Traditional Vedic theological cultures , including Gaudiya Vaisnavism along with its established tattva , cannot be changed by young libertine populism , rather deliberations or applications of any of the tattvas in any circumstances are always carefully left to the self realised souls and pure scholars and would be only applied only to further the teachings of the previous acaryas and the param para .
tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam.
Translation Therefore any person who seriously desires real happiness must seek a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of the bona fide guru is that he has realized the conclusions of the scriptures by deliberation and is able to convince others of these conclusions..
In matters of love sometimes, even in this world, people risk everything . Although in this world, love is somewhat tainted with self-interest. Generally, we see the illusion of love , as lust to be an enjoyer , or profit maker or a sole beneficiary activities self-centred calculations to one degree or another . Such is the state that’s always present in the heart of a person conditioned by the material energies. Who is acting without any self-interest in this world? Different degrees of love mixed with lust and self interests are exhibited in this world. The love between the mother and the child is very pure, relatively speaking, for instance , an unmotivated sacrifice for the happiness of the child is the mother’s position . Nevertheless, in the purest of a spiritual sense, Srila BR Sridhar Swami gives the example of the purest of pure love , and he cleverly termed it ” All risk no gain.” In the material world, we hear of no risk, no gain .But all risk no gain ? The residents of Vrndavana who are described by the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas and who are eternally participating in Krishna lila , those who are in the topmost realms of spiritual love , that is ever expanding and feels ever new , that are centred around the love of Srimati Radharani exibits toward Krishna, assisted by all of her close associates , demonstrate the highest of the highest principles of spiritual ecstatic love . They risked everything for love . When Krishna “left them” and supposedly Vrndavana , their hometown , they thought everything of their invested love was lost. still, they never gave up on their unalloyed love, and their feelings for Krishna were increasing more and more . Even though He had appeared externally to reject or disappoint them .Their motivations were only ever to satisfy and to remain satisfying the emaculate senses of Krishna . In doing so, they had risked everything and remained hankering and risking everything of their reputations for Krishna, thinking of Him twenty four hours daily , in their unwavering sacrifice they were prepared in love to gain nothing . In their extreme separation from the object of their love , their hearts were and remained the supreme abode of pure love . It seemed they had risked and risked but that everything in the relationship was finished and they had lost everything . In their supreme separation, however, there was still the hope against hope , this kept them alive and enthusiastic in love . Thus in our spiritual life Srila BR Sridhar Swami says , we are risking risking risking but we do not feel we have gained our goal , and never feel we have done enough in our services to Divinity or that we have truely gotten Krishna. Such is the path of pure spiritual love .The humble hearts of the residents of Vrndavana whose inner state of mind is revealed by the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas. On the rooftops of Mathura having left Vrndavana, Krishna Himself wept tears of love, and indeed, His separation was even more difficult to bear for Him , He felt a pain that his lovers were in pain . Remembering the pure love of Srimati Radharani and Her friends Krishna thought He could never pay back such the sacrifice of their hearts . The spiritual truth of pure unmotivated love between God and His devotees is delineated in the 10th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam and greatly elaborated upon by Srila Rupa and Ragganatha das Goswami’s. Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has come to reveal this mystery of all risk, no gain , and union in separation and separation in union
Smriti and Sruti.
In the teachings of Gaudia Vaisnavas, the Smriti must follow the Sruti , otherwise, it is not Smriti. The supposed Smriti of the smarta Brahminical classes or the Smriti of the impersonal philosophers is not to be classed as Smriti .The Smriti per se are paths that lead genuinely to the spiritual world. They are directly windows to the spiritual worlds .The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas follow Srila Rupa and Ragganatha das Goswami’s Smriti as well as Srila Jiva Goswami and Srila Sanantana Goswami plus all the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas in param para from them .
Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur indicates we have two lives, or bodies , our receding material consciousness and present body that is tainted with lust ,anger , greed , envy, and illusion and our spiritual personalities and a body that is developing side by side . The spiritual sciences of how they develop and decline are given by the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana . A spiritual life is based on the development of a spiritually and mentally conceived spiritual body that is achieved through the process of Sadhana and Ragganuga Bhakti . Our efforts are important and gradually the process of different yoga practices , such as karma, jnana , niskarma karma , and trancendental astanga, and ultimately pure Bhakti Yoga transforms one’s consciousness , and the next body is forming side by side of the existing one .
