The Bhajans of the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas are not just songs but rather deep meditations, realisations, and prayers, and it behoves us all to regularly enter into the spirit of these hymns on a regular daily basis as well as discuss and meditate on their meanings , as much as we do with our acaryas writings. Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada was an excellent musician and composer of melodies and regularly sang the songs of our acaryas so beautifully and the sounds of the Sabdha Brahman emanating from his lotus mouth are still being heard all over the world on a daily basis .
Srila Prabhupada was so fond of singing trancendental bhajans, and they immediately took everyone in his presence to the spiritual planes of Vraj. .Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Narottam das Thakur are but some of the writers of these wondrous trancendental masterpieces .
Just as Srila Jiva Goswami gives as the meaning of the Maha mantra, along with the Goswami’s of Vrndavana, who were taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu , Krishna accepts names given to Him by His devotees, when he accepts such names He is fully present.
When our acaryas write their songs of devotion, Krishna is fully present. If we follow their prayers and meditations remembering their pure devotion, we may receive their mercy and understand something of the depths of their bhajans.
nāmaḥ — the holy name; cintāmaṇiḥ — transcendentally blissful giver of all spiritual benedictions; kṛṣṇaḥ — not different from Kṛṣṇa; caitanya–rasa–vigrahaḥ — the form of all transcendental mellows; pūrṇaḥ — complete; śuddhaḥ — pure, without material contamination; nitya — eternal; muktaḥ — liberated; abhinnatvāt — due to not being different; nāma — of the holy name; nāminoḥ — and of the person who has the name.
Translation
“ ‘The holy name of Kṛṣṇa is transcendentally blissful. It bestows all spiritual benedictions, for it is Kṛṣṇa Himself, the reservoir of all pleasure. Kṛṣṇa’s name is complete, and it is the form of all transcendental mellows. It is not a material name under any condition, and it is no less powerful than Kṛṣṇa Himself. Since Kṛṣṇa’s name is not contaminated by the material qualities, there is no question of its being involved with māyā. Kṛṣṇa’s name is always liberated and spiritual; it is never conditioned by the laws of material nature. This is because the name of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa Himself are identical.’
Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada would say Hare Krishna means an exchange of love .
Ultimately, central to the highest exchanges of love is the love which is forever expanding in trancendental bliss and attractions and with curious uncertainties between The Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krishna and the Supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani.
A love of absolute dependency, which is interrupted by separations and united by unions , both serve as expansion elements to the love , for union and separation expand the ecstacy of love .
This verse brings explains the mystery of Radha Krishna.
This text is from the diary of Śrīla SvarūpaDāmodara Gosvāmī. It appears as the fifth of the first fourteen verses of Śrī Caitanya–caritāmṛta.
“The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, They separated Themselves eternally. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī KṛṣṇaCaitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself.”
Within Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu we find both union and separation in one form .
Srimati Radharani also exhibited these features in Her union and separation. In pure trancendental loving attraction in union, Srimati Radharani felt at times separation and in separation , She felt union .These trancendental feelings of Srimati Radharani are written of by Srila Rupa and Ragganatha das Goswami’s and their followers.
Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and our param para acaryas have described these trancendental affairs by reference to the Goswami’s of Vrndavana who were personal associates of Srimati Radharani and were themselves experiencing pranaya oneness in love with Srimati Radharani in Her oneness of love for Krishna.
In the material world, everyone is chasing the thrills of the excitement of romantic love , endless books , theatre, and films are made . This hankering and searching is a natural quality of the deepest part of our existence and it is discovered in full when we become a servant of love not a master of it in self centred lust in the material world.
There is a vast difference between broken glass and the highest quality of diamonds, although to some,they look similar.
Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami would say we enjoy our trancendental senses in pure service through Radha Krishna in satisfying Their , what Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja described as Their emaculate senses .
In that state, we can join the dance of eternal love . The Goswami’s litratures are windows to the spiritual kingdom and services to Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu will bring us to such windows, in this age we must understand Radha Krishna through Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu.
How to know ….
