When Albert Einstein said the measurement of intelligence is the ability to change, he makes an excellent point . In Vedic circles, the essence of all change is to change one’s conditioned nature  brought about by countless entanglements within a responsive universe and reorientate it, discovering the original spiritual nature .Those types of considerations and deep contemplations take intelligence ,and God says he helps those that help themselves and further in the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says directly “I will give you the intelligence to untangle yourself and come to me “
Albert Einstein also said, “religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame.”
If one can understand why he said such a thing , then one will certainly be well on the way to intelligently change  outlooks and worldviews .
Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami, through his litratures and translations of the Srimad Bhagavatam, explains all , and especially the path of change….

Now the question comes , it’s not so easy to change , old thinking and old habits die hard . Remembering the Vedic standpoint that the consciousness is eternal and has had many many dips into the material energies and has become covered over and over again , the rejuvenation of an  original spiritual nature would take some doing .

It’s a fact, and Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita confirms this , Arjuna says, ” It’s more difficult to control the mind and our conditioned nature that controlling a gale force wind “

Krishna agrees it’s difficult ” But by constant practice and detachment it’s done “

Krishna says, “I will help you. I will give you the intelligence with which you can come to me . Simply hear my messages “

And Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu says in this age, ” I will make it easy , simply chant My Holy names with sincerity.” Call to Me , like a child crying to a mother . Associating  with pure devotees  is essential,  and reading the literature of the param para acaryas is imperative. By this process, a certain intelligence is brought to bear . The Holy Names will award a higher taste of spiritual bliss  when chanted in humility , by a higher taste, a lower taste is easily left behind. The windows of the spiritual worlds open through the Holy Names , God, and His pastimes are spiritually fully  present. The  litratures of Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Ragganatha das Goswami, and their followers in Gaudiya Vaisnava param para enable one to walk spiritually into the the spiritual kingdoms.

So, it’s not a lone process , Bhakti Devi is  injected into the heart by the devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu . This process is simply for the simple hearted and  sincere person,  and even  for rouges,  by association, purification occurs immediately, and the last journey begins , one never returns back to the material worlds
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With crypto currency as literally didgits on a computer and stocks , shares ,currency commodities racing up and down in values , one begins to wonder what genuine wealth is .

Gold standards were replaced by pieces of paper, and things have gotten a lot more dodgy,  dodgy dealings, and promises of earnings and cooked books are in vouge . Traditionally, a person worked , and in exchange for work, they were owed something , and traditionally , as in former times, the King was the ultimate proprietor of all lands , and he represented God the supreme Proprietor .Still, during war times, the government has the right to take what it wants, any lands or property. It was the king who issued currency in previous times to represent work , thus, the monarch is often found on currency today . The nation state and its currency had the real value of currency backed by real work and production of various industries.

Today’s world of private issues , not nation backed , of strange gambling didgits on a computer representing money is indeed a strange turn of events as the cheaters get more technologically sophisticated and the cheated get more bamboozled.This is out of hand gambling manipulated like the trading and commodities markets by an elite .

The wealth in the stocks is an unrealistic assessment of a company,  its just based on false  promises and cooked books and  of what the company might do . How can they be trusted when the currupt regulates the curupt .The currency markets are a tool by which wealthy countries keep poor countries poor . After all, a man’s labour should be worth the same anywhere .The most greed wins the way and trample on third world countries.

The commodity markets are rigged by global conglomerates in an attempt to try to keep profits artificially high,  the biggest conglomerates gradually buying up the smallest and  creating monopolies.There is the fast disappearing so called “free market “

Thus the unipolar world has left a lot of problems in its trail .The new multipolar world world may ease the problems and share wealth in better ways , but the underlying problems are deeply embedded in financial institutions and deep state governance.

Only the genuine intelligentsia can sort it . The problems began a long time ago when the intelligentsia were pushed out of place , and unruly kings took their place , who were then later  replaced by democracies that have been now infiltrated by ruthless businessman and the political puppies. They who are clueless in the art of administration of society and ignorant of the sciences of mind , matter, and consciousness and how they knit together perfectly with the social structures. It’s a society of the cheaters and cheated.

Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja gives the vision of how to replace cheating of all kinds with honesty, and Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami explains all in his literature.

