The Srimad Bhagavatam is considered Sruti .
“The Bhagavatam is considered apauruseya (not created by a mortal human) and is the direct manifestation of the Lord’s internal potency.”
The fact that the Bhagavatam is the “natural commentary ” on the Vedanta sutra indicates its origins are divine, the Vedas originates from the breathing of Visnu..
The Bhagavatam also utilises the Itihasas such as the Mahabharata to bring attention to and clarity to its purpose so it can be easily understood to common men .
The Srimad Bhagavatam appears and dissappear in the course of history , but like the sun is always present but appears to appear and dissappear. The Srimad Bhagavatam is according to Srila BR Sridhar Swami , he indicates , that the Bhagavatam is not subject to the particular or defined opinions of the Vedas or Upanishads which can be relative truths according to individual searchers of truth  or particular worshipers , but rather the Srimad Bhagavatam is the supreme, ultimate conclusion of them.

Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu taught the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana about the absolute position of the Srimad Bhagavatam and recommended its thorough study and understanding . The Srimad Bhagavatam culminates  in one sense to the shining face of Lord Krishna along with His supremely ecstatic pastimes with Srimati Radharani in Vrndavana . Krishna exhibited his opulences in perfect , more perfect, and most perfect ways , Vrndavana lila  with Srimati Radharani exhibited his most perfect sweetness .

Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu instructed the Goswami’s to elaborate on the Srimad Bhagavatam teachings and the trancendental pastimes within Sri Vrndavana Dharma,  and thus, they have given to mankind the most perfect of all Smriti , Lord Krishna in Vrndavana can be only understood through these six Goswami’s and ultimately through the mercy or Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu.
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To the atheistic or doubting Thomas .

Einstein was a man of logic ..and his God ….was the impersonal energies functioning extremely effectively and efficiently….thus Sir Fred Hoyle, another logical thinker and scientist , thought someone has clearly monkeyed with the universe.
Thus, the Vedas indicates the impersonal aspect of Divinity, the localised aspect of Divinity, and a very personal form of Divinity , each of which are  inconceivably and simultaneously one and different.
To explain consciousness and the perfect math and symmetry that is objectively and obviously witnessed , one logically must be open to “an order that is ordered “…..Nyaya logic indicates where there is smoke you can assume fire….any one who disagrees has lost his rationale.

The multidimensional universe spoken about by Lisa Randall PhD. of Harvard indicates dimensions and sensual limitations. Can you see what the cat sees at night .
Can you hear the low pitch of the whale in the deep oceans.
Not only can you not give any explanation to the origins of information, but you do not understand the senses of an insect or animal right before you .
So the Darwinians limit themselves following those who present subjective observations and call them objective fact based science , by writing up papers .. a peer review of another speculation in reality is one speculation being praised and confirmed as a good speculation.
Objective sciences tell us something of all affairs in the universe , those who choose to ignore objective sciences subjectively fool themselves

Can the frog born in his well understand the total oceans by a  comparison to his well ?

Macro evolution?

In Darwinian books only ….. and in a very rare case of a fish changing form quite drastically in one particular species has been noted . However an engineer, and incidentally we are speaking of a  same engineer using similar engineering , thats how Divinity works , after all why would an engineer not  use and adapt design to suit a different need , or a type of consciousness . The consciousness is experiencing the machine , it likes to be in particular machine like bodies , and it receives machine like bodies by desire .The responsive universe is automated and awards such variations .
In the case of rare examples like the fish , the engineer who is the code maker can , due to circumstances , make adjustments , molecules don’t move independently but follow coding systems, thus objective sciences indicates something deliberately manufactured , as much as computer in a car plant factory is programmed then reprogrammed

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Waves or particles the Vedic standpoint.

“A single photon (light particle) can theoretically carry an infinite amount of information, but practically, researchers have encoded over 10 bits per photon using high-dimensional methods. One binary bit is the smallest unit of data, representing one of two distinct states—such as 0 or 1, true or false, or on or off. “