Sri Guru is self effulgent to the prospective disciple , Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj says , and the sastra say the jiva is wondering wondering wondering all over the universe and if they really want Krishna Krishna will send Sri Guru, Srila BR Sridhar Swami says Guru comes in many forms, Caitanya Caratamrita speaks of Diksa and Siksa our Gaudia Vaisnava line is predominantly made up of Siksa Gurus. When Srila Prabhupada made his first offering to Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja on the anniversary of his disappearance, Srila Prabhupada wrote no question of your Guru my Guru, Guru is one . If you want to understand the most highest truths of Krishna Krishna will make arrangements, the litratures of the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas are like Sastra sanga to one who has mercy of what Srila Prabhupada described as the “current link ” thus humility and respect and surrender to all the Vaisnavas carry one a long way . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Religion is an aftermath….of life’s arrival…says Dawkins and Cronin . They assume themselves as authorities of knowledge and as leaders of scientific communities . They also feel its their responsibility to educate and enlighten the world of their “realisations ” of so-called fact based” truths ” , in reality everything they come up with are their subjective interpretations based on others subjective interpretations . Scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis are not based on objective sciences . When examined effectively by objective science followers, using objective sciences, it easily becomes apparent that everything they present is simply guessing and cobbled a together hypothesis with no real supporting scientific proof . When the objective scientific intelligensia push them hard on these matters, they admit and submit … they just don’t know for sure anything that they present is fact .
Dawkins and Cronin have been taught since childhood and throughout their educational experiences by teachers and other PHD. profs . Who were they ? They are also speculative thinkers who have themselves dishonesty presented guessing as facts to millions of school children and students . Darwinians become neo Darwinians , but it’s the same , just regurgitated and dressed up differently . In reality, we have a chain of dishonesty , and each generation of so-called teachers are the link in the chain . Walk into the natural history museum in London. What’s the first thing endless school children see on pre-arranged school tours ? Apes turning into men . Indoctrination from childhood , pictures in early history books of apes turning into men are widely distributed. The Miller Urey experiments are highly regarded and promoted as progressive biological research and indications of our origines in a primordial sludge . The natural history museums architectural structure suspiciously looks like a church in its construction . Cheating on all levels, even psychological levels.
Scientific dualism means consciousness and mind , along with matter, are completely different energies, and this is a self-evident truth . Thus an old person is the same person they were when young , the body is changing around the consciousness , the mind and intelligence also changes, the subtle ethereal energies are covering the pure consciousness , however by the pure consciousness, the ethereal energies are detected .. Only those deliberately keeping themselves in the darkness of subjective speculations miss the obvious , they have accepted false gurus . Of course , Darkins has to try to explain the blatantly obvious about perfect math , symmetry, and obvious design that is all pervasive. So he tells his students to “Ignore what appears as design in the world, close your eyes and intelligence to it , or else you can’t be a true scientist.” Consciousness in objective terms is experienced as a phenomenon different from matter , and thus, it needs examining. We are the same person in our changing body and fluctuating mind along with a fallible and somewhat fading intelligence , especially in old age . Thus , every theological culture , using teleological arguments , presents the natural conclusion that any origin of consciousness , namely God , would have the responsibility to cater for both free will and along side it , bring forth , via the responsive universe various deterministic outcomes . Divine algorithmic processes, one might say . Divinity is hidden but not hidden.
Both the atheistic and theistic need satisfying . Educational experiences for every wondering particle of consciousness , who find themselves enclosed in matter , and having to deal with all the consequences that brings , need catering for . If Divinity did not do so , free will and determinism could not function . The material world is made as such that truth can be presented as untruths, and untruths can be accepted as truth . A clever arrangement on all levels is occurring with multidimensional degrees of mixes of freedoms, entanglements, and liberation . Everyone can satisfy themselves somehow , the karmic show must go on . However , everyone’s underlying consciousness remains , and unless absolute truth is arrived at , one will remain unfulfilled and somewhat bewildered. In scientific realities , there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever molecules themselves move towards life . In fact , the chemistry behind molecules are so inconceivably complicated in their own right , one can ask a synthetic chemist how chemical evolution could have taken place by chance arrangement within a primordial soup because they are aware how difficult it is to get chemicals to perfectly bind and remain stable . When a consciousness particle is injected from the male within the female , information systems accompany it . The origins of this information are a complete mystery to Dawkins and Cronin. First, consciousness comes , and only then does informational systems that organise and structure matter follow, life comes from life . The beginnings of this information are described in the Vedas , the cyclic universe means information and the species , that vary through time periods , have a history we can call time immemorial , untraceable history. The material universes are eternal but cyclic . The complete and incomprehensible engineering within each body and species carries similar engineering techniques . Same engineer different engineering . The more we look into the microbial world, the more we see even more sophisticated engineering .The dna codes are adjustable , as information on a computer code is .111000110011110001 .in millions of sequences carry information and images . Dna ..
