Extremism brings extremism , and then more extremism . The wise are not only wise , but the wise are balanced, and the wise are Vedic. Vedic means one in knowledge of all affairs. Nothing is separate from Divinity once one thing is known everything is known. Multiculturalism needs respecting as do all religious practices that follow authorities, free from interpretations for personal reasons of any kind .
Extremism has many formats , some obvious , some not so .
Extremism is political circles destroys family values and worthy traditions , and it also sometimes seeks to limit theological influences , replacing it predominately with atheistic speculative sciences, but presented in educational organisations as fact based sciences. . Without knowledge of dualism, extremists orientated towards liberalism preach …if it feels good, do it . They also like to promote the Darwinian hypothesis and scientific materialism into the heads and mindset of children dishonesty . Bias science is well known the Discovery Institute and the Bhaktivedanta Institute present , who present objective science rather than subjective speculations . Check out both organisations . Scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis and fanatical fanciful so-called religious teachers who teach exclusivity and hatred are the cause of a misguided society . In Vedic Culures sometimes impersonal energies are presented as being God and that God is not an individual . This philosophy has no real sense because they can not explain the order and laws of the universe. They claim its all in the mind , an unintelligent cop out , as much as the Darwinians explain order and universal laws as random chance events .
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.
Vedic societies knew and listed the expected morals and ethics as well as standard behaviours of four different types of persons who live in every society It was clear cut, and everyone knew what the ultimate purposes were of following such practices as well as the detrimental consequences of not doing so . The elevation of everyone’s consciousness and their learning is always the central theme in Vedic Culures , so both social and spiritual mobility could take place . In modern society, scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis is taught in widespread ways , those subjective speculations are more or less taught as fact based science. Mankind is fast decending into sophisticated animals, wars are everywhere, as dogs fight other dogs , or cats fight other cats , or dogs fight cats . Instead of respecting all humans as one race , we think I am Christian, I am Jewish , I am Muslim, I am Hindu . Nobody is any of those things , rather those theological systems are meant to elevate the consciousness, to the point where the true equality of all beings is felt deep within the heart , in that state there is no hatred or killing , a man of knowledge has no enemy, only a sophisticated animal who poses as a man does . This elevated consciousness must at least be present in the leaders of faith and they must advise their administrations , the businessmen has no place in administration and the tradesmen and working man is always nicely guided and elevated in all respects. The perfect and practical guide of the Vedas should be adopted. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Money money ,money brighter than sunshine sweeter than honey , get it at any cost and create markets of immorality unrestricted sence pleasure . Sexualised society for profit , increasing animal propensities in the Darwinian world , a world of scientific materialism fueling the drive for ever new sensual pleasures in the material world . They are addictive , ruin family life and cultures, and degrade a supposed civilised society. Sophisticated animals at most .
However, there must be a balanced approach . In todays world, we find, for instance, extreme versions of religions , interpretations of scripts that are not sensible or credible, and that are tainted with suppression, dogma, and misunderstanding of various human psychological conditions . One can not suppress a population but rather one should introduce practical regulations and restrictions. That’s the Vedic approach . Currently, in Iran and Afghanistan, women are forced to cover their heads and faces , and the suppressed female society are unnecessarily harrased , not given the opportunities they seek . On the other hand, in the super liberal west, extreme liberalism leads to school girls’ dresses being so short that they may just as well go to school in their underwear. It also has led in UK to abortion and the new law indicates no time limits on when the child can be killed in the womb , one MP is quite happy for a 37 week old child to be killed , this type of liberalism is leading to a mental health epidemic. The extremely sexualised society , with unthinking businessmen making rules is ridiculous. The political classes are not organising governance but rather are contaminated themselves with the same decease. Brainwashed people are easily manipulated by social media and mainstream media, that businessmen own . But many people are still sane and decent , there is a kick back going on to the super liberalism on display. The problem is that money men are ruthless. The government must take the side of the learned , ethical, and moral intelligentsia.
The middle way is the Vedic way .
Preservation of culture, family values and traditions, balanced , education, alongside theologically driven cultures , i.e., the philosophical understanding of dualism, mind , matter, and consciousness.
“The statement “you can see an artist in their work” means that an artist’s personality, experiences, and perspectives are often reflected in the art they create. Their unique way of seeing the world, their emotions, and their individual stories can be expressed through their chosen medium, allowing viewers to glimpse the artist’s inner world. “
Krishna consciousness means to free oneself from the indoctrinated visions of the Darwinians as well as identifying and understanding the subjective speculations of those advocating scientific materialism . Its wise instead to listen to the much broader thinking of the teaching of the objective physicists who can easily accept multidimensional aspects of our universe for instance as well as elements of quantum physics that are seen to parallel the Vedas . Indeed , Sir Fred Hoyle began to see clearly , he said ….” everything is so perfectly organised its as if someone has monkeyed with the universe ” It is important to see the world objectively using logic and rationale and follow ones heart , if you show a child something from nature they will say ” who made that “ The famous Christian hymn ” all things bright and beautiful all creatures great and small all things wise and wonderful the Lord God made them all . The perfect artist , scientist, and supreme engineer has worked wonders , if ond can see that , it’s the beginning of God consciousness, 2nd Canto Srimad Bhagavatam says . Later, God reveals Himself in many other ways , Hildegard Von Bingin would testify to that she always connected nature to God . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
You do not know how you arrived in this body , similarly you do not know how your thought waves actions and consciousness development is forever adjusting and changing as the endless possibilities, elucidated in some senses in Quantum physics , is working in automated and responsive ways within the universal order that is easily set up by the Supream scientist , and is calculating your next body .As much as Ai tracks your likes and dislikes and algorithms offer you you’re futures contemplations , within which , again, your mind and senses become entangled and sets you off in another certain direction. AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Bhagavad Gita explains to the Western audience how the scientific movements of consciousness are tracked and reacted upon.. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
“Beam me up, Scotti.” Famously expressed by Captain Kirk whilst on a planet and awaiting transportation back to the star ship Enterprise hovering in space above . It’s, of course, actually based on contrived scientific materialism , that we are simply combinations of atoms and elements and it would be possible at will to break them all down , move them in a light beam , and reconstitute them in perfect order at another place . Certainly matter could be thought of in that , but our consciousness? The vedic understanding of dualism must be understood : is consciousness neurons firing in a brain or something more mysterious? Factually, according to the Vedas , our consciousness has the ability to transport itself instantly to destinations in many other planets or other places , in fact, death means just that . The gross external body is left behind , it is made of atoms , elements , and compounds . But even before death by training oneself in astanga yoga , the consciousness can travel in a different type of body and instantaneously faster than light , this occurs whilst the gross body remains where it is , only to be entered into on return of the subtle traveller . This feeling may be somewhat familiar because in dreams, one is lifted out the body, the body is totally forgotten , and some people feel themselves ascending or decending from their bodies and back into their bodies.
