Sankya yoga is defined as the perfect process of knowing.
The systematic progressive path of the Vedas incorporating… karma yoga , jnana yoga , niskarma karma yoga , astanga yoga, and Bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion . All varieties of yoga , when tinged with Bhakti , advance persons to the highest form of yoga, which is defined in the Vedas as pure Bhakti yoga .
Bhakti yoga is always a progressive path , there is no limit to love , and Srila Rupa Goswami has made a complete analysis of its progression.
The vedas supplementary litratures assist all the yogic paths , the jnana path ,the karma path, and the various other trancendental paths are all nicely defined.
The Sruti are like the direct commands of God , the Smriti are like a family members commands , Puranas are like friends commands ,and the Tantra are like business deals , where benefits are on offer .
The Srimad Bhagavatam contains all these paths and their different and varying epistemological calculations, along with the etymology of the specific Vedic and Vaisnava teachers are highlighted . How they translate and find specified meanings of sanskrit in particular ways to describe their relationships with Krishna and the relationships of others to Krishna will also be found in the various commentary of the different acaryas .
The Vedas , on another administrative level , is a living, breathing personality , every deed on the ethereal or gross classical plain is calculated by various agencies and the responsive universal order , like a giant automated ” A I ” system , it responds, such is the inconceivable engineering of Divinity .
We know that inside one of our cells are hundreds of nano machines, each playing an essential role for continuous cell representation, all of which are self-replicating systems. From Macro to micro, everything is happening by the supream desire of Krishna. This consciousness is Krishna consciousness , the founder of ISKCON AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada said.
Consciousness causing genes or genes causing consciousness .
The Darwinians suppose that your genes cause the particular consciousness that you exhibit , and to an extent that can be accepted due to being given a body by a prescriptive method. However, that tells but a partial story , the journey of how we come to accept a particular body can be long and complex, and our past , present, and futures are involved . The conscious being is always accompanied by one of the unlimited expansions of Divinity , the highly complex “self selection process ” along with incalculable informational exchanges provides the guidance mechanism towards particular types of genes that programme the ACTG to form a particular body . In Bhagavad Gita Krishna indicates in many verses he is the knower of all bodies and he knows the ” field ” of activities that the body will experience. Although independent of parents on one level , on the subtle level , the Vedas say , the living beings in human form share percentages of the subtle energies of our parents . The energy of mind and consciousness has not been addressed by the mechanistic Darwinians , who seem to conveniently ignore such matters , assuming neurons by chance cause complex consciousness conditioning as well as incredibly creative forces within some persons intelligence .The Vedas as other cultures indicate consciousness and matter as two entirely separate energies . So we are dealing with developing bodies as well as minds ,with awarded intellectual power .
According to the Vedas, nothing is happening by chance events, but rather by design, Bhagavad Gita tells us we have to take responsibility for our designated lot .
Although on one level everyone is equal, as the founding fathers of the USA quite rightly cast into the USA constitution, in other ways there are obviously massive variations . Within the material bodies , minds and intellects, and the circumstances one is born into , everything and every one are totally unique. The encouraging aspect to Vedic cultures is that we are all dynamic in so many ways and are never static or fixed . We should never feel conditioned or stuck . Rather always moving, in one direction or another . So social mobility and progress are always waiting to be tapped into by anybody . No one should ever feel trapped in particular bodies or minds . As the old song goes ” if you wish upon a star makes no difference who you are” that’s a very Vedic concept , sung by Judy Garland
So, by karmic synchronicities, one aquires a particular body and particular circumstances . It’s a temporary fleeting turn of events . The idea is to solve the real problem . Birth , death , old age , and disease , and not to get overly attached to happiness or distress of this one life , which come and go like the winter and summer seasons.
Making advances toward knowledge , solving once and for all the real problems of life , instead of solely spending ones time building up kingdoms that will inevitably collapse, is encouraged in Vedic culture . Neglecting to ask where we came from and where we are going and surrendering our intelligence to the speculative Darwinian is not really very intelligent.
A state of eternality knowledge and bliss is a natural state of each part and parcel of consciousness , i.e., each living being . Theologically , the Vedas says , one can increase two aspects of those three qualities by association that ultimately stems from Srimati Radharani and Lord Balarama , Srimati Radharani is representative of the bliss potency and Lord Balarama the knowledge potency.
Without further associations of those who are in association with trancendendence , and are intimately connected to Srimati Radharani or Lord Balarama and without voluntarily rendering loving services to such persons, how could one possibly increase one’s existence and happiness in bliss and knowledge . In our experience, learning and love go hand in hand .
