A great and important philosophical question posed by Vrajanatha in Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s Jiva Dharma, the occupation of the soul .
We are manifest from Lord Balarama, the first expansion of Krishna, and because the soul is part of Him , and Krishna always been , so have we . Within Krishna are unlimited expansions , and unlimited capacity . , thus the simultaneous one and difference of the living beings and God can be looked at in this way . Jiva Goswami also says that Krishna makes the impossible possible by manifesting totally separate entities , each with free will .
We also have to understand the expression , “ time immemorial ,” we can not fathom its beginnings .
When Balarama brings forth the ” dormant ” Jivas , it is because He wants to increase Krishna’s pleasure. We are not dead stones or downloads of Balarama , but have free will to choose to love and give pleasure. The more we use our free will for its intended purpose , the more freedom we can experience , spiritually and even materially . On our being “manifest ” , just as a good father tells us how to properly conduct life for our greatest benefits , similarly Balarama , our original father , does the same , guidance in numerous ways are in place, unbeknown to most , Balarama by His examples brings freedom of expression , love and attractions . Spontaneously , the living beings reveal their individual consciousness by their own attractions . Love is always voluntary and can never be forced , but needs learning at times . The complete and full existence of Divinity is only ever understood by unadulterated love. Indeed , Sanatana Goswami has shown in his literatures in the pastime of Gopa Kumar , that when Gopa 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 Krishna.
It’s indicted , by Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur , the jiva enters a tatasta state , which is understood as the impersonal Brahman energies, for those Jivas whon are not so inclined to share their consciousness in loving exchanges with Divinity . They remain in an impersonal bliss , but for want of activity and relationships, they come to the material planes , ultimately , the material energies refine their activity and they learn to love , and learn that Krishna or God is “Rasaraja” the king of the exchanges of love . It’s this relationship with God that the inner desires of every soul are hankering for . This leaving the impersonal spiritual light and beginning material activities begins by a ” transporational ” glance , the living being is injected into matter from Maha Sankarsana, then to Maha Visnu, who glances the beings into matter .
Revealing their inner state of consciousness and desire , the Jiva is connected either to Maha maya or Yoga maya , i.e., the spiritual or material energies . According to their free spirit, they move towards one or the other . It appears our consciousness , having this free spirit, connected itself to Maha maya , we are in the material universes. Balarama , being our father , and in that sense Balarama and Krishna are one , Balarama detected our independence , which was not directed towards pure devotional desires . Desire for relationships, outside of God , having remained in a brahman impersonal energy for some time , takes the beings into matter. Arrangements were made because God is all knowing , and automatically through the ethereal planes within the multidimensional unlimited space time arrangements , the living beings arrive in matter , initially with relatively exalted consciousness . Mahamaya or Durga Devi has the task of providing an illusion of artificial lordship and sensual pleasures and thus temping one to enjoy a separate existence from God , further 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 His energy, as the high court judge knows the destination of the criminal , so a harmful soul is under Gods grips , with predicable consequences , but not a pure soul . He has his full freedom and is unpredictable in love . Love in real spiritual terms is every increasing , and unpredictable , unlimited exchanges take place with the master of love Krishna , soul to soul in spiritual bodies , in full spiritual varigatedness.
As stated and rightly so . by many devotees statements , Srila Prabhupada is the Siksa Guru of all the members of ISKCON and those who have absolute faith in him , whether so called inside or outside of ISKCON . The founder Acarya of ISKCON is an empowered pure devotee of Krishna , and I often say to those who misunderstand param para , that if they think Prabhupada did not have the potency to make Gurus of all kinds to continue on the param para succession, more fool them .
Importantly, Srila Prabhupada is giving us access to the predominant teachers of Gaudia Vaisnavism, those “significant ” acaryas , although of course all devotees are significant, stemming from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu through the Goswami’s , who Mahāprabhu personally taught . Srila Prabhupada is the transparent medium who can show us the methods by which their connections , by Siksa and Sastra sanga, can be made . By Srila Prabhupada’s teachings and services to him, connections can be made, and the param para acaryas teachings can be fully understood . The connections between the many peripherals within the Vedas and all the cor teachings of the Vedas , particularly the essence of Gaudia Vaisnavism , as taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu through his conversion with Ramananda Roy , are laid out by our param para . In recent times, Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has clarified everything and as well as the processes and qualifications to find perfection. This was his prescriptions, particularly for worldwide preaching . Srila Prabhupada has outlined everything and made all the connections perfectly between all our acaryas and their teachings.
