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Western societies are subject to and are exposed to  biased information of all kinds , certainly, we live in a world of deceit and hypocrisy . The  freedom agendas of  Western governments is the  popular spin , in reality, though , and its becoming well known , the leaders , because of being in the pockets of liberal business driven oligarchs never really apply governance and compliance for the people’s benefits , rather everything is skewed in the direction of global conglomerates . Unfortunate it is  that 90% of the populations are easily fooled .

The  Darwinian narrative provides us with a good example of how an educational system is teaching a speculative hypothesis as fact based science,  although micro evolution is acceptable and natural macro evolution is not at all scientifically seen , rather something quite different.

Most people do not understand the implications of the fake political agenda, ‘s, neither do people understand objective science . The Vedic emphasis is always,  on finding truth , and truth is found in the hearts of the genuine intellectual persons , who have knowledge of body ,  mind ,  and consciousness,  such persons work and supervise the work of the Vipras , who are  genuinely independent scholars in particular feilds.

Putting in simple terms. one can  not grant freedom to a child , for fear of the child coming to harm , society needs supervision  by the intelligentsia.

So ,  without  philosophical,  scientific and a thorough theological education ,   Einstein  himself thought theological insights give a essential contribution to knowledge , and  without such wisdom , allowing for an instant libertarian approach,  and carte blanch freedoms to just about everyone,  is  causing  great harm  both singularly and communionally .

The  world is in a terrible state in every way , economically,  environmentally, and socially .

What’s gone wrong , I suggest a naive understanding of freedom,  has allowed fools and rascals free reigns , particularly money men , who are addicted to profits  and want more and more , although they  don’t know how to properly utilise profit  in beneficial ways .

The Vedic veiw is to teach the regulative principles of freedom,  they are clearly spoken of in the Bhagavad Gita ,  thus Vedic culture puts the intelligentsia is pride of place , they have the responsibility to properly guide , the naive freedom lovers bind people  in perpetual misery and hand the world over  to unscrupulous and dangerous persons , who have   insufficient knowledge , and are  totally unaware of thhe outcomes of their actions .

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Some might say ISKCON has become a light touch organisation,  neither promoting or encouraging deep bhajan , or encouraging its members to deeply research our rich literary archive of our previous acaryas works. Although it’s founder Acarya Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami  was a  Vaisnava scholar and he also  issued challenges to moden western societies , as did his spiritual master Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja  , who was a living encyclopedia, and they both frequently commented on social  , political , economic and  sciences  both of the consciousness and the general philosophy of science. All kinds  of watered-down practice ,   compromised religions  , or  sentimentalists  based on questionable motives were pointed out time and time again . When the monks of Iona , the Scottish Island , decided to leave the isolation of their lives and preach , they eventually became compromised themselves.

Its a tricky business associating and being financed by  complex busineses , who have  their fingers in many pies . The education systems that we may encourage our children to attend are teaching unscientific hypothesis as fact based science and encouraging children to partake in the Globalist economic systems.

Certainly AC Bhaktivedanta Swami was a prolific social critique in every way  and was certainly deeply read in the works of our historic param para , and judging by his beautiful bhajans  , was of course deeply relishing the highest mellows of devotion .

What happened to the old ISKCON and its ideals ? We all have the responsibility of contributing and keeping it fixed in its original cor values.

Light touch preaching , and  not upsetting the political status quo or the modern world veiw , might help raise funds and used tactically that’s good , Mahaprabhu was careful not to associate too closely with King Prataparudra , and  Srila Prabhupada,  Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami and Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur all  showed caution in that regard.

Utilising the wealth ,  resources, and personalities who become affiliates of ISKCON and effectively  directing them is the challenge. But must be done strictly under our previous acaryas tutelage  and not independently .

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Is that a reality?

The founder of ISKCON AC Bhaktivedanta Swami explains.

Prabhupāda: Śva-viḍ… Viḍ-varāha means hogs, and uṣṭra means camel, and kharaḥ means gāḍha, ass. So these leaders are being praised by these animals = dogs, hogs, camel and asses. And they are thinking they are very big men. What is the value of prayers offered by dogs, hogs, asses and camel? The general people are dogs, hogs, camels and asses ,  I think you have read. I have explained how they are camel, how they are dog, how they are hog and how they are ass. I have explained this.

