In Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s movements, there are many types of devotees , some are swept up in the causless mercy waves and begin to develop great faith in Lord Krishna,  they learn about the highest spiritual realms of Goloka Vrndavana. Sometimes, these devotees, although maintaining strong faith, let their practices wane. Their initial austerity falls by the wayside, and they may attempt to settle into the troublesome material world .  However, by Krishna’s grace, they are never absent in real terms because once one gets the mercy of Mahāprabhu it will never leave . Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that even if a devotee becomes sinful and fallen because they never give up a hope against hope and  never give up their faith ,  they should be regarded as devotees.

So , some devotees plunge deep into the Sankirtana movement and others never plunge but dip their toes in and slowly and carefully try to enter the oceans of the Sankirtana movements . Sometimes, they have attachments to material life and the material trappings of material success , opulences, and hopes of high social standing . Such devotees can progress and make progress through Dharmic approaches. However , a try at a complete sacrifice and attempts of deep surrender that may be  carried out by some devotee will carry  them a long way , their faith is deep , and they have not forgotten Krishna . Their sacrifice to the eternal remains eternal, and Krishna has not forgotten them . Very quickly, at any moment, deep hankering and remembrances will  return in many profound ways . This is promised by Krishna to those who have deeply sacrificed for Him and His representatives . Nothing is ever lost in spiritual life , and there is everything to gain .There is a verse that indicates one can do ones Dharma perfectly,  but if such a person does not take their sacrifices further and deeper  ,remaining in material comfort,  they miss out on a greater realising of the knowledge and detachment that Krishna consciousness brings . However , the person who made a deep sacrifice,  seemingly prematurely,  has this treasure eternally situated within them , and it will automatically  engulf them again and  irresistibly the depths of Krishna consciousness will rise  within their hearts and carry them much further than they could have imagined.

Such are the results of the mercy of sacrifices to please Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhus representatives, and particularly, we can say ,  Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada establishment of Krishna consciousness all over the world .Those early devotees worked wonders .

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AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada says .

The great mistake of modern civilization is to encroach upon others’ property as though it were one’s own and to thereby create an unnecessary disturbance of the laws of nature. These laws are very strong. No living entity can violate them.Only one who is Krishna conscious can easily overcome the stringency of the laws of nature and thus become happy and peaceful in the world.

As a state is protected by the department of law and order, so the state of Universe, of which this earth is only an insignificant fragment, is protected by the laws of nature.This material nature is one of the different potencies of God, who is the ultimate proprietor of everything that be. This earth is, therefore, the property of God, but we, the living entities, especially the so-called civilized human beings, are claiming God’s property as our own, under both an individual and collective false conception.If you want peace, you have to remove this false conception from your mind and from the world. This false claim of proprietorship by the human race on earth is partly or wholly the cause of all disturbances of peace on earth.

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We should know of the self-evident truth of all living beings and respect others’ cultures and lands .

Modern-day global conglomerates that drive greed  monopolies worldwide are  destroying ancient cultures and family traditions. They also destroy the local environments, destroy creatures of all kind , and exploit endlessly local resources for their needs and very often poison the land filling it full of plastics and chemicals.

We should all understand simple living and the high thinking associated with the principles of karma yoga,  jnana yoga,  niskama karma yoga,  astanga yoga, and ultimately the unifying force of Bhakti yoga and described in the Vedas .

The absolute truth can never be understood by a cheating heart that generates its own disinformation campaigns. The material world is a place full of denial and disinformation. There are many specialists in this field , and unfortunately, many become leaders , and the crooked attract the crooked , so its no surprise they get voted in . In political affairs , scientific affairs, and religious affairs , and especially in media affairs, disinformation is regularly spilling and spewing out in ever increasing volumes , no doubt Ai will be the king of misinformation.

What does Krishna say on these matters ,

BG 4.34: Learn the Truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him with reverence and render service unto him. Such an enlightened Saint can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the Truth.

Importantly, it’s the character and qualities of a Saint that are important. One should understand the qualities of a person who lives in truth , Arjuna asked Krishna what are the symptoms of one who lives in truth .

Arjuna said: What are the symptoms of one whose consciousness is thus merged in Transcendence? How does he speak, and what is his language? How does he sit, and how does he walk?

Krishna answers in Bhagavad Gita as it is

From text 54 onwards, chapter two .

Look it up …..

Everything is clear ..

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12 bar blues …..

