Before you enter on your right on the Swami Bhaktivedanta marg , you will see a huge form of Sadasiva and Durga Devi..

What is the purpose?

A video clip of an explanation,  I will post .

Hegel was a somewhat enlightened German philosophical deeper thinker . In his philosophy, he has given a concept:
The Absolute Truth, the Prime Cause of everything, must have two qualifications. What are they? It must be by itself and for itself.

“Please try to pay attention. ‘By itself’ means that He is His own cause—nothing else created Him. If anything has created Him, that creator will have the primary importance. Therefore, to be the Absolute He must be anadi, eternally existing, and not created by anything. The absolute must have this qualification.”

The teaching of HH Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Swami.

Vedas indicates Krishna is the cause of all causes , and He has become many to expand His pleasure . His first expansion is Balarama , who expands into Mula Sankarsana and then Maha Sankarsan , who the jivas respectively expand from,   and from Maha Sankarsana comes Maha Visnu  , who is one could say a functional form of Divinity,  it was the jiva who desired independence from God , but that’s impossible,  so God gives the impressions of independence. Thus, both the spiritual and material realms are facilitated .

God is the supreme enjoyer , and He attracts and entices all His parts and parcels to independently and by their own volition and free will join Him in His ecstatic blissful life .

Love is an action word and love must necessarily be voluntary , one has to consider..why do you love someone ?

And see what answers you might come up with .

Ultimately, we are not dead stones or downloads of God , but we have free will , and if we want, we can love Krishna and His family or any of His expansions. Learning to love is a very important expression , and a reality , Krishna is unlimited in all respects , there is always something new to be relished and understood about Him .

Or , the alternative,  we can wonder wonder wonder all over the universes  in different species of life to see if there is anything that might be better . Krishna knows our independent nature, and in our wonderings within the material universes , He also makes arrangements for a rescue mission by incarnations of Himself as well as sending His pure devotees to carry out that task .

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The potential of consciousness is not fully expressed in a material body , that is its artificial experience. Feelings in your body , or thoughts in the mind or an intellectual musing , are a limited and temporary reflection of a real potencial . As much as any prisoner only experiences the prison conditions and no more .
The original expression of our consciousness is experienced when we associate with Divinity , who is the original powerhouse of full spiritual varigatedness . In His association our material bodies are gradually eliminated and as iron acts like fire when in fire , our spiritual senses , mind and intelligence become manifested. Forms that are an expansions of pure consciousness, ie not atoms , elements compounds subjected to the laws of physics and time .
This is clearly described in detail in the Vedas , the spiritual body can begin developing immediately and, in some cases, experienced in full.
The process is given by that great transcendental Proffesor of trancendental consciousness, Srila Rupa Goswami.
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Don’t let the astrologers box you in. It’s a free, open, and responsive universe.                     Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.19     As soon as irrevocable loving service is established in the heart, the effects of nature’s modes of passion and ignorance, such as lust, desire and hankering, disappear from the heart. Then the devotee is established in goodness, and he becomes completely happy.      Srimad Bhagavatam. 1.2.20.                               Thus established in the mode of unalloyed goodness, the man whose mind has been enlivened by contact with devotional service to the Lord gains positive scientific knowledge of the Personality of Godhead in the stage of liberation from all material association.

Free will or free won’t,  the neurological Michael Egnore once wrote after conducting experiments that detected neurological effects of someone resisting what a brain was initially prompting them to do .

Thus, the yoga system is explained  , Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita, ” Wherever the mind wonders due to its flickering and unsteady nature bring it back under the control of the self “

The conditioned consciousness is impelled to act because of a responsive universe that is responding to previous lives and previous likes as well as issuing reactions to either harm or good we previously inacted

But the Srimad Bhagavatam verses above explains how we can take control of our mind and senses and scientifically come to realisations of this world,  our consciousness and what shapes everything and everybody. We can come to know the originators of the system and why its ultimately in place , and how long we have been subjected to it

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Jan 26, 2024

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One should not be overly beaten into strict Conservativism or a complete suppression of character . Nor should one be infected with ultra liberalism,
leading to unrestricted selfish sense gratification like a sophisticated animal . Rather, one should lead a balanced life , under the direction of the wise ,and that is appropriate to ones station in life .Although on one level we are equal , the same time variety originates from the spiritual dimensions, oneness, and differences are the spice of life . One’s temporary body , likings and attractions can all be harmonised in the absolute bringing a flood of laughter and joy in a spiritual realm , and ultimately one develops in time and automatically a spiritual form and spiritual emotions, with pure love for Krishna and all His associates. There is no looking back .
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THE DEFINITION OF SCIENCE.
“The ultimate goal of science is to expand our understanding of the natural world and to explain and predict natural phenomena. It’s a process of gathering evidence, forming hypotheses, and testing those hypotheses through experimentation and observation. This ongoing process aims to create a comprehensive and reliable framework for understanding how the universe works.”