The Vedas indicates beyond light and matter is an ethereal plane , how much information and memories are stored and how reactive are they , within our minds many things are lurking that are recycled the imprints of a mind are being added to and intelligence is developing and deteriating , at death is everything deleted , the Vedas say no ….the responsive universe funnels the ethereal and it takes on the atoms , elements and compounds to make up another temporary show , the reality of the original consciousness beyond the matter and the ethereal along with the plug in universe is spoken of in Bhagavad Gita as it is Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains all. The Vedas indicates that the waves of the conditioned consciousness , (ethereal waves) one might say ,  in the form of desire , mental hankering , including lust ,anger , greed , envy  that are triggered by multiple ranges  of  intellectual stimulation and forethoughts , are ultimately facilitated by universal arrangements. One should understand karmic synchronicities are not something that appear out of nowhere,  but rather our life and alloted particles , namely the atoms that assemble bringing our elements compounds and our complete life are to a major degree predestined.  These waves of conditioned consciousness that have followed us from our previous lives and which are imposed upon the original spiritual consciousness will , via the ethereal plane , respond to the atomic realms . Our new bodies  will form , and varieties of situations take shape .We call this life . The calculations of the quantum physicists regarding waves and particles take on a whole  different meaning when the consciousness particles are entrapped and entangled within the responsive Vedic universe. Space time and conditioned consciousness interlink and react with each other .

Thus, the past , present, and future , in the form of  particals that have been ,  that are just now present and that are yet to be , all of which are triggered by ethereal waves , ie. previous waves , present waves , and  future further waves , these are what Einstein refers to as , according to the Vedas as literal “space time continuum.”
The Vedic responsive karmic universe is at work,  supreme engineering, and algorithmic processes beyond imagination and comprehension.

The implications Bhagavad Gita Krishna says ..

While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment, lust develops, and from lust, anger arises.

Yoga means …

To get beyond the brain impulses of previous karmic implications, neuroscience has detected a change to the neurons when morality and controls of minds and senses become steady . You have heard of free will , but what about free wont , this means the power to escape one’s conditioned nature .
Psychological affairs are important, but the yogic processes are to uncover what is already there . The nature of pure consciousness is inherently pure happiness, not only with oneself but with others , contemplative contentment.

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When someone is neglecting their best interests its the responsibility of someone with a better understanding of events  and who has a persons best  interests at heart to turn them around . A well wisher will stop them from a webb of further  entanglements that  push them much much further in something entirely unbeneficial and actually harmful.  In the case of a human life the Vedas gives guidance and warnings , a consciousness within the material universes is knowingly or unknowingly responding to it . A life of  incalculably complex karmic synchronicities is in operation , and those without the specific tools have no way out . What is  described as good and bad in ordinary material  life calculations are in absolute  spiritual terms  described as all bad . This is because good karma and bad karma deviate one from the best of destinations , where birth , death , old age and disease are left behind along with the influences of the ethereal modes of nature that force the conditioned souls to act practically against their wishes , the power of maya and material desire is overwhelming,  its Gods illusion,  what do you expect.
Death is much feared by everyone, and if there is God, people shake their fists in anger at Him , at having everything in their lives taken away by Him . However, someone who lives a life of harm to themselves and to others causes  greater and greater entanglements  and pain . Those who  do not  realise their full absolute potential and who fail to understand  the sciences of mind , matter, and consciousness need a reset , a reset is mercy .
Part of the reset and rectification processes which  assists in a recovery of good consciousness often means a spell within the mindset of the animal kingdoms where previous synchronicities can be played out in relative safety avoiding harm to others ..The reset of death and new life should always be seen in positive ways . God is all good and eternally has the interests of every being deep within His own  heart . With that purpose, He constantly accompanies every being within their hearts . Much greater destinations where a natural bliss and happiness with pure love are destined for all being . God or Krishna lives in realms of spiritual existence where birth , death , old age, and disease are unheard of , miseries of body , minds, and miseries inflicted by other conditioned beings are fully absent . Those that are  inflicted by the material energies and laws of physics.
Child like purity and simplicity are the quality of the soul . Living eternally for the moment , demonstrating the  increasing and ever new  enthusiasm and  bliss that is inherently stationed within the heart . The qualities of Divinity and His associates are  experienced to the full they are unlimitedly and spiritually  astounding . This is our right  and our destination. Death comes to take us a little closer in one way or another .

Thus Krishna says …

janma karma ca me divyam
evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mām eti so ’rjuna

Translation

One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.

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Society with lost leaders

The essence of Gaudia Vaisnavism in terms of spiritual and socio-political affair…..reinstate  leaders of quality

AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Arrival Address…
“At the present moment, the human society is giving stress on the mercantile class of men and worker class Actually, there is no intelligent class of men or administrative class of men. So our movement is creating some intelligent class of men. According to our Vedic knowledge, the first-class intelligent man is he who knows what is God. He’s first-class intelligent man.”…………end .