I going down the graveyard

That’s where I’m destined to go

I’m going down to the graveyard just when no-one knows

I’ll see my friends a weeping

As my family bids me goodbye

But hold on to your hats, my friends

Cuz I’m never gonna die

My soul it is immortal

All the great thinkers , it’s what they say

I’ve had so many bodies

And another’s coming my way

Even in this life, a boy, a youth a man

My consciousness stayed with me, and that’s who I really am

Don’t care for Darwins evolution

And the guessing of professors who 

Use unmathematical manipulations

Imposed on so  many by so  few

Their  subjective speculative and mumbo jumbo requires so much blind  faith

Objective science  points the other way , so none of us should act  in haste

I’m going down the graveyard

With a lifted spirit on high

I’m going down the graveyard but I’m never gonna die.

If this truth is known and lived out, then some progress, we will call

Night time dream daytime dream this is the reality for all .

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Radha and Krishna are the most “ancient” but ever new lovers ..

The origins of everything are in the Supreme Brahman , Sri  Krishna, He is the original personality of Godhead . He has unlimited saktis and attributes displayed  unlimitedly throughout the spiritual and material realms . The superior,  the marginal and inferia energies are all described in the Srimad Bhagavatam, and we should know of them .

The most attractive and captivating features of life are said to be the attraction between the trancendental lovers ,  Radha Krishna, these affairs overwhelm all other emotions and are a cause of the greatest trancendental happiness or trancendental distress .We can say these are  reflected in  miniscule ways within the material energies.

Radha Krishna eternal pastimes and their eternal dancing ,which they enjoy along with their associates , also feature all the trancendental intrigues of the twists and turns of spiritual loving affairs and they are  delineated in the writing of the six Gosvamis . Sri Krishna of Goloka Vrndavana has nothing to do but enjoy , a big business boss leaves everything to his staff and enjoys his wealth , one could say . The Goswami’s of Vrndavana, although appearing as men in the 15th century  , were in spiritual truth ,  internally situated within their spiritual forms . Their original spiritual forms are young maidens who are the assistants and intimate friends of Srimati Radharani. The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have brought everything together through their writings.

Anybody hearing or studying can enter into the spirit of their literature , but only under the guidance and blessings of a pure devotee , just one moments association is enough . By their blessings, one can be freed from mundane lust and be transferred into a spiritual realm . One can aspire to be an assistant of the assistant of the assistant and try to relish the mellows of the every new but most ancient love affairs of Radha Krishna.

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When describing spiritual affairs, many may want to give a comparison or what can be called reflection of the spiritual and material planes. In some senses reflection has been used by our acaryas in terms of the varigatedness of the material and spiritual words,  but a broken mirror brings warped reflections . So we are warned not to mix the spiritual trancendental rasa or spiritual emotions , especially of the residents of Vrndavana , with our affairs or emotions . Our emotions are carried out within the conditioned modes of nature , or sometimes  through a semblance of spirituality that can  enter by following the  order of the spiritual masters in the param para and by engaging in Sadhana Bhakti ,  in an approach to Ragganuga spontaneous Bhakti.

The atoms , elements and compounds, and emotions based on the modes of material nature can not possibly mimic the trancendental pure existence where soul on soul exchanges of unalloyed pure love exists,  especially of Srimati Radharani and Her companions.

If you were on a beach alone , some forty-five years later, after visiting it with your family on a regular basis,  and if your children were in far distant lands and your partner had died , how would you feel ? You would be overcome by memories and separation from them , but can that separation and memories compare to the feelings Krishna and Radharani feel when they are separated , even for short times ? The original spiritual emotions have been written on by the Goswami’s of Vrndavana as directed by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu . For instance when  Vishakha was once clicking her fingernails , Krishna was sent into waves of trancendental ecstatic bliss , or when He hears the voices of the Gopies , surging spiritual emotions erupt within His heart . When the Gopies hear Krishna’s flute calling them for union , tears of emotions and joy flow through them uncontrollably . In seperation from Krishna, the Srimad Bhagavatam clearly describes those emotions , and Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu demonstrated these deep feelings of spiritual seperation,  His trancendental body became contorted,  this is described in the Caitanya Caratamrita.

So we should be careful not to compare or bring conditioned emotions within the spiritual experiences. Such genuine spiritual emotions decend by their own will by the mercy of Radha Krishna, the more we feel a hankering for genuine spiritual consciousness the more that attracts the spiritual realms.