Mathematical Possibilities by Length
1 base pair: 4¹ = 4 sequences
3 base pairs (like a codon): 4³ = 64 sequences
10 base pairs: 4¹⁰ = 1,048,576 sequences
6 billion base pairs (a human genome): \(4^{6,000,000,000}\) combinations—a number so vast it has roughly 3.6 billion zeros, vastly outnumbering all atoms in the known universe
Those advocates who sing the glory of scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis only continue to fool themselves and try to take their brand to the truely unthinking . Best to study objective sciences oneself and bypass subjective guessing that claims to be objective science..
How to know who is who in scientifically orientated religious circles..?
Prof Albert Einstein said that religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame.
If we find violence and hatred and fanaticism …this means the theologians and their religious representatives are unscientific and are clueless and not representing God , quite the opposite. Actually, the truth is that theological cultures of every kind have the systematic processes of gradual development of knowledge , everyone takes things at a different pace , according to their previous attachments and impressions . In all religions, there are first class, second class, and third class followers. If anything is presented fanatically with hatred and intolerance, it’s because it’s being presented by third class unthinking followers…who have little realisation of God . One should seek first-class followers who understand God consciousness and the sciences behind not only creation but also psychological conditioning due to attachments to the material world, which bring the varied plights of the conditioned souls . The mature spiritual teacher can give a particular path suitable for a particular state of consciousness, and thus gradually free them from their lower speculative and karmic tendencies. Practical applications within theological cultures are well understood by the first class representatives . Heaven and Hell preaching is a sign of a third class devotee. In any religion, first class representatives should be sought , and every scripture will tell us clearly their symptoms .common sense is required . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Victim consciousness , where karma ends and injustices begin
No victim consciousness in Krishna consciousness says the unthinking..
That’s OK but , lets get things in perspective .When duties are carried out properly by persons who have the particular qualifications or skill sets for designated tasks , and still suffering comes upon us , then we can think there are times suffering is unavoidable and karma most definitely works like that . There are at times some circumstances that come about where injustices are justice, by karmic synchronicities , we live in a responsive universe , and it will and does respond . However, Vedic culture works on the principle of Varna Ashram . This implies the right person for the right job , and carried out correctly according to set standards that are ultimately legitimated by the Vedas and supervised by the Vedic intelligentsia who bring governance, compliance and justice to all proceedings. Thus . One who does wrong and suffers wrong is wrong . When Lord Bramha went to see Maha Visnu with his concerns of the” goings on ” on the earth planet that was being overburdened with militarism. Krishna did not say ” Why are you bothering me? This is everyone’s karma , there are no unnecessary sufferings. “ Rather, he came to establish justice and reestablish good leadership and reestablish principles of religion in all senses , by doing so, the innocent are protected . In one sense, as Prabhupada says , no one is innocent in the material world….but that’s no licence for inflicting suffering or poor leadership or arranging businessmen to take control of the world. Democracies have boiled down to fools voting in fools and fools appointing other fools to do jobs they haven’t the psychological mindsets for .
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
Krishna is non envious and He gives the living beings what they decide they want , but everything is adjusted and legislated within the boundaries of a pre made responsive universe . Universal laws do not need repealing , although during the cyclic cycles of universal affairs, differences in laws can apply . Krishna is supremely independent and self-satisfied and never interacts or is affected by the laws of the material universes . Sometimes, the king or prime minister may visit the prison , but he is not subject to the laws that the prisoners are compelled to uphold. Krishna is always happily exchanging love with those who wish to associate with Him , and anyone can , and should . Such exchanges of love take the living beings from this temporary ,unsure and limited plane of existence and places them within a spiritual pland where soul on soul relationships occur. Material elements and compounds, along with conditioned subtle minds, are left far behind . The living beings are responsible for the material world , its by their own choices , and they also self incriminate themselves by their own actions . Some of them , in their suffering, wave their fists at angrily at God .
