With 8,400,000 different species of life and with each individual living being assigned an individual mind and intelligence suited for a particular species that is also endlessly mutable to adjust to every species, and with 14 planetary systems within which countless billions of universes are situated , no one can accuse God of not providing ample opportunities for countless living beings to express their free will , the inherant quality of the soul . Every one get a fair crack of the whip .
Free will and determinism need facilitating, and a legislative response within a responsive universe is in place , the universe follows us .
The Srimad Bhagavatam, which is the natural commentary of the Vedanta Sutras, provides us with all the information of the sciences of mind matter and consciousness both within the material and spiritual planes.
When Srila Vyasadeva is in his deep and mature meditation, saw Lord Krishna behind Lord krishna he also saw Maya devi or Durga Devi, an expansion of the Supreme Goddess of fortune .
The expression I have got your back can be considered..
“I’ve got your back” (often heard as “I got your back”) is an idiom meaning “I support you,” “I’ll protect you,” or “I’ll watch out for you”; it signifies loyalty and reassurance that someone will be there to help, defend, or look out for you, acting like a second set of eyes or hands.
Can Durga Devi be considered in this way ?
Everything about the supreme spiritual realm is personal , Lord Krishna is the most exhaulted of all personalities and to satisfy His emaculate senses with pure attitudes of loving service in very personal and in innumerable ways is the only “business” of the residents of the spiritual abodes .
Srimati Radharani thinks of Krishna in service toward him , in friendship towards Him , with somewhat motherly effection towards Him and ultimately as Her only lover . Naturally, if you love someone deeply , part of that love is to see to it no disturbances in any way are brought before the person you love . Actually, injustices of any kind or uncouth behaviour will not be tolerated. Everyone should conduct themselves properly before the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Durga Devi sees to it that the uncouth cannot approach Krishna . She also indirectly and directly instigates a training programme so everyone can see sense , and come to understand Krishna as the Supreme Rasaraja , who openly and purely exchanges His open heart with everyone in a most glorious way ,however long it takes .
Madhurya means sweet, and everything and everyone is sweet in Vrndavana. Everyone’s beautiful hearts are overflowing with blissful , ever new, and enthusiastic love for each other and Krishna . These extraordinary pastimes of the spiritual planes in VRNDAVANA are played out in sometimes unusual and contradictory ways …..In the absolute spiritual plane of Vrndavana the highest of spiritual abodes , all formality is left behind. Lying is all good , cheating is all good , deceiving is all good , even when Krishna kills demons that come to disturb his ” earthbound ” lila pastimes become blessed as well as liberated from all their miseries caused by being confined to the material world .
In the esoteric realms of Vraj exclusive devotion and services to Srimati Radharani are the supreme goal of the Gaudia Vaisnavas . Services to Her confidential companions are considered even more relishable , one can understand Radha Krishna through services to their companions’ understanding of Radha Krishna. However, it’s not just Radharani who is served . According to the relationship the devotees have with Krishna , one closest associate will be determined. Lord Balarama and His friends , Mother Yasodha and her friends , even services to the creatures and trees and the very soil of Vrndavana brings one immediately in contact with Krishna in unique and particular ways .
Each of these relationships brings immense joy to Krishna . Of course, Srimati Radharani, the Supreme Goddess of Fortune, ultimately conducts Vrndavana’s services to Her Krishna, and all are dependent on Her . She directly and indirectly conducts everything of the affairs of Vrndavana, but she in Her great humility remains dependent on everyone..