The Darwinians and those who profess to understand life are only subjective thinkers , in reality, they are clueless about consciousness, that is a fact no one can deny . Easy journey to other planets should be read by AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , for those wishing to temporarily or permanently traverse the universe and beyond .
The Vedas contains many, many examples of space travel as well as descriptions of all kinds of space ships and so-called aliens . There are, after all, 400,000 different ” humanoids ” recorded in the Vedas http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur particularly wanted to bring Vedic culture in all of its aspects to modernity . In current times the cream of the Vedas in the form of the Srila Bhagavatam as well as Caitanya Caratamrita that are the essence of the Gaudia Vaisnava conclusions taught by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu to the Goswami’s of Vrndavana , are presented by ISKCON and other Gaudia Vaisnava all over the world. It was Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who brought them to the shores of , in 1965 . Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur had prayed for a son who could continue and expand his desire to establish Krishna consciousness and specifically the Raga Marg of the residents of Vrndavana where everyone is ultimately under the service of Srimati Radharani in one way or another in giving all pleasure to Krishna. Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja appeared as the son of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur who served his fathers trancendental desires. He extensively reintroduced Gaudia Vaisnavism in bone fide ways within India , correcting the many misunderstandings . His two leading disciples who specialise in presenting Krishna consciousness scientifically , philosophically, and culturally as well as appropriately to the Western audience are Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Srila BR Sridhar Swami . Other prominent disciples also made major contributions. Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada has given the Western world a chance to practically explore the Vedic Culures and examine its many benefits , introducing its unlimited wealth . He was a most prolific writer and teacher there is no doubt Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami, who brought , under the orders of his spiritual master , those Gaudia Vaisnava teachings world wide as was original desired by Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja . Its noteworthy to say that when AC Bhaktivedanta Swami left the world , he instructed his disciples that if they had questions about Gaudia Vaisnava tattva they should approach Srila BR Sridhar Swami , Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja commented that he was content that Srila BR Sridha Swami had understood everything of his teachings . Many other Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have contributed and are contributing ..Some are presenting other more esoteric aspects that are required to be delved into by the mature student , the teachings of Srila Rupa and Ragganatha Goswami’s
Both Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami and Srila BR Sridhar Swami could have at any time elaborated unlimitedly on the deepest aspects of Gaudia teachings and occasionally did so . Although bringing the whole of the Western world and helping everyone enter into and understand the Vedic topics in systematic ways as is recommended in the Srimad Bhagavatam was their general approach and, of course, it needed to be. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
In Vedic terms , every foreign policy decision by any government worldwide is very easily measured . The Vedas give very clear indications as to what are the correct judgements based on morals ethics and respect for life and limb . The intelligentsia who as best situated to make such judgements based on multiples of assesement resources , will take into account variable circumstances . Ultimately, the protection of the innocent is at the forefront of decisions made , clearly, women and children are specifically mentioned in the rules of warfare in the Dhanu Veda .A resetting of injustices that have wrongly affected peoples livelihood and their own cultural and traditional expressions are important and those who intelligently understand ethical geopolitical affairs should be directing international laws along with clear explanations of the reasoning behind decisions . I am afraid that in today’s world, the intelligentsia are silenced or suppressed, and the puppet governments of the global conglomerates who easily manipulate the masses have usurped power by posing as democracies. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Whenever one goes walking in the countryside, inevitably, you’ll come across dog walkers . When they stop and chat with each other, it seems the favourite topic is the characters of their dogs .They are either Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or atheistic, but they all miss the real point . Why ? They have been spoon-fed, unscientific narratives about the nature of consciousness, either by their religious leaders of science teachers .
The fact is clear , the dog has a character, as much as any individual animal , or bird , reptilian, or aquatic etc etc . It’s plane to see . Its self evident, its logical , and using one’s rationale, one must follow the conclusion instinctively.
We have consciousness , we think , feel, and will . So do every other species of life to varying degees . The religious, although trying to approach God, must do so not with mere sentiments but with theological scientific knowledge of life . And the so called scientist must understand Dualism, that a body mind and consciousness are made up of entirely different energies , that is also self evident.
Uneducated and uninformed opinions are being paraded by some religious people as well as atheistic scientists.
The reason the dog walkers are speaking about their dogs characters is because, they too are havd consciousness along with personality , but their consciousness is passing through the body of a dog , our consciousness is passing through the body of a human .
But next life ……all change .
Read Bhagavad Gita as it is AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains why.
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