The Vedas indicates that ultimately, the varieties of transcendental paraphernalia and the regions where they are exhibited , along with the highest excellences of playful and spontaneous exchanges of love can be understood only by transcendental love and learning , in the association of pure Gaudia Vaisnavas . It is Srimati Radharani and Lord Balarama who know the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna . Without connection to Them or Their devotees the Tatasta sakti jiva or the marginal energies of Krishna, as in the spiritual spark of consciousness remains in the relatively lesser bliss of the spiritual Brahman , otherwise known as a spiritual light , an impersonal spiritual realm . These sparks sometimes wonder in the material worlds mistakingly thinking they will increase their knowledge and bliss .
Indeed ,within the material planes , sharing, caring, and appreciation can increase one’s happiness and knowledge, to a degree and its a fact that Krishna makes progressive paths that can gradually connect to higher paths . But the ultimate arrangements are always on call , that anyone at any time can contact and connect with Krishna’s pure representatives who serve Him by reaching down and rescuing lost souls , or as Srila Sridhar Swami puts it ” relief work ” these persons are the intimate associates of Srimati Radharani and Lord Balarama.
Everyone’s talking about the potential of AI , but do they not see how in a world centred around competition and cut throat business, not only of individuals but between countries , that the very thing that is supposed to make our lives easier could well end up being the very reasons why our world is torn apart .
The Vedic cultures are always centred around sharing resources for the benefits of everyone . The self-centred conglomerates vision is one of snatch , take , exploit, and even exterminate the opposition , so toxic our world has become .
Unfortunately, such conglomerates , who control contrived democracies , “free speech it has its price , the wealthy bed fellows of those that favor vice ” , I wrote in a song . These conglomerates have the power over the simple persons in the world who are easily fooled and are mislead like lemmings of a cliff , they are unaware of the onward dangerous exploitative goals of greedy persons who currently weild world power , victims of consumerism and adopted lifestyle.
The materials to make AI chips and the materials to make batteries for phones and cars are in short supply , there is not enough to go around. Like 100 alcoholic persons, who are untreated, fighting over one whisky bottle , modern living based solely on technology’s advances is a recipe for disaster, because it puts the individuals consciousness development to one side , and worse still , it degrades it , the goal of the conglomerates to make everyone into sophisticated but consumer led animals , who follow their minds and senses just about any where their computer tells them to go .
Some people have romantic idealistic concepts that society can live as one .
In spiritual terms, maybe , when by cultivating spiritual consciousness, one is able to see that consciousness particals are in each body , the very substance of life , and in that sense all equally loved and reciprocated to by God .
But materially speaking , individuals have always expressed differently and lived differently , both individually and in communial ways, expressing their unique national culture and ways of life, which can be seen to be one and different.
In the vedas 5th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam, the activities of King Prtu give the description of the natural creation of boundaries, such as oceans , rivers, and mountain ranges. Although harmony can be achieved within mankind it must be understood as being based on their differences , which sometimes have complex social and karmic complexity , nevertheless , all societies should be respected and understood in mature and intelligent ways .
The concept of harmony in discord is only realised in the minds of those who are learned who are aware of the consciousness of Divinity within their hearts and in the hearts of all living beings. They who have evolved love for Divinity and as such , all beings , seeing that everything and everyone is connected to God . Knowledge means knowing all are His expansions , such divine inspiration creates the inconceivable oneness and difference vision in our relationship with Him and all beings .
The vipras , Brahminical men, and Suddha Bhaktas know this very well and realise it . By their association , we can also know and realise this truth .
It is never found in any political leaders , who we could safely say are mostly lacking in real wisdom, and are sometimes fools and rascals , so they must always take direction from the real intelligensia as described above .
The original Varna Ashram system is a wonderful sharing and educational resource for all , it is meant to instigate social mobility and give everyone the chance of good association and beneficial learning .
That is part of the remit of ISKCON, to introduce this reality to people in general
I am reminded of a huge telescope peering into deep space. The eye can not see far due to its obvious limitations , so a bigger eye is created , but when something that is limited creates something else , it’s also limited , the limited has limitations , unlike the unlimited which is not subjected to limitations.
A1 is a brilliant way to automatically increase propaganda and influence the easily influenced…..only the devotees of God will be able to resist by developing intelligence that is applied to consciousness , a consciousness that is one and different from an unlimited consciousness , the unlimited consciousness can unlimitedly supply intelligence to the limited , and either bind them in illusion or liberate them . Obviously, some good uses can be thought of for AI , but it’s only as good as those persons who have imperfect senses, the tendency of cheat and be illusioned can programme it to be , a kind of collective imperfection is going on , but hyped up to be “all knowing and the solution to all man’s problems ” . The reality is that when men stop fighting like cats and dogs , that is when real intelligence will develop.
