Common sense  sustainability, and pie in the sky unsustainable economics .

The bread you consume daily should be made from locally  grown wheat purchased from local farmers . Farmers that you may even know or be somewhat acquainted with . The Miller who grinds the wheat is also  situated locally and is a  trustworthy character , neither the farmer nor the Miller add chemicals or additives to something that is already perfect and naturally grown , no one is complaining if insects , birds or mice take a share .Everyone should place their order with the local bakers, of which there are many , people are on first term names with their bakers and they are expert.
Unfortunately though,  currently,  someone in Brighton, for example, is buying his bread that has been baked in Northern England, and it has been  transported hundreds of miles  down the motorway , its been baked in huge factories that add chemicals and additives to the mix . The wheat has been grown and imported from Canada and is full of chemicals so as to kill creatures and increase profits. The Vedic Culures understand the beauty and goodness of local economies and having relationships with the people that grow the wheat , mill the wheat, and bake the bread . The consciousness of the persons enter the bread  , especially the baker . Simple living and high thinking along with locally supported communities is the Vedic way , the communities supports other communities within a nation. Fare share , fair deals for a fair days work . International trading obviously goes on with some goods and trades , that’s occurred for thousands of years . But global conglomerates want cheap labour , and worldwide markets , and when such global conglomerates capture markets , they then capture the farms and dismiss locally thriving industries of all kinds . Then they turn their hands to the commodity markets and create monopolies to control prices internationally , financial institutions trade commodities that suit and profit the few . With their massive profits they buy political power , thus the man with too much money overpowered by greed starts to run the world . Democracies become  infiltrated by the unthinking,  only one thing comes into their hearts money and power to make more and set the whole world to suit their purposes.

This out of balance world stems from those who follow  subjective speculations about the world around us , this perverse thinking stems and originates  from  those who follow the Darwinians’ goals as well as those following scientific materialism . They have lost touch with nature and people . Darwinian trickle down economics is absurd in every way . Any calculations based on absurdities lead to further absurdities. The Vedic way of Dualism sets the correct path , personslism,  the rights of all beings , and appreciation for the environment and of the joy of localised economies.
When democracies have been infiltrated people become fooled and consequently fools vote  in fools , it leads to mayhem , take a look at the world as it currently stands.
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Using ones thinking and contemplative power the temporarily situated atheist or the more open minded and  philosophically astute , that theoretically if there were a God , and He had expanded Himself to become the  many , each particle of consciousness originally coming from His consciousness  , this very well explains the material world and the goings on . This angle of thought is easily acceptable on the grounds that one accepts regions beyond three dimensions and intelligences , energies and inconceivable powers beyond our estimations , we could say a comparison of microbial intelligence to that of Einstein , can a comparison be drawn ? In the world of sciences, much is left to the imagination and speculations when it comes to this world  . When it comes to theological considerations , attention must be given to the obvious observations of free will and the principles of determinism. After all, if there were a God, why would God create downloads of Himself ? Robotic ” yes men “or ladies could never, in real terms, transmit love , love must always be voluntary, and its moods are unpredictable . It  must be acceptable to the philosophically minded a percentage of Gods children were unsure of having a close and direct  relationship with Him , and this material universe is evidence of that .The  Vedas, throughout its pages, clearly indicate that evidence of free will and determinism is at  play right before our eyes .
Welcome to the logically manifested material world where incomprehensible arrangements are made for unlimited ” freedoms of expression ” on a gigantic scale, where such facilities  involve  8400000 species of life , within the multidimensional universe ,  each  with an independent but dependent existence and a  forgetfulness of God . However, they are totally absorbed in only one thing , and that is a multifaceted display of God’s energies done in the company of Gods other parts and parcels who chose an independence from the spiritual reality and instead chose the sureal existence of matter . Most are absorbed so deeply in this surreal material world, but some begin to puzzle about  their  existences and realise their  entangled states . Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita that initial understanding takes many, many lives to properly manifest . When Divinity puts on an illusory show, it’s 100% perfect , no one can escape unless set free .
With the Ai and algorithmic systems that follow us in remarkable ways  beyond the comprehension of most , that  we are currently encountering , what is the difficulty to understand this concept of  imprisonments of minds and senses with bodies , everything designed and functional in a supremely perfected state .
There is a controlled systematic order with the physical laws  , there is math and perfect symmetry within nature , and there is  coded information within the genome that builds perfectly constructed bodies . All these examples should bring to the attention of an inquirer  what is happening in the world appears ordered there is nothing random whatsoever. One can never really understand God through academia alone . One can never really understand God through sentiments alone , but both processes can be helpful if a little  faith and intelligence is properly directed  towards  devotion , the possibility of something much greater than ourselves . Even if in the beginning, it’s just nature and recognition of God in nature .

