Different strokes for different folks .
The Vedas is clear..

But they may not always lead to the same destination.

The path of Karma yoga,  jnana yoga , niskarma yoga , astanga yoga, and ultimately Bhakti yoga , which incorporates all of  them .
They are progressive paths that can lead to an ultimate path of pure devotion and love of God
Or one can by the special benediction of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately take to the topmost path even without prior qualifications.
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami says this of the path of jnana yoga…

Indian reporter: We all have at certain moments of devotion some sort of feelings when we feel we are very much near the God. But that concrete reality, to attain that, the only way is jñāna, upāsanā?
Prabhupāda: Yes, this is jñāna. But the jñāna must be received through the right source. Jñāna is not speculation. The modern rascals, they create jñāna by speculation. That is not jñāna. That is ajñāna. The same example = If you don’t receive jñāna from your mother, there is no jñāna of father. If you millions of years go on speculating who is your father, he’ll never be revealed. That is not jñāna. That is ajñāna. So these rascals, they are creating jñāna. That is not jñāna. Jñāna means you should receive jñāna through the right source.
Anyway, they are also mahātmās because they are trying for transcendental realisation. So, their method is jñāna-yajñena. Jñāna-yajñena means they are trying to understand the Supreme Absolute Truth by philosophical speculation, jñāna-yoga.
Just in the fourth chapter we have learned it that there are four kinds of persons who begin devotional service. Catur-vidhā bhajante māṁ, sukṛtino ‘rjuna [Bg 7.16].
[O best among the Bhāratas [Arjuna], four kinds of pious men render devotional service unto Me—the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute.]
There are four kinds of persons who have got some background of pious life. They only—not others. Those who are miscreants they cannot approach God.
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In the Christian calendar today, it’s the day we remember the sacrifice of Jesus,  he was the boldest of preachers, and the established priests of the time did not like being questioned or challenged by him .

This problem of establishment becoming overly established but without the requisite qualities has been a problem for many religious groups.

The Jewish order at the time did the most heinous of deeds by effectively sending him to a crucifixion , the crooked and attached so called priestly order gave false declarations and accusations to the Roman governor , who under pressure from the preists gave the crucifixion order .

Jesus set the example of how the true Christian uses his body mind and soul and dedicates it solely to God’s services and also to always  speak  and act in truth and to help enlighten everyone .

Although the Christian interpretation by some is that he died for our sins , in reality he died because he was betrayed ,  but , ultimately God works in mysterious ways , by being betrayed the preists were trying to silence truth , but it had the opposite effect , his mission spread all over the world.

True Christians  do not expect Jesus to pay for their sinful life , rather, they stop sinning and intuitively understand the reality of the words ” died for our  sins  ” to mean he dedicated his life to show us how to stop sinning and how to  live a God centred life as the commandments and Jesus made  clear .

Far from the Darwinion contrivance of soup , microbes, and their further random mutations resulting in Einstein , we have no objective evidence of that . Mutational math doesn’t work , a  random effect on information never adds anything  positive but rather degrades it . If you left your writing on your computer half finished,  any two year old playing with the computer keys would not by chance finish your essay even in billions of years.

Bottom line and objective science indicate your body is engineered, and the Vedas say it’s naturally selected because of karmic synchronicities , i.e., your previous interactions within matter are logged and an automated system brings you the next destination,  not by chance but by design. The conscious observer effect remains a puzzle in Quantum physics , but it parallels a responsive universe model that the Vedas describe.

Chapter 9:  Bhagavad Gita. The Most Confidential Knowledge

TEXT 10

mayadhyaksena prakrtih
suyate sa-caracaram
hetunanena kaunteya
jagad viparivartate
SYNONYMS

maya—by Me; adhyaksena—by superintendence; prakrtih—material nature; suyate—manifest; sa—with; caracaram—moving and nonmoving; hetuna—for this reason; anena—this; kaunteya—O son of Kunti; jagat—the cosmic manifestation; viparivartate—is working.

TRANSLATION

This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kunti, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.

There is an unseen but seen engineer at work , Wherever you see obvious smoke, you know there is or has been fire . Wherever you see coded information, you know there is a code maker .

Scientific studies must always be carried out using logic and not with  any attachments to preconceived ideas , along with a Darwinion fixation  seen to be ever increasingly illogical.

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The scientific community, for reasons best left to them to explain ,  originally assumed that all parts of the universe are subject to the same physical laws, including time . They proposed the same chance  evolutionary laws meant life could evolve in similar ways in  other planets of the  universe in pretty much identical ways.

Recently, scientists have begun to think differently.  Certainly the Vedas have a lot to say on universal affairs and perhaps the Harvard Prof Lisa Randall is more closely aligned to the Vedas with her “Branes” as in membrane theory , which features different laws and also planes not visible to certain types of senses, ethereal planes of existence and finer qualities of  existence is the Vedic science.