Real intelligensia are always present in all societies , but in current times, they are silenced and stifled.
Unfortunately, the businessman is king, and so are his dollars.
The great trancendental conundrum of the absolute truth speaking untruth along with His intimate friends..
In 1922 approx , Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja met with one Professor Suthers , who visited India on behalf of the British government to try to get an understanding of the complexities of Sanskrit languages that appeared to contain many levels of sciences within them . So envious and dumbfounded were the British that they set up a sanskrit college in Hertfordshire to learn the language and then retured to India to introduce twisted meanings , using words like mythology in an attempt to subjugate the people of India and minimise the great Vedic cultures .
The Proffesor made an observation to Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami, that ” your Krishna who you worship appears to be immoral ”
Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami immediately retorted , with his usual brilliance and trancendental insights , that Krishna activities exhibited the highest levels of morality.
How this can be understood can only be found out by questioning a self realised soul who is a mature Vedic scholar . Who is also Krishna’s pure devotee and who has the appropriate symptoms of knowledge and detachment from the material world and his being a topmost Yogi , as Krishna mentioned in His Bhagavad Gita ,” My pure devotees are the topmost and best of the yogis “
Spiritual texts can be confusing , sometimes the absolute truth appears to speak lies, and so do his intimate friends . Why this is so or why on the battlefield of Kuruksetra Arjuna’s request for moral actions were ignored by Krishna and why both Yudhisthira and Bhismadeva, who were overly attached to speaking truth were wrong can revealed by speaking to Krishna’s pure devotee.
Thus, this great conundrum can be laid to rest .
Here is a hint , if a murderous person were looking for a person that you were hiding in your house and asked You “Have you seen such and such ?” a moral and ethical person would immediately lie .
The legitimate original Varna Ashram system is highly beneficial with the inherently good qualities of various persons naturally shared for the benefit of everyone else . In yoga systems, it’s said that life airs are dominant in different parts of the body , and so it is that different classes of men have their life airs differently situated , the most gross in the lower regions and the most spiritually and cultured persons within their brain substance. The social cohesion and social mobility running through the Varna Ashram workings is educationally oriented. It was based on knowledge and psychological awareness with the need for obvious progression of a mind , intelligence, and inner consciousness , so lifes full potential could be realised by everyone in time , time could also mean progressive succession of lives .
Naturally one should always seek good associations and guidance in any feild of life , good leadership from the highest of the Brahminical intelligensia saw to it that everyone would benefit in that way by arranging society accordingly by good administrative persons with the correct qualities. There was no question of a particular birth in a particular family limiting anyone. Consciousness , free will, and progressive steps are able to be accessed by anyone. Only a man who is unknowing , and thus not part of an intelligensia, would seek to limit or cage someone psychologically or physically.
Although freedoms are and should be freely sought , the best of freedoms should be understood. A child is always guided in their expressions of freedoms by their parents for the child’s good , education, and ultimate happiness.
Although it’s good to break out “beyond the mold ” that life trys to carve for us , first , its best to learn the ways of life and truely beneficial cultures of all kinds ,especially scientific and theological cultures, thus make gradual steps to greater freedoms , but being careful to understand freedoms are not ever found in a confined body , mind or senses, but rather in the super subjective realm of spontaneous love , with Divinity and his associates , based on selfless service taught in theological cultures . Fools rush in where angels dare to tread , and careful progression is required as well as being open to persons who have greater wisdoms , either materially or spiritually , bearing in mind in absolute truth both are inextricably linked and beneficial.
The 10th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam , wherein the absolute pinnacle of all cultures are explained, comes after the careful study of the previous volumes.
Many atheistic subjective speculators boldly declare .” There is no God .”
If you ask them ” What do you mean by God ? ”
They really can not give any detail in their answers . Ultimately, unless you know what God is , you’ll not be able to say with any definite statements, ” There is no God “
At most, it’ll be some kind of emotional response that is given with very little understanding of theological or even objective scientific knowledge.
Albert Einstein said.
“Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. “
We have to carefully understand why Einstein says that and what he means .
Lord Krishna Himself in His Bhagavad Gita 10th Chapter .
He says “one must understand My Vibhuti’s ,” My Sciences , how in every detail I prevade every aspect of the creation , how I am the cause of all causes , including mind , body , intelligence and consciousness . How I am the knower of all bodies , and am situated with one fragment of myself within them all , and how the varieties of linking processes to Me are achieved through the multiple yoga systems . How I transmit absolute knowledge throughout the multidimensional universes either personally , in partial incarnations, or how I enter into the hearts of My empowered representatives.