God has no friends or enemies by material standards , He treats everyone equally and with a certain degree of detachment as the living beings choose independence from Him . If , however, anyone wants God as a friend, He immediately becomes their best friend . Actually He is always their best friend and well wisher , some know it , and how He is so , and others don’t.
Krishna, in His lila aspects, is known as Dhiroddhata, He exhibits qualities that may outwardly resemble envy, pride, restlessness, and anger.
However, this refers to when He kills demons or suppresses those that cause suffering to others , any contact with the absolute all good personality of Godhead is all good , if the demons are killed by Krishna in His Dhiroddhata form, they become liberated from the material world and attain liberalisations of various kinds . Some impersonal , and some personal according to circumstances . Once, a witch came to kill baby Krishna . The witch was dressed as a friend of Krishna’s mother , so she was passed to baby Krishna, this disguised witch . offered baby Krishna her breastmilk , but her breast was smeared with poison . Krishna sucked her breast and also sucked out her life . Krishna kindly accepted the witch as His mother , out of Krishna’s kindness, she became a nursemaid in the eternal spiritual realms and lives in bliss . Any approach to God in absolutely beneficial . Such is His absolute nature , bad becomes good .
So, the living beings , if they choose to wonder in the material world , can do so . Krishna cares for them and instructs them in the responsibilities of independent actions and warns them not to do harm to others , He does this directly or indirectly through His devotees .
Krishna being non envious always remains their distant of close by well wisher . Its always our call .
He is the person who knows simultaneously the complexities and entanglements of every particle of consciousness who, due to countless billions of lives of karmic actions, have led them to the current karmic synchronicities they are experiencing . Krishna says as much in his Bhagavad Gita where the field of activities are laid out , the ploughing of that field leads to a churning of the universal order , which is the inferia material energies of Divinity, as such the living beings by their own individual consciousness are attached to the responsive universe . In that universe the many possibilities described in quantum physics are lived out , instant communications are inacted as any part of the universe can play host to the individual soul who wonders wonders wonders all over the universe looking for perfection in loving exchanges .Divinity within the heart directs the wonderings and is waiting for the soul to turn his full attention to Him .Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita there are two birds sitting on the tree of material life , one eats the bitter fruits of death and the other watches waiting for the bitter consumer to turn to the other bird who is Krishna Himself , so they can both fly to the original tree of like where the sweet fruits are in plentiful supply and of many varieties.
Relatively speaking, the fruits at the top of the tree being closer to the sun of knowledge may appear to taste sweeter , but still, the best of fruits begin to rot and become bitter or even poisonous .
The knower of the field
BHAGAVAD GITA 13.3.
kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor jñānaṁ yat taj jñānaṁ mataṁ mama
Translation
O scion of Bharata, you should understand that I am also the knower in all bodies, and to understand this body and its knower is called knowledge. That is My opinion.
The essence of ISKCON..reinstate leaders of quality
AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Arrival Address… “At the present moment, the human society is giving stress on the mercantile class of men and worker class Actually, there is no intelligent class of men or administrative class of men. So our movement is creating some intelligent class of men. According to our Vedic knowledge, the first-class intelligent man is he who knows what is God. He’s first-class intelligent man.”…………end .
