“The universe’s puzzlingly fast expansion may defy explanation, cosmologists fret

The controversial “Hubble tension” promises deep insight but, like dark matter and dark energy, could remain just another mystery…”

The Srimad Bhagavatam 3rd Canto, entitled the fundermental principles of material nature, gives indications of the innumerable transformation of the energies of Visnu . He also  devolves power and delegates   the Demigods to see to universal affairs, and they have the  Upadevas , higher beings but not Demigods , to help them , The Vedic terms are   Adi atmika ,the living being ,  Adi devika ,  the Demigods,  and Adi bautika ,the material energies. The source of all three is the energetic Maha Visnu, who is an expansion of an expansion of Krishna.

So , the living beings are  controlled by the universal forms of Divinity within the universal powers of Divinity.

Such is the incalculably complex activity in the super subjective realm of Divinities intelligence, which is far-reaching, extending across  multidimensional universes and throughout the whole of the expanse of time . When time is added to the Maha Tattva , the material energies combined , and the living beings are injected within the womb of the material energies , the whole and complete entity begins to expand . It is consciousness and their  independent desires and  activities that are the cause of universal expansion. The third Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam describes Krishna within every atom, and yet also He emanates countless universes,  that come and go like bubbles on an ocean.

Within the material universes the Lord has a personalised automated administrative system,  following the desires and activities of an individual,   the many possibilities in the world of quantum mechanics springs to mind .  Conscious desires and the following consequences of the actions of uncountable living beings cause a universe to expand and contract.

First comes consciousness , matter is a result of the independent desires of the living beings . The Darwinian and the belief of those following scientific materialism think matter comes first , then consciousness . They are far from the truth . Matter is manifested from Divinity and is non different from Him .  Karmic synchronicity is at play of the individual beings , along with an inconceivable responsive universe engineered and supervised by Maha Visnu and His assistants . Recently A.I. is giving a hint of the capability and phenomenal administrative powers of such systems,  and the algorithmic processes follow us online . A fraction of a fraction of the power of Divinity . Sir Fred Hoyle, the great physicist , said that clearly someone has monkeyed with the universe.

The third and fifth canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam bring attention to these universal affairs.

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It was Albert Einstein who discovered some aspects of spacetime continuum. His thinking parallels some aspects of the Vedic sciences. Looking into a future or understanding a past is somewhat calculated in approximate ways through astrological calculations,  although in current times the readers have lost the potency they used to have due to their consciousness and the lack of accuracy of planets movements,  according to Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami,  he studied and was a master of Vedic cosmological affairs and the connections with astrological calculations.

Another aspect of spacetime continuum can be thought of through quantum physics which describes the many possibilities and an observer effect,  this can be thought of as the free will acting within the atoms , elements and compounds as well as the ethereal subtle energies,  ie mental and intellectual pools of which everyone is accessing.

As such it is said in previous ages, a mystic with specific powers in ethereal readings could somehow see the future events and the make up of a next life that connected the past , the present and a  future,  so the kind of space time continuum that Einstein spoke of . How one could change  a destiny is also described in the Vedas , and actually in every theological text .The neuroscientist Michael Egnore calls it free will or free won’t .

This means our bodies and minds are running almost pre  programmed from our previous activities from other lives . The body mind and senses are set in motion , and Lord Krishna virtually says so in the Bhagavad Gita . He says we are forced to act according to the body we have by the gross and subtle modes of nature that we acquired from our previous life .

Michael Egnore describes the religious thinker or yogi who wishes to overcome his mind, body, and senses . As such , if the senses are dragging us somewhere or our mind is , we develop the strength to say No .

So free will and free wont .Those who dont develop this power , and ultimately its Divinity who gives such power if they want it , are predominantly thrown around helplessly in matter , within the many possibilities and as such a future is already forming within the responsive universe , a new spell of Karmic synchronicities are underway . The many possibilities and the observer effect and the living being subjected to it have made some minor choices that everyone has within free will . Or other persons who may have begun to break the cycle by applying free wont to a degree , learning of the dualism as well as a process of purification of consciousness .So, as such, taking  control of a mind instead of it controlling them  and sending the living being into an inevitable fate .