So , perhaps an emphasis on Srila Prabhupada’s abilities to correctly guide us to our param para acaryas and their teachings , which he has clearly laid out in his writings , from beginnings to their perfection in pure spontaneous love , which he always personally explained should be understood in full .
In Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s commentary to Srila Ragganatha das Goswami’s Manah Siksa .
Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has said we should regard the Goswami’s of Vrndavana who Mahāprabhu taught as our own personal Siksa Gurus.
The essential mission of ISKCON , which Srila Prabhupada has so experrtly taken up , because he Himself is Mahāprabhu’s and Nityananda prabhu’s associate , stems from Their other associates Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj . Especially the broad teachings of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur , who brought us insights to Devi Varna Ashram that Prabhupada has introduced , we are in the Bhaktivinod parivag .
Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur brought the Vedic world to the Western world through his broad visions of an all encompasing Vedas . The peripherals and cor can and do join together as progressive and individually meant meaningful paths . Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s son , Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami started the wide broadcast of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s teachings within India , he desired them also to be spread world wide , as his father wanted , this was a prediction of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu . So it was the Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja’s disciple Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami arrived in USA and founded ISKCON 60 years ago , Prabhupada’s personal pure Krishna consciousness was on full display and his enthusiasm to carry out Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu desire . The order of his spiritual master had begun , ISKCON is a most powerful preaching movement that is ever increasing and Krishna has most definitely sent many special souls to assist ISKCON and continues to do so , Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s vision is taking shape , and its just beginning in one sense.
So any how , its important to make these trancendental connections in my opinion because the whole of our Gaudia Vaisnavas param para have been opened up so expertly by Srila Prabhupada . Through his teachings, by serving his mission , and by humbly cooperating with others that try to assist the mission of Prabhupada , then by grace , all of our param para acaryas insights within their Smiti’s and their trancendental unlimited connections to the spiritual realms may decend upon us , and some trancendental understanding may develop.
In the Western world and in most parts of the world, including India, access in real terms to the Gaudia Vaisnava param para and their services begins and has began through Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada , who has clearly explained all , not exclusively because there are many great Gaudia Vaisnavas , but Srila Prabhupada has made the whole world chant Hare Krishna by his ISKCON society
“While pantheism asserts that “all is God, “panentheism claims that God is greater than the universe. Some versions of panentheism suggest that the universe is nothing more than the manifestation of God , this way of thinking is popular with impersonal philosophically minded people, including Albert Einstein, who thought in that way , as do many scientific community members . In addition to this thinking , other philosophically minded persons have indicated that the universe is contained within God , but that God is outside as well .
Let’s see what the Vedas say.
The very first verse of the Srimad Bhagavatam gives us the full understanding of Divinity. He has unlimited expansions , and is directly and indirectly conscious of every aspect of creation , He is indeed inside, outside, near but far , the smallest but the greatest . He is everywhere but nowhere. Such is His trancendental form which has no limits imposed upon it , God does not need to learn anything, He is the origins and the totality of all knowledge, not a blade of grass moves without Him knowing. In quantum physics, it’s called instant communication .
His descent to the material realms are described in the Vedas. A complete list of the different types of Avatars and incarnations are referred to as well as their individual purposes . It is stated that as many waves there are in the oceans , there are the same quantities of incarnations in one form or another of Divinity… and more . There are millions of material universes. Thus, incarnations can be understood in the context of how many universes exist . There are also multidimensional aspects , we can not with our limited senses see all things .
But as a summary and a general understanding, the first verse of the Bhagavatam offers us this.
O my Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. It is He only who first imparted the Vedic knowledge unto the heart of Brahmājī, the original living being. By Him even the great sages and demigods are placed into illusion, as one is bewildered by the illusory representations of water seen in fire, or land seen on water. Only because of Him do the material universes, temporarily manifested by the reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although they are unreal. I therefore meditate upon Him, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is eternally existent in the transcendental abode, which is forever free from the illusory representations of the material world. I meditate upon Him, for He is the Absolute Truth.