This perfection , however, is achieved only by the krpa ( mercy ) and blessings of our acayas , the pure devotees, and ultimately the holy name, which is the means and end of spiritual life . Automatically, our blissful kind nature comes forth more and more, and we free ourselves from the mundane materalistic concepts and always find ourselves absorbed in relishing and remembeing Krishna lila in one form or another.. Mahāprabhu associates demonstrated that, and Mahāprabhu practically teaches it . So two bodies , one must supercede the other in time . In so doing , sometimes the devotees can be initially cold as they defend themselves from mayas’ influences, but they warm up bit by bit until fully on fire in their truely blissful lives .then all their characteristics become sublime . Titiksava karunikah Suhrdah sarva dehinam .
25 21 Srimad Bhagavatam . This verse describes everything of the pure devotee , Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains all . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The mysterious conditions of action in inaction ,and inaction in action are discussed by Lord Krishna in His Bhagavad Gita.
The more influential a person is , and those influences are fluctuating according to many conditions and trends of the day , in a highly moral setting an immoral person is ignored and likewise in a highly immoral settings a moral person is ignored. With the current state of the world, immoral and highly materialistic persons have control over all kinds of influential tools, which are stamping their mark deep into the impressions of everyone’s psychological states . We can also say scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis has greatly helped with the concept of one life one death no God, do as you will .However, the Vedas brings us the reality of the responsive universe , and bear in mind some physicists wont disagree , especially those who study quantum mechanics. What you might do and might say and that affects others in various ways is your responsibility , the Vedas says , and the effects that are felt by others remain with you . Ultimately ,in many unforseen ways, the universal order is at work. There are many witnesses the Vedas say unbeknown to everyone , the Demigods , the Upadevas , who have ways and means of making observations are described in the Vedas . The observer effects in the realms of quantum mechanics can be considered , any interaction with matter has effects well beyond an immediate cause and effect . Ultimately, Divinity Himself is situated within the hearts and minds of all , He is the supreme witness and the best of listeners and the best advisors . Trancendental life entails becoming free from any of the good and bad actions that bind one to the material energies . Although good is good and better than bad , it’s still not a trancendental action . In trancendental activities good can be bad and bad can be good . That needs to be understood with trancendental maturity . Krishna explains all in His Bhagavad Gita.
Acting exclusively for the pleasure of the Lord and His associates is something written of in the Vedas and learned from a pure devotee who is completely free from the universal cyclic cycles.
Bhagavad Gita gives the summary of this science of freedom from action . Krishna says . ” One who sees action in inaction and inaction in action is wise among beings.”
Be sure …
Be sure you are being influenced by the right influencer .
So many seek to influence us for their own selfish interests , and many claim to know the truth of any given topic . How do they know they know .
What is their epistemology, or what are their motives importantly what is their state of heart .
Bhagavad Gita indicates the symptoms of true expression and the qualities of those that express it .
Living objectively is important, but also accessibility to a super subjective realm and an origin of absolute truth is an essential , the Vedas indicates. .
Love and lust
The most essential feeling a child must have is love ..
Its the inherant nature of consciousness to love and be loved .
The origins of these feelings stem from Divinity… The further one strays from Divinity , love turns to lust . The lust to be an independent enjoyer, it’s an artificial and impossible position. Divinity Himself is the supreme autocrat and the most giving of all persons , when it comes to love, no one can give more or receive more . Although some say in trancendental truths that the Supreme Goddess of fortune is the supreme giver and recipient of love , and that Krishna Himself is always searching searching searching after Radharani. There is an eternal competition of love taking place , and Hare Krishna means “an exchange of love “
The people, in general , of all makeups , need guidance in multiple ways to navigate their way through life . They somewhat rely on past ancestry from various histories , as well as Sciences of many kinds and, of course, theological cultures. If one examines carefully the history of law , justice, and social sciences , the Vedas are an integrel part of a complete and wholesome society. Perfect guidance and direction for all social groups are within the Vedas ,the Vedas brings both social and spiritual mobility for all . Governance and compliance systems for administrations are within the broad-based teachings. Theological and philosophically driven culture ,are based on dualism, an understanding of consciousness and body as two entirely different energies with natures laws only affecting the body .Without dualism , humanity decends into the animal kingdoms , and humans can be termed as sophisticated animals without knowledge of dualism. Thus, in Vedic culture , progressive life includes an element of conservation of essential culture, governance and compliance are seriously taken , but an element of freedom and democracy are also within its system as well as autocratic authorities. Every successful person leads disciplined lives, of course , that goes without saying . Freedom needs to be understood carefully . Otherwise, in the name of freedom , one can be helplessly bound in degrading circumstances. The world of dualism is a reality, and scientific materialism is an illusion of a speculative hypothesis. Thus, sciences are essential for us to clearly understand life’s potential. A clear understanding leads one in an entirely different direction Thus . Albert Einstein said . “Religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame.” The thoughtful person understands his meaning…
In philisophical and theological calculations , it’s a matter of understanding the essential intricacies of a binding that brings freedom or a freedom that hopelessly binds one .
