There can be said to be comparisons between the teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Jesus on different levels , and one of the most important is that both brought clarity in terms of who can access the mercy of God . Those who follow smarta Brahminical classes or Zionism are badly mistaken in their interpretations, only humble truthful persons can access the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings.
The unintelligent Zionist or the smarta Brahminical classes seeks to tell God who he can extend his mercy and love to , and these proud fellows think its them .Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada said to one disciple who wanted to discard a person from ISKCON ” You do not know the extent of the mercy of Lord Nityananda prabhu “.
Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu points out the true meaning and purposes of the Vedas , “by the Vedas I am to be known ” says Krishna, similarly Jesus told his critics who thought they understood the old testament that “what you look for in the scriptures I present to you ,I am what you study ” He said he is creating people of Israel. Israel is a term used as a holy consciousness, not a tract of land , as much as in Gaudiya Vaisnavism teachings Vrndavana is a state of mind .
Of course, both Vrndavana and Israel are also holy lands because Divinity brought the spiritual realms to such lands , but to understand the holy land, one requires holy consciousness.
The smarta Brahminical classes and the Zionist fall short and identify with a body, not a soul .
You cannot change your sex , some say , you are what you are …
This calculation is based on scientific materialism and not dualism. If we understand the transmigration of consciousness from one body to another , indeed one may be stationed inside a body of a particular sex for reasons of karmic synchronicities, but nevertheless the predominant inside subtle body could be still strongly associating with a previous body that was of the opposite sex than one finds oneself in , in a new life . So , those who understand dualism can understand this could be a possibility in some cases , but this should not be an excuse for sentimentalist to take their uncontrolled whimsical minds anywhere that might please them , which is fashionable in a world of libertines.”If it feels good, do it ” they say , that is not human culture. Taking the matter even further your dog who sits with you daily in your house , or your pet parrot or the fish in your tropical fish tank could all be in the same boat , staring out at the world with an inner body , the subtle body , with continued feelings from their last incarnated visit…Look out! your enemies from your previous visits of bodily life can end up where you don’t want them to be , within your family….says the Vedas .
Richard Feynman said religion is a culture of faith And science is a culture of doubt.
Not really , religion means first suspicion, then doubt , then little faith due to experience, then an increasing attraction for something sublime, which is made possible with a scientific and theological and philosophical education along with the use of objective sciences that assist and reconfirm logic and rationale. This will be happening in every way conceivable . Faith carries one a long way , thus, Divinity, who has always been on veiw in one way or another, becomes known for sure and realised .The illusory energies of bodily consciousness subside, and Suddha Satva energies replace them . Knowledge in pure goodness that’s realised knowledge.
Subjective sciences that are solely based on interpretations and speculations of an objectively seen phenomenon should be doubted for sure , better go with objectives . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajaty ante kalevaram taṁ tam evaiti kaunteya sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ
Translation
Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, O son of Kuntī, that state he will attain without fail.
Moving on …..onwards and upwards
Listening to radio 3 in the UK a very successful violin player had come to the stage where retirement loomed , she was in anxiety after so many years of travelling and performing, how would she cope with her new life ?.She spoke of how new opportunities dawned , new directions , new interests , new and rewarding projects came up automatically as if sent by destiny. So, in everyone’s lives , especially if we connect with good positive energies connected to mode of goodness duties and a service for the betterment of ourselves or others , inspired actions will be following us . Death is also like that. New opportunities new progressions , if we stay within the framework of duty and philosophically driven cultures, there is no loss at death but everything to gain . That’s the Vedic way. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Calculations of non interventions or replenishment is the thinking of the atheistic Darwinian who are convinced of scientific materialism…
They say .. “High entropy, driven by the second law of thermodynamics, leads to a “heat death” (or Big Freeze), where the universe reaches maximum disorder and becomes cold, dark, and empty. As energy spreads evenly, no further work can be done. Accelerated expansion ensures this, dispersing all matter and energy, leaving only a cold, thin haze of photons and decaying matter. “
But within the cell there is high entropy but also an ordered low entropy, order and tidiness is seen in the microbial world and through out the universe, nothing is in disorder , if there appears disorder its under the control of the order . The multidimensional universe alongside dark matter and dark energies are a complete unknown to those who advocate the heat death hypothesis, like the Darwinian hypothesis is guessing and making conclusions that go against the objective grain , likewise heatdeath.
