodity and currency markets,  and bad trade deals . All these things and more happen when a renaissance movement turns away from reality and attempts to present illusions as truths .

Nothing is seperated from Divinity,  but the mature theological student knows there are many strokes for many folks , many prescribed methods and gradual proccess by which the truth is understood. The Vedic Culures have the four Vedas, which reflect the arts , political, religious, and philosophical sections and the  sciences of all kinds . There should never be extremism , rather an understanding of psychological conditioning.  Extreme religious dogma led to extremes in the Renaissance which brought scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis taught to children as fact based sciences and the debacle of infiltrated democracies where fools vote in fools.

The Vedic way is the balance.

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Nityananda prabhu showed the example of respecting all persons and tolerating all kinds of difficulties.  He even declared to Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu when Mahāprabhu was about to act strongly against offenders to kindly show your kindness and mercy.

“Jagai and Madhai were notorious, sinful brothers in Nabadwip who were transformed into pure devotees by the extreme mercy of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, who forgave them despite being injured by Madhai. This event solidified Nityananda’s reputation as patita-pavana, or saviour of the most fallen, prompting Lord Chaitanya to accept them as devotees”

Many cruel and nasty things are happening in the world currently,  but what can we do , we may point out or protest and try to talk sense , but ultimately we must depend on Divinity to make arrangements to do things as He sees fit .God achieves many things in one action . He is supremely intelligent and has many purposes in His actions.

The Gaudia Vaisnava never become violent revolutionaries,  rather they with the strength of the Holy names change the energies in the world.  They leave the details to Divinity, and they pray for His mercy on all being , the sinners, and the saints .

In that spirit, Divinity feels an obligation to serve His devotees’ desire.

Those who hate or show discrimination can not properly understand the mercy and nature of Divinity.

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