The universal Vedic veiw , a universe and beyond.
Modern scientific thinkers , namely those following scientific materialism in all its forms , assume the universe three dimensional . However, the Vedas brings us to the realisations of the multidimensional universe , one of the unlimited universes that make up approximately one forth of the totality of existence , spiritual and material . Many contemporary physicists , including the Harvard Prof . Lisa Randall also very often think along Vedic lines . We can say universes within universes within universes . Each universe , according to the Vedas, has a different engineer called Bramha , each of these Bramhas’ have different capacities according to the size of the universe they are overseeing . So, measurements of Vedic universes incorporate aspects that limited conditioned senses can not detect . Certainly , there are red shift anomalies within the calculations in modern cosmological calculations , Dr Richard Thompson, (Sadaputa das) mentions this in his book on Vedic cosmology . Are the stars so far away ? on one level, maybe on another level , maybe not .
For instance, Vedic cosmological calculations describe features of dimensional space only eight hundred miles above this planet earth . The Upadeva planets are present, and they exist within their own particular dimension . We can not see this region , but its influences are felt by some, and its further influences are enacted that have repercussions on our planet . In regards to the senses and the differences , even on this earth, we can examine them. Can you hear a dog whistle ? or have the vision of a cat , the detail they see in the dark ? can you hear the low pitch of a whales call ? They can hear each other from up to 1000 miles away within the oceans . Mystics and yogis in the past , the Vedas indicates , frequently communed and commuted to these realms within the ethereal planes . Not so much now, though , due to rampant materialism and inpure consciousness , but still , a very few can still do so . In some parts of the Vedas , the localised universe is described as 4.5 billion miles , but that should be understood in context to the greater universal picture.
The greatly renowned Vedic cosmological scholar in Gaudiya Vaisnavism says this ..
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakura, recognized as a master of both Siddhantic Vedic astronomy and Puranic literature, provided specific measurements regarding the size of the universe based on classical Vedic texts . He maintained that the universe is vast, egg-shaped (brahmanda), and, while immense, is only one of innumerable universes in the material creation.
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura quotes ancient Vedic texts like the Siddhānta-śiromaṇi to describe the mind-boggling scale of a single universe . He explains that a single universe measures roughly 149 quadrillion miles in circumference. This vast size includes the core planetary systems, which span 4 .5 billion miles in diameter, they are surrounded by seven massive elemental layers. These layers could be thought of as the store houses of the atomic realms that facilitate the many possibilities of the expanding universe. Expanding by the desires and constant activity of the living beings . The responsive universes are fulfilling and arranging the individual and collective karmic synchronicities of each soul . As soon as the living beings are injected into the universe by Maha Visnu , the universe, along with its activities and varieties of designated time periods for each living being , begins further and further expansions . Each successive layer of the universe (consisting of water, fire, air, ether, etc.) expands in multiples of each other . The material universe indeed encompasses immense distance trillions upon trillions of miles and beyond . Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura used these descriptions to highlight the inconceivable, gigantic scale of material creation and its multidimensional features which are relative to the eternal spiritual world . Each one of the higher Vaikuntha planets can easily contain all these material universes . The main spiritual abode , Goloka Vrndavana, the centre of spiritual existence , can contain all the Vaikuntha planets .The mystery of the Goloka Vrndavana planet is that it appears as a village 17 miles in diameter . However, the whole of existence is within this seventeen miles . Thus, Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja is shining a light on multidimensional space . The Vedas also says within one atom , Lord Visnu is fully present along with His complete existence. When it comes to ” spiritual physics,” or math , we can not limit ourselves to the working of matter within the laws of three-dimensional space or time , or regulation math ,1+1 =1 and 1-1=1 1÷1=1 are spiritual math calculations . Marie Currie, the Nobel prize winner for her studies of radiation , took time to study telepathy and knew of its significance. Niels Bohr and Schrödinger , as well as Einstein and Richard Feynman, could easily comprehend and accept the endless and inescapable possibilities and understandings of multidimensionalism and its very realistic existence .The third and fifth Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam highlights some of these cosmological affairs , Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami has published the Bhagavatam, its available in all languages throughout the world.