After all we cannot hear the high pitch dog whistle or the low sounds of the Blue whale , senses differ , and the Vedas corroborate that , and take that thinking much further . A multidimensional universe where laws and time operate according to design and which are  facilitating certain conscious brings who are highly elevated in many ways with lifestyles to suit. We should remember the inexplicable varieties of life on the physical plane , and also remember the inexplicable varieties of minds and intellects , and we should never limit consciousness or the planes of existence it can reside in .

Their latest speculations are as follows of the physicists.

“While the idea of universal, unchanging physical laws is a cornerstone of modern physics, there is growing evidence and theoretical speculation suggesting that the same laws might not apply everywhere in the universe, and that some fundamental constants, like the fine-structure constant, might vary. However, it’s crucial to distinguish between the fundamental laws of physics and the way they manifest or appear in different regions of the universe. “

Dr Richard Thompson, PHd, has written on Vedic cosmology , and the 3rd and 5th Canto of the Bhagavatam reveal the varigatedness multidimensional universe where time and physics operates entirely differently.

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Difference between material and spiritual pleasure  : What is spiritual pleasure?

The Vedas have a lot to say on this topic  , material pleasure is pleasure utalising bodily sences and  the mental pleasures of contemplations , i.e. acceptance or rejection  within the mind of future sensual experiences. The intellectual pleasure  is also of  many forms, including a  philosophical speculative process that also brings a degree of pleasure , the craving for knowledge, and the pride of being  right about everything .  Intelligence can also be creative in many ways and can express ideas or philosophy . It’s always rewarding to get other people to have deeper and new insights. A sense of control or understanding can be  broadly described as material pleasure. Such expressions within the material world  have a beginning, a middle, and an end , although deeper learning and impressions are carried to our next life, the Vedas indicate.

Spiritual pleasure  however is based on a state of deeper consciousness , the direct consciousness of the doul , its an uncovering process , pure knowledge and natural bliss are inherently the constitution of life in real terms. That is a state beyond the sensual , mental, and intellectual platforms. These are described in  spiritual categories as the pleasure of Brahman consciousness , the pleasure of Paramātma consciousness, and the pleasure of Bhagavan consciousness .

Each of the above categories need a thorough explanation but in brief , we can say understanding and experience of God’s impersonal spiritual energies , or His localised energies or His personal form the cause of all causes and the energetic source of all spiritual realms and energies.

In the Vedas the living beings are described as pleasure seeking , this is so because they originate from God who is ever expanding in His pleasure and is the master at creating it and enjoying.

God was one , it is said , He became two known as Radha Krishna , and from them both other unlimited expansions are manifest .

Srimati Radharani is the personification of Krishna’s pleasure seeking potency , and this  Supreme Goddess of Fortune  Radharani is the most expert in all the known and unknown arts . The 64 spiritual excellences are  spontaneously exuding   from Her and Her associates , unlimited and ever new playfulness and pleasures , enjoyed with spiritual senses in a spiritual forms .  Krishna is forever attracted to these spiritually exquisite trancendental exhibitions of pleasures that create direct euphoric emotional experiences. The spiritual senses and emotions are non different to the soul , everything is absolute. Radharani is  equally forever attracted to the super excellence of Krishna’s form qualities and pastimes. Consciousness has never had a beginning, a middle or an end , so Krishna consciousness is a realm without atoms elements compounds and ethereal minds and thus pleasure increasingly occurs with no end in site .

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AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada commented..

“So if we read the Vedic literature, and you get full knowledge, and the essence of Vedic literature is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. And the Bhagavad-gītā is the preliminary study of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, A-B-C-D. This Bhagavad-gītā is the A-B-C-D of knowledge. This is entrance examination, matriculation examination, school-leaving examination. And Śrīmad-Bhāgavata is graduate. When you become graduate in spiritual knowledge, then you can understand Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. And when you have passed your Bachelor degree, when you are postgraduate, that study is Śrī-Caitanya-caritāmṛta.”

In a further conversation he makes the point who the Bhagavatam is for , it’s for those who have given up envy of God..

Prof. Hopkins: I’m not thinking so much of the specific cantos as the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as a whole. Is that, for you, as you see it, more important than Bhagavad-gītā?

Prabhupāda: No, Bhagavad-gītāis the preliminary study of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Prof. Hopkins: So you would see the two related to each other.

Prabhupāda: Yes. If one can understand Bhagavad-gītā, then he becomes a bona fide student of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Prof. Hopkins: Oh.

Prabhupāda: Because in the… You have read Bhagavad-gītā?

Prof. Hopkins: Oh, yes. I have.