Ultimately , by engaging in some devotion and recognition, further knowledge and realisations will come about, and  trancendental feelings will come about and increase more and more ,  Krishna tells us this in the Bhagavad Gita.

Without knowledge, sentiments alone can hamper one’s advancement in devotion . Equally, knowledge without loving sentiments limits one’s relationship with God .

Thus,  automatically , by engaging in services to God , trancendental sentiments increase as well as knowledge about His glorious activities , form , and pastimes within both the material and spiritual worlds .

The most advanced devotees have knowledge of God and pure trancendental loving sentiments towards Him . Of the two , pure loving trancendental sentiments wins out , and  knowledge becomes secondary.

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Smriti.. and meditations to  the highest degrees

It’s interesting to note how the Smriti of the Gaudia Vaisnavas greatly expanded during and after the appearance of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Mahāprabhu Himself taught by example and accepted the Smriti of Jayadeva Goswami and Bilvamangala Thakur as well as Candi das ..
The essential elements of Sruti and Smriti greatly increase the understanding of Krishna consciousness , nothing is seperate from Krishna and everything Krishna does from His activities on the Battlefield of Kurukshetra to his pastimes in Vraja can be meditated and thought about, in fact they are eternally manifest , throughout billions of universes both spiritual and material. Our activities are finished in a moment,  Krishna’s activities are not subjected to the atoms ,elements, compounds, or modes of psychological nature, which are all evaporated forever by time .
The intimately connected devotees are able to assist us in our spiritual journeys by bringing us the Smriti , the windows to the spiritual plane , not by reading alone , but by Krishna’s mercy through the chanting of his names , which are the means and the end .
By the mercy of those great Acaryas also , we may, by grace ,  get some trancendental insights of the life of Krishna and His devotees.
Srila Rupa Goswami describes the process beginning with hearing and chanting about the names.  forms , qualities, and pastimes of Krishna and His associates. Then, smaranam deeper and deeper meditation and remembrances,  and much further details are given by Srila Rupa Goswami of deeper aspects of what  you could say is ‘ pure Astanga ‘ saturated with unalloyed Bhakti . Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur indicates a spiritually mentally conceived spiritual body interacting in the eternal spiritual planes spoken of by the six  Goswami’s of Vrndavana and by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu who came to teach by example. Krishna’s words in the Bhagavad Gita ” Think of Me become My devotee “Krishna’s form is absolute when we think or chant or remember Him he can  become fully present to us  by grace “

Srila Rupa Goswami has given a wonderful example,  a man is watching a drama , the man becomes so absorbed in the drama , that when the main character dies in the drama,  playing a death role , the man watching also dies .

Spiritual life means a shift of identity.

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What is the essence of Krishna consciousness, beyond modern Hinduism or young  neo libertine populist.

Mahaprabhu tells all ..
Offering obeisances to the Lord with folded hands, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu raised His face toward Jagannātha and prayed as follows.
: “ ‘Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is the worshipable Deity for all brahminical men, who is the well-wisher of cows and brāhmaṇas, and who is always benefiting the whole world. I offer my repeated obeisances to the Personality of Godhead, known as Kṛṣṇa and Govinda.’
: “ ‘All glories unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as the son of Devakī! All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as the light of the dynasty of Vṛṣṇi! All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose bodily luster is like that of a new cloud, and whose body is as soft as a lotus flower! All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who appeared on this planet to deliver the world from the burden of demons, and who can offer liberation to everyone!’
: “ ‘Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is He who is known as jana-nivāsa, the ultimate resort of all living entities, and who is also known as Devakī-nandana or Yaśodā-nandana, the son of Devakī and Yaśodā. He is the guide of the Yadu dynasty, and with His mighty arms He kills everything inauspicious, as well as every man who is impious. By His presence He destroys all things inauspicious for all living entities, moving and inert. His blissful smiling face always increases the lusty desires of the gopīs of Vṛndāvana. May He be all-glorious and happy!’

“ ‘I am not a brāhmaṇa, I am not a kṣatriya, I am not a vaiśya or a śūdra. Nor am I a brahmacārī, a householder, a vānaprastha or a sannyāsī. I identify Myself only as the servant of the servant of the servant of the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the maintainer of the gopīs. He is like an ocean of nectar, and He is the cause of universal transcendent….