How Divinity is situated
The understanding is that Divinity is everywhere, but nowhere He is inside and outside. How can this be ? It’s due to His specific relationships . Although He is everywhere and neutral , same time , He specifically reveals Himself in His fullness to His specific devotees in different circumstances , this is according to how the devotees relate with Him . He says in the Bhagavad Gita, “As you do, my worship and think of me , I think of you and commune with you “. . Or “as you relate to me , so I relate to you “. In the highest of spiritual circles , Divinity or Krishna exhibits his most complete form , the sweetness of Divinity is understood through love for Him . Love and understanding is important everywhere. The most mature spiritual thinkers take their trancendental position , behind the prominent eternal devotees who reside in Vrndavana . We can not possibly stand before Dhira Lalita Krishna , says Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , ” we would burn up,” so intense is the pure love and spiritual rasa , so stand behind his intimate friends, family or lovers .
Actually, even in this material world, there are some incredible personalities , and even they are somewhat unfathomable . What to speak of Radha Krishna Nitya Lila and the spiritual kingdoms.
The Goswamis ‘of Vrndavana and their writings gives us an insight into these spiritual realms, and Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, in his purports of the book of Ragganathha das Goswamis called ” Mana Siksa ” says we should regard the Goswamis as our own personal Siksa Gurus.
The Priest’s of Lord Jagganath may or may not understand
The most important messages of the Rathayatra festival are many fold . The very deep internal reasons , those that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda prabhu have revealed to Srila Rupa Goswami , Srila Sanantan Goswami and Srila Ragganatha das plus Srila Jiva Goswami amongst others , and that have been well understood by Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who has established the Rathayatra festival all over the world . These truths are well understood by mature Gaudia Vaisnava devotees . The external reasons also equally as important, for instance , participating in the festival by pulling the rope of the Rath , is accepted as signifying one is beginning to pull Lord Krishna deep or deeper into ones heart . Bringing an offering of devotional service to Krishna of any kind is acceptable by Lord Jagganath, who comes out of His temple on to the streets , searching after His lost servants. Everyone can get the benefit of serving and seeing the Lord on the day of Rathayatra , some persons are forbidden to enter the temple ordinarily. Further celebrations and meanings and meditations of The Rathayatra are calculated by Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas as the internal reasoning of the Lord in Mathura wanting to return to Vrndavana . As Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati says , in his Caitanya Caratamrita comment , Lord KRISHNA again wanted to taste the parakiya rasa of the Gopies of Vraja . So He leaves Mathura to go to Vrndavana, the gardens at Gondicha remind him of Vrndavana, and the Puri Temple is like Mathura . Ultimately , we know , on another level, that also the Rathayatra festival represents Mahaprabhu understanding the inner sentiments of Srimati Radharani, He is relishing Srimati Radharani’s moods of unparalleled love , this He revealed during Rathayatra by quoting out allowed a particular verse , that Srila Rupa Goswami deeply understood . Sri Mahaprabhu is not only relishing the moods of Srimati Radharani love , but in doing so , He is distributing this nectar of love of God to one and all . Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON movement is directly revealing and distributing the understanding of these same truths at all the world’s Rathayatra festivals and Prabhupada is giving the most fallen persons a chance to pull the ropes of the Rath and begin to pull Krishna into their lives , and as well importantly to witness and hear the chanting of Hare Krishna by the devotees brought to them by Krishna’s pure devotee Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The mood of intense separation as well as a prospective union of Srimati Radharani at Kurukshetra with Krishna is represented at the Rathayatra as well . At this meeting , Srimati Radharani invites Lord Krishna to ” return ” with Her to Vrndavana . Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur says this lila is displaying Srimati Radharani at Her most desperate moments . Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur desired to reside in Kurukshetra because the greatest service can be offered to someone when they are most needy …He as Kamala Manjari wanted to assist Srimati Radharani in these desperate times where she was so close again to Krishna, yet so far from Vrndavana. So , Srila Prabhupada following in Mahaprabhu’s and Nityananda mood is distributing this Parakiya rasa as well as how to understand Vrndavana life to everyone worldwide , along with the full glories of Vrndavanas inhabitants , and that is transcendentally inconceivable in itself how Prabhupada has done this .