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The instant communication in quantum physics that Einstein calls spooky action at a distance is explained by Srila Jiva Goswami in his Bhagavat Sandarbha, when he refers to Krishna marrying 16,108 wives. It wasn’t a separate expansion of Krishna, but it was the same Krishna , whose hands and legs are everywhere , as confirmed in the Bhagavad Gita verse . Because a person in a body instantaneously knows what’s going on in his body , similarly Krishna is within every atom and within the heart of all beings . it’s the same Krishna who is everywhere . So not a blade of grass moves without him knowing even if the grass is countless of billions of miles away , thus, the mysterious of Krishna’s form and consciousness should be considered. ..
The key to understanding all things is consciousness and particularly the original unlimited source namely God , consciousness always means a particular person , we can compare the original consciousness or person to the Sun and the countless photons or expansions of light to be the living beings , The Original light the same light is everywhere, similarly God ,although the same person is also everywhere, His personality is in everything and everyone, but our personality is not ..
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The Bhajans of the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas are not just songs but rather deep meditations, realisations, and prayers, and it behoves us all to regularly enter into the spirit of these hymns on a regular daily basis as well as  discuss and meditate on their meanings , as much as we do with our acaryas writings. Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada was an excellent musician and composer of melodies and regularly sang the songs of our acaryas so beautifully and the sounds of the Sabdha Brahman emanating from his lotus mouth are still being heard all over the world on a daily basis .

Srila Prabhupada was so fond of singing trancendental bhajans, and they immediately took everyone in his presence to the spiritual planes of Vraj. .Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Narottam das Thakur are but  some of the writers of these wondrous trancendental masterpieces .

Just as Srila Jiva Goswami gives as the meaning of the Maha mantra, along with the Goswami’s of Vrndavana,  who were taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu , Krishna accepts names given to Him by His devotees,  when he accepts such names He is fully present.

When our acaryas write their songs of devotion,  Krishna is fully present. If we follow their prayers and meditations remembering their pure devotion, we may receive their mercy and understand something of the depths of their bhajans.

nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś
caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ
pūrṇaḥ śuddho nitya-mukto
’bhinnatvān nāma-nāminoḥ

Synonyms

nāmaḥ — the holy name; cintāmaṇiḥ — transcendentally blissful giver of all spiritual benedictions; kṛṣṇaḥ — not different from Kṛṣṇa; caitanya–rasa–vigrahaḥ — the form of all transcendental mellows; pūrṇaḥ — complete; śuddhaḥ — pure, without material contamination; nitya — eternal; muktaḥ — liberated; abhinnatvāt — due to not being different; nāma — of the holy name; nāminoḥ — and of the person who has the name.

Translation

“ ‘The holy name of Kṛṣṇa is transcendentally blissful. It bestows all spiritual benedictions, for it is Kṛṣṇa Himself, the reservoir of all pleasure. Kṛṣṇa’s name is complete, and it is the form of all transcendental mellows. It is not a material name under any condition, and it is no less powerful than Kṛṣṇa Himself. Since Kṛṣṇa’s name is not contaminated by the material qualities, there is no question of its being involved with māyā. Kṛṣṇa’s name is always liberated and spiritual; it is never conditioned by the laws of material nature. This is because the name of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa Himself are identical.’

from the Padma Purāṇa.

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Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada would say Hare Krishna means an exchange of love .

Ultimately, central to the highest exchanges of love is the love  which is forever expanding in trancendental bliss and attractions and with curious uncertainties between The Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krishna and the Supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani.

A love of absolute dependency, which is interrupted by separations and united by unions , both serve as expansion elements to the love , for union and separation expand the ecstacy of love .

This verse brings explains the mystery of Radha Krishna.

This text is from the diary of Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. It appears as the fifth of the first fourteen verses of Śrī Caitanya–caritāmṛta.

rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād

ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau

caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptaṁ

rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam

TRANSLATION

“The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, They separated Themselves eternally. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself.”

Within Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu we find both union and separation in one form .

Srimati Radharani also exhibited these features in Her union and separation. In pure trancendental loving attraction in union, Srimati Radharani felt at times separation and in separation , She felt union .These trancendental feelings of Srimati Radharani are written of by Srila Rupa and Ragganatha das Goswami’s and their followers.

Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and our param para acaryas have described these trancendental affairs by reference to the Goswami’s of Vrndavana who were personal associates of Srimati Radharani and were themselves experiencing pranaya oneness in love with Srimati Radharani in Her oneness of love for Krishna.

In the material world, everyone is chasing the thrills of the excitement of romantic love , endless books , theatre, and films are made . This hankering and searching is a natural quality of the deepest part of our existence and it is discovered in full when we become a servant of love not a master of it in self centred lust in the material world.

There is a vast difference between broken glass and the highest quality of diamonds,  although to some,they look similar.

Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami would say we enjoy our trancendental senses in pure service through Radha Krishna in satisfying Their , what Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja described as Their emaculate senses .

In that state, we can join the dance of eternal love . The Goswami’s litratures are windows to the spiritual kingdom and services to Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu will bring us to such windows,  in this age we must understand Radha Krishna through Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu.

How to know ….

Sri Guru is self effulgent to the prospective disciple , Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj says , and the sastra say the jiva is wondering wondering wondering all over the universe and if they really want Krishna Krishna will send Sri Guru, Srila BR Sridhar Swami says Guru comes in many forms, Caitanya Caratamrita speaks of Diksa and Siksa our Gaudia Vaisnava line is predominantly made up of Siksa Gurus.
When Srila Prabhupada made his first offering to Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja on the anniversary of his disappearance, Srila Prabhupada wrote no question of your Guru my Guru, Guru is one .
If you want to understand the most highest truths of Krishna Krishna will make arrangements, the litratures of the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas are like Sastra sanga to one who has mercy of what Srila Prabhupada described as the “current link ” thus humility and respect and surrender to all the Vaisnavas carry one a long way .
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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 the 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 every thing the 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 , fluctuating mind and 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,  untruths  can be accepted as  truth . A clever arrangement on all levels is occurring with degrees of the mixes of freedoms,  entanglements, and liberation 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 , one 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 all propaganda of the highest order that carries no evidence whatsoever.  All evidence , in sciences,  points to dualism , and intelligent arrangement of perfect math symmetry and design.  When a consciousness 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 1111even 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 .
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Victim consciousness , where karma ends and injustices begin

No victim consciousness in Krishna consciousness says the unthinking..

That’s OK but , lets get things in perspective .When duties are carried out properly by persons who have the particular qualifications or skill sets for designated tasks , and still suffering comes upon us , then we can think there are times suffering is unavoidable and karma  most definitely works like that . There are at times some circumstances that come about where injustices are justice, by karmic synchronicities , we live in a responsive universe , and it will and does respond . However,  Vedic culture works on the principle of Varna Ashram . This implies the right person for the right job , and carried out correctly according to set standards that are ultimately legitimated by the Vedas and supervised by the  Vedic intelligentsia  who bring governance, compliance and justice to all proceedings.
Thus .
One who does wrong and suffers wrong is wrong .
When Lord Bramha went to see Maha Visnu with his concerns of the” goings on ” on the earth planet  that was being  overburdened with militarism.
Krishna did not say
” Why are you bothering me? This is everyone’s karma , there are no unnecessary sufferings. “
Rather, he came to establish justice and reestablish good leadership and reestablish principles of religion in all senses , by doing so, the innocent are protected . In one sense, as Prabhupada says ,  no one is innocent in the material world….but that’s no licence for inflicting suffering or poor leadership or arranging businessmen to take control of the world.  Democracies have boiled down to fools voting in fools and fools appointing other fools to do jobs they haven’t the psychological mindsets for .