Concerning the presentation of the teachings of the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas… particularly within ISKCON.

What real guarantees are in place that when the traditional Conservative elements of ISKCON who represent Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his missionary outlooks , pass from this world that the society will not become overrun by modern Hinduism that’s merged with a global conglomerate world along with its political stances , or young neo libertine populists who feel the old guard were out of touch with the new world or and should have “mellowed out ” and liberalised …
Supposedly, the constitution should be a binding document…..The constitution Prabhupada called for should be simple and to the point in essential areas ..
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The mechanistic Darwinians who are inflicted with scientific materialism agendas lodged with their hearts , its very difficult to remove , because of being deeply embedded since childhood schooling days and beyond . In reality they are clueless not only about the complexities of each individual part of a particular body , be it an  ants body or a human body , we have to   bear in mind that not one cell can be manufactured from scratch within the greatest laboratories in the world by the greatest of the evolutionary scientists. The informational exchanges taking place, which enable molecules to move towards life, assembling  multiple body  parts, and eventually completing fully   complete and perfected bodily forms, is astounding. So, astounding, in fact, that it’s becoming increasingly obvious to leaders of chemistry,  biology and physics , the deeper they delve into miniscule details  , that these biological systems are so fit for specific purposes and increasingly it  looks like everything is designed as such . The leaders in engineering marvel at each bodily part and its complete efficiencies .When it comes to the subtle energies , described as the three modes of nature in the Vedas , those modes are unlimitedly mixed , causing the various psychological functions of each person . Like an artists pallet, the mental and intellectual states are of many colours . The vedas say the psychologies of  goodness , passion and ignorance are the causes of various motivations causing an  accepting and rejecting mind and varieties of intellectual capabilities .  The Darwinians , in their confusing states , have no answers for any  psychological states or explanation for various states of minds or intellectual states ….Simply ” neurons ” firing, they vaguely say . But the computer like brain has a consciousness that is the  operator, its plugged in to the brain lke computer. The ethereal or subtle consciousness which covers the original pure consciousness is granted a  mental and intellectual  state , from the greater pool of those energies,  originating from Divinity Himself , these ethereal subtle energies are on loan . The fundermental principles of material nature are discussed in the third chapter of the  Srimad Bhagavatam and further elaborations in Vedic texts .

.The unseen universal order ..

Not one microbe is unimportant in any part of a universe. There is significance and purpose in everything,  Divinity is fully conscious simultaneously of every part of the universal creation. The universal form of Divinity is described in the second Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam.  Everything is coordinated perfectly. Even what might appear disorder is order .
Every atom , element, and compound is assigned and granted and then taken away from the living being , only to be re granted in different combinations along with  different sets of circumstances .
Nothing is by chance ..
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Srimad Bhagavatam contains the Sruti , Smriti ,  Tantra, and Purana.
Srila Goswami has accepted this authority as bone fide epistemology and anything outside of those as not necessarily transparent truth , but rather at most , somewhat speculative that may or may not bring a person closer to understanding absolute truth . The truth is  spoken directly in the Bhagavad Gita by Lord Kṛṣṇa personally , and subsequently in the Srimad Bhagavatam about Him by His realised devotees  and the Caitanya Caritamrta , Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu,  who is Krishna Himself elaborated on further more confidential truths and greatly extended the access to realising them . The Caitanya Caratamrita is regarded as the postgraduate study of the other two , the  Gita and Bhagavatam.
Anything calculated independently about the reality of spiritual and material truth utilising the senses or the mental and intellectual capabilities will be tainted with material limited calculations , and it will forever fall within the conditioned modes of material nature , those of passion,  goodness, and ignorance , trancendental life is beyond , it is situated in Suddha Sattva,  pure transcendence .
Trancendental topics are described as pure Subdha brahman , pure sound vibration. Knowledge in suddha sattva or pure goodness that is untainted by lust , anger , greed , envy , and illusions or attachments pertaining to the body , mind , senses or intelligence. This trancendental sound originates from Divinity Himself , and His pure representatives having accepted such sound can also  vibrate pure unalloyed sounds . Both Sadhu sanga , association of pure devotees, and Sastra sanga , accessibility of pure scriptures , are available to the sincere seeker of truth , both of these two are essential and work co jointly.
Such vibrations or writings  are empowered by Divinity and are  of the same spiritual nature as the absolute truth .The characteristics of the representatives of pure sounds are significant , This vese indicates them .

titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ

suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām

ajāta-śatravaḥ śāntāḥ

sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṇāḥ

TRANSLATION

The symptoms of a sādhu are that he is tolerant, merciful and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime.