Why A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami says this can be found in his many  writings , his commentary on the Srimad Bhagavatam  is clearly pointing out many things about modern social matters , you could say he is a social critic , bringing into focus , the Vedic perspectives .

The Vedas indicate people who are forgetting their God-given higher nature and like animals follow only their uncontrolled senses , are wasting an important opportunity,  and actually a special gift of material nature , a human life is well capable of understanding the rationale of Divinity , as He explains in His Bhagavad Gita the situation of , consciousness ,within matter at a certain time period,  as well as the concept of the reactive universe , anyone who has not read Bhagavad Gita , should make it an upmost priority in their lives .

Regarding animals …Can you tell a street dog not to have sex in the street in full view of the public , can you tell an Ass not to work hard for little food , but rather eat grass in the feilds,  can you tell a hog , to  stop eating indiscriminately the stools of other creatures,    can you tell a camel to stop chewing thorns and enjoying the blood taste from a cut tongue that the thorns have inflicted . Animals work strictly under lower bodily modes , humans should act as humans,  with sensitivity and control of senses , and in doing so, they will  automatically  discover why they have been awarded human forms , in the deeper aspects of a controlled mind .

The great spiritualist and astute social critique AC Bhaktivedanta Swami books should be read by everyone who wants to know what’s what.

The Darwinions greatly limit themselves by practically turning a blind eye to the physicists and chemists , and  they overplay the importance of biology , thinking that its solely biological systems and a vaguely explained mutational process that  alone is how speciation took place . But in the great scheme of things, many many members of the scientific community today  readily accept multidimensional space time as well as cyclic universal events that are self perpetual  in ways beyond their comprehension,  accompanying these perpetual events the Vedas say , is  speciation , where something left off , it begins again and not by random and unguided processes .

With that in mind, the Vedas confirms a link between speciation and a responsive universe that is offering many many consciousness experiences . Inconceivable engineering and a self selection process is laid out within the 2nd and 3rd Cantos of the Bhagavatam.

Living beings who inhabit the various bodies within the multidimensional areas of the universe of which are contained fourteen divisions the facilities of these engineered bodies have been in existence since time immemorial and the living beings are in constant flux accepting different bodies within different the different species and universal regions. All have  been in existence since time immemorial . The Vedas indicate that according to each individual being’s mental state and  conscious actions , caused by  their interactions within matter , determine the next machine like body . All such affairs are connected to an automated process of bodily production . One could say a super subjective artificial intelligence system is operated , thus, it’s  inconceivable but also conceivable , especially in a modern Ai world.

The material energies are according to the Bhagavad Gita ,  endlessly mutable , and as such the ethereal mind  is free to wonder in uncalculable  ways , the circumstances behind every living being gives us an indication of previous wonderings and activities. Each being is  having an individual experience,  very real to them , and is  developing  and tasting some of the  unlimited variables of inner consciousness and its  experience in a particular body .  Thus , nothing is fixed in the mental ethereal planes , and accordingly  , speciation changes and adapts as the material energies award multitudes of bodies that are forever  responsive to ever changing mental  circumstances that are also fluctuating from an elevated states to more degraded states .As an engineer can automatically adapt a set designs to suit a slightly different purpose, one can say many variables or extensions or changes to the engineering of the body are always and easily possible , thus to the Darwinian we say , same engineer,  different engineering.  For instance, you can turn your garage into a first-class mini theatre or a cinema   and a wheel can be used in manh many ways . So the Vedic explanation for speciation, is  same engineer,  different engineering , along with flexibility , responding to a consciousness that continually becomes entrapped in universal cyclic cycles .

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Adhyātma, means ones original pure consciousness , the Atma ,  conditioned by a material body and a material mind.   Bodies are made of atoms , elements compounds, and minds are made of material  ethereal subtle elements . The original consciousness has an opportunity,  by its spontaneous free will to turn either way , like a crab on the beach can run into the water or the land .According to their individual desire , they are given a place by higher authorities  either into  the  material natures  or directly the spirtual realms .

When they choose by their own  attitudes the  lesser energies,  they are supervised by  authorities working  independently of them , in various supervisory rolls  , and they are impregnated into the lesser energies,  and the Demigods monitor  the  reactive and responsive mechanisms that are automated , and karmic synchronicities begin . The  free will and determinism of the consciousness within nature springs into action . This planet  Earth has specific laws of nature ,  but in the  higher , lower, and middle planetary systems , different laws of time and reactions   are taking effect .