Something on Rasabhasa

Rasabhasa (Sanskrit: रसाभास, rasābhāsa) translates “to a “semblance of emotion” or a “shadow of a mellow”. Rather than simply mixing spiritual and material emotions, it specifically refers to an improper, mismatched, or incompatible blending of emotional sentiments (rasas).

In the context of Indian aesthetics and Bhakti theology (devotional philosophy), the term breaks down into:

• Rasa: Taste, flavor, or the essence of an emotional relationship.
• Abhasa: A shadow, reflection, or superficial appearance.

How Rasabhasa Occurs

1. Incompatible Mixing (Virasata):
   In classical Indian poetry and drama, rasabhasa occurs when two conflicting emotions are forced together. For example, trying to evoke comedic humor (hasya-rasa) directly out of deep terror or grief (karuna-rasa) creates an aesthetic clash. It disrupts the purity of the emotional experience.
2. Adulteration in Bhakti (Devotion):
   In the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition outlined by scholars like Rūpa Goswāmī, rasabhasa specifically happens when a devotee’s transcendental relationship with the divine becomes adulterated or overlapping with incompatible moods. It can manifest when a practitioner artificially projects mundane or material qualities onto pure spiritual exchanges, or when they mismatch the fundamental roles of spiritual relationships (such as treating a mood of pure servitude with inappropriate, cheeky arrogance).

Because rasabhasa results in a distorted or “adulterated” reflection rather than the genuine, pure experience of ultimate spiritual ecstasy (bhakti-rasa), ancient teachers advise practitioners to recognize and avoid it.

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A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experimentation Such fact-supported theories are not Darwinian”guesses” but reliable accounts of the real world.

The problem with the current scientific world , including educational systems , is they are forever presenting to students, the media, and the wider world that their citations and subjective opinions , based on objective observations , are practically ” done and dusted ”   fact based and indisputably true .It is clearly the impression they give , no doubt. Although behind closed doors , they know of the flaws and massive gaps in their thinking, but those doubts are not voiced in public , and if “insider ” scientific members voice the truths of subjective speculative science,  they find themselves without funding or without teaching posts .

People in general take sciences to be presented honestly, but it’s actually and unfortunately not the case .To present something in scientific terms dishonestly or as practically indisputable when, in reality, leaders of sciences know it’s not a secure observation is out and out misrepresentation of facts .

When we witness as laymen,  sophisticated design and signs of symmetry and perfect  math in  everything in nature , along with what appears a perfection in engineering within bodily construction,  it’s hardly surprising,  especially  because of our own experiences of our  technological world ,that we might logically assume codes ,  information exchanges,  organised math ,  and examples of super fine engineering originates from a mind and consciousness , a person . The flaws of the Darwinian evolution hypothesis have been nicely explained by Dr Jonathan Wells in his book The Ikons of Evolution.  Vedic Nyaya logic teaches simply that when we see smoke in a distant mountain, we can sensibly conclude there is fire .In the modern era , if we see sophisticated codes , incalculably more complex than our computer coding , that produces everything we experience online , logic will drive us to obvious conclusions. When we look out , the Vedas say we are seeing the Sakti of the Supreme Brahman,  everyone has a personality and Sakti , things they can do or create or react to .

The Srimad Bhagavatam third canto describes the fundermental principles of material nature , wherein the classical,  atomic and ethereal planes are highlighted along with multicultural spacetime and the superior spiritual realms.

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The global snake like world spits out all kinds of poison , it is based on the ruthlessness of the snake who has no thoughts for its victim .This snake is sometimes taken for a rope that ties the whole world together in beneficial ways . It’s similar to the old Gaudia Vaisnava saying that persons in illusion take a snake  for a rope .The Harinama Sankirtana movements of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu are utilising this global world because everyone can get the chance to hear the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas and begin the chant the names of God , in this way the rope of knowledge will tie the world together in highly beneficial ways and bring the wisdom of scientific dualism to decapitate the snake like illusionists .When one chants the names of God, the Divine potency decends into the heart, and very quickly, one can easily learn to distinguish between the snake and rope .

The original purpose of rope snake analogy is as follows…

In Advaita Vedanta, the snake represents the material world, which is deemed completely illusory (mithya); when you turn on the light of knowledge, the snake vanishes because it never truly existed.