Divinity can always be  attributed to the teachings of the recognitiond Sadhus and  Guru’s and is also within the recognitiond Sastras . Both of the Sruti and the Smriti that is contained within the Bramha Gaudia sampradaya  . Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur had begun to present these topics to the Western audience’s.  His son Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja, the spiritual master  of Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami, took matters much further  within India , and also sent representatives to London . Srila A.C.Bhavtivedanta  Swami has taken all these matters  incalculably further ,  in terms of their being made available to Western audiences all over the world . He has  made all our acaryas teachings accessible and understandable to a worldwide audience in very unique and empowered ways . The international society for Krishna consciousness has brought the Vedas to the whole world, and  increasingly so . Other Gaudia Vaisnava organisations have also developed to teach in the Western world since ISKCON was formed,  and in India many Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have always existed since Mahaprabhu’s appearance.

ISKCON is sometimes accused of mission drift ..
If the peripherals within the Gaudia Vaisnava greater Vedic connections becomes ISKCON’S cor that would go against the teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu , following His conversation with Ramananda Roy . At the same time is the conclusions of Mahāprabhus conversation are enacted primarily, and the peripherals discarded that would equally go against Mahāprabhu’s conversations.
The spiritually infused and mature ecclesiastical scholars within ISKCON have to strike the right balances allowing the natural flow from the peripherals to the cor , avoiding the dangers of the peripherals to become the predominant cor of the organisation . Overly identifying with Western modern Hinduism , or the neo libertine populist of the many shallow yoga organisations, each of those are very firmly situated within the peripherals with little inklings of the Gaudia Vaisnava cor is mission drift ..
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The principles of Vedic societies are founded on the common sense logic that specific key occupations are to be carried out carefully and precisely and by persons who have the inherant natures that are equated for purposes . This is particularly  important, especially when occupational duties affect greater society, such as political leaders , social leaders , religious leaders, or business leaders.  We could say , for instance, in the past, many rouge leaders have taken possession of posts that they were not psychologically profiled for , the results are always disastrous , although those in ignorance may not understand what the consequences are or even what a disaster looks like or how it may be unfolding . The independent Vedic Brahminical intelligentsia themselves were profiled in Vedic cultures , there were always checks and balances in place instigated by Divinity Himself. We should know that Visnu has established the Vedas. The Vedas is the breathing of the Visnu , and He  has seen to it throughout the history of the Universe that the extensive Vedic widom passes   through and is understood by the purest and truthful persons,  their qualities are given in the Vedas .The highest quality persons , pure in consciousness , can fully access and understand the many applications of the all encompasing governance and compliance systems designed for social and spiritual mobility that go hand in hand in Vedic culture. Specific persons with specific qualifications and  realisations and skill sets in specific areas and that are inherant within them since birth due to previous lives are suited for tasks ,  and they can be  perfected by further education as well as association .  Administrative posts , business enterprise , crafts and practical skills, and finally, persons with theological or theosophy  liking as well philosophical leanings are some examples.
The percentages, according to the Vedas , of people fitting particular roles remain very steady throughout all societies historically,  and indeed, this  is objectively seen .
In order for societal cohesion to take place  it’s very important , and Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita ,  that a  particular type of person with particular qualities that are suited for a specific roles in society take their place . Persons should not take up someone else’s duties ,  duties that they don’t have the inherant qualities for ,  as that will always lead to an imbalance and great harm locally and nationally and internationally.

For instance, a businessman is a profit driven man , and he will not be able to consider the multifarious needs of the population nor the creatures that live within the countryside.

However, the man with greater vision , an administrator , will understand those needs , and still further, another man , the philosophical and theological persons, will understand the much much  greater aspects of humanities needs . Even the needs of a single ant are to be  considered. In the human case , along with philosophical developments are  the environment needs living peaceful lives . The bigger picture and the greater questions of life are understood by great thinkers who link themselves with honesty to God but not in a sentimental way .