Unless this happens..
Fools will continue to vote in fools.
Society has increasingly become influenced by the lowest classes of men , who lack morals and ethics  of every kind , they have no understanding of the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings before Divinity. They are scientifically ill advised bring  infused with scientific materialism.  Darwinian hypothesis is the name of their  game , or a few have a biased opinion as to what spirituality is .Rampant materialism is the results , and a dog eats dog society. The conclusions of speculative science or  interpretated religions are not based on either objective scientific methods or bone fide theological conclusions. Everything concluded by the  crooked is crooked and is based on speculative subjectivity , best guessing, or personal gain at the cost of everyone else politically or even spiritually .The whole of the modern world is following the best guessing of proud atheistic and clueless persons as well as greed filled global conglomerates whose hoal is to monopolise and erradicate , even other countries and cultures . Sophisticated animals best describe them , animals can be violent and aggressive, and they have no feelings for others . Ask a human animal what consciousness is , that is the most important question that anyone can ask . None of our scientific or political leaders  can give an answer , yet they expect us all to follow them blindly in economic chaos and violent aggressive wars . The goals of sophisticated animals are  eating , sleeping , sex , and snatching territories or defending snatched territories. Sophisticated animals do animalism big time , global conglomerates, and world led consumerism is the evidence. Cancel culture and narratives of every kind are spilling out of TV studies and social media . Speculations and best guesses passing as knowledge in place of authentic wisdom that originates from objective sciences . Divinity and  representatives who properly understand the broad topics of theological studies based around mind , matter, and consciousness in all its states and outward appearances should be heard from . The Vedas plots a path for everyone. Whatever stage one is in materially or spiritually, there are no fanatical approaches

Interfaith.

Although the immature followers of different faiths have problems with each other ,  the most spiritually advanced of them don’t . Srila Jiva Goswami, in his Bhagavat Sandarbha, says that when one looks at a multicoloured cloth , people see different colours , and each individual may see one colour as more prominent than another individual . Similarly, theological cultures differ somewhat , but they are cut from the same cloth . In that way, people of wisdom rightly have much respect for each other and can easily share in their experiences of Divinity .
So , it’s important for faiths to be primarily judged on the most advanced followers of each one . The lesser advanced persons who see so many differences in religious theological texts in time by becoming spiritual mature will also be able to share faith with no insecurities and with realized knowledge.

When leaders fail to take seriously the honest and wise intelligentsia, then problems arise of every kind . Leaders of today ignore the intelligentsia who are scientifically able to  understand consciousness and dualism and  knowing of the equality of  all being  of their rights under God’s laws .

Reagan …trickle down economics is the example of crooked capitalism gone mad ..

Fanatics and the most greedy and exploitative extremists follow this system. It’s what unfortunately the world economics forum is based upon .
Trickle-down economics fails ..
Greed breeds more greed and more competing to be the most greedy sophisticated animal .
Thus .. for example, young people all over the world can’t buy a house right in current times . Most are owed by private landlord’s who have escalated deliberately and forever the rising  house prices . The system is based on world wide monopolies,  built into centralised conglomerates that are  contrived by greedy banks and financial markets . They see to it their government friends don’t build too many houses and that restrictions are in place for low cost social housing ….The stock , currency, and commodity markets work primarily on insider information  that can cause poverty and wealth at a micro second . Third world countries have no securities for economic developments . The commodities they sell are subjected to not free markets , but fixed markets , every third world country has outside political interferences driving conflicts within them . Precious metal and earth in a technology world are making matters worse and worse.
This trickle down is the dream of Ronald Reagan and the nightmare for everyone else .
Businessmen can never never be left to run society unless they take instructions from a genuine government who are directed by the intelligensia who have the highest characteristics and who know and feel for everyone and every creature.
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I recall when I was a congregational member in the UK ,I took a walk in the countryside with an antique dealer friend , he owned a antique shop down from my father’s television shop that I managed . As we walked in the countryside, he stooped down to a bunch of flowers and grabbed them out the ground, and with no thoughts of anything divine about them , immediately smelled them with great pleasure. Because I had become familiar with the Vedas, his actions seemed a little repulsive .  It seemed a selfish act of self-indulgence, an act of thievery , an artificial Lordship over nature . He did not recognise or show any appreciation or recognition of  how the flowers had come about in the great creation of nature. There were no thoughts of offering them back to the creator in acknowledgement of His glorious creation.  Just snatch and smell . A similar incident occurred recently when I witnessed a musician playing music enjoying his talents for his own glory and pleasure, it appeared a very self-centred consciousness , with no recognition how he had gotten such talent , but instead simply bathing in self glory. Everything is granted, and we must know it , and we must know how to use the gift of life . If human life is used as Krishna recommends in Bhagavad Gita , then the greatest of gifts are realised .The greatest gifts are to establish a loving relationship with Divinity and to escape the confinement of temporary happiness. Birth , death,  old age, and disease should be realised and rejected .