This is the goal of those who do not understand dualism and the connection between consciousness and the universe..
However the more the scientific community examine material phenomena the more complex it becomes , the followers of the Vedas accept the supremacy of the intelligence of Divinity and in objective ways confirm the organisational structure and follow Nyaya logic. IF YOU see smoke in a distant mountain, you know there is or was fire .
They take these examples to a new level whenever we see codes and informational exchanges in structured and meaningful ways we know that in our experience, a consciousness was behind it and creating it .
Thus the Vedic position is the science of self realisation, a meaningful approach to how consciousness which shows all the symptoms of being an entirely different energy finds itself surrounded by matter which is in fast deterioration mode subjected to an influence of time that somehow acts differently in the different varieties of species , and the Vedic culture examine why the same consciousness energies appear in every species of life and why a particular partical of consciousness finds itself in a particular body

The seriously inquisitive student or sage, well equipped with knowledge and detachment, realizes that Absolute Truth by rendering devotional service in terms of what he has heard from the Vedānta-śruti.

Bhagavatam 1.2.12
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The new Pope says everyone should love each other ..
Yes this is true ….
But there are obstacles.
Thoroughly discussed in Bhagavad Gita by Krishna.
The three modes of nature are one obstacle.
The Divine and demoniac nature another .
People’s previous experiences within nature and the baggage they carry another .

All obstacles can be bypassed and there are many , but one requires the inspiration and blessings of God and most importantly the guidance of the trancendental intelligensia who are always present , and in a trancendental realm space time is of no consequence , so by God’s arrangements everything is complete who are such persons and what are their qualities.
Krishna tells all in Bhagavad Gita.
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami has presented Bhagavad Gita to Western societies, and many other acaryas have also written extensive commentaries.
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Hearing from the  Rasika acaryas ,  and the origins of this trancendental phenomena .

When Srimati Radharani is feeling intense separation from Her eternal paramour , Her Manjari friends have the ability to remind Vrsabhanu Nandini of Her  previous encounters with Krishna within the trysting grouds .

Because these Manjaris are tad bhavika devotees,  they are able to fully express the various trancendental Parakiya trancendental emotions of the encounters that Srimati Radharani had previously experienced. The absolute nature of a spiritual realm has been described , the ecstatic displays are eternally manifested and ever new with the unlimited trancendental realms of both the ” objective and subjective” spiritual planes The Manjaris remind Srimati Radharani of those encounters, and as such Krishna Katha  fills Radharanis,’ heart and mind with that blissful and fully spiritual absolute nature .  Those very encounters ,  trancendental as they are  ,with Krishna in Their  spiritual loving affairs are experienced both in union and separation.

Such are the trancendental mysteries of a trancendental world where everything is absolute , Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu devotees who directly associated with Him were tasked by Him to relate these trancendental truths,  thus the Gaudia Vaisnava’s worship the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana.

Indeed, Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has taught the world,  the Names of God are non different than God , He is fully present in His names , we just have to develop the kind of devotion that can bring us to the point of realising this truth and if  we associate with devotees who have this experience they  can  help us serve in similar ways , and such devotees can help us understand and relish sastra sanga .

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You can’t “moralize” your way out the material worlds.

Ultimately, sets of morals and ethics could be said to be like yogic practices .  Voluntarily controlling one’s mind and senses , for the benefit of one’s own self  mental well-being, and other’s mental well-being.  It can be understood as a  commitment to a higher cause , other than animalistic uncontrolled exploitation  for one’s own personal sense gratification .

The uncontrolled mind and senses are actually a great danger to us , warnings are  discussed elaborately in the Bhagavad Gita by Lord Krishna who says our minds that cause our  actions can be our greatest friend or our worse enemy. Although , in Western cultures, we are repeatedly given the narrative time and time again   to accept  libertarianism as a great device for real freedom. This is foolhardy.  Western litratures , the arts , social media, and mainstream all bring this idea to the forefront of everything.  “Take your mind and senses,  and do what you will …freedoms to do what you like , is a  great  happiness ,don’t let anyone or anything bring any form of  suppression ” You live once and die once is the underlying message.

The Vedas give an entirely different picture of freedom. Freedom from the material mind and material senses and an aquiring of a spiritual mind and senses if the goal . If  you put iron in fire, it acts like fire .  Ultimately, to gain association with Divinity and regain our spiritual identity, one has to learn to love God and understand His qualities and become familiar with His form and activities along with all His associates. The platform of yogic practices, as well as  morals and ethics, are an  essential step in freedom from the dictates of our conditioned nature . One automatically experiences a higher taste in a spiritual dimension , so lower tastes are automatically discarded .Bhagavad Gita discusses that path . Divinities association along with His associates , is so trancendentally intoxicating , and with grace and humility one can  be fortunate to receive it ,  but not if we are proud of our morals,  ethics and learning without God , or if we  consider rather proudly,  Divinity owes His love and reciprocation to us because of our practices .  All pride has to go . If one feels himself low and unworthy , the highest consciousness of Divinity is attracted because in love, there is dependency.

So , cut glass or diamonds?

When one has a liking for diamonds, the cut glass is automatically discarded. By Chanting the names of Divinity in a humbled spirit, one can begin to enter the Pastimes and activities of the Lord .

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