Although everything in the universe is created , maintained, and destroyed, including the universe one should refer to the Vedas about how the collapse of the universe takes place and how everything is brought back inside Karanadaksyi Visnu before again being let loose . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The Srimad Bhagavatam opening verse can be seen to be objectively true. The sciences of Krishna consciousness apply right across the board. Everything is about the absolute, and it’s all interrelated, nothing lies outside the absolute truth. The founder Acarya of ISKCON Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada in his writings emphasised though sciences, through social sciences, through political science, through economics, through the arts Krishna consciousness is to be understood.
This Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.1. opening verse can be seen an an overview of the majesty and opulences of Krishna.
O my Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa because He is the absolute truth and the primaeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance, and destruction of the manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. It is He only who first imparted the Vedic knowledge unto the heart of Brahmājī, the original living being. By Him, even the great sages and demigods are placed into illusion, as one is bewildered by the illusory representations of water seen in fire or land seen on water. Only because of Him do the material universes, temporarily manifested by the reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although they are unreal. I therefore meditate upon Him, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is eternally existent in the transcendental abode, which is forever free from the illusory representations of the material world. I meditate upon Him, for He is the absolute truth.
If God exists He must leave traits in his works , Sir Francis Crick said he finds profound awe in the genome that he and other discovered and he interpretated it as being a literal “fingerprint” of God .That’s an intelligent logical conclusion, ie .information in our experience comes from a consciousness. Sir Fred Hoyle also concluded that ” someone has monkeyed with the universe, as scientific studies progress the further and deeper they look the more obvious design is found in everything examined , perfect math symmetry and supreme engineering. The big bang proves a start a creation , everything has a cause , Sir Richard Feynman has an amusing video on you tube discussing causes , everything is caused by something and the never ending question of why can be asked. One should come to the original why .Granny slipped on the ice and was taken to hospital at the beginning of the “why” questions in Richard Feynman’s amusing but informative film
Everyone and everything is being maintained somehow arrangements are in place for food and shelter and psychological needs as well as bodily demands including sex , no species is falling short . Within the hearts of all being knowledge is inspired , from the weaver birds nest building to the workings of quantum physics , or the composition of pieces of art , music of drama.
The illusory energy is so strong that a foolish man thinks himself clever and the master of all he surveys, only to find out later he was completely wrong , its a fact looking at a sunset , the clouds appear as land , we cannot rely on imperfect senses or the limitations of intellectual ability to see things as they are .The psychological modes of nature throw us in all directions, but Divinity remains always the consistent factor and maintainer of everything and everyone. Krishna is easily understood in His universal form, and He can be further understood by yogic proccesses, yoga means to link. Through karma yoga ,niskarma karma yoga, astanga yoga, jnana yoga, and pure Bhakti yoga, Krishna is understood and realised in full .