The ginormous universal form of Divinity, an  expansion of Visnu,  who  directly and indirectly is being , is lying down in a mystic slumber , and through His yoga nidra sleeping and dreaming , creating the temporary illusory worlds .

They are created , maintained and annihilated in the course of time  , facilitating the activities of each individual jiva .

Everything about the creation,  although appearing impersonal,  because  everything of the universal form is ultimately directed by Krishna in His expansion of Maha Visnu. This universal form also  includes  the  cooperation of all the demigods who reside in  different planets. It is  called adhidaivata.

The physical nature that consciousness is  experiencing  and subjected to , which include psychological conditions  , constantly changes , the  material bodies  pass through six stages: they are born, they grow, they remain for some duration, they produce some by-products, they dwindle, and then they vanish. Why this is so , and how the particular physical laws are operating causing the  deteriation of cells , that eventually can not reprocess themselves,  no one knows . The scientific community is trying to artificially slow down ageing and death . This physical nature is called adhibhūta, and it’s under the laws of this part of the universe . Time and physical laws operate differently within the multidimensional universe , the Vedas indicate . After all , why assume these laws are universally the same throughout our universe. The Harvard Prof Lisa Randall assessment of multidimensional space parallels  the Vedas .

The Vedas give deep scientific insight and bring the universal order to light .

Einstein spoke of the space time continuum.  This parallels the Vedic scientific truths of the consequences of a jiva within the total material energies along with a free will ,or a free wont , free wont means , one controls the demands of the mind and senses.

The past effects the present,  the present effects the future , and the past .

Ultimately, it’s said in the Vedas that the artificial independent life of a jiva , who in reality is completely dependent on Divinity for everything , and is  being awarded and given  sanction by Divinity for everything they do ,  this power or restriction is according to previous interactions within the individuals universal affairs and interactions. Indeed Divinity Himself has to give the impetus and intelligence for the jiva to enter into his artificial material life , such are the complexities of the material matrix , Divinity has to demonstrate to the living beings and give them examples , directly or indirectly of how to utilise life and become an independent enjoyer . First Divinity acts , first Divinity sees , through His unlimited expansions,  then the entity picks up inspiration and follows

So, the multidimensional space time entanglements are first enacted by Divinity , with that in mind and considering , what Shakespeare said , life is like a stage , we are actors , who is to say that , the 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s or 2056 and all those  inconsequential activities,  when compared to the eternal energies , are not constantly  being played out. After all, how many planets are in our universe, and according to the Vedas,  there are countless universes .

The inconceivable energies and consciousness of Divinity have to be accepted.

I think we should see the Vedas in an extremely broad light , it teaches values to all classes of men as well as social mobility.
It’s clear that superior is a relative term .
To an extremely uncultivated fellow, values would mean something quite different than to a highly educated and cultured person , whose values and knowledge cultivation are in different places .
Naturally, Betrand Russell, in setting up his school in Sussex,  meant that he wants to teach something superior, than the students currently understand.
But Betrand himself , may not ,  because of perhaps excessive attachment to his obviously highly cultured intelligence, be able to penetrate an intellectual platform and further  understand a super subjective plane,  taught by  self realised souls and the best of the theologians.
That super subjective realm points to beauty and artistry and existence that is  far superior to the ever changing and fleeting existence in conditioned material life . Nevertheless, such knowledge can be understood by developing a deeply humble and respectful spirit and recognition of superiors.

Further ..Vedas means knowledge, so the relative knowledge Bertrand adopted and shared , parts  of which would parallel the vedas , is essential work, my only point was , Bertrand limited himself.  By attachment to an intellect , and  what he shared was also  limited to his  own ,and others subjective opinions ,  for instance to assume the orderly universe is not orderly, or that the consciousness from where such order came , had no intention of communicating its purposes to other consciousness particles would seem not to be logical . Science is  understood primarily through witnessing objectively, so excellent education will open students up to rational logical thinking and objective science.