The Babajis and traditional Brahminical men of India are due every respect, but they do not understand the preaching mood of Prabhupada or Nityananda…sometimes they complain that Rathayatra should be only on one occasion and only in Puri . ISKCON should not extend it worldwide . That’s OK….we are not all extensively preaching… Each to their own ….and we respect their sentiments. But we respectfully disagree because the Vaiṣṇavas in pure consciousness realise the deep meanings to Sastra’s applications . Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu is bringing a new dawn to the Vedic application, and Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has revealed everything , Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj has instructed Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to extensively preach world wide . The Srimad Bhagavatam and the Caitanya Caritamrta are forever expanding they demonstrate the eternal dynamic nature of trancendental bliss. Such is the power and purity of Mahaprabhu’s devotees who can expand the bliss
Religion is an aftermath….of life’s arrival…says Dawkins and Cronin . They assume themselves as authorities of knowledge , and as leaders of scientific communities they also feel its their responsibility to educate and enlighten the world in their realisations of their ” truths ” of scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis . When examined effectively and using objective sciences, it becomes apparent that everything they present is guessing and cobbled together with speculations from its beginnings to its current state . When real objective scientific intelligensia push them harder on these matters, they admit and submit … they just don’t know for sure of anything that they present is fact .
Dawkins and Cronin have been taught since childhood and throughout their educational experiences by teachers and other PHD profs . Who were they ? They are also speculative thinkers who have themselves dishonesty presented guessing as facts that they themselves were taught . Darwinians become neo Darwinians, same business, dressed up differently, the underlying current is the same . In that sense, we have a chain of dishonesty , and each generation is the link in the chain . Walk into the natural history museum in London. What’s the first thing endless school children see on pre-arranged school tours ? Apes turning into men . Indoctrination from childhood , pictures in early history books of apes turning into men are widely distributed. The Miller Urey experiments are highly regarded and promoted as progressive biological research and indications of our origines in a primordial sludge .The natural history museums architectural structure suspiciously looks like a church in its construction . Cheating on all levels, even psychological levels.
Scientific dualism that consciousness mind along with matter are completely different energies is a self-evident truth , in anyone’s book , everyone one feels it ,it can not be denied . Only those deliberately keeping themselves in the darkness of speculations try to do so . Of course , Darkins has to get around the obvious somehow , so he tells his students to “Ignore what appears as design in the world, close your eyes and intelligence to it , or else you can’t be a true scientist ” Consciousness in objective terms is experienced as a phenomenon different from matter , and thus, it needs examining . We are the same person in our changing body ,our fluctuating mind , and our fallible and somewhat fading intelligence , especially in old age . Thus, theological cultures , using teleological arguments, present the natural conclusion that any origin of consciousness , namely God , would have the responsibility to cater for both free will along with the various deterministic outcomes .
Both the atheistic and theistic need satisfying . Educational experiences for every wondering particle of consciousness , who find themselves enclosed in matter , and having to deal with all the consequences that brings , need catering for . If Divinity did not do so , free will and determinism would not function. The material world is made as such that truth can be presented as untruths , and untruths can be accepted as truth . A clever arrangement on all levels is occurring with degrees of a mix of freedoms, entanglements, and liberations of various kinds is taking place . Everyone can satisfy themselves somehow, at least superficially, but ones underlying consciousness remains , and unless absolute truth is arrived at , persons will remain unfulfilled. In reality, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever molecules themselves move towards life. In fact, the chemistry behind molecules are so inconceivably complicated in their own right , ask a synthetic chemist how chemical evolution could have taken place by chance arrangement within a primordial soup . It’s all propaganda of the highest order that carries no evidence whatsoever. All evidence , in sciences, points to dualism , and intelligent arrangement , what is seen in real terms is perfect math , symmetry, and design. When a consciousness particle enters matter, injected from the male within the female, information systems accompany it . Matter and consciousness are two different substances , first consciousness comes , and only then informational systems that organise and structure matter . Superior engineering from beginning to end of the machine like body points logically to an engineer , but an engineer beyond our comprehension . The more we look into the microbial world, the more we see even more sophisticated engineering. Those advocates who sing the glory of scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis only continue to fool themselves and try to take their brand to the truely unthinking . Best to study objective sciences oneself and bypass subjective guessing that claims to be objective science..
How to know who is who in religious circles..?
Prof Albert Einstein said that religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame.
If we find violence and hatred and fanaticism …this means the theologians and their religious representatives are clueless and not representing God , quite the opposite. Actually the truth is theological cultures of every kind have the systematic processes of gradual development of knowledge , everyone takes things at a different pace , according to their previous attachments and impressions. mind. In all religions, there are first class, second class, and third class followers. If anything is presented fanatically with hatred and intolerance, it’s because it’s being presented by third class unthinking followers…who have little realisation of God . One should seek first class followers who understand God consciousness and the sciences behind not only creation but also psychological conditioning due to attachments to the material world which bring the varied plights of the conditioned souls . The mature spiritual teacher can give a particular path suitable for a particular state of consciousness, and thus gradually free them from their lower speculative and karmic tendencies. Practical applications within theological cultures are well understood by the first class representatives . Heaven and Hell preaching is a sign of a third class devotee. In any religion, first class representatives should be sought , and every scripture will tell us clearly their symptoms .common sense is required . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Unless 100% pure, everything in chemistry falls apart ..
The cell is covered by carbohydrates or sugars , they have practically incalculable amounts of hooking combinations that bring them together . It’s hard, hard chemistry to work out or manufacture from scratch. Says Prof James Tour, a leading synthetic chemist. When evolutionary scientists try to ” fiddle ” around to create life from chemicals , they always buy the already made carbohydrates , produced by nature , because of the complexity of the millions of ways sugar molecules hook together . Information and perfect chemistry originates from nature , and it’s not possible to replicate from scratch , the question we should ask ourselves ” whose nature “
“”Carbohydrates, in the form of glycans (sugar molecules), cover every cell surface and can hook together in millions of different ways . This vast diversity in structure creates a unique “sugar code” known as the glycome, which is crucial for various biological functions, including cell-to-cell communication, immune responses, and identifying self from non-self . The way these monosaccharide units (simple sugars) are linked and the branching patterns they form allows for a tremendous amount of structural complexity “
Life comes from life , consciousness is life , and consciousness directs the material energies, bringing informational processes , nothing is occurring or happening randomly. Molecules certainly don’t move towards life , only when consciousness is present do molecules move , when the father injects the seed of life and it enters the egg thing get moving . In plant life similarly but differently . When a person dies, everything stops moving , including the chemistry . Everything breaks down and fades away . The chemistry or the building blocks to life have never been understood completely from scratch by scientists . They buy the initial building blocks already made by nature from a chemistry store . When attempting to artificially create molecules and get them ” moving ” , It ends in failure , because of impurities in their proccess , they have achieved 5% purity in attempting to manufacture an rna molecule , but unless its 100% pure the chemistry falls apart ..Krishna and His nature makes everything 100% pure every time , some chemist , the Supreme Chemist. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Svarūpa means form , look around us everything has form , nothing with consciousness origins is formless . Consciousness means there must be a form , although within the Bramhajyoti , the spiritual impersonal light , is a place where the ” deep sleep ” of a spiritual formless existence can be lived out . However, the Vedas indicates that after some time in the spiritual formless spiritual light , the consciousness feels instinctively a need to express itself individually and in relationships with others , the real nature of absolute truth . Relationships we know cause an exchange of love and give happiness . Exploitative impure relationships within the material world are perverse reflections of the essence of spiritual forms that are exhibited spiritually in the spiritual kingdoms , wherein the full spiritual varigatedness of unmotivated pure love is found . Spiritual relationships centred on unmotivated love are eternally manifested in eternal forms .There , atoms , elements, and compounds are absent . Material relationships are based on differing degrees of self-centred consciousness , and this consciousness is the cause of repeated karmic synchronicities within the wide variety of material forms on offer by the responsive universe.
Divinity is known throughout the universes for His many different appearances. Krishna has His trancendental energies, and through His Svarūpa Sakti, He manifests unlimited forms from His original form . Time, place, and circumstance and particular circumstances are the causes of these blissful and purposeful forms to appear . Time immemorial is an important word in spiritual calculations when it comes to the Lord’s manifested material universes or His multiple appearances within them , its impossible to calculate. We also manifest different forms and moods . We have been a baby , a toddler , a boy or girl , a youth , middle-aged , approaching old age , old age . Each is a different form , and then at death, the whole cycle starts all over again . Again, for some within different species , within the bodily forms of 8,400,000 species , each of which has their individual version of a particular body . In its own way , this reflects the Lords original Svarūpa Sakti, which manifests His eternally situated spiritual forms . Srila Jiva Goswami , in his Bhagavat Sandarbha, brings many details to this aspect of Krishna and His unlimited existence
The perfection and goal of spiritual life is to regain or acquire our originally intended purposeful life , called Siddha Svarupa , we aquire our spiritual form and we enter into Krishna’s family group , or become one of His friends or as an assistant or a friend of His lovers . Srimati Radharani who brings the mellows of Parakiya rasa for the pleasure of Krishna is head of the Parakiya lovers .
So form and beaulty and personality is the inherant nature of consciousness , impersonal realised knowledge is a step , and a step one can not really be permanently situated on http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The seven purposes Srila Prabhupada outlined in ISKCON’s original incorporating documents are: [1]
Propagate Spiritual Knowledge: To educate people in spiritual techniques to restore the imbalance of material values and achieve world peace. [1, 2]
Promote Krishna Consciousness: To teach the consciousness of God (Krishna) as revealed in sacred texts like the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. [1, 2]
Recognize the Soul: To teach that every soul is a part and parcel of Godhead, bringing humanity closer together and nearer to the Divine. [1]
Teach the Sankirtana Movement: To encourage the congregational chanting of the holy names of God. [1, 2]
Establish Holy Places: To build and maintain places of transcendental pastimes dedicated to Krishna for society at large. [1, 2]
Encourage a Natural Lifestyle: To unite members in adopting a simpler, more natural way of life (often summarized as “simple living, high thinking”). [1, 2, 3]
Publish and Distribute Books: To print and circulate spiritual magazines, books, and other writings to support the aforementioned goals. [1, 2]
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 APPEARED IN NEW YORK ALONG WITH YOUR LOVING GLANCE , YOUR TRANCENDENTAL MUSIC MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD DANCE , WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU
YOU KEPT THE WHOLE WORLD IN YOUR PRAYERS , AND GRANTED A LIFE OF KRISHNA’S SERVICE AWAY FROM MAYAS LAIRE , WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU.
TO GIVE THE TASTE OF SUBLIME PLEASURE , AND THE PAIN WITHIN YOU CONCURE , WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU
REACHING UP TO THE HIGHEST AND REACHING DOWN TO THE LOW , A HUMBLED SPIRIT WITH BOLD COMPASSION YOU SHOW . WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU.
YOU GAVE US THE PERFECTION OF RELIGION , ..ALONG WITH SCIENTIFIC TRANCENDENTAL TRANSITION WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU
A GUIDING LIGHT THE JOURNEY BEGAN , PERFECTED BY THE SINCERE DAUGHTER OR SON WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU
REBLE SOCIETY YOU CAME TO PUT IT STRAIGHT , RASCALS AND DEMONS , IT’S YOU 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 THAT HAS ENSUED , INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL , HEARTS SPIRITUALLY ENTHUSED WE’LL NEVER FIND ANYONE MORE MERCIFUL THAN YOU.
THEY THINK ITS A RELIGION YOU DECLARE , 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.
dharmasya hy āpavargyasya nārtho ’rthāyopakalpate nārthasya dharmaikāntasya kāmo lābhāya hi smṛtaḥ
Translation
All occupational engagements are certainly meant for ultimate liberation. They should never be performed for material gain. Furthermore, according to sages, one who is engaged in the ultimate occupational service should never use material gain to cultivate sense gratification.
The whole process of Krishna consciousness entails bringing the peripherals of the Vedic instructions within one’s practical life and in therapeutic ways connect everything one does in devotion in Krishna consciousness thus moving irresistibly to the esoteric core of Gaudia Vaisnavism. As Ramananda Roy pointed out during his conversations with Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Gradually, one can realise the trancendental planes of the spiritual kingdoms. Krishna is known as Rasaraja, and He is adored and loved naturally by the pure hearted residents of Vrndavana. The karmic worlds of self-centred impurities centred around lust , greed, and envy have no place there . Rather, a spontaneous attraction for the quality of Srimati Radharani Krishna and Their associates is felt in ever new ways and increasingly so . The trancendental form of Krishna and Radharani have no limits to Their personalities, and Their followers are swept up in the tumultuous ocean of trancendental bliss with waves that are forever rising and falling in feelings of Union and separation.
The process of chanting the Hare Krishna mahamantra in pure ways gradually takes one to the shore of this ocean , via the instructions of the self realised souls and the param para acaryas. With time, devotion, and practice, one can learn to enter within its waters , there are no limits to the depths of its waters .
Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has explained all as have all the param para acaryas.
Vedic life means concentration on the Param Gatim, the permanently situated and the supreme perfection of a conscious state .
Lives , families, communities, nations, and empires come and go and ultimately the universe as well . The permanency of the consciousness is stated in the Bhagavad Gita, and Krishna stresses understanding this absolute knowledge and how its vitally important . Its in our best interests to find an atmosphere where we can find permanency , where the spiritual consciousness is made up of the same spiritual superior energy. It’s a natural and the originally intended state of our spiritual consciousness to experience sat cit ananda in a spiritual form .
Full spiritual knowledge of these unlimited spiritual relationships within an eternally situated spiritual plane where ever new spiritual mellows of loving exchanges with Krishna and His associates take place is our rightful place .
As stated and rightly so. by many devotees statements , Srila Prabhupada is the Siksa Guru of all the members of ISKCON and those who have absolute faith in him , whether so called inside or outside of ISKCON.
But importantly, Srila Prabhupada is giving us access to the predominant teachers of Gaudia Vaisnavism, those “significant ” acaryas ,although of course all devotees are significant, stemming from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu through the Goswami’s . Srila Prabhupada is the transparent medium who can show us the methods by which their connections , by Siksa , and Sastra sanga can be made . By Srila Prabhupada’s teachings and services to him , the correct processes are fully understood of the connections between the many peripherals and all the cor teachings of the Vedas and further particularly the essence of Gaudia Vaisnavism , as taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu through his conversion with Ramananda Roy .Prabhupada has outlined everything and made all the connections.
So , perhaps an emphasis on his abilities to correctly guide us to our param para acaryas and their teachings , which he has clearly laid out in his writings , from beginnings to their perfection in pure spontaneous love , which he exhibited should be understood.
In Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s commentary to Srila Ragganatha das Goswami’s Manah Siksa .
Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has said we should regard the Goswami’s as our own personal Siksa Gurus.
The essential mission of ISKCON , which Srila Prabhupada has so experrtly taken up , because he Himself is Mahāprabhu’s and Nityananda prabhu’s associate , stems from Their other associates Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj , especially the broad teachings of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur , who brought us insights to Devi Varna Ashram that Prabhupada has introduced , we are in the Bhaktivinod parivag .
Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur brought the modern world to the Western world through his broad visions of the all encompasing Vedas , the peripherals and cor can and do join together as set progressive and individually meant meaningful paths , Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s son , Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami started the broadcast of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s teachings , he desired them be spread world wide as his father wanted , this was the predicted by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and so it was the Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja’s disciple Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami arrived in USA and founded ISKCON 60 years ago , Prabhupada’s personal pure Krishna consciousness was on full display and his enthusiasm to carry out Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu desire , and the order of his spiritual master had begun , ISKCON is a most powerful preaching movement that is ever increasing and Krishna has most definitely sent many special souls to assist ISKCON and continues to do so , Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s vision is taking shape , and its just beginning in one sense.
So any how , its important to make these trancendental connections in my opinion because the whole of our Gaudia Vaisnavas param para have been opened up so expertly by Srila Prabhupada . Through his teachings, by serving his mission , and by humbly cooperating with others that try to assist the mission of Prabhupada, then by grace , all of our param para acaryas insights within their Smiti’s and their trancendental unlimited connections to the spiritual realms may decend upon us , some understanding may develop.
In the Western world and in most parts of the world, including India, access in real terms to the Gaudia Vaisnava param para begins and has began through Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada , who has clearly explained all .
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