We could say that inadvertently, the British coming to India contributed to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s Sankirtana movement . They introduced Western sciences , different technologies, and educational system’s and taught the citizens of India world cultures . The British were practically all over the world. This new order needed understanding, and persons like Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja who were highly learned scholars in their own right were exposed to it . Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja made many extremely cultured and learned persons into his leading disciples , including Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada . They were all well schooled and educated in British led educational system’s and colleges. Prabhupada had great respect for his professors, whom he described as kind gentleman. Those of the British who were political leaders and who were influenced by the East India company were the ruthless ones . Influences of businessmen were deeply imbeded within the colonial consciousness, and they take profit at any cost, literally, including cutting the thumbs of weavers . The British wanted sown cloth imported from the UK from the Lancashire Mills. With the education and the communications given to India’s citizens , the western thinking they introduced meant it was very easy for our acaryas to understand something of the new modern world and then subsequently bring Vedic Culures to the West itself . They transposed Vedanta philisophical life into the Western cultures . In time and especially in todays world , Vedic sciences are becoming more and more recognised and respected . Both Niels Bohr and Erwin Schrödinger studied aspects of the Vedas dealing with consciousness. The many possibilities of quantum physics stem from the Vedic responsive universe and brings it to light .This is the universe the Vedas defines in detail, dualism, means consciousness and matter interactions. Although the British invaded India , that invasion led to a different sort of invasion, The Vedas is infiltrating every corner of the world with its effects increasingly being appreciated. The mission of Mahaprabhu has only just begun. We have seen nothing yet .
Lord Krishna speaks about the glorious yoga system . Yoga means to link with God . To link with God, we need to know the uncoupling process , we can not be coupled with the illusions of this world if we want to understand pure trancendental knowledge. It’s like embracing a person tightly and screaming, “Let me go.” The commercial yoga groups understand very little of yoga. It’s a monetary show as far as they understand, good for money good for some fame , that’s not yoga .
Lord Krishna says this in His Bhagavad Gita.
“Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he has acquired from the modes of material nature; therefore, no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment.”
Lord Krishna has defined a systematic process , from karma yoga to niskama karma yoga, then jnana yoga, then jnana sunya bhakti , this is the beginnings of much more development of the yoga of devotion process which has began to be accompanied by stronger trancendental knowledge. Trancendental knowledge also comes in various stages of development , there is reality no limits to trancendental knowledge. Bhakti is accompanied by and takes help from karma and jnana in the beginnings of the Bhakti process. In phase of jnana sunya Bhakti ,the stronger development phase of trancendental knowledge, the devotees hear directly the Srimad Bhagavatam and by the blessings and grace of all the param para acaryas can study their litratures and meditate on the lila pastimes described by them in their books . This accompanied by a rich jnana sunya bhakti leads to increasingly deeper meditation, so this is pure Bhakti and it is leading to purely enriched Astanga like yoga , but unique because of being soaked with devotion and remembrances of Krishna lila gained through the processes of hearing , chanting and remembrances . Srila Ragganatha das Goswami in his meditations and instructions on Krishna consciousness lead us to the glories and science of yoga .
The Professor of neuroscience Michael Egnor has made a point that brain neurons fire in different ways according to discipline and habit changes , those addicted to certain behaviours are almost forced to act due to psychological modes of nature . Modes of nature can change, and patterns of life and habits can change .That Krishna is clearly telling us , we have free will , we can strengthen our consciousness and exercise a free wont . Ie .we will not let bad things degrade our consciousnes, but we will rather elevate our consciousness through better choices and feel the benefit.
Unfortunately, low class leaders and scientific materialism, as well as the Darwinian hypothesis, drive everyone to become like street dogs following their senses anywhere and lifting their legs on anyone. The Vedic way is one of elevated consciousness and progressive social and spiritual mobility for all . When the intelligentsia return so will real education, the sophisticated animals will be forced back in their baskets .
We should not light is not made of atoms, like the material world.
“Light frequencies encompass a vast continuous spectrum beyond just atomic electromagnetic frequencies. This spectrum is typically divided into several regions based on increasing frequency and energy, including radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. “
The original spiritual energy emanating from Divinity is called the Brahmajyoti. The whole of the spiritual worlds are built of spiritual energies the ” trancendental electromagnetism ” one might say …
AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on a morning walk says this …..”Prabhupāda: Yes. And that is confirmed in the Brahmā-saṁhitā that yasya prabhā. Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagadaṇḍa-koṭi-koṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi vibhūti-bhinnam (Bs. 5.40). This creation, all the whole creation, even this material, that is depending on the brahma-jyotir. Therefore, it is said, sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma. Everything depends on the brahma-jyotir. And that is confirmed also in the Bhagavad-gītā: mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni (BG 9.4). This mat-sthāni means..”
