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  • The wonderfully merciful activities of Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

    Aug 16th, 2025

    OH MY LORD OF LORDS
    ONE THING AND THATS FOR SURE ,
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU .

    YOU CAME HEEDING THE ACARYAS CALL ,
    TEACHING PURE DEVOTION TO ONE AND ALL ,
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU

    YOU CAME ALONG WITH YOUR LOVING GLANCE ,
    AND TRANCENDENTAL MUSIC , MAKING A WHOLE WORLD DANCE ,
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU

    YOU KEPT THAT WHOLE WORLD IN YOUR PRAYERS ,
    GRANTING A LIFE OF SERVICE AWAY FROM MAYAS LAIRE ,
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU.

    TO TASTE A SUBLIME PLEASURE ,
    AND THE PAIN WITHIN CONCURE ,
    YOU THE TRANCENDENTAL WRITER THE VAIKUNTHA CONNOISSEUR
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU

    REACHING TO THE HIGHEST , REACHING TO THE LOW ,
    A LOWLY HUMBLED SPIRIT WITH COMPASSION YOU SHOW .
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU.

    YOU GAVE US ALL THE PERFECTION OF RELIGION ,
    AN HONEST AND SCIENTIFIC SPIRTUAL TRANSITION
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU

    THE GUIDING LIGHT THE JOURNEY BEGAN ,
    PERFECTED BY SINCERE DAUGHTERS OR SONS
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU

    REBLE SOCIETY YOU PUT IT STRAIGHT ,
    RASCALS AND DEMONS , YOU MAY WELL FRUSTRATE ,
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU

    A SIMPLE HEARTED PERSON THEY CAN UNDERSTAND ,
    THE CROOKED LEFT HANGING THEIR METHODS UNDERHAND ,
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU.

    MAHAPRABHUS ORDER HAS ENSUED
    INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL , SPIRITUALLY ENTHUSED
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU.

    THEY THINK ITS JUST A RELIGION YOU DECLARED
    BUT NO , EVERYTHING , ALL INCLUSIVE , ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE WE SHARE ,
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU

    PASSING THE MESSAGE COMPLETE AND UNCHANGED ,
    GURU IS ONE SUCCESSION ARRANGED ,
    WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU

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  • No monkeying around

    Aug 16th, 2025

    Today in the Vedic Calendar we celebrate the appearance day of Lord Krishna, He is the original personality of Godhead who has numerous expansions such as Visnu. One of His expansions giving birth to the original engineer of universal affairs and transmitting the knowledge required for the precision engineering that takes place using informational exchanges in the building of material machine like bodies from the DNA coding.
    Once Sir Fred Hoyle said that someone has monkeyed with the universe, he is right , but not in the way the Darwinians assume.

    It’s a statement based on math …

    One billion monkeys typing on one billion typewriters for one billion years will not produce a perfectly punctuated page of a Shakespeare script including the spaces between the words.
    It takes a whole script of precisely formulated information to make a body , mutations degrades information , it does not add to it.

    Krishna in His Bhagavad Gita explains five subjects ,

    1. The position of Divinity
    2. The position of living brings
    3. The sciences of the workings of matter in all its forms
    4. Time in its absolute and relative form
    5. The monitoring of activites within a reactionary and responsive universe.
      http://www.thevedicspectator.com………..Two distinct paths .
      1.Scientific Materialism /Darwinianism
      The understanding of consciousness and the objective study of science.
      There is a huge gulf of difference between them , importantly political systems , social sciences , governance, economics and geopolitcal matters all look very very different when we adopt a particular path .Different choices made for different priorities.
      1, Animalistic but sophisticated sence and emotional enjoyments of the body .
      2.Cultivation of consciousness and understanding the true equality of it , and its endless possibilities when leaving the present body .
      Our priorities and our intelligently led choices should matter , who we are directed by makes the difference.
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  • Today’s killing..

    Aug 15th, 2025

    Srimad Bhagavatam 10.3 21

    O my Lord, proprietor of all creation, You have now appeared in my house, desiring to protect this world. I am sure that You will kill all the armies that are moving all over the world under the leadership of politicians who are dressed as kṣatriya rulers but who are factually demons. They must be killed by You for the protection of the innocent public.