Prabhupāda: So Bhagavad-gītā,last instruction is, sarva dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66] = “You give up all kinds of occupation and just surrender unto Me.” If one can take it very seriously, understand, then he can enter into the study of Bhāgavatam. The Bhāgavatambegins from the point where Kṛṣṇa left Bhagavad-gītā. So He advised that “You surrender to Me,” and Bhāgavata begins, satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi [SB 1.1.1] = “I am worshiping the Supreme Truth.” And next verse is, dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo ‘tra [SB 1.1.2] = “All cheating type of religious system is rejected.” So this is rather revolting. Kṛṣṇa says, sarva dharmān parityajya [Bg. 18.66] = “Give up all kinds of religious system, just surrender to Me.” And from that point Bhāgavata begins, “All cheating type of religious system is rejected.”

It is meant for the paramahaṁsa. Paramo nirmatsarāṇāṁ. Those who are envious, for them is not Bhāgavata. So any materialistic person, he is envious. So it is not meant for the materialistic person. Those who are spiritually advanced, one who has understood that “I am not this body, I am spirit soul. My direct connection is with God, therefore my only business is to serve God,” one who has come to this conclusion, he is called paramahaṁsa. Haṁsa means swan. A swan, it has got a quality that if you give the swan to drink milk mixed with water, she will drink the milk and reject the water. She has got the capacity. [chuckles] So paramahaṁsa means one who has taken the essence of the existence, Absolute Truth, he is called paramahaṁsa.

In the Caitanya Caritamrita in his conversations with Ramananda Raya Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu takes us through all the paths and brings us to its ultimate conclusion.

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On any production line in factories up and down the country, one can witness computerised  machines or robotics  fed specific information  or codes that are  uploaded and functioning  in programmed ways . You can also witness various selection mechanisms built into the programming  for  many adapted purposes. For instance, the size of a particular drilled part may have to be changed , or  any part of a moulding or shell can be  slightly modified for set  particular purposes . Considerable and almost unlimited varigatedness of a  manufacturing  process follows very  similar methods at its basics  , yet with  adjustments to programming  controlled by the information fed into the production process brings the many  different results . It might be  an adaption or even a totally different looking manufactured item made .

The speculative Darwinians are so caught up in false logic and arguments that they fail to understand the simplicity of same engineer different engineering characteristics.

Look at the codes of the genome ACTG.with it’s endless combinations , take a 21 roller bike chain , could you unlock it by chance . HOW many different combinations might there be ?

So each creature and bodies have various amounts of sugars , nucleotide, amino acids, and lipids , all arrangements by DNA  coding with the RNA messengers making the arrangements.

See this description.

“Different creatures can have varying levels of sugars, nucleotides, amino acids, and lipids in their cells and tissues. These biomolecules are essential for life, but their proportions and types can differ significantly between species, even among those that are closely related.

Several factors contribute to these differences:

1. Diet and nutrition: The availability and types of nutrients in an organism’s diet can influence the levels and types of biomolecules present in its cells. adaptations: Different species  thrive in various environments, leading to variations in their metabolic pathways, energy storage, and biomolecule composition.
2. Cellular structure and function: The specific functions and structures of cells, tissues, and organs can require unique combinations and concentrations of biomolecules.
3. Developmental stages: The composition of biomolecules can change during an organism’s development, growth, and aging.

Some examples of differences in biomolecule composition include:

• Sugar metabolism: Some organisms, like plants, store energy in the form of starch, while others, like animals, use glycogen.
• Amino acid composition: Different species have varying requirements for essential amino acids, which are necessary for protein synthesis.
• Lipid composition: The types and proportions of lipids in cell membranes can vary significantly between species, influencing membrane structure and function.
• Nucleotide composition: The genetic material (DNA and RNA) of different species can have distinct nucleotide compositions, reflecting their unique evolutionary histories.

These differences are a reflection of the incredible diversity of life on Earth “

What is the difficulty in understanding engineer?

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I would say the works of Rupa and Ragganatha are something like the puranas and itihasa.
In Kali yuga, it’s very difficult to source the meaning of the Vedas. Thus, the puranas and itihasa are more easily understood . These are the  trancendental historical accounts of spiritual activities carried out by Krishna or His incarnations and expansions . Did Krishna not come to display lilas for the purpose of attracting His devotees and didn’t Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu , particularly in Kali yuga where the Vedas is little understood request and empower Rupa Ragganatha and the other Goswami’s to write of these both in philosophical terms as well as to record those trancendental events . Such trancendence is deeply within the  hearts of the Goswami’s ,  their deep meditations  , thus their writings bring. the very pinnacle of the truths of Vedas and the ultimate goal of how to attain an attraction for and perfect our love of God .

Both Krishna in Vrndavana in Mathura and Dwarka are described and many many trancendental lessons can be learned from them via Krishna’s pure devotees who have recorded them so both Sastra sanga and Sadhu sanga are important to Gaudia Vaisnava devotees

Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu lila is also described by them ,  Gaura lila Krishna Lila no difference one in union one in separation . Mahāprabhu clearly shows the strict life of a renounciant , and by that process, only one can access the truths of the Vedas . One who engages in material sense gratification outside of Vedic principles can not access the secret of all secrets.
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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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