Gaudiya Vaishnava acharyas like Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura ,Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj and AC Bhaktivedanta Swami  Prabhupāda strongly challenge this conclusion. They point out that for an illusion to happen, the object being imagined must actually exist somewhere in reality. You can not mistake a rope for a snake unless you already know what a real snake looks like. Therefore, the material world is not a figment of a non-existent imagination; it is a tangible, real manifestation of God’s energy.

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In “Wokey Cokey” self centred cultures the general population have to be surrendered and accepting otherwise “you’re toast ” and cancelled , that is the thinking behind the new age philosophies.  The aristocratic systems , some say , are similar persons may argue, but the reality is the genuine Aristocratic systems were far more accepting than the “Wokey Cokey ” new age libertine cultures. This is shown in the very broad Vedas and within the eighteen puranas .They teach ,  each to their own , but with purposes and progressions for cultural development and further awareness of scientific dualism and the systematic sciences of self realisation and self fulfilled lives , the Puranas are designed for purpose and stem from the breathing of Visnu.

Traditions and conserving cultures are the most valuable asset for humanity, they stem ultimately from Divinity Himself and have purposes.

. Mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ [Bg. 9.13].

[O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.]

Sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ.

bahūnāṁ janmanām ante
jñānavān māṁ prapadyate
vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti
sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ

[Bg. 7.19]

[After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.]

After many, many births, when a person is actually wise, jñānavān, perfectly in knowledge… What is that symptom of perfect knowledge? Vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti: Kṛṣṇa is everything. That is perfection of knowledge. Vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti, prapadyate mām.

The following from Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami

“If I find out somebody supreme, then it is my duty to surrender unto him. Yes. But as soon as I surrender, I become mahātmā, liberal, not miser. Miser is thinking on his own account, “How much I’ll get? How much in my share?” And liberal means he has no more share; everything Kṛṣṇa’s. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ.“

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In spiritual life, Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja appeared externally to view the majority of people as suspect , or crooked and untrustworthy and only pure Vaisnavas as worth closely associating with with open hearts , those who were perhaps advanced  Madhyama Bhaktas or Uttama bhaktas

In his spiritual life, Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja maintained an uncompromisingly high standard for spiritual honesty, which heavily influenced , at least externally how he viewed ordinary conditional souls (baddha-jivas) versus advanced devotees (uttama-bhaktas). He frequently used sharp, confrontational language to cut through superficiality and religious hypocrisy. His perspective can be understood through the following key principles .The Material World as a “House of Deceit” Srila Bhaktisiddhanta viewed the material world as a place fundamentally governed by Maya (illusion). Because conditioned souls are driven by the subtle desires for fame (pratistha), wealth (kanaka), and sensual pleasure (kamini), he considered their motivations to be inherently untrustworthy or “crooked” (kapata). From his perspective, anyone not fully surrendered to Krishna is , to some degree, deceiving themselves and others.  Guarding Against Bad Association (Asat-Sanga) To protect the tender creeper of devotion (bhakti-lata), he strictly enforced the Vaishnava principle of avoiding asat-sanga (materialistic or deceptive association). He taught that mixing closely with people who are driven by fruitive results (karmis) or mental speculation (jnanis) would contaminate a practitioner’s spiritual focus. Therefore, he viewed the general populace as “suspect” in a spiritual sense—not out of malice, but as a realistic assessment of their potential to divert a devotee from absolute truth . Ultimate Value is in the Uttama-Bhakta , he taught that truth , intimate association (sanga) should be reserved exclusively for pure Vaishnavas. He emphasized that only an Uttama (topmost devotee) is entirely free from duplicity and material motivation. Real spiritual advancement is only possible by serving and listening to the Vaikuntha-rava (the voice of the spiritual world) coming through a transparent, pure representative of God. Close intimacy with anyone less than a pure devotee can invite spiritual compromise or subtle contamination of karma or jnana . Srila Ragganatha das in his manah Siksa also warns of wary association , and lists them , and obstacles that should be avoided. Srila Bhaktisiddanta showed compassion through confrontation ,while his assessment of the general public seemed severe, his inner motivation was profound compassion (jiva-daya). He did not abandon ordinary people; rather, he founded the Gaudia math and deployed massive preaching campaigns to elevate them. He famously asserted that presenting the absolute truth boldly—even if it sounded harsh or offended people’s egoistic sensibilities—was the highest form of kindness, designed to wake souls up from their spiritual slumber.

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