After arguing with Krishna Radharani, says to her friends ” it’s only by your blessings and good wishes that Krishna will accept me back again into His life “
When one loses touch with absolute truth , other truths inevitably slide into a continual decline, spiralling faster and further into the oblivion of deceit . Such is the nature of the illusory energy of Divinity , which awards 8,400,000 different species where those untruths can be lived out . Truth declines so much in current times that any man speaking truth is ridiculed or in todays world silenced , some call it cancel culture, and the persons who are speaking lies are glorified as truthful and visionary. Current algorithmic processes and Ai assisted technologies assist the dishonest greatly. The most cooked of persons , who together snatch the worlds recourses , pay very good money to anyone who will repeat their lies , one becomes the servant of the “devil ” . And with algorithms deliberately set to favour untruths, the rascals and demoniac see to it that things will work in their favour, the unthinking public, are easily fooled . Welome to the world where fools have voted in fools .. and where the Godless reign. To understand absolute truth, one’s lordship of matter and argumentations against absolute truth should be reversed , logic and objective sciences should be accepted. Acceptance and adoption of a humility of heart should be accepted along with a general respect for all beings , along with compassionate thoughts . With truth comes a natural detachment , and peace within the heart will as the beginnings of a relationship with Divinity will be underway . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
In entering and understanding Radha Krishna Nitya lila pastimes getting the correct Sanskrit word meaning obviously is essential to fully describe the specific lilas that are described in the writings of the acaryas who are literally spiritually immersed within the lila and relishing all the mellows due to their pure love in Bhakti yoga .
For instance, when Krishna approaches Srimati Radharani through his ecstatic glance , if one mistranslates the Sanskrit and literally has Krishna walking up and approaching Radharani , it can be that the translation is wrong .In the company of Radharani’s mother in law, Krishna could never walk directly up to Srimati Radharani, but He and She may approach each other by lightning glances . However, the essence and relishing of the mellows of pure devotional lilas can’t be experienced by any other process than the decending process or being allowed to enter Krishna lila through the chanting of the Names of Divinity and purely remembering the eternal spiritual lilas . It is, however, essential in assisting the meditations to understand how the acayas have described in their trancendental trance the pastimes.
We cannot neglect or minimise these technicalities of language, but also remember, its not merely by such technicalities that one enters into Krishna lila, but only through pure love which is bestowed by Bhakti devi and the pure devotees of Krishna, the causless mercy.
Srila BR Sridhar Swami would say all discord is harmonized in the absolute. What is that discord? Conditioned nature or spiritual nature ? What is meant by someone’s nature ? In the material world ones nature is acquired by one’s own material actions generated by universal affairs in a responsive universe In the spiritual world, ones eternal and original spiritual nature is revealed when one gives up material nature . Spiritual life is an uncovering process, a cleansing of temporary nature acquired by ignoring the spiritual reality. Material natures can change , free will and our choices change , conditioned nature is endlessly mutable, but spiritual nature is dynamic ever increasing and permanently situated beyond the atoms , elements, and compounds . Love, in its real pure form, is always increasing , to love and be loved is the inherant nature of the consciousness because we are part and parcels of Divinity who possesses that nature. All the spiritually minded individuals, although sometimes appearing in discordant ways , as the personality effects inevitably bring to the consciousness, are harmonized in the absolute . Everyone in the spiritual realm has pure intentions but different intentions towards Krishna , or God . Lord Balarama , who is Krishna’s first expansion , brings forth various expansions and multifarious energies , both spiritual and material in nature .Our conditioned minds and conditioned intelligences are part of His energies that make up our own subtle body . We have a gross and subtle body, but that is not our permanent condition but rather that material nature is forever in fluctuation , it responds to desire , the many possibilities of quantum physics, one could say is playing out . Balarama, through His expansions called Mula Sankarsan, Maha Sankarsan and Maha Visnu, and all his corresponding energies, both material and spiritual, serves Krishna in incalculable ways . Balarama is the original Guru for all beings, and the particles of eternal consciousness, the living beings, all expand from Him . Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s first expansion is Lord Balarama, and He is said to be non different that Krishna. Lord Balarama is the great servant of Kṛṣṇa and encourages us to follow in the service mode .