One should also understand how I am within everything, yet outside of everything , how I am very near yet an inconceivable distance away , and how I am neutral to everyone, yet deeply attached to My family, friends and lovers .
So much to learn , and what I have just mentioned is a fragmental part of the learning . In spontaneous love , where the highest cultures are displayed , there is a whole science of emotional exchanges to explore, as well as the unlimited personalities exhibiting them in ever increasing and newer ways . Srila Rupa Goswami and Srila Ragganatha das Goswami are the Proffesors.
The importance of practical living and advancing in spiritual life , nothing is outside of Divinity.
The Acaryas of Gaudia Vaisnavism stress the importance of the Srimad Bhagavatam they encourage us to bring every aspect of our lives , wherever we find ourselves , within the purview of its teachings . Harmonizing ourselves even if there appears discord , with Divinity directly or indirectly in every aspect of life . Spiritual and material goals can be linked nicely together, be it social, political, artistically economically , and certainly every aspect of truely objective science , they all can be expertly linked with the Bhagavatam. The writing of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami is especially directed at a Western audience , he expertly addresses modern life and how to harmonize everything with the Vedas . Vedic literature is so very broad . Vedic logic and rationality bring one to the understanding that everyone is on an independent journey accompanied by their own free will that’s wired into a material responsive universe . Included are various levels of educational systems, a systematic purification is in operation as well as compliance and an obvious need for governance , to ensure a degree of order . This to facilitate the unlimited consciousness sparks who endeavour for independence from Divinity , using their God-given free will .
Bhagavad Gita itself , clearly defines the differences in the psychology of individuals who are situated within material nature , where the living entitles can operate outside of Divinity. Three modes of nature goodness, passion, and ignorance , these are mixes of different types of consciousness that unlimitedly influence the conscious beings on a gross and subtle level , if we take math , 3×3 = 9 , 9×9 = 81 , 81×81 = 65610 ad infinitum , thus multitudes of mentalities.
So, like an artists pallet with three primary colours , consciousness is constantly being churned , influenced, and entangled in the complexity of material nature. Accordingly, Divinity has methods that He sets out in the Vedas , which are the breathing and direction of Visnu , to begin to disentangle all beings from their struggle within material nature , its done either gradually , or in quicker ways . Currently , Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has offered immediate relief and access to the highest of all spiritual realms, a rather special benediction , involving understanding the inner most hearts of the most intimate devotees of God .
Expert and thoughtful men, relish Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the mature fruit of the desire tree of Vedic literatures. It emanated from the lips of Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī. Therefore this fruit has become even more tasteful, although its nectarean juice was already relishable for all, including liberated souls.
PURPORT
In the two previous ślokas it has been definitely proved that the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the sublime literature which surpasses all other Vedic scriptures due to its transcendental qualities. It is transcendental to all mundane activities and mundane knowledge. In this śloka it is stated that Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is not only a superior literature but is the ripened fruit of all Vedic literatures. In other words, it is the cream of all Vedic knowledge. Considering all this, patient and submissive hearing is definitely essential. With great respect and attention, one should receive the message and lessons imparted by the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
The Vedas are compared to the desire tree because they contain all things knowable by man. They deal with mundane necessities as well as spiritual realization. The Vedas contain regulated principles of knowledge covering social, political, religious, economic, military, medicinal, chemical, physical and metaphysical subject matter and all that may be necessary to keep the body and soul together. Above and beyond all this are specific directions for spiritual realization. Regulated knowledge involves a gradual raising of the living entity to the spiritual platform, and the highest spiritual realization is knowledge that the Personality of Godhead is the reservoir of all spiritual tastes, or rasas.
The sum total of all these rasas is called affection or love. Primarily, such signs of love are manifested in adoration, service, friendship, paternal affection, and conjugal love. And when these five are absent, love is present indirectly in anger, wonder, comedy, chivalry, fear, shock and so on. For example, when a man is in love with a woman, the rasa is called conjugal love. But when such love affairs are disturbed there may be wonder, anger, shock, or even horror. Sometimes love affairs between two persons culminate in ghastly murder scenes. Such rasas are displayed between man and man and between animal and animal. There is no possibility of an exchange or rasa between a man and an animal or between a man and any other species of living beings within the material world. The rasas are exchanged between members of the same species. But as far as the spirit souls are concerned, they are one qualitatively with the Supreme Lord. Therefore, the rasas were originally exchanged between the spiritual living being and the spiritual whole, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The spiritual exchange or rasa is fully exhibited in spiritual existence between living beings and the Supreme Lord.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is therefore described in the śruti-mantras, Vedic hymns, as “the fountainhead of all rasas.” When one associates with the Supreme Lord and exchanges one’s constitutional rasa with the Lord, then the living being is actually happy.