Unless this happens.. Fools will continue to vote in fools . Hogs , dog’s , camels, and asses vote in the biggest animals to lead them . Society is becoming influenced by the lowest classes of men who are infused with scientific materialism . Darwinian hypothesis is the name of the game with rampant materialism the results. This is the plan and workings of the demoniac. Successive generations have been indoctrinated , and theological cultures in real terms, along with objective scientific thinking, have been dismantled . The conclusions of the new fangled speculative sciences are not based on objective scientific methods . Everything concluded is based on the subjectivity of the atheistic . Its best guessing and scientific dualism has been shoved under the table , hidden away in real terms, and their fake narratives say dualism is pseudosciences. The implementation of this deceit are far reaching everyone’s world veiw has become indoctrinated , the educational systems have been reversed in truth , to teach untruths .Our modern world and the torment caused by atheistic leaders , who have been given a licence in atheistic propaganda , often leaders claim to be religious, but as Jesus says , ” You will know them by their fruits ” Successive generations of so called theologians have changed the real meanings of theological texts , this results in pretenders coming to power claiming to represent God , political leaders who are animalistic claim God is on their side . Take a look at today’s world. Something has gone drastically wrong. The intelligentsia in real terms have been usurped and silenced , and the passionate and unintelligent lead the world , democracy boils down to mean those who follow a mad man as he runs off a cliff and takes his foolish following with him . In all realities, they are running straight into the animal kingdoms , and their consciousness has been made that way by neglecting objective sciences and real intelligensia. When societies follow fake leaders of science, religion, or politics, the inevitable occurs. The modern world continues to be guided by the best guessing of proud, atheistic, and clueless persons. Sophisticated animals….., animals can be violent , aggressive, and have no feelings for others . Ask our human animal leaders what consciousness is , that is the most important question anyone can ask . Not one of our scientific or political leaders can give an answer , yet they expect us all to follow them blindly in economic chaos and violent aggressive wars . The goals of sophisticated animals are eating , sleeping , sex , and snatching territories or defending snatched territories. Sophisticated animals do animalism big time . The global conglomerates , who control political power , leave their traits, the world led by consumerism, and profits at any cost are the evidence . Cancel culture and narratives of every kind are spilling out of TV studies and social media . Funded by a currupt financial institutions where insider trading is acceptable , if you are in the know and many are . Divinity and His representatives know properly and understand the broad topics of theological studies based on mind , matter, and consciousness in all its states and outward appearances . The psychological states of particular members of society are also well understood by such persons. Leaders of men in political, religious, or sciences have specific and highest of characteristics . The Vedas plots a path for everyone, and the intelligentsia know it well . Whatever stage one is in materially or spiritually, a progressive path is found .
Interfaith.
Although the immature followers of different faiths have problems with each other , the most spiritually advanced of them don’t . Srila Jiva Goswami, in his Bhagavat Sandarbha, says that when one looks at a multicoloured cloth, people see different colours , and each individual may see one colour as more prominent than another individual. Similarly, theological cultures differ somewhat , but they are cut from the same cloth . In that way , people of wisdom rightly have much respect for each other and can easily share in their experiences of Divinity . So , it’s important for faiths to be primarily judged on the most advanced followers of each one . The lesser advanced persons who see so many differences in religious theological texts in time by becoming spiritual mature will also be able to share faith with no insecurities and with realized knowledge.
When leaders fail to take seriously the honest and wise intelligentsia, then problems arise of every kind . Leaders of today ignore the intelligentsia who are scientifically able to understand consciousness and dualism and who know of the equality of all being of their rights under God’s laws , self-evident truth.
Reagan …trickle down economics is the example of crooked capitalism gone mad ..
Fanatics and the most greedy and exploitative extremists follow this system. It’s what unfortunately the world economics forum is based upon . Trickle-down economics fails .. Greed breeds more greed and more competing to be the most greedy sophisticated animal . Thus .. for example, young people all over the world can’t buy a house right in current times . Most are owed by private landlord’s who have escalated deliberately and forever the rising house prices . The system is based on world wide monopolies, built into centralised conglomerates that are contrived by greedy banks and financial markets . They see to it their government friends don’t build too many houses and that restrictions are in place for low cost social housing ….The stock , currency, and commodity markets work primarily on insider information, that cause poverty and wealth at a micro second . Third world countries have no securities for economic developments, as the commodities they sell are subjected to not free markets , but fixed markets , every third world country has outside political interferences driving conflicts within them .Precious metal and earth in a technology world are making matters worse and worse. This is the dream of Ronald Reagan and the nightmare for everyone else . Businessmen can never never be left to run society unless they take instructions from a genuine government who are directed by the intelligensia who have the highest characteristics , and who know and feel for everyone and every creature. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
