In the spiritual realms, romanticism and conjugal affairs are also enjoyed ,  but these eternally situated pastimes  are the polar opposite of the self centred lust of the  gross affairs of the uncultured materialist , who have no thoughts beyond the temporary fleeting pleasure of conditioned senses . One might say there are similarities to the street dogs in one respect , here today gone tomorrow.

Rather,  in trancendence affairs with  eternal   attraction and commitment accompanied by ever new and increasing excitement . The direct plane of the soul .

The spiritual relationships are eternally situated, and ever new enthusiasm is forever experienced with spiritual senses and emotions that are directly connected to the soul.

In the spiritual realms, the body and the soul are the same , made of pure consciousness energies. There are no atoms elements or compounds that are subjected to dwindling and death . Rather , the increasing euphoric bliss and attractions  to one another have no  beginning and no end with no selfishness in sight .

The portions of the Vedas called the Smriti, particularly of the followers of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu give many descriptions of such loving affairs in all their  formats , either Svakiya or Parakiya . Such is the glory of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu , and although fools rush in where angels dare to tread , Srila Rupa Goswami one of the main authors of the Smriti,  says one should develop by the right methods and association greed to understand and enter into these realms of Vrndavana.

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The human form of life, according to the Vedas, is to learn to bring happiness and to  help each other in numerous ways a supportive community . This  type of consciousness is the consciousness of the highest of classes , the true intelligensia who should lead and direct our administrations for  such pure person’s are always bathed in Sabdha Brahman , the knowledge of the Vedas , Veda mean knowlege .
Such purity emanates from their speeches and actions .
Humanity, in the cause of time, has lost its way. The good has been superceded by the bad and the ugly.
Still , inevitably, good sense prevails, and the nature of the crooked bad and ugly becomes obvious , and overwhelming they will be rejected.

It is the responsive Divinity who  reestablishes broad religious principles, and He does so again and again in many many ways.
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In Vedic epistemology,  looking at the aquasition of knowledge, it is said … previous knowledge is annulled by contrary later knowledge rather than  previous knowledge annuling later knowledge..Knowledge of an object to be silver comes first , later knowledge cancels that knowledge having been tested its found not to be silver .
This is most definitely the case when we consider the Darwinians who thought they had presented factual objective science that they were masquerading as factual , but later observations by the Bhaktivedanta Institute and especially the Discovery institute has shown that the Darwinians calculations are highly speculative and based on guessing, their inferior calculations have been replaced by factual objective science, which is corroborated in the Vedas .
Nothing less than intelligent design is witnessed, and every aspect of objective science points to that .

The Vedas mean knowledge , it is complete and absolute at all times in all places at all times . When one looks carefully and intelligently, everything for mankind is contained within it . Access , insight, and understanding are granted to those who are honest , truly inquisitive, and who are truly humble as well as respectful of all living beings.

Thus, the eternal Vedas enter into the hearts of the truthful and pure .

We shall elaborate further on these points shortly
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Don’t kill the messenger or the message.

“The statement is partially accurate. While Jewish leaders, particularly the Sanhedrin, were instrumental in Jesus’ arrest and trial, they did not have the authority to order his execution. Crucifixion was a Roman method of punishment, and Jesus was ultimately sentenced and crucified by the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, at the behest of the Jewish leaders.
Here’s a more detailed explanation:
The Jewish Leaders’ Role:
Challenge to Authority:
Jesus challenged the religious leaders’ authority by criticizing their hypocrisy and interpretations of the law.
Sabbath Observance:
Jesus healed people on the Sabbath, which the Jewish leaders considered a violation of their laws.
Claims of Messiahship:
Jesus’ claim to be the Messiah, the Son of God, was seen as a threat by the Jewish leaders who saw themselves as the true representatives of God.
Threat to their Religious System:
Jesus’ teachings and actions were seen as undermining the existing religious order.
Blasphemy Charge:
The Jewish leaders charged Jesus with blasphemy (claiming to be God’s Son) before the Sanhedrin, but the Sanhedrin did not have the power to impose the death penalty.
Pressure on Pilate:
The Jewish leaders pressured Pilate to condemn Jesus by falsely accusing him of sedition (claiming to be the King of the Jews), and shouting “Crucify him!”. “

The smarta Brahminical classes of India also currupted truth, and examples of established authorities in other cultures are to be found .
Traditions are important, but the following of  traditions and scripture without perverse interpretation is crucial.
The checks and balance of Guru Sadhu Sastra is the Vediic way .
But in time, God Himself has to come to put things straight. Again and again, He does this throughout the long history of this universe , which is currently approximately halfway through a 311 trillion year cycle
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Super subjective realm.

When Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu took sannyasa Ashram He immediately desired to go to Vrndavana, the most Holy place in where the  Spirtual world has decended and where spontaneous love for Krishna is forever and increasingly experienced.

Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu is setting the perfect example for us all , but on the other hand, as it has been described by our Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas  , Vrndavana can be , and is  refered to as  a state of mind . Wherever Mahāprabhu was that was Vrndavana, and the same applies for His pure devotees.

Once, when  Lord Siva appeared to disrespect his father in law Daksya ,  Lord Siva’s wife asked him why he had done so . Lord Siva replied that it was not deliberately done but that he had not stood up to show respect to Daksya because Lord Siva said , “I am always absorbed in thoughts of Krishna ,” . This state of mind is  called Suddha Satva  consciousness , pure trancendental goodness on a super subjective spiritual plane . It can be achieved by hearing pure sound called Sabdha Brahman coming from pure devotees .

In the Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna speaks of different ways of acquiring knowledge  , either from one’s own limited sences , including the mind and intelligence , which is limited,  or acceptance of others knowledge and experience ,which can also be limited . Krishna also speaks of knowledge of an impersonal spiritual light, a kind of relief and release from all troubles . Srila Jiva Goswami compares that  kind of impersonal liberation to a satisfying deep sleep.

But the highest goals of spiritual realms decend by grace when one practices devotion to God in the association of  His pure representatives and crucially following their teachings . That brings about the   Suddha Satva state , the consciousness that Mahaprabhu and Lord Siva demonstrated. It decends by grace and is received from a perfect source , ie.  someone who is self realised in knowledge of God and who understands applications of the Vedas . Such a person has heard pure sound , accepted pure sound, and vibrates pure sound .

We should also note from Krishna’s pure spiritual subjective thinking  the whole material universe is born , thus, as some physicists understand, there is a curious connection between our willpower and the energies that it can attract.

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It behoves everyone to think about the cause of all causes , Richard Feynman says it fun to think of the causes of a cause . One should do so by applying rationale and logic as much as possible ,but remember our senses and minds and intellects have limitations . Nevertheless, we can use them in sensible and objective ways .
For instance in the distance you see smoke in a mountain , one cannot necessarily conclude there is fire , because the fire may have been extinguished by water just recently , or it might be vapour from a mountain cave .
How will you know ? By hearing from a credible source who has insight and knowledge and has seen if there is fire still burning.

Thus, pure sound will indicate truth , more so than impressions of the sences,  or previous experiences we have had or even previous ancestors who have recorded and realised by experiences , although some truths can be gathered in those ways , but not all truth .

The Vedas say seek Sabdha Brahman pure sounds coming from pure persons who have by  discerning and understanding the Vedas and who live by the Vedas can vibrate and realise truth. Once one thing is known, everything is known,  which applies to realising Divinity.
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This question can be asked of everyone and actually as well , all living beings .

The fact is that everyone has a relationship with God and relates to Him in one form or another . Even if that means hating on Him or denial of His existence .

Like the artistic colours  pure white and pure black when mixed create many shades of grey , similarly when meeting and greeting people we can ask , what is your Tattva ? What is your rasa ? Everyone is one shade of grey , pure white or pure black is very, very rare .

The government has a relationship with you , you must comply with its rules and it sets compliance and governing conditions for members of the state. Some citizens are in prison  some work the government systems to their advantage.

Throughout the fourteen planetary systems within our universe, 8,400,000 species of life , 400,000 of which are human like, are working God’s systems.

As you sow, so shall you reap , or in Vedic circles, karmic synchronicities have been imposed.

Krishna, in His Bhagavad Gita, says, Why not give up this self-indulgence? and simply come and love Me and My family , I will wipe out all your previous obligations of Karma , then you can arrive and relate in My abodes , once have arrived you will never return to birth , death , old age or disease,  no more miserable conditions of  the body , mind or misery other beings inflict due to karma.

The ultimate Tattva or truth the Vedas says  is to know and love God . What is the difficulty ? We are trying to know so many things and love so many people. The disappointments of failure in the depths of love or the rewards in pure knowledge hound the minds of everyone.

Krishna says, “Give up minor affairs ”  and “shoot for the Rhino. ” … of course, not literally.

The Bhagavad Gita makes all these  points clear, and the Srimad Bhagavatam greatly elaborates on them

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Truth or opinion?

How do you know and identify absolute truth

What is absolute truth ?

An absolute truth remains a  truth at all times. It relates to all things , in all places and to all conscious beings at all times , and in every circumstance . It also  interelates with countless and unlimited relative truths . Absolute truth can never  change. Its position is eternally  a fact .

Of course in todays social media society , it becomes more and more difficult to find any objective truths , and everyone is being  bombarded with subjective and  relative opinions , often presented as being objective facts to the  various gullible members of the  public , or such supposed truths are broadcast by various media webb sites .

The BBC are also dishonest in this regard , and when John Simpson , their foreign affairs editor, proudly says the BBC never spin anything , or they promote their TV broadcasting as Varified live , that very statement is spin .  What’s good for the goose? May not be so good for the gander .

Truth is infinite and unlimited, and the limited may know something of the unlimited by the unlimited mercy of the unlimited on the limited , thus, the absolute truth can be accessible to any one of its unlimited portions .