It’s indeed inconceivable that the innumerable individual living beings who each possess a unique sense of individuality can, in an individual way, express that towards Divinity. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
In glorifying Jesus Christ we should remember Bethlehem and the Holy lands are not mere geopolitical locations but rather a state of the pure spiritual mind , the enemies are not so much external forces or other countries or faiths but our own selfish conditioning , and the enemy can be at the very heart of our own faith if our scholars and theologians mistranslate or misinterpret pure scripts. Jesus Christs’ persecution came from within the establishment. In spiritual life, we guard against our own mind and fanaticism of any kind or misinterpreted scripts and those who pose as purely spiritual but are not so ……
The pogues .
The Pogues Xmas song reminds us of the fragile condition of human nature that is liable to erupt and explode at any time , but that at times the beginnings of the nature of a pure consciousness can be exhibited and conflicts can be put to one side , music, arts and theological consciousness can very quickly move people’s hearts , and the real pure person can be glimpsed.
Hildegard von Bingen.
Any person who wants to understand the real heart of Christianity can do so in various and profound ways, non more so than examining the life and works of Hildegard von Bingen the trancendental musician, artist , philosopher and pure theologian who is able to transmit the pure original teaching of Jesus and his Divine father.
His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has made an attempt to use the educational systems of the Vedas and create a world free from the ignorance of scientific materialism ,after all a world that does not understand dualism is a world of sophisticated animals who exploit hunt and kill in sophisticatedand underhand ways . In forming ISKCON AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , the Vedas is being brought to light . The idea is that everyone can live in a harmonized atmosphere where differences are respected and facilities that everyone needs, including the creatures of the earth ,can all be easily obtained and shared .In order for this to be achieved the intelligentsia must be prominent and recognised for who they are in every feild. Different classes of men have specific qualities , for instance a business man can only think of profit , thats good , but such persons are clueless when it comes to how to govern or protect society. ISKCON is based on the Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhagavad Gita, as well as the eighteen puranas that bring a natural and systematic education through its various cultures. This also naturally allows for all the specific needs of a ” multicultural ” society , where differences can be lived out in harmony.
Some people may openly criticize ISKCON, or Gaudia Vaisnava societies for their efforts, and immature thinkers probably dont understand the significance of their work and their long-term vision. Bringing Devi varna ashram within a modern world is the goal , and it’s a long-term goal .
Traditional ashrams or religious cultures , generally have women and men within their own settings .The Nuns and Monks live separately all over the world . Family life was absent, and interactions with society were limited.
In creating ISKCON Srila AC, Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada had the vision that the whole world should be given the opportunity to practice deep Krishna consciousness every varna and every ashram included . In so doing , ISKCON and Prabhupada have successfully brought Krishna consciousness opportunities to one and all in very practical ways all over the world. The revolution has begun, but we need to learn more .
If Prabhupada had created traditional Ashram systems , many aspects of society would not have been included in the cultivation of Krishna consciousness . Currently, it’s witnessed that ISKCON is successful and is fast permeating everywhere in the world. Its influences are growing in all of the varnas and ashrams.
Earlier days in ISKCON were very blissful and revolutionary but particularly difficult in many respects . Young inexperienced leaders had a lot of responsibilities , and many couldn’t manage well .
Consequences of failure can be problematic . There is no excuse for irresponsible and harmful behaviour, but we can not assume the utopian dream that all is rosey as soon as someone walks into an Ashram . Risks are there, and now manage a lot better , as in all religious institutions as well as other types of institutions.
Certainly, Prabhupada, through his preaching methods , has opened up the whole world , every single aspect of society can now access a Krishna consciousness experience, and the success of his mission is astounding.
Protestant , Catholic , Suni , Shiiat , Zionist , Rabbi , Smarta Brahmana , of a cast system , or a brahmana by quality .
Every one of these categories of persons attempts to understand properly theologies and can all be properly thought of in context.
Not all men or women are at the stage of desiring exclusively pure devotional service to the Lord , mixed devotion is in the mix, and progressive practice is within them all .