Much more on this important point later .
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You cannot change your sex , some say , you are what you are …

This calculation is based on scientific materialism and not dualism.
If we understand the transmigration of consciousness from one body to another , indeed one may be stationed inside a body of a particular sex for reasons of karmic synchronicities, but nevertheless the predominant inside subtle body could be still  strongly associating with a previous body that was of the opposite sex than one finds oneself in , in a new life .
So , those who understand dualism can understand this could be a possibility in some cases , but this should not  be an excuse for sentimentalist to take their uncontrolled whimsical minds anywhere that might please them , which is fashionable in a  world of libertines.”If it feels good, do it ” they say , that is not human culture.
Taking the matter even . further your dog who sits with you daily in your house , or your pet parrot or the fish in your tropical fish tank could all be in the same boat , staring out at the world with an inner body , the subtle body , with continued feelings from their last incarnated visit…Look out!  your enemies from your previous visits of bodily life can end up where you don’t want them to be , within your family….says the Vedas .

Richard Feynman said religion is a culture of faith
And science is a culture of doubt.

Not really , religion means first suspicion, then doubt , then little faith due to experience, then an increasing attraction for something sublime, which is made possible with a scientific and theological and philosophical education along with the use of objective sciences that assist and reconfirm logic and rationale. This will be happening in every way conceivable .  Faith carries one a long way , thus, Divinity, who has always been on veiw in one way or another, becomes known  for sure and realised .The illusory energies of bodily consciousness subside, and Suddha Satva energies replace them . Knowledge in pure goodness that’s realised knowledge.

Subjective sciences that are solely based on interpretations and speculations of an objectively seen phenomenon should be doubted for sure , better go with objectives .
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Alas for those who spend their days
In festive mirth and joy.
The dazzling, deadly, liquid forms
Their hearts fore’er employ.

(2)
The shining bottles charm their eyes
And draw their heart’s embrace;
The slaves of wine can never rise
From what we call disgrace.

(3)
Was man intended to be
A brute in work and heart?
Should man, the Lord of all around,
From common sense depart?

(4)
Man’s glory is in common sense
Dictating us the grace,
That man is made to live and love
The beauteous Heaven’s embrace.

(5)
The flesh is not our own alas;
The mortal frame a chain;
The soul confined for former wrongs
Should try to rise again.

(6)
Why then this childish play in that
Which cannot be our own;
Which falls within a hundred years
As if a rose ablown.

(7)
Our life is but a rosy hue
To go ere long for naught;
The soul alone would last fore’er
With good or evil fraught.

(8)
How deep the thought of times to be!
How grave the aspect looks!
And wrapt in awe become, O, we,
When reading Nature’s books.

(9)
Man’s life to him a problem dark –
A screen both left and right;
No soul hath come to tell us what
Exists beyond our sight.

(10)
But then a voice, how deep and soft;
Within ourselves is left;
Man! Man! Thou art immortal soul!
Thee Death can never melt.

(11)
For Thee Thy Sire on High has kept
A store of bliss above,
To end of time, thou art Oh! His –
Who wants but purest love.

(12)
O Love! Thy power and spell benign
Now melt my soul to God;
How can my earthly words describe
That feeling soft and broad.

(13)
Enjoyment, sorrow – what but lots
To which the flesh is heir?
The soul that sleeps alone concludes
In them it hath a share.

(14)
And then, my friends, no more enjoy
Nor weep for all below;
The women, wine, and flesh of beasts
No love on thee bestow.

(15)
But thine to love thy brother man
And give thyself to God,
And God doth know your wages fair –
This fact is true and broad.

(16)
Forget the past that sleeps and ne’er
The future dream at all
But act in times that are with thee
And progress thee shall call.

(17)
But tell me not in reasoning cold,
The soul is made alone
By earth’s mechanic lifeless rules
And to destruction prone.

(18)
My God who gave us life and all
Alone the soul can kill
Or give it all the joys above
His promise to fulfill.

(19)
So push thy onward march, O soul,
Against an evil deed
That stands with soldiers Hate and Lust –
A hero be indeed.

(20)
Maintain thy post in spirit world
As firmly as you can
Let never matter push thee down –
O stand heroic man.

(21)
O Sharagrahi Vaisnava soul
Thou art an angel fair;
Lead, lead me on to Vrndaban
And spirit’s power declare.

(22)
There rests my soul from matter free
Upon my Lover’s arms
Eternal peace and spirits love
Are all my chanting charms.