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“The question of how sexual reproduction, and specifically the two distinct sexes (anisogamy—small motile sperm and large sessile eggs), evolved from asexual ancestors is considered a major topic of research in evolutionary biology, sometimes referred to as the “queen of problems”. While Charles Darwin himself acknowledged he did not know the final cause of sexuality, modern evolutionary biology has developed several, though not definitively proven, hypotheses to explain it. “

As we can see, as usual, the Darwinians are clueless.
However the Vedas explains fully the origins of sex attraction and how the original sex attraction has been devolved from a higher spiritual plane and brought within the external energies by Divinity arrangements to serve  specific purposes . Sex pleasure  is something the Darwinian can’t explain . According to the Darwinian, the orgasm evolved . We will find every species has overwhelming sex attraction. it’s not only restricted to humans .  The Vedas explains in detail how living beings who feel no immediate attraction for the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His families and friends are injected into the material energies , from the Brahman regions or the Tatastha regions , this region is like the shoreline , one step takes you into the sea or step the land , your choice . We originally expanded from the first expansion of Krishna,  Balarama. Because Krishna has always been , we being part of Him have always been . The injection of the living beings into the material energies takes place via  the Supreme Lord and the Supreme Goddess of fortune , who are expanded as Sambhu or Sadasiva and Ramadevi or Durga Devi .
These transformations or expansions of Radha Krishna appear to be curiously in touch with the material energies , however,  the Vedas say  like yoghurt and milk  are one but different  , so too Visnu and Laxi do not directly touch or become effected by matter . These expansions of Laxmi Narayana   provide the material bodies for the beings, and they are consequently injected into matter . They are generated with male and female sexual organs . The whole idea is that in order to receive a machine made of the material energy that the soul is to temporarily inhabit , one requires a consistent and constant supply of  such machine like bodies . Because the time factor is added to our material activities, creating karma,  death , and rebirth, as well as reevaluation and that is healthy, these movements are constantly in flux . This is so because the living beings need to  continually experience , learn, and live out their particular  desire. Karmic synchronicities of their independent meanderings within the universe are taking place.
Thus, the perfect arrangement of entanglements within a responsive universe has arisen to facilitate free will and determinism with the virtual machines of the material bodies .The supreme engineer has arranged a system that is producing many, many more machines within the 8,400,000 species of life . It is sex dedire that drives reincarnation. Thus, the whole material world is working under strong sex desire and its happening in every species of life .

The original sex desire has a  spiritual pure element to it that is not connected to procreation. When one advances beyond matter, one can enter soul to soul communications in unlimited ways . One should know the difference between broken glass and diamonds. They look similar but are millions of miles apart .

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive..

When Vyasadeva was in meditations he after some time saw Krishna and behind Krishna he saw Maya the external material energies.
The three modes of material nature are of goodness, passion and ignorance and as we suck them into our consciousness they begin to weave a life of deceit and illusions in one degree or another. 3×3 =9 9×9=81 , 81×81= 6561 and the entanglements carry on in incalculable ways via the gross and subtle energies within 8,400,000 species of life forever weaving webs throughout the fourteen planetary systems, untill at the end of the life of Bramha , Visnu reals the whole creation within Himself, only to let it loose again as the cyclic cycles continue eternally.
Lord Krishna speaks the Bhagavad Gita to explain our predicament and to explain how to solve the problems.
Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains all in his Bhagavad Gita as it is , that has been distributed all over the world .

Yoga is primarily meant for directing consciousness to destinations that are in its best interests. It is said that one can learn the hard way or the easy way , hearing humbly from someone who has knowledge and experience of what the Vedas term as Vidya and Avidya is most beneficial.  Knowledge means knowing side by side something immensely beneficial or immensely harmful.

The sciences of dualism and self realisation are an in-depth study of mind , matter, and consciousness, this is real religion,  its important to know our position within the grasp of the material energies and to know the position of Divinity and His family and friends who are beyond its grasp , we should know why the influences of the material energies are beyond them and why we are attracted and effected .

The Srimad Bhagavatam is highly beneficial to all those living beings who are rightly inquisitive about their situation and the situations in world governance . Just who is leading who and where are they taking everyone. The head properly situated with intelligence must lead the body of society and with real vision and not the legs of the blind , or unthinking like  lemmings , persons that follow each other off the cliff to a pointless death .

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Can you detect the soul leaving the body at death someone’s asking……

Yes, you will detect the consciousness leaving the body .. As soon as that happens, the chemistry within molecular structures stops , and molecules only move towards life when consciousness or the soul is present .The soul is injected into the mothers egg , individual consciousness is within the sperms, and there are so many of them , one of them by chemical signals is accepted , the rest have a short life but await their turn to get a body .When the successful candidate arrives in the egg the molecules begin to process the information within the egg and the sperm and the tailor made specific machine is granted that carries the consciousness along with his subtle body that unfolds every aspect of his karmic synchronicities. ..

One important point regarding consciousness and our  responsive universe that we as conscious beings find ourselves situated within ,  is that as  quantum physics may suggest , there is an observer effect , but not just observations , but deeds and actions are taking place , choices are being made , and again ,  as quantum physics suggests , there are many possibilities of a future arrangement , no one can say for sure what they will be . Nevertheless, according to freedoms granted and the responsibility that goes with it , our next body is already beginning to form within the ethereal planes that later will determine the atoms , elements, compounds and future combinations of parents we may receive.  The automotive sector of industries and technologies could give a clue as to how the universal algorithmic processes may be functioning under the directions and intelligence of divinely inspired and inculcabable ethereal engineering . There are, of course, countless billions of images passing through the atmosphere in one way or another every second of the day .

The third and fifth canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam bring some of this information to the forefront.

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In the highest of spiritual circles the Supreme Visaya ( the supreme enjoyer ) Krishna , wants to take the position of the Supreme Ashraya (The supremely enjoyed) but that is only because the supreme Ashraya , Srimati Radharani, is increasingly exhibiting her immaculately and purely stated love for Krishna and has immersed Herself deeply within Krishna’s heart in the highest of adoration and worship of His astounding and expanding qualities .Krishna wants to experience the feelings of pure love that the Supreme Goddess of Fortune is feeling for him ..

Can you imagine the power of God and the intimacy of spiritual love at its absolute heights , that is the generosity of Srimati Radharani who allows Krishna Himself to enter within Her and feel and experience the Love She feels . It’s described by our acaryas that such is the unlimited intensity of Srimati Radharani’s love for Krishna,and we are here addressing the attractions between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the Supreme Goddess of fortune,  so , such is Her attraction and ecstatic tumultuous feelings that Krishna Himself could not fully understand them or indeed ” handle ” them . As Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu Krishna has these experiences,  but after some time He merged into the body of Tota gopinatha deity at Jaggantha puri by the desire of Radharani , She did not want Krishna to go through such difficulties as the union and separation that She was able to .

Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has said the Manjaris , are like little white flowers that appear on the Vine of Radharani as she wraps herself around the Tamal tree of the dark handsome Krishna,  the Manjaris are also feeling in oneness with Radharani the adoration She is feeling for Krishna.

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Everyone has free will , but their general choices are immensely different. This the Vedas indicates is due to karma. We don’t all have the choice or capacity to compose a piece of classical music or turn over a million pounds in business in one day , or have the opportunity to associate with a very beautiful person or become one . So many examples can be given to the unlimited reactionary world . The animal , bird, and insect worlds are similar, but their choices are less refined , but nevertheless unlimited

In the human form of life, though , choices and freedoms of some of the most important aspects of life are readily and equally available for anyone in any status of life , no matter karmic synchronicities and its effects . We refer here to the path of choosing  philosophically inclined thinking and also choosing to understand ourselves fully . The  world  is full of myriads of theological  and philosophical teachings along with their many  applications . It is the arrangement of Divinity ,out of effection , that if anyone takes the slightest steps towards Him , He makes many more steps towards them . Every person can immediately at any time  take such steps , everyone has that choice , there is no bias , no discrimination , but rather  there is mercy above justice. Thus, in Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says, “Think of Me become My devotee I will protect you from all reactions.”

Within the material world many many complexities are entanglements are present our mind and senses drag us everywhere , so Krishna says I will protect you from your own conditioned life , I will give you the intelligence and show you reality,  as it is . Both spiritually and materially.

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That which is replicated by all individual learning , that which by knowing all people become completely knowledgeable,that which makes  direct perception and other methods become pure with the highest knowledge . That which is self accomplished , without beginning which is the root of all traditional pure learning and knowledge, should be accepted as sabdha ,trancendental knowledge. That sabdha is bone fide scripture ,knowledge means Veda . Sabdha is  knowledge which is eternal as the Vedas is, and it’s  realised by one honesty seeking truth .

Srila Jiva Goswami tattva  Sandarbha brings us insights into pure knowledge free from self-motivated mental speculations based on sense gratification or impersonal liberalisation in his statement from his Tattva Sandarbha which we have paraphrased above

When one actually comes in touch with the absolute truth, all truths are understood and are put into perspective,  both absolute and relative truth . Nothing stands outside of the truth. The truth is all-inclusive and can be understood and accepted by anyone. The truth remains truth for all time, