The material world has been critiqued in the Vedas, its a surreal world , and as such its  said  by our acaryas life in the material world can be thought of as ” night time dream , day time dream”. One disciple of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami once said ….”but it seems so real if you say its like a dream ” Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami said “its just that the day time dream last longer ” . Like a dream is soon forgotten,  although some dreams remain with us for long periods,  we can hardly remember most details of our lives , we are practically dead to it . The Srimad Bhagavatam says the body , mind , and senses  propels the livings beings forward passionately in acts of  lust , anger , greed, and envy and madness. We remain in illusion about so many things and clouded from truths . A madman does not know his true postion in life and acts without any  sane calculations. As such, many conflicts occur in the material world that lead to ruthless aggressions against families,  communities , and other countries or cultures. Humans can easily act like like animals , with no rational feelings if they are  not properly directed by a real human with real human qualities , the intelligentsia with the greatest of characteristics and knowledge of the sciences of consciousness and psychological matters within the social sciences must be heard from . Such a  person has control over their senses and mind they are philosophically astute and clearly see and understand objective sciences . Ultimately, this material world gives very little displays of  Godliness most of the time , but there are , by the arrangements of Divinity always worthy persons to hear and take directions from . We must find out the qualities of such persons and look out for them  Most displays of Godliness or religion in the material world are also tinged with personal  attachments , many crooked politicians use religion in perverted ways , ways that currupt its real purposes. God , they think ,  becomes their order supplier, and often fools follow fools , and presume something is genuine when its a perversion or misinterpreted speculation. Pure exhibitions of spirituality, however, in reality, are without any expectations for anything other than pure  unmotivated and unalloyed love towards Divinity and all his parts and parcels. Such a person sees the self-evident truth of equality that a crooked person cannot.
Currently, our leaders are driving humanity and pushing them into further and further conflicts . They are totally clueless in regard to the true worth of humanity and its  intended purposes. The world is degrading fast right in front of our eyes .
Anyhow, history shows us that the material world has a very, very  long  history of all types of aggressive militant activities .Right now, things look like boiling over .
Srila Ragganatha das Goswami in his Manah Siksa advice is that the spiritual person renounce being exclusively concerned with these political or geopolitical types of concerns , but rather concentrate ones  time in understanding and developing our spiritual transcendental and spiritual form and cultivate our direct relationship with Krishna along with His various associates and family.  By practising serious meditations and deep remembrances , the fullness of absolute beauty and the highest of spiritual culture within the supreme artistry of ever new loving relationships will be experienced .
This is also the underlying advice of all of our  Vedic Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas . AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada would say , “First, save yourself..
But also try giving some time to assisting others benefit from the Vedas in some way . We can learn to become , on one level , oblivious to the activities of the foolishness of the ungodly and their uneducated leaders , but on another level, we must point out  the foolishness for everyone’s benefit.

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What’s it worth ?

With crypto currency as literally didgits on a computer and stocks , shares ,currency commodities racing up and down in values , one begins to wonder what genuine wealth is .

Gold standards were replaced by pieces of paper, and things have gotten a lot more dodgy,  dodgy dealings, and promises of earnings and cooked books are in vouge . Traditionally, a person worked , and in exchange for work, they were owed something , and traditionally , as in former times, the King was the ultimate proprietor of all lands , and he represented God the supreme Proprietor .Still, during war times, the government has the right to take what it wants, any lands or property. It was the king who issued currency in previous times to represent work , thus, the monarch is often found on currency today . The nation state and its currency had the real value of currency backed by real work and production of various industries.

Today’s world of private issues , not nation backed , of strange gambling didgits on a computer representing money is indeed a strange turn of events as the cheaters get more technologically sophisticated and the cheated get more bamboozled.This is out of hand gambling manipulated like the trading and commodities markets by an elite .

The wealth in the stocks is an unrealistic assessment of a company,  its just based on false  promises and cooked books and  of what the company might do . How can they be trusted when the currupt regulates the curupt .The currency markets are a tool by which wealthy countries keep poor countries poor . After all, a man’s labour should be worth the same anywhere .The most greed wins the way and trample on third world countries.

The commodity markets are rigged by global conglomerates in an attempt to try to keep profits artificially high,  the biggest conglomerates gradually buying up the smallest and  creating monopolies.There is the fast disappearing so called “free market “

Thus the unipolar world has left a lot of problems in its trail .The new multipolar world world may ease the problems and share wealth in better ways , but the underlying problems are deeply embedded in financial institutions and deep state governance.

Only the genuine intelligentsia can sort it . The problems began a long time ago when the intelligentsia were pushed out of place , and unruly kings took their place , who were then later  replaced by democracies that have been now infiltrated by ruthless businessman and the political puppies. They who are clueless in the art of administration of society and ignorant of the sciences of mind , matter, and consciousness and how they knit together perfectly with the social structures. It’s a society of the cheaters and cheated.

Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja gives the vision of how to replace cheating of all kinds with honesty, and Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami explains all in his literature.

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When Srila Vyasadeva is in his deep and mature  meditation, saw Lord  Krishna behind Lord krishna he also saw Maya devi or Durga Devi, an expansion of the Supreme Goddess of fortune .

The expression I have got your back can be considered..

“I’ve got your back” (often heard as “I got your back”) is an idiom meaning “I support you,” “I’ll protect you,” or “I’ll watch out for you”; it signifies loyalty and reassurance that someone will be there to help, defend, or look out for you, acting like a second set of eyes or hands. 

Can Durga Devi be considered in this way ?

Everything about the supreme spiritual realm is personal , Lord Krishna is the most exhaulted of all personalities and to satisfy His emaculate senses with  pure attitudes of loving service in  very personal and in  innumerable ways is the only “business” of the residents of the spiritual abodes .

Srimati Radharani is the topmost devotee of Krishna and acts as the best servant , the best  friend  , and also with  somewhat motherly effection , and She ultimately is His best of all  lovers . Naturally, if you love someone deeply , part of that love is to see to it no disturbances in any way are brought before the person you love . Actually, injustices of any kind or uncouth behaviour will not be tolerated. Everyone should conduct themselves properly and with perfectly exhibited spontaneous loving moods before the Supreme Personality of Godhead . Durga Devi sees to it that the uncouth can not approach Krishna . She  also indirectly and directly instigates a training programme for the benefits of the living beings so everyone can learn trancendental selfless and pure love , and come to understand Krishna as the Supreme Rasaraja , who openly  desires to purely exchange His open heart with everyone in a most glorious way . Before entering  Vrndavana, the replica in India , you will pass huge open-air Deities of  Lord Siva and Durga Devi. Lord Siva has some connections with Maha Visnu in injecting the living beings within matter and Srimati Radharani in Her expansion as Durga weilds the rod of chastisement and corrects misguided attitudes.

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A tangled webb that’s  weaved  .

The three modes of material nature are discussed in Bhagavad Gita , they are like psychological conditioning agents , and mentalites are made there .The inconceivable Lords external  energies , He gives many details about them  in the Bhagavad Gita . They can be veiwed a bit like primary colours . Persons  can connect with them, mix them, and do what they will with them . However be careful, these types of colours have you sucked into the painting of life and like a spiders web is a trap for the fly but not the spider , similarly Krishna weaves his web of illusions made up of these modes of nature only because we want it . Goodness , passion, and ignorance are the three modes of phycologically based work . 3×3 =9 9×9=81.81×81=6561, ad infinitum  and  accordingly, the unlimited types of consciousness in the 8,400000 species of life are interacting with unlimited mixes and degrees of these modes , the colour spreads thick and thin.
Suddha Satva,  pure goodness,  though, is a  trancendental state  beyond those entangled modes . Krishna says, “If you want , I can rescue you at any time from the material modes and place you in your intended place of pure uncontaminated consciousness in trancendental bliss .

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Decending truth.

Spiritual life means falling in behind pure representatives of Divinity , on many different levels,  those who are in beginning ways , in more progressed ways and for ultimate perfection with those are unalloyed pure representatives.  Diksa , Siksa, and Sastra sanga should be considered and understood in terms of Gaudia Vaisnava traditions and teaching. We should connect to God  and take place, rendering services of all kinds suitable for us . It also means seeing the oneness and differences of theological approaches , and even oneness and differences of approaches in relationships toward Divinity within a particular ”  branch of a religious community “
But there is no room for personal speculations or interpretations , everything said and done must have clear references to Divinity and his pure representatives . What one representative says will be connected to what another recognised and pure representative has said .
Ultimately, all discord is harmonized in the absolute. In other words, pure knowledge is harmonized, but speculations and personally motivated interpretations are not .

In material life , especially the life of the Darwinian and those who follow scientific materialism or those that follow interpretations of rascals that claim to speak and give interpretaion of theological texts , the dishonest always  place all their faith in the dishonest . Following pure hearts or crooked hearts have different outcomes.

Truth emnates forever from the truthful, and the truthful will always find truth.
The qualities of the truthful are given in every theological culture are are easily understood by those seeking truth .

Pure love and devotion can only be fully received and reciprocated fully  by Divinity and His associates, not anybody else . Soul on soul is an entirely spiritual affair . Mixed motivations of mixed followers can be veiwed as the grades of spirituality , who are approaching truth , that also beneficial of course.
Thus, Divinity declared, “I am your only true friend. “…

The absolute truth allows the truthful to see the truth , to speak the truth , to write the truth , and to act in truthful ways , without connections to the absolute truth , how can anyone be trusted to speak or act in truth .

Absolute truth can never be silenced , the truthful intelligentsia can never be silenced , although in current times, foolish demons try to do so .  They attempt to silence or pervert truth , but demons are ultimately fools living in a fools paradise….forgetting
ultimately, truth will out …..by the arrangements of the absolute truth.

When absolute truth decends personally into the relative world , He can as does turn relative truth upside down .Those in the highest of all circles , well understand this because they are indeed  connoisseurs of truth .
How is that understood  ?.
Ask a scholar of the absolute.
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AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada once told a disciple who was an excellent cook to share her knowledge. He said, “If you don’t share, you’ll become envious.” What did he mean? We should spread good fortune to all not wishing to keep things , whatever they are , to ourselves , whether it be our families, communities, or our nation . Modern geopolitical matters have decended into envy of others , a deep seated envious nature permeating the world,  I , me , mine consciousness . Envy of other nations’ culture or religion or political systems are prevalent. The whole global economy is based on not sharing but taking from others , not creating wealth but creating poverty and destruction. Take a look at the world.  When the British went to India, they were shocked by the exhibition of the highest of culture and learning . Every culture has something to offer, and the envious want to take other cultures down . A sign of envious nature is a lack of caring to share in every way , if we don’t feel for others we are suffering from an envious cold heart that needs warming .

One way or another sharing takes place ..

ŚB 11.27.55

कर्तुश्च सारथेर्हेतोरनुमोदितुरेव च ।
कर्मणां भागिन: प्रेत्य भूयो भूयसि तत् फलम् ॥ ५५ ॥

kartuś ca sārather hetor
anumoditur eva ca
karmaṇāṁ bhāginaḥ pretya
bhūyo bhūyasi tat-phalam

Not only the performer of the theft but also anyone who assists him, instigates the crime, or simply approves of it must also share the reaction in the next life. According to their degree of participation, they each must suffer a proportionate consequence.

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A searching that never stops .

Searching searching

In spiritual life, searching for God never stops .
There are the beginnings of searching and intermediate searching and advanced searching.
In the spiritual realms , still , the searching continues.
These searching for God begin at rudimentary levels at first in philosophically orientated ways but inexplicable and in the topmost spiritual realms end trancendentally and appear externally like a lover desperately searching for a lost  lover . Everything of trancendance from its beginning to its highest pinnacle has been described by Srila Rupa Goswami in his many many writings

“He /she,” who is eternally searching for krishna , in intimate services carried out on behalf of Srimati Radharani, the Supreme Goddess of Fortune , within Goloka Vrndavana are the greatest mystery of Gaudia Vaisnavism , the Pranaya of Manjari bhava was also relished by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and is described by Krishna das Kaviraja in his Caitanya Caratamrita.

Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains all.

ŚB 2.9.36

एतावदेव जिज्ञास्यं तत्त्वजिज्ञासुनात्मन: ।
अन्वयव्यतिरेकाभ्यां यत् स्यात् सर्वत्र सर्वदा ॥ ३६ ॥

etāvad eva jijñāsyaṁ
tattva-jijñāsunātmanaḥ
anvaya-vyatirekābhyāṁ
yat syāt sarvatra sarvadā

Translation

A person who is searching after the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, must certainly search for it up to this, in all circumstances, in all space and time, and both directly and indirectly.

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What Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja has taught, amongst many things, is that the Smarta Brahmanas of India who have gained their position by previous sacrifices propelling them in their Aprarabdha karmic synchronicities into their current Prarabdha state , are in danger of degrading themselves due to pride and misunderstandings , and they are building up within their Prarabdha state further Aprarabdha karmic synchronicities. Pride and arrogance lead to degraded future Prarabdha states .

Meanwhile, those in poorer Prarabdha states , but who accept wholeheartedly the pure Vaisnava into their hearts and are engaged in devotional services under their direction are surpassing the influences of the  conditioning caused by  their Prarabdha states .Not only that, but they are being propelled either into a highly elevated Aprarabdha state in future destinations or, as Mahaprabhu has decreed to immediately enter the spiritual kingdoms.  Thus, the power of the Holy names is exhibiting the power  to bring the lowest classes of persons , who ordinarily could not have expected to be immediately elevated to the platform of a top most Vaisnava , beyond even the topmost  Brahminical person, in trancendental terms . When magnanimity is in the hands of Mahaprabhu, the meaning of the world is fully expressed and exhibited, and the very highest of spiritual culture is handed down  to the lowly of persons.

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When a lame man climbs on the back of a blind man both can benefit.

Some aspects of Western technological learning can be useful and used well within Vedic cultures .Obviously, much cannot be , scientific materialism, and Darwinian hypothesis has nothing in common with reality. Neither an unscientific approach to theological cultures that are taught in the West , for instance such “scientific less” theological traditions cannot even understand that dualism means each living being has a soul as much as a human . They do not understand the psychological outcomes of consciousness or how its connected to a responsive universe or the  universal system that churns out innumerable bodies according to a conscious state . Although some scientific observations note a responsive universe and instant communications where one part of the universe is responding to another .The multidimensional universe brings incalculably complex root networks throughout different parts of a total universal system.

Modern educational system’s have their good and bad side .There is a perfection in politcal system’s,  in sciences,  in economics, in social sciences,  in geopolitical affairs, which can bring harmonized cultures,  although each of them can remain happily different.

That requires the intelligentsia , they can clearly have balanced realisations,  and such persons are always within every  society , by Divinities arrangement .  Although currently they are not recognised , especially by the global  atheistic who practically run world affairs unfortunately.   Even if there is a little theological knowledge,  its unscientific and based on bodily identification. Unless one genuinely sees with spiritual vision the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings , one will fall short of truths and will fail to inject justice and truth into societal affairs.

Things are on the move , what is self-evident is that the business man and their global conglomerates , along with their  perverted financial institutions that are rife with insider information are clueless.  They should never take a position in anyway of leading society.  Rather they are third class men who need and must be legislated against in everything they do .

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Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur indicates in his Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 text 10 that by performing jnana tapasya, one can attain realisations of the eternal nature and appearance of Divinity. “One becomes purified by austerity in the form of tolerating the burning poison of wrong ideas  or thinking , wrong logic, and wrong arguments.” he says .
The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have some stalwart scholars amongst them Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Jiva Goswami to begin with and of course Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur and in recent times ,Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami, Srila BR Sridhar Swami and the extremely intelligent and very practical Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami who miraculously brought Krishna consciousness all over the world inspiring and teaching some of his leading disciples…

Ramanuja acaryas says wise persons give up attachments,  effections or fears, or anger for those who speak nonsensical ways ,  because the wise are throughly absorbed in meditations,  hearing,  chanting and singing and speaking of the glories of Krishna and His associates and cannot really be disturbed .

Material calculations of every kind ….within modern societies

Much unthinking much speculation.

Mass education in the West centred around scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis is facilitating lots of unoriginal and unthinking persons , each of whom follow like sheep or lemmings off a cliff previously established speculative persons. They generally think the piece of paper they call a degree makes them smart , generally such person who even have  higher degrees or PHD’S step up as government advisors and bring with them their unoriginal and unthinking minds . If we take a look at Western societies and their governance and compliance systems and see the mess they get the world in . The sciences they continue to present ,  their unthinking ideas ,  to other unthinking persons , in the name of objective sciences , although they are clearly not , then its no wonder that the great and very honest and objective Richard Feynman said “that you can have a pocket full of PHD’S and still be a complete idiot “…
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