Some may have devotional attitudes mixed with many other motives like political or material perfection for personal benefits. These are naturally reflected in the religious minded societies but should be recognised for what they are by the scholars of each tradition. The highest and lowest of standard must be made clear , otherwise, the lowest will pass as the highest, that’s called cheating religion .
Birds of feathers flock together. The Vedas , being extremely broad, can incorporate all motivated persons as well as pure persons , and they put them into four categories and bring relative connections between them all .
The categories are Karma yogis …jnana yogis …astanga yogis and pure Bhakti Yogis ..
Each of those four categories have various followings, but also many subdivisions that are based on and according to progress in disciplines . This is according to how an individual can transition to spiritual understanding of greater levels . The ultimate goal is pure dedication and devotion towards Divinity.
In Vedic Culures, the pure “person Bhagavat”, is the personification of the ancient Srimad Bhagavatam . Such a person is in a Gaudia Vaisnava disciplic succession . They are extremely well versed in the Vedas and take into account time place and circumstances when it comes to application of the Bhāgavatam . They will be able to give a thorough analysis of all topics within the Vedas and relate them to contemporary times .
Krishna says in 7th chapter of Bhagavad Gita..
TEXT 16: O best among the Bhāratas, four kinds of pious men begin to render devotional service unto Me – the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute.
TEXT 17: Of these, the one who is in full knowledge and who is always engaged in pure devotional service is the best. For I am very dear to him, and he is dear to Me.
TEXT 18: All these devotees are undoubtedly magnanimous souls, but he who is situated in knowledge of Me I consider to be just like My own self. Being engaged in My transcendental service, he is sure to attain Me, the highest and most perfect goal
.TEXT 19: After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.
TEXT 20: Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.
It’s absolutely vital to find a pure representative of God in order to advance fully in spiritual life who can correctly guide people’s claims of purity ….there are many who pose as devotees who are actually demons or with mixed personal motives .
Thus, checks and balances are in place in Vedic Culures. True Gurus , true saints, and theological texts always align.
The pure teachers, both of a past and the present , along with the scriptures consisting of both the Sruti and Smriti, are essential to help us avoid those that will do us harm.
The demoniac person thinks: So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in the future, more and more. He is my enemy, and I have killed him; and my other enemy will also be killed. I am the lord of everything, I am the enjoyer, I am perfect, powerful and happy. I am the richest man, surrounded by aristocratic relatives. There is none so powerful and happy as I am. I shall perform sacrifices, I shall give some charity, and thus I shall rejoice. In this way, such persons are deluded by ignorance.
An analysis of the state of Western politics was that formerly, the king snatched power from the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom and set up his own church and administration . Later Cromwell snatched power from the king and gave power to politically influenced persons, mostly landowners . In modern times, the business classes are controlling and influencing the weak and unqualified political classes . In the USA, having direct rule , Donald Trump leads the way . The business class wants money at any cost , employees, or the environment or decent behaviour will not stand in their way . Wars , deaths, and exploitation are caused by greed and ignorance of others’ rights . Encroachments are the very nature of the ruthless businessmen. If they are artificially put in charge of a country, they will put the country in debt by lowering taxes , to increase their own profits. Currently, the USA is in 38 trillion debt . These business persons are ruthless and have no real care except their wallet. Thus , the Vedic way is the intelligentsia who are philosophically minded and compassionate to all , hold the life long king to account making him responsible to carry out duties within his political administration that are just and fair . Such leaders are compelled to instigate governmental and compliance systems so that businessmen operate with real free market economics , not fixed global monopolies. The business communities must protect its workforce and provide them with sufficient resources to live , including a home to live in , and must respect others’ cultures and countries. Democracies are crumbling and have been infiltrated by the conglomorates who fund politics and fund mainstream media, causing the unthinking layman to remain unthinking….thus fools are voting in fools http://www.thevedicspectator.com
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