Krishna says if you want to know the truth , one must  approach a bone fide spiritual master , who has insight into absolute truths .  The Vedic cultures have always  recognised  the trancendental spiritual teachers , whose lives are dedicated to Divinity and the absolute truth. They are those persons who are  able to speak purely and directly from the Scripture but who have  realized knowledge by the grace of the absolute , its they who can give us access and  insights to various aspects  of the absolute and without  duplicity based on relative selfish interests .

Political truths and philosophical  variable truths may be another matter and can  be regarded as relative truths . If they are actually truths and expounded by those who live in the mode of goodness and are  truthfulness,  they will ring true to the truthful.

Those who want to be cheated will always find cheaters .

A .C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada would say this world is for the cheaters and the cheated .

Ultimately, if one takes shelter of absolute truth, one is going to instinctively know when truth is before us  . Divinity within the heart directly inspires the truthful,  and the truth can always be corroborated by other saints as well as the theological texts passed down from any of the four sampradayas and their disciplic successions .

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Tattva , Rasa ,  means knowledge and  love . Are our  relationships in decline, or are they  relationships in  positive developments ? There is a true science of relationships, and we can  try to measure up to examine the criteria needed to understand how and if  we are progressing with our material and, ultimately, spiritual lives . In one sense, love and knowledge can’t be measured, but in another formal sense, it can .

Srila Rupa Goswami, under the tutelage of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has very nicely defined this science of relationships in his writings .

Srila Ramananda Raya had taken these trancendental concepts of relationships to the highest of high in his conversations with Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu ,  and AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has indeed bestowed upon humanity the greatest of benedictions by translating these teachings and brought them into all the world languages with the help of his students.

Many other renowned Vaisnava scholars are also bringing this treasure of relationships to the attention of the world.

Love ultimately is an action word. What can I do for you in love? How can I please you , and it culminates in the highest of circles with a competition of  love between living beings.

Such is the supremely pure and selfless nature of  Sri Sri Radha Krishna , who are forever astounded by the quality of love and attraction that each give each other , friends and maidservants  of Radha Krishna are relishing this competition of love just as much in their own ways .

This paints a picture of the spiritual worlds , a reflection of these dealings can be found in this world at times ,  however mostly we see the stark contrast and complete opposite of it , we see  lust , anger , greed envy and wicked violence towards each other . We are all most unfortunate,  but with the good fortune of having access to freedoms and expressions of progressive love , when we associate with God’s pure representatives, everything is clear .

We should all find the origins of love  and be developing a service and love for  Radha Krishna and not be in the  relationships   of decline or fast deterioration that takes us to the animal kingdom.

When it comes to understanding spiritual love or Rasa , it is always built on the foundations of Tattva or knowledge of Divinity in details , without which devotional life crumbles.

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Aprarabdha , recent karma and prarabdha karma , those that are  connected to deeper states of consciousness are all  removed ..by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s movement.

The very deepest  states of a mind and its working  stem from deep impressions and attitudes   from long, long ago , from previous lives, and they are not easily given up , a material mind can be a minefield of unpredictability.  Recently accumulated impressions and actions called  aprarabdha karma fluctuate  more regularly in the conditioned  consciousness but are  also intertwined with deeper  long-lasting impressions caused by events  good or bad  in many  earlier previous lives  .

These deeper states of the mind are called  Prarabdha karmas . As before said they are either  connected to some  previous spiritual searchings  or a  deeper cultural searchings or they can   be troublesome reactions and attachments connected to self-centred ignorance that we previously developed ,  i.e.,  previous negativity we have inflicted on others .

The Gaudia Vaisnava movement under the direction of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His leading  followers Srila Rupa Goswami and Srila Ragganatha das Goswami have uniquely given  remedies to remove both types of Karma in all its  subtle makeup that inevitably would lead to either gross attachments to the material world or the  striving for impersonal liberation or mystic powers. Mahaprabhu has immediately granted the  Suddha Satva pure Krishna consciousness state that cleanses the heart of all the dust and dirt of countless lives .Thus, one can become quickly free from all types of  karma as well as all  types of speculations or  desire for mystic powers , caused by previous deep-seated independence from God .

By engaging positively in Bhakti Yoga everything of the aprarabdha karma is quickly removed , those  recently produced karmic synchronicities.  And by engaging in  much deeper meditation and Bhajan ,  Chanting the Holy names and crucially studying and reading the books of the Rasika acaryas , along with their descriptions of Radha Krishna Nitya Lila , that throughly removes  all the much deeper previous  karmic impressions .

The regular Hindu followers do not understand these prarabdha and aprarabdha  aspects of karmic reactions that Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu movement is eradicating . This  is the full  glory of Mahaprabhu’s teachings and the unique benediction offered . The potency and magnanimity  of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is  His special mercy , which is causeless and is offered to one and all . Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains very extensively in his books all these points.

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