The glorious originator of all things must be recognised, and some offering of appreciation should be made . That’s how the highest cultures work , the Vedas brings us in-depth knowledge of different types of sacrifices along with their purposes. Without doing a life of sacrifice that is directed by Divinity , one misses out on a potential for  greater and greater sharing that takes one to directly associate with Krishna and His family,  lovers and friends.  Learning to do offerings  and sharing in the delights of the highest spiritual consciousness can be easily achieved when directed by the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas, particularly in current times . In spiritual sacrifices and spiritual life, everything is a sacrifice for the sake of others, with ultimetely directed to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the Supreme Goddess of fortune .  In Goloka Vrndavana , Their ecstatic bliss is relished in full ,  as every type of pure loving exchange take place among the pure devotees .The whole of the spiritual kingdoms, including nature and creatures, add to and participate in increasing the loving sacrifices.

The Vedas indicates, in material life , everything is on loan , even the material senses ,  the senses are owned by Divinity , they have been granted to every being accordingly.  However,  the original owner of the senses , Divinity,  should be  granted offerings . We can also enjoy, we enjoy our senses in their purest forms through Divinities senses , which is where our perfection is found .

The Srimad Bhagavatam and the Smritis of the Goswami’s have described the essentials in the matter of understanding love , appreciation, and where it takes one .

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Many aspects of the Vedas can be corroborated scientifically and veiwed easily as part of  observed  objective sciences . Explanations within the Vedas of many kinds of unexplained phenomena exist . Everything makes sense if one applies the Vedic teachings to one life . Including why bad things happen to good people , providing one also applies the logic of one who does wrong or suffers wrong is wrong . Fanaticism is condemned in Vedic circles. In terms of our current scientific community , supposed knowledge of a world driven in random ways as postulated in scientific materialism or Darwinian hypothesis has no basis when it comes to objectively contemplating our word . Currently political systems are inflicting unnecessary suffering on billions , the UK has had seven prime ministers in ten years and Peru ten in seven years , democracies do not represent people,  they represent business interests of a few . The obvious is  stubbornly ignored by those attached to conditioned thinking in political or scientific matters , this stems from pride and selfish interests. In the world of sciences , the  explanation of  the origins of the information in the DNA codes , and the witnessed highly organised engineering taking place along with these complex and deliberate informational exchanges , whilst every single species of life is built , needs careful considerations using both logic and rationale . The Vedas indicates that only when a consciousness particle is  injected into a womb life formations begin , life comes from life  . Its beginnings are objectively seen , the primordial soup is not , and dispite experiments within the most sophisticated laboratories . Following  the introduction of consciousness is a  highly complex process of  engineering when the two parents’ DNA mix to form a gross body . There are , however, three different suble minds brought together.  The mum, the dad, and the new recruit to the material world mix minds and intellect . Of course its a fact that molecules don’t move towards life , and the information contained within the codes logically implies creative energies . Information does not spring from nowhere ,  the information and its sources and multifarious energies are spoken of in the Vedas .

Also..

Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are recognized in scientific literature as a relatively common, albeit not fully understood, phenomenon that affects an estimated 10% to 20% of the population at least once in their lifetime. While they are often described in spiritual terms, researchers generally define them as complex dissociative or perceptual experiences rather than a physical departure from the body. 

The Vedas have the full explanation in the third Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam , and in other parts of the Vedas, one can make a study to understand mind , body and consciousness and how they interact with the help of authorities.

When we dream at night, we are speaking , hearing, and acting sensually, but we have forgotten of the other body lying in bed or our daytime relationships . This ethereal energy that entraps the minds energies and creates forms of both subtle and gross matter are given explanations with the Vedas . The causes of the transmigration of the consciousness into another body are the minds desires and how a living being uses a mind , along with a set of senses one thing leads to another , one body leads to another , the observer effects of quantum physics and the many possibilities have been revealed by Bohr and Schrödinger.

Science is seen as an authority,  you either accept someone like Richard Dawkins or Lea Cronin, or you can accept Vedic scholars . The same process of acceptance of authority of scholarship is in each culture of the sciences , either the Vedic or the Dawkins.. Why accept the guessing of Dawkins ?