Without having the right persons influences in the key positions , society becomes unbalanced and unsteady and unproductive , exploitation , danger , killing, and wars increase.  Greater ignorance of the key values develops, and intolerance increases . Essential knowledge as well as all-around education becomes stifled .  The all important intelligentsia who have everyone’s interest at heart are silenced or pushed out  , either by , political operators,  fanatical religionists , or ultra liberalists who are  business  conglomorates who favour scientific materialism and atheistic Darwinian hypothesis , its good for business.   Unfortunately, currently, they own and control much of the mainstream and social media . They also spend money to fix  legislation their way with the help of political allies , and their foolhardy messages are broadcast wholesale. The results have been a widespread teaching of subjective scientific speculations as fact based science to children. Scientific materialism is the dog of the day . Children should be taught critical thinking, particularly in the all-important sciences .

The Bhagavad Gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam give  details of the Vedic societies make-up and different people’s qualities for  various occupational activities. Not specifically by birthright but inherant qualities within.  Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has translated them into  English.

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Napoleon , Nityananda Prabhu and Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami and Srila Prabhupada.

One may wonder what possible connection can there be between Napoleon , Lord Nityananda, and Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami , and the mission of Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada .Srila B.R .Sridhar Swami tells the story.

When Napoleon came to lead the military , he uniquely and  unexpectedly used new and surprising tactics , generally , military commanders would first attack the weakest points of the opposing army . However, when Napoleon took charge, he immediately attacked the strongest elements of the enemy,  this caught the enemy by complete  surprise,  and thus, they retreated from the battle in shock being unfamiliar with such boldness and straightforward tactics.

Similarly ,Srila B.R. Swami says that Nityananda prabhu attacks the strongest elements of Maya , those who are the most degraded receive immediate relief , one can say , mercy above justice . In doing so, those that are afflicted by Kali yuga and who are feeling the strongest influences are very quickly lifted, and such rescued persons become the teachers of the rest of humanity at large .

Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja demonstrated through his strong preaching that the whole of society is to be challenged. This was another side of Lord Nityananda and Lord Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu.   The purposes of both the Gaudia math and ISKCON missions  were to face Kali yuga head on in with strong vigorous argumentations on all fronts . Through science , sociology , religion , politics , the arts as Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja did , he issued major challenges to the status quo . Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada followed this boldness .

Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja lived in Calcutta during his preaching efforts of facing down the challenges of contemporary industrialised materialism as well as scientific materialism. People would say, “Why don’t you live in the Holy places ,” he responded by saying that he would live where the greatest preaching opportunities were and where he could make bold  challenges , as far as Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami was concerned there was no shortage of anything accept Krishna consciousness. He once said if all the books in the British library were to disappear, there would be no loss as long as the Srimad Bhagavatam remained.

We know Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami carried that spirit deep within his heart .  Calling out Darwinian scientists as  cheaters. Who  presented hypothesis as fact based science and taught the world guessing as truth , and he also  called out  hypocritical political leaders as rascals , the modern-day economics as driving men to work like unthinking asses . Preaching means no compromise , but everything should be  explained in a balanced, rational way and logically.

So real Gaudia Vaisnava followers  don’t beat about the bush , but rather challenge those who are rascals and cheaters or who are political hypocrites and who mislead society .

At times, modern ISKCON loose this spirit and concern themselves with a softer safer approach,  yoga kirtan , Hindu temple building , agreements with modern economics, and its very popular to teach psychology in one form or another.

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A Vedic world for today’s purposes.

Creating a Vedic world within the world of Kali

Creating a family with  spiritual values ..

His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has made an attempt  following the instructions and directions of Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja and Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur,  to use the educational systems of the Vedas to  begin to establish the world as it should be , a world free from the ignorance presented by scientific materialism that ignores objective sciences,  as much as the Darwinians do .First-class administrators of society listen to real intelligensia who are realised in scientific knowledge of the consciousness  , dualism,  and naturally see the self-evident truth of the rights of all persons within all cultures.  Cheating rascal political classes are to be pointed out , they must decide who their masters are , and its not the global conglomerates. In  forming ISKCON Srila AC, Bhaktivedanta Swami has brought worldwide attention to Gaudia Vaisnavism,  which sets the tone for both social and spiritual mobility for all cultures.  The Vedas has been brought to light to some extent and further developments of its practical instructions are developing that are appropriate for time place and circumstance. The Vedic ideal 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 be easily obtained . Unity in diversity as well as all discord being harmonized in the absolute is the Vedic gift for all cultures . This vision is based on the Srimad Bhagavatam,  Bhagavad Gita, as well as the eighteen puranas that bring  natural and systematic education for every different type of person,  whatever their conditioning . The psychological position of the ethereal subtle consciousness of all beings are taken into account  within the eighteen Puranas.  Thus, men of goodness , passion, and ignorance are offered facilities, and systematic progressive lives are delivered. This naturally allows for 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 , and immature thinkers probably dont understand the significance of their work and their long-term vision. When initially creating  structures naturally also problems can be created that’s to be expected especially in young institutions.   Every family has to face problems and learn to deal with them and learn from them . Living in the material world with spiritual ideals will naturally create puzzles.   Critical Vaisnava, thinking  based on Gaudia Vaisnavism , can solve  management and governance issues . We can naturally understand that in creating the great worldwide family of ISKCON for instance from scratch , in such  unprecedented ways , and with such unprecedented preaching ,  that is carried out all over the world , the ongoing management of such a   ginormous family will remain with us . Good governance means to always address issues in the best possible ways and follow our param para traditions in all the spiritual tattvas and methods of arriving at such fundermentals of Mahāprabhu’s teachings . Social problems are certainly not unique to ISKCON or any Gaudia Vaisnava group or any organisation .However, bringing the greatest benefits of the Vedas to the world,  the knowledge of Krishna consciousness ,  is a  matter of urgency .