    Lord Krishna 5000 years ago had appeared on this earth because he wanted to destroy everyone of the armies of the fake  kings those who claimed to be leaders , but they were leaders who were influenced by wrong thinking and influenced by the wrong people .All of them had become currupted , thus unfit to lead . Those Kings  were speculators and  misguided themselves. Consequently, they gave hell to everyone . So Krishna came to reestablish principles of religion, and by using military force, He assembled a huge army and soundly defeated them all , and gave the Kingdom’s back to those that were cheated out of it . Today Lord Krishna is still active in the world because Sri  Caitanya Mahāprabhu  has  appeared , non different from Him , with the purpose of killing the fake intellectualising of those who  follow speculations in the field of religion , science and social services , including political sciences . Who have been responsible for presenting speculations as fact base science and falsely claiming  globalisation creates wealth and peace for all . They  who succeed through deceitful libeterian ways to misguided society. Mahaprabhu’s sankirtana movement is redirecting the intelligence of society, and in future times , this movement will influence everything. We  can say  it’s already beginning to happen. The most intelligent people will gain prominence,  the real intelligensia ,who speak with knowledge of objective sciences and can bring about the quite natural social structures that are inherent within every country , all countries are quite capable of self reliance. Mahāprabhu does this through re-education and rediscovering the Vedic aphorisms and applying them to time place and circumstances.  This  Sankirtana  movement instigated by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu 500 years ago ,  in recent times has been introduced to the Western audiences by Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada he  has very expertly assembled  many intelligent man and they are joining forces . ISKCON and other Gaudia Vaisnava’s are in the midst of re-establishing the Vedic principles and by their intelligence given to them by Krishna will again successfully present Vedic wisdom to very broad circles of the populations of the world . They will do so in such logical ways , the honest intellectuals will be part of this movement and it will easily defeat all the arguments of the speculators those that follow materialistic philosophies and indirectly give the go ahead to less intelligent political influencer’s who send the wrong messages to the general populace. Those that follow misinterpreted religions , those that follow scientific materialism , those that follow any science that falsely present speculations as fact , all such groups will be called out . Every one of their arguments will be defeated . It is said real knowledge is a decending process ,  Divinity possess full knowledge,  Divinity is absolute,  thus by chanting the Names of God , He is naturally fully present, the science of sound is presented in the Vedas .Krishna can bestow knowledge of Himself and His world,  science is His science , and every part of this world, along with all that live, has an intimate connection to Him .

  • Encroachment.

    Aug 15th, 2025

    The world has many purposes because there are inculcabable living entities within it each with particular purposes to fulfil or to enjoy or suffer the results of  and we thought the algorithmic tracking of billions of internet users  and simultaneously so was quite a feat . The  Vedas gives an insight to all the goings on within the universe and also tells of what everyone is looking for .

    Every living being has rights, and any encroachments into another territory or consciousness which impacts in one way or another brings entanglements. One is duty bound one way or another and will have to be paid or pay. Harmonized  and fair society is based on respect, respect implies knowledge , and no respect implies  ignorance.  The originally intended leaders by Vedic calculations,  the actual intelligentsia, are those who execute moral and ethical justice systems within societal affairs and within the judiciary as a whole .

    The leaders must have proper reference points. The absolute universal principles are well known by the wise who  understand  fully scientific dualism , mind , matter, and consciousness.

    The first class persons who act with dignity and are knowledgeable of such universal principles both  locally,  nationally and  internationally and especially in their  own personal lives  are those we should look to , those who are devoid of such qualities  should be avoided and no question of such persons leading societies…….but they do …….whats going on ?

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  • The Supreme Autocrat

    Aug 15th, 2025

    It is our actions as well as Krishna’s desire we find ourselves in the situations we do .
    Just like a high court judge desires the rectification of the prisoner.
    But the prisoner sends himself to prison.

    The supreme Autocrat is all good , and whatever he does is all good .

    Understanding the workings of the Supreme Autocrat is like trying to count the grains of sand in a desert.

    But His workings and understanding to degrees can be learnt from His pure representatives, they are self effulgent to the prospective sincere inquirer , not otherwise.

    It is our actions as well as Krishna’s desire we find ourselves in the situations we do .
    Just like a high court judge desires the rectification of the prisoner.
    But the prisoner sends himself to prison.

    The supreme Autocrat is all good , and whatever he does is all good .

    Understanding the workings of the Supreme Autocrat is like trying to count the grains of sand in a desert.

    But His workings and understanding to degrees can be learnt from His pure representatives, they are self effulgent to the prospective sincere inquirer , not otherwise.
    We should always remember they say .
    One who does wrong or suffers wrong is wrong.
    When Dharma is followed properly and leaders lead properly and still suffering comes , that’s Karma.

    The Supreme Goddess of fortune accepts Divinity in all circumstances and never imposes her likes of dislikes on Him , only what He likes , and if it pleases Him that She expresses dislikes then She will happily do so .
    For instance Srila Rupa Goswami in his Sri Ujjvala Nilamani , speaks of one of Radharani’s friends in relation to Krishna, she said ” When I want look annoyed at him my eyes to the opposite and I glance lovingly, when I want to run away from Him , my legs carry me towards Him , when I want want to speak in anger towards Him , I find myself speaking sweetly to Him .”