“Once again, physicists have used an ultrasensitive underground detector to hunt for particles of mysterious dark matter—and come up empty. The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment searched for so-called weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with five times better sensitivity than any previous experiment, but saw no sign of the hypothetical particles, the LZ team reported at two conferences today—one in Chicago and the other in São Paulo.”

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I would suggest the concept of dark energies or dark matter could be looked at in different ways .

Almost certainty the possibility exists of a subtle interaction within such energies, an energy the scientific community know is ” out there , ”  but which is perplexing and unfathomable to them .

But , there again ,  so as well are the energies of the mind and intelligence , they have many unknown properties and so many influence but are not directly seen or at all understood 

Dark energies and dark matter, although according to Lisa Randall, the Harvard Prof , gravity is detected within them  , light does not enter , that’s why they are called dark

The Vedas and other theological sciences give  much importance to sciences , especially the third Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam, as well as Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads. Unseen ethereal planes are  familiar territories in Vedic texts and its indicated the atomic plane devolves from these more finer energies ,  which originate from Sound , or a command from the super subjective plane, a consciousness , that is  personal , with will power

Marie Currie’s experiments on subtle energies are interesting mediums and psychic energies,  and we know all  world cultures have historic references to mystics. Shaman and the like,  so ultimately dark energies and dark matter may have a foundation there.

Most certainly, the Vedas indicate that .

Aug 27th, 2024
Many people are  asking the question, what is social media doing to society psychologically?  That kind of questioning or considering will not come from our  current leaders , who need you to be on society media , they need you , so they can model you the way they would like you to be and to provide the bucks for their power base . Everyone is desperate to influence somebody else , but who are the best persons to be influenced by ? And who should we avoid ?

That’s the education given in the Vedas .

Having a completely over indulgent lifestyle of spending hours with phones glued to our hands will  affect our thinking and intellectual capacity as well as our creativity.

Quite time , a time for contemplation and deep thinking is fast being eradicated from young peoples lives  . In days gone by a sense of an inner life and  even loneliness had a very creative and healthy aspect to it ,  the journey within is very fruitful .

Social media is making us creatively lazy and philosophically lazy ,as we seek to spend time feeding off the whims and reflections of others , who also spend their time,  feeding off others whims and reflections , we seek to absorb ourselves in just about anything that might titilate a lazy and uncontrolled mind , and one can ask ,what good is it .

It’s a kind of lazy feeding frenzy ,  we avoid  facing deep philosophical questions and deep obstacles that are always calling within ourselves . These deep callings are feared by many in society, especially the Darwinian educated society , they dont want to face challenges to their artificial sense of being , because they are taught there is nothing within. Truth is , by Divinities arrangements this deep sence of questioning ourselves along with a fragile and insecure existence we have , is actually very healthy and its natures way of encouraging us to find a deeper and more profound sence of ourselves , it should not be feared but embraced.

Ultimately everything has a good purpose, when used properly, including social media.

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Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja in setting up the Gaudia Math , which ISKCON is based upon , except for ISKCON has a unique position to teach Vedic culture to a western audience,  Srila Bhaktisiddanta brought together the teachings of all the sampradayas , those of Bramha ,Siva , laxmi and the Kumaras , each with their trancendental established ” professor ” acaryas,  who are Madhva ,Ramanuja Vishnu Swami and Nimbarka acarya.

They taught , respectively ,  purified monism ,specific monism , pure monism, and ,  one and difference . Later, Mahaprabhu taught uniquely inconceivable and simultaneously one and difference

Each of these four taught the different aspects for looking at the position of the soul,  in relationships with Divinity . These particular acaryas start their trancendental expositions,  leaving aside the teaching of Sankacarya  , namely the impersonal philosophy of the Vedas ,  the Brahman , the spiritual effulgence of Divinity.

We can see just how broad Gaudia Vaisnavism is , bringing everyone in  appropriate stages from worship of God alone , then God with his associates who are in awe of Him , then to worship of God with  His close family members , then to worship of God with his most intimate devotees , then to worship of God by those who are one with The Supreme Goddess of fortune Radharani, this worship is termed ,pranaya ,tad bhavika   oneness .It’s  like the flowers of a vine that wraps itself on a tree , the Vine is Radharani, the tree is Krishna, the flowers, are the Manjari Servants of Radharani.

More  and much more detail on the broadness of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur,  Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami , and how ISKCON is progress in its presentations of the Gaudia mission.