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 Krishna consciousness together, every varna and every ashram should be included . In so doing , Prabhupada’s ISKCON society has successfully brought Krishna consciousness opportunities to one and all in very practical ways.

If Prabhupada had created traditional Ashram systems , many aspects of society would not have been included in a  cultivation of Krishna consciousness . Currently , it’s witnessed that ISKCON is very  successful and is fast  permeating everywhere in the world and within different social groups. 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, but we can not assume the utopian dream that all is rosey as soon as someone walks into an ashram , persons have come to learn , and unlearn the bad habits of material life . Risks are there in any organisation, and every organisation is now managing risks a lot better .

Certainly, Prabhupada, through his preaching method, 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.He built a home the whole world could live in , and this will come to pass in many many ways.

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Take a close look at the conclusions of Vedic cultures centred around all important and scientifically verifiable dualism, i.e ., mind , matter, and consciousness as entirely separated energies . This objective science is clearly demonstrated in numerous ways . When this scientific truth is realised , as opposed to the untruths of scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis , the world will pivot back to living in simpler ways . When one scientifically and spiritually knows of the eternal nature of consciousness then naturally one will change lifestyles and set different goals for oneself,  priorities will change and a defined respect for self-evident truth of rights of all beings comes to the forefront. Exploitation on a global scale by rampant out and out wokeists and atheistic philistines will fade away, and localised economies will thrive based on the needs of nation states.  Having witnessed the continual and on going mass exploitation of the majority of countries and their peoples , including killing and pillaging,  and having seen the hypocritical touting of “freedom ” spouted by the fake political classes , who are in reality puppies under the control of leading globalist conglomerates who sponsor political parties,  and who sing the narratives of  ” free market economics” , whilst establishing major financial institutions and monopolies of all kinds , the wise are wising up , and its known of spiritual dualism bringing the revolution . Exacting spiritually thought out science of consciousness,  its  in all beings , and the Christians , Islamic scholars and the Jewish priests have to also realise these truths .  Should one conclude the world is full of materially “educated ” fast talking and  eloquently spoken persons who are in reality fools ?  Having no idea of  consciousness or its origins ?
Richard Feynman was a very smart fellow with a mediocre IQ level . He intelligently noted that you could have a pocket full of PhD s and be a complete unthinking idiot. How right he was .
The Vedas speak of  persons called ‘ maya prakrita jnana ‘ persons whose intelligence is stolen by illusion..and pride accompanied by arrogance..

We note Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada never allowed any ISKCON funds to enter the gambling den of the stock , commodities, or currency markets, rather always in the bank where money belongs traditionally. It should be noted that banks should be localised and assist with local economics only  Over the last hundred years the financial institutions have gotten out of hand , causing the rise and fall of currency and all important commodities. The Vedic Culures would never allow the crooked and cheating insider dealing environment to flourish and would return to traditional banking and utalising peoples wealth to assist local economies .Fools making lots of money is dangerous,  they do foolish dangerous things with money , like planning overthrows of leaders of countries , so they pillaging can occur for global conglomerates . Financial traders are self-regulating and crooked and have been allowed free reign . They are  responsible for financial instabilities and cheating in  trading within international markets .
The Vedic Culures would turn the tables as much as Jesus did in the temple compounds. Society needs to be turned around , the honest, open hearted and pure philosophically minded intelligentsia will and are changing the world through scientific dualism , and self-evident truths .
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