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    The Supreme Goddess of fortune accepts Divinity in all circumstances and never imposes her likes of dislikes on Him , only what He likes , and if it pleases Him that She expresses dislikes then She will happily do so .
    For instance Srila Rupa Goswami in his Sri Ujjvala Nilamani , speaks of one of Radharani’s friends in relation to Krishna, she said ” When I want look annoyed at him my eyes to the opposite and I glance lovingly, when I want to run away from Him , my legs carry me towards Him , when I want want to speak in anger towards Him , I find myself speaking sweetly to Him .”

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  • In the beginning

    Aug 15th, 2025

    The ” beginning ” of Karma

    A great and important philosophical question posed by Vrajanatha in Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s Jiva Dharma, the occupation of the soul .

    The Vedas indicates we are manifest from Lord  Balarama, the first expansion of Krishna,  and because the soul is part of Him , and Krishna always been , we could conclude,  so have we . Within Krishna are unlimited expansions , thus the simultaneous one and difference can be looked at in this way , or as Jiva Goswami says in his Tattva Sandarbha verse 43 , Krishna makes the impossible possible , by manifesting totally separate entities with free will .

    We also have to understand the expression ,  “ time immemorial ,”   we can not fathom times beginnings.

    Balarama brings forth the  ” dormant ”  Jivas , it could be understood in this way , because He wants to increase Krishna’s pleasure. We are not dead stones or downloads of Balarama , but we have free will . The more we use our free will for its intended purpose , the more freedom we can experience  . On our being “manifest ” , just as a good father tells us all about the proper and beneficial way to conduct life for our greatest benefits , similarly Balarama , our original father , by His example brings  freedom of expression,  love and attraction . Spontaneously, the living beings reveal their consciousness by their own personality and personal attractions . Love is always voluntary and can never be forced . The complete and full  existence of Divinity.  the most complete,  is only ever understood by love. Indeed Sanatana Goswami has shown in  his litrature in the pastime of Gopa Kumar , that when Gopa Kumar  finally returned to a spiritual world,  the Lord was waiting and embraced him saying “where have you been I have missed you and have been waiting?” Such is the Love of the Supreme Father of all .

    It’s indicted by Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur , the jiva enters a tatasta state , which is understood as the  impersonal Brahman , those that are not inclined to share their  consciousness remain in impersonal bliss . However , for want of activity ,  they come to the material planes , to ultimately refine their activity and experience life without God as their friend.  Ultimately we must learn that Krishna is Rasaraja the king of exchanges of love .This movement of the jiva from the brahman energies is completed by a ” transporational” glance , the living being is injected into matter.

    Each Jiva reveals their state of consciousness , thus the Jiva is connected automatically either to Maha maya or Yoga maya ,i.e., the spiritual or material energies , according to their  free spirit . It  appears our consciousness  having this  free spirit,  connected itself to Maha maya , we are in the material realms . Balarama obviously detected such independence of  desires and arrangements that they were made , automatically through ethereal planes in the multidimensional unlimited space time . Initially with relatively exalted consciousness . Mahamaya or Durga Devi has the task  of providing an  illusion of artificial lordship and thus temping  one to enjoy, and further entanglements begin .

    Some people say God knows everything,  but does He know when you will turn in Love towards Him , and how you will love Him and the intensity ?

    In conditioned consciousness, one is firmly in God’s  energy,  as the high court judge knows the destination of the criminal, so a harmful soul is under God’s  grips , with predicable consequences . Not a pure soul , he has his full freedom and is consequently unpredictable, love is dynamic. Ever increasing  loving exchanges with the master of love Divinity or Krishna takes place unlimitedly.

    Not too much oneness , not too much difference..this needs considering..

    “That means we all individual beings, we are individual constitutionally. God is the father or creator or whatever, or the source of all life, or source of our existence. Whatever you like, you can say. So we have…, we have been created in that way. Eko bahu syāma. God has become many. This is also version of the Vedas that many, all these many, we are also god. Just like the fire diffuses its sparks. The sparks coming out of the fire, it is the…, they are also part and parcel of the fire. Similarly we, we are all parts and parcels of the Supreme.”

    “Now, He wanted to become many. He wanted to become many, so He has become many, and we are that many. So we are not different from God. We are not different from God, but because He wanted to become many, so we are the many. Now, thing is, when God wanted to become many, there must be some purpose behind this. Otherwise, why did He like to become many? He was one, one without second. That’s all right. But why did He become many? So that is a question, one must like to put, that “Why God became many?”

    “So that is, that answer is that because God is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha [Bs 5.1],”

    “[Kṛṣṇa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.]”

    “He’s all-pleasure—therefore, without many, there is no pleasure. Just like here I sit down the whole day alone, but I become more active and more pleasing when you come. Whenever we want to enjoy some pleasure, pleasure is not enjoyed alone. Pleasure is enjoyed with many. Now God is by nature… He’s ānandamayo ‘bhyāsāt [Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12].”

    The words of Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
    The founding Acarya of ISKCON

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  • Self-centred reckonings

    Aug 14th, 2025

    Beyond Dualities to the absolute realm .

    Curious it is that the word libertine has a relative and an absolute meaning.
    In the absolute realm, all things that are relatively good can be bad, and things that are relatively bad can be good .
    How this is so can be only understood by one who has escaped the dualities of this world, where the self-centred reckonings of conditioned consciousness are making calculations to serve self-centred purposes , be it even religious and good .

    The great writers of trancendental rasa of the highest order , there is perfect more perfect and most perfect categories our Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas tell us , these lila pastimes in the ” playgrounds of love of all kinds “are forever exhibited in the eternal time frames  of Goloka Vrndavana , where the carefree inhabitants are free to express and feel spontaneous love in trancendental beautiful forms , that have no karmic connections or dualites of mundane forms such as like ,dislikes , love, hate, honour, dishonour ,etc . Great Gaudia acaryas like Srila Rupa Goswami,  Srila Ragganatha das Goswami and later Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur , to name but a few ,  explain in detail the absolute realms that are forever beyond the dualism of this relative realm . They explain how the supreme enjoyer of pleasure, who is known as Rasaraja Sri Krishna, is enjoying ever increasing trancendental bliss with His family friends and lovers . It is said the Supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani Herself,  who is the Queen of Vrndavana, ultimately directs everything and how all the rasa ultimately support each other but that the Madhurya rasa containers all other rasa , thus the sweetest of sweet .

    Srila Jayadeva Goswami has a particular benediction to offer in Kali yuga to the most degraded of all persons.

    His benedictions are related to verses in the Srimad Bhagavatam , specifically.

    Srimad Bhagavatam 10.33.39

    vikrīḍitaṁ vraja-vadhūbhir idaṁ ca viṣṇoḥ
    śraddhānvito ’nuśṛṇuyād atha varṇayed yaḥ
    bhaktiṁ parāṁ bhagavati pratilabhya kāmaṁ
    hṛd-rogam āśv apahinoty acireṇa dhīraḥ

    Translation

    Anyone who faithfully hears or describes the Lord’s playful affairs with the young gopīs of Vṛndāvana will attain the Lord’s pure devotional service. Thus, he will quickly become sober and conquer lust, the disease of the heart.

    Thus, the mysterious Srimad Bhagavatam unfolds, and its meaning must be heard from the pure devotees.


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  • Creating a Vedic world within the world of Kali

    Aug 14th, 2025

    Creating a family with  spiritual values ..

    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.

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  • Truth is self effulgent to those who are looking for it .

    Aug 13th, 2025

    Speaking or writing with truth in mind ..

    Absolute truth is a decending process , its also the opinions of Divinity Himself….if one can objectively see in this material world absolute truth manifested clearly in one form or another , and truth manifests itself in numerous ways , it means honesty has come about in someone , and such persons are worthy of association..

    Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.
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    A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

    —Ursula K. Le Guin,

  • The plain wrong Scientific materialism followers .

    Aug 13th, 2025


    Energies are always transformed and never lost .

    “Is a concise way to express the law of conservation of energy. This fundamental law of physics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another. While energy transformations often result in energy becoming less useful (e.g., heat dissipating into the surroundings), the total amount of energy in a closed system remains constant. .”

    Likewise the Vedas says that in visiting the peaceful graveyards, one should understand not only the material energies are transformed and never lost but also mental energies, intellectual energies, and ultimately, the consciousare never lost .Lord Krishna says in His Bhagavad Gita , ” Never has there been a time you didn’t exist nor in the future will you cease to be “
    Scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis is just plane wrong and unscientific.

    Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita says .

    brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā
    na śocati na kāṅkṣati
    samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
    mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām

    Translation
    One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to have anything. He is equally disposed toward every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.

    On a scientific note, and utilising the work of the great scientists as well as the greatest of philosophers, one could think of persons in the world like this ..
    What a wonderful combination of atoms , elements , and compounds arranged in wonderfully varied ways with each particular parcel of consciousness enwrapped according to particular karmic algorithmic synchronicities caused by their choices of acting within the responsive universe .
    The oneness of God’s energies acting in multifarious ways is fully described in the Vedas .
    When one fully understands the reality of this life , such a person qualify themselves to understand the past lives along with the present and future lives . Most importantly, they begin to get insights into existences without atoms, elements, and compounds . Where repetitions of births and deaths are absent .
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