But how do you know they know ?…. The Vedic authorities are based on objective sciences, and strong evidence of logic is applied that can be clearly examined and studied . Those authorities from  scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis camps  appear to all sense and purposes as highly speculative and without logic , and that’s a fact .

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When it comes to congregational chanting the lead should be reasonably proficient at keeping the kirtan moving along but the responsive chanting is of equal importance, the essence is trancendental sound , those who relish and vibrant the purest sound will purify others , it may be the leader or it could be any of the participants, Krishna is fully present whether it’s known or not , and those who chant are within the spiritual energies whether they know it or not ….
We should not necessarily overly glorify the kirtan leader and underly glorify the participants rather from the spiritual standpoint everything is glorious as the congregational glorification of Krishna and His remembrance is brought about …

According to Sri Sanatana Goswami Hari-nama sankirtana helps the sadhaka to achieve swift success in the practice of SMARANAM:

(Brihad Bhägavatämåta 2.3.153)
“As a result of Sankirtana, the joy of meditation increases, and as a result of meditation, the sweetness and the joy of sankirtana increases. In this way, the two invigorate each other, and it is experienced as if they are not two separate activities, but only one.”

Lord Bramha was originally enthused by Lord Krishna Himself with knowledge of how to create, and it was further revealed to him the trancendental position of Krishna. The importance of hearing pure sound and preparing one’s consciousness to receive it , and the spiritual realms and the revelations such sounds carry are spoken of in various ways throughout the Vedas .  Especially in the Srimad Bhagavatam and the Bhagavad Gita as well as the Caitanya Caratamrita wherein Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has brought us to the greatest realisations that trancendental sounds can carry . The six Goswami’s of Vrndavana have through their Smriti scriptures brought to this Kali yuga the windows of the spiritual kingdoms of Sri Vrndavana Dharma,  through the chanting of the Holy names such meditation and remembrances and realisations may be graced upon a humble recipient who desires to render some services in such a land .
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In analysing Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON movement, we can see many options and paths opening or open . The conversations Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu had with Ramananda Roy bring clarity to what’s going on .

Starting from the Varna Ashram duties , which are somewhat progressive , but then giving some of the results of them  to krishna , then moving forward giving up Varna Ashram pe say as an ultimate duty by analysing and understanding its credits and faults , and then  moving forward , start to do all activities and everything for Krishna’s  sake , connecting all material activities for His satisfaction , then moving forward,  acquiring knowledge with jnana and realising scientific self realisation  of the soul as consciousness seperate from the body with brahman realisations , then moving forward , hearing from a pure devotee directly , studying the Srimad Bhagavatam  , chanting the holy names  and engagement in services under the direction of the Guru and advancing  further in  knowledge  of Sadhana bhakti …..Srila Prabhupada by- passed the previous methods mentioned and immediately brought western devotees to this stage . Some  devotees lasted the course , and some fell back into previous stages,  but the  previous stages are one up from  where the Western devotees were, and there was  no loss for them at all .

Then next stage , is becoming extremely fixed up and steady in  services and learning to be an dedicated servant and from there the natural greed occures , a greed and inquisitiveness to delve deeper and deeper into the ocean of blissful spiritual life . Becoming a good steady servant is the essential element before  being able to approach the futher aspects in Mahāprabhu’s conversations , those that speak of how  being a good servant leads to friendship with Krishna , or parenthood of Krishna or intimate friends and lovers of Krishna , lovers or friends of many kinds in the spiritual realms that are culminating in the glorious position of Srimati Radharani in Goloka Vrndavana.

The writings of all the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas who have been accepted by our disciplic successions headed by Srila Rupa Goswami,  Srila Ragganatha das Goswami , Srila Jiva Goswami and Srila Sanantana Goswami , those that Srila Prabhupada,  Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami and Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur have shown  should be referenced and carefully studied with devotion , only by the grace of all our acaryas can we understanding the conclusions of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s conversation with Ramananda Roy and understand why they took place .

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In Vedic creations and recreations, ie. the continuous cyclic cycles of the material universes , we can consider the roles of Mahavisnu the original impregnator of the consciousness particles into matter , the role of Lord Bramha who creates the machines of the bodies , and the role of the supersoul who accompanies the souls in their journeying throughout the material energies. The compact responsive universe and put into place and are functioning with the help of four personalities, three Visnu forms, and Lord Bramha, who is their servant.

Lord Visnu, in all his forms, does not directly touch the material energies when the living beings are impregnated , it is carried out by Sadasiva , a manifestation of Sankarsana , who is an  expansion of Visnu.  The” nuts and bolts ” workings of creation are allocated to Lord Bramha.
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