The electromagnetic light energies and all light frequency contained within the material universes and which is its very foundation, as well as within all atoms, is devolved from its original sources.
Like light waves have various features and functions within the universe , it’s not too difficult to understand other unseen or undiscovered elements or dimensions of light within a multidimensional universe that emnate from this Brahmajyoti, as, for instance the mysterious dark energies and dark matter .
Atoms are thought to have different formats say some physicists, a counterpart , there are various studies taking place , but beyond the difference in atoms are the constructs of a spiritual kingdom with spiritual varigatedness and beauty beyond comprehension.These can be referred to as anti matter.
The Vedas paints the picture of a multiuniversal material universe as well as the unlimited spiritual universes .The Harvard Prof Lisa Randall writes and lectures on this topic .Light energies of all qualities and forms are in existence and yet to be fully understood and much as smaller parts of atoms and ethereal connections between the brain waves and desires and deserves .
We can never limit nature, what to speak of a spiritual nature.
We are like tiny fire flies gazing out at billions of universes , but within each, our and everyone’s conscious is being facilitated in unlimited ways , one chief conscious being is the facilitator in whom the multifarious energies exude as the bliss and consciousness increases .
Might ,could ,we think , possibly, there is a possibility, etc etc .. When one of Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s disciples was answering a question about the local areas and environment, the disciple pipped and said “I think its …… Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami immediately stopped in his tracks , thrust his cane into the ground and exclaimed ” You think ….but you don’t know “ The lessons were learned by all the accompanying disciples…..
Here we have more of the same , the world of its might be’s .and we think ..etc etc .. After modern humans made it to Europe some 50,000 years ago, they hunted and gathered in small groups for scores of generations. Then, 10,000 years ago, people in Europe began to farm and settle down. About 5000 years later, cattle herders from the steppes of Eurasia surged into Europe with the wheel and metal tools and weapons, ending the Stone Age and ushering in the Bronze. Cultural and technological changes kept accelerating, from the rise of the first cities to the spread of empires to our modern age of trains, planes, cellphones, and artificial intelligence.
All that societal upheaval may have supercharged our biological evolution as well, according to a study of nearly 16,000 ancient human genomes published this week in Nature. This might be the world of tosh. In fact, I know it is… by mathematics mutational evaluation….. it’s the world of statistical tosh .. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
By Vedic Standards.. The modern world falls badly short.. 1, The crucial sciences are wrong 2, The political and social sciences are wrong 3, The economic systems are wrong 4,The general health of the citizens is wrong along with food production . 5, The interpretations and speculations of most theological modern-day updated religions are wrong . 6, The allowance of unintelligent businessmen to make global conglomerate profits by their governments encroachments on others lands is wrong , and using their ill gotten gains for political lobbying for further encroachment is wrong . 7,Uneducated citizens voting in fools is wrong , anyone who votes needs to have classes of what leaders look like , how they lead, and what they lead for . The list goes on .. All in all, a new intelligentsia is dawning those whose hearts and minds are not perverse but who see easily the self-evident truth of the equality of all beings and the rights of countries and cultures. . It should be understood that there are different types of intelligentsia classes .1, Those well versed in Artha sastra , living rules within societal affairs, 2, Dharma sastra , the journey of social and spiritual mobility,,3 Jnana sastra , the metaphysical referred to as Jnana sunya bhakti , understanding of laws beyond classical and quantum physics and extending to a subtle ethereal plane , the responsive universes workings , the link between matter , the ethereal and consciousness 4, Bhakti Sastra Pure knowledge of Divinity and the three realisations Brahman, paramatma and Bhagavan . In Vedic cultures, the different types of intelligentsia work in combined ways . They each are dedicated servants with no personal ambition or a private salary from any business person . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
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