These śruti-mantras indicate that every living being has its constitutional position, which is endowed with a particular type of rasa to be exchanged with the Personality of Godhead. In the liberated condition only, this primary rasa is experienced in full. In the material existence, the rasa is experienced in the perverted form, which is temporary. And thus the rasas of the material world are exhibited in the material form of raudra (anger) and so on.
Therefore, one who attains full knowledge of these different rasas, which are the basic principles of activities, can understand the false representations of the original rasas which are reflected in the material world. The learned scholar seeks to relish the real rasa in the spiritual form. In the beginning he desires to become one with the Supreme. Thus, less intelligent transcendentalists cannot go beyond this conception of becoming one with the spirit whole, without knowing of the different rasas.
In this śloka, it is definitely stated that spiritual rasa, which is relished even in the liberated stage, can be experienced in the literature of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam due to its being the ripened fruit of all Vedic knowledge. By submissively hearing this transcendental literature, one can attain the full pleasure of his heart’s desire. But one must be very careful to hear the message from the right source. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is exactly received from the right source. It was brought by NāradaMuni from the spiritual world and given to his disciple Śrī Vyāsadeva. The latter in turn delivered the message to his son Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, and Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī delivered the message to MahārājaParīkṣit just seven days before the King’s death. Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī was a liberated soul from his very birth. He was liberated even in the womb of his mother, and he did not undergo any sort of spiritual training after his birth. At birth no one is qualified, neither in the mundane nor in the spiritual sense. But Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī, due to his being a perfectly liberated soul, did not have to undergo an evolutionary process for spiritual realization. Yet despite his being a completely liberated person situated in the transcendental position above the three material modes, he was attracted to this transcendental rasa of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is adored by liberated souls who sing Vedic hymns. The Supreme Lord’s pastimes are more attractive to liberated souls than to mundane people. He is of necessity not impersonal because it is only possible to carry on transcendental rasa with a person.
In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam the transcendental pastimes of the Lord are narrated, and the narration is systematically depicted by Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī. Thus the subject matter is appealing to all classes of persons, including those who seek liberation and those who seek to become one with the supreme whole.
In Sanskrit the parrot is also known as śuka. When a ripened fruit is cut by the red beaks of such birds, its sweet flavor is enhanced. The Vedic fruit which is mature and ripe in knowledge is spoken through the lips of Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who is compared to the parrot not for his ability to recite the Bhāgavatam exactly as he heard it from his learned father, but for his ability to present the work in a manner that would appeal to all classes of men.
The subject matter is so presented through the lips of Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī that any sincere listener that hears submissively can at once relish transcendental tastes which are distinct from the perverted tastes of the material world. The ripened fruit is not dropped all of a sudden from the highest planet of Kṛṣṇaloka. Rather, it has come down carefully through the chain of disciplic succession without change or disturbance. Foolish people who are not in the transcendental disciplic succession commit great blunders by trying to understand the highest transcendental rasa known as the rāsa dance without following in the footsteps of Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who presents this fruit very carefully by stages of transcendental realization. One should be intelligent enough to know the position of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by considering personalities like Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who deals with the subject so carefully. This process of disciplic succession of the Bhāgavata school suggests that in the future also Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has to be understood from a person who is factually a representative of Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī. A professional man who makes a business out of reciting the Bhāgavatam illegally is certainly not a representative of Śukadeva Gosvāmī. Such a man’s business is only to earn his livelihood. Therefore one should refrain from hearing the lectures of such professional men. Such men usually go to the most confidential part of the literature without undergoing the gradual process of understanding this grave subject. They usually plunge into the subject matter of the rāsa dance, which is misunderstood by the foolish class of men. Some of them take this to be immoral, while others try to cover it up by their own stupid interpretations. They have no desire to follow in the footsteps of Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī.
One should conclude, therefore, that the serious student of the rasa should receive the message of Bhāgavatam in the chain of disciplic succession from Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who describes the Bhāgavatam from its very beginning and not whimsically to satisfy the mundaner who has very little knowledge in transcendental science. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is so carefully presented that a sincere and serious person can at once enjoy the ripened fruit of Vedic knowledge simply by drinking the nectarean juice through the mouth of Śukadeva Gosvāmī or his bona fide representative.
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