Never the twain shall meet….but they can be properly utilised.
The West favours conglomerate liberalisation , democracies led by and influenced by businessmen who see profits as more important than traditional cultures . Theologically and philosophically led and aligned with dualism are countries like Russia, China, and of course India, and many other countries . Scientific materialism leads to animalistic tendencies, and society becomes no more than sophisticated animals, who are completely ignorant of consciousness and its full potential. Objective sciences gives us a clear indication that life is no chance accidental affair , there is much evidence of an intelligent design, and the depth of purpose that the humans can begin to understand is quite clear and easy to grasp . When societies are led by the intelligentsia and not fast buck businessman who are clueless in philisophical matters or how to guide and run society , people will regain their inherant happiness and wise up . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
There is a need for major reviews in the way current democracies function . They have become infiltrated and paid for by global conglomerates, and in USA’s case, they are also infiltrated by the Israeli lobby , with 60 million dollars donated yearly by them and probably a lot more unofficially , as John Mearsheimer writes in his book the Israeli lobby . Political classes who are beholding to financial institutions are not representing the electorate or the good . Administrative classes need to be governed at a distance and take input from the intelligentsia . Not from businessmen , businessmen do not have the sensitivities , intelligence , or know-how , they are clueless in understanding how society’s should be given positive and progressive direction that brings progressive values . Keynesian economics , trickle-down economics, and ever existing growth based on exploitation in every way fail the people and society, it brings war and conflicts and exploitative so-called trade deals, it leads to mass immigration. The intelligentsia know how to set a balance and elevate the consciousness of the citizens that brings peace, respect as well as knowledge of the equality of all beings. Life is not a competition or a race to death to gain as many commodities as one can .
The businessman’s duties are to care for the tradesman and workers in their employ . The political administration should be the supervisors of the creative economic sectors, making sure everything is a genuine free market economy, and unfair encroachment is avoided ,both locally, nationally, and internationally. The political classes need direction , they are not leaders . In ancient times, the lifetime “kingly person” who was dedicated for life to all his citizens and had genuine care for all was the system. That was and is the natural consciousness of a a true leader . ” kingly persons ” in previous ages were obliged to work under an intelligentsia . They were a team of scholars who are well versed in all the sciences , primarily in the sciences of dualism, mind , matter, and consciousness. But they also had other scholars under them called Vipras, who were expert in many feilds . The intelligentsia were always guided by the previous intelligentsia , and the preservation of cultures is important . Conservative means to conserve . Each period of time naturally adapts to place and circumstance by a current intelligentsia of the day . Times are circumstances that are always changing and in flux, and new approaches are needed naturally. Such are the ever well wishing Vedic cultural systems that are forever personally dedicated to all living beings.. They are eternal and originated from Divinity Himself.
A life is a life , any life , human or in Vedic circles , any creatures life , life is sacred and taking life has huge repercussions for individuals and nations. The person of knowledge sees unnecessary killings as the victim’s of circumstances caused by envy hate and ignorance driven by an ever increasing silencing and further suppressions of the influences of the intelligensia . Democracies have been hijacked by unthinking and unintelligent global conglomerates who have the political classes and practically all of the media in their pockets , the unthinking follow the unthinking like lemmings of a cliff .
The Vedas clearly defines the qualities of the intelligensia who bring wisdom , compassion, and clear thinking to any administrative body . Non encroachment and respect for the lives and rights of everything and everyone that lives and a countries resources and facilities respected rather than exploited or stolen . Puppet regimes are not true governments , those who sell their countries for self-interest are not leaders .
The self-evident truth of an equality of every living being is always within the heart of the self effulgent intelligentsia . Those who live in darkness and ignorance with a fire fly intellect try to convince others who are also in darkness that they have seen the light . The light of truth can never be covered by the darkness of those who ” democraticaly ” bring the clouds of mob rule that attempts to temporarily cover light with political or zionistic perversions .
The wise man of the Vedas says this ..
A human being who considers the land of his birth worshipable, and who goes to a place of pilgrimage simply to bath rather than to meet men of transcendental knowledge there, is to be considered like a cow or an ass .
Sophisticated animals are posing as great leaders, and smaller, sophisticated animals are running after the biggest animal. The biggest animals impose mob rule and attempts to silence the good .
The Vedas and Bhagavad Gita tell us about all civilizations in terms of the types of persons broadly found within them . If we accept there is a God , and the material world is a place where independence is exhibited from God , we must also know everything is dependent on God . Divinity has the responsibility to give what the living beings desire , but in ways that are beneficial and all good . To that end, there are , in every society, four classes of men . They are the first-class intelligentsia , who have first-class characters . They are well studied and understand things as they are or should be . Philosophically and scientifically minded are familiar with psychological affairs , they well see the self-evident truth of order , design perfect math and symmetry in all things , and theh see the quality of Divinity in many people . Widespread, we find cultures throughout history that are predominantly theological cultures . Sciences of dualism , mind , matter, consciousness, and various interactions are instinctively understood by the intelligentsia . For example, matter in all its forms , both subtle and gross , have psychological repercussions , how we live and regulate our lives have far reaching effects and who we associate with is important . The effects of excess in unregulated lives cause consciousness to deteriorate fast . Consciousness should be cultured , its qualities and purposes should be understood in full . A need for regulatory systems is needed within civilised society and not a free for all . Lust , anger , greed , envy, and encroachment are symptomatic of unregulated societies , where the intelligentsia have been silenced. Unregulated libertine lifestyles cause huge problems on an individual , a community as well as a country. The Jewish leaders , the Christian leaders , the Muslim leaders , and Hindu leaders in all of their countries need to take a strong stance . The political leaders 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 character and knowledge . Money , power, and global monopolies are 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. In that way, God guides socio-political matters through the God-given intelligentsia.
Srila Jiva Goswami, in his Bhagavat Sandarbha, speaks of the importance of meditations on the reality of spiritual form ,specifically the spiritual forms of God , which are not comprised of atoms , elements or compounds. Wherever Krishna is , so are His associates, He is never alone.
When the constantly strengthening and increasing rivers of the abode of love , churned by the strong currents of the feelings of seperation and union meet with the constantly expanding and agitated tumultuous ocean of the object of love, the two begin to churn z part of the unlimited ocean of ecstatic attraction . The waves rise and fall, reaching ever new heights and sinking to increasing depths as unions become separation and separations become union . We should endeavour in our spiritual lives to become eager to develop and increase our hankering to meet with and please , in an attitude of service and humility , Krishna and His associates. Our fixed meditations will make sure the beginnings of love in our hearts become a steady and sturdh abode of love within our hearts . Although miniscule in comparison to the best of abodes of love , Srimati Radharani and Her companions , who we should aspire to become the servant of the servant of , our aspirations will increase and our taste for hearing about their glorious activities will increase if we follow the instructions of those who represent properly Sri Rupa and Ragganatha Goswami’s. Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada would say, “Don’t love Dog love God … Don’t get your life and love reversed ….
This process of thinking of Krishna, His name form, and pastimes will enable the living being to acquire a spiritual form spoken of in Bhagavad Gita .
Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me…
How to surrender the mind in Krishna consciousness was practically demonstrated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami in his Bhagavad Gita , Srimad Bhagavatam, and Caitanya Caratamrita purports explains all .
Srimad Bhagavatam 7.1.8 explains the turbulence of the material world, the modes of passion , goodness, and ignorance competing with each other for dominance both personally and within the greater communities both nationally and internationally and as well universally.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead allows the degrees of free will and determinism to take place , naturally at different times, either goodness, passion, or ignorance dominates. The Lord is impartial and facilitates the conditioned souls in their desires , its also a question of individual and collective karma playing out . Combined sinful activities and lack of sacrifice and atonement affect universal affairs. Divinity during the course of universal history sends to the material worlds endless representatives to bring forth theologically based cultures that enable the prominence of goodness , but its the nature of the independent self seeking enjoyers to abandon the good and take to passion ignorance. Greed and envy consciousness bring miseries to others and destroy intelligently led cultures. Wars and conflicts are also sometimes prominent when goodness is overshadowed . Eventually, darkness and ignorance sets into humanity, and the good is forgotten and cancelled out almost entirely, says the Bhagavatam . These cyclic movements of the good , the bad, and the ugly constantly move in the millions of year cycles . Although everyone is facilitated , whatever their consciousness, ultimately goodness is again established by Divinity . He reestablishes the principle of goodness and the philosophically based science of self realisation , its this that pushes ignorance and pride to one side .
One can read the words of Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada as he gives the full understanding of the text in hand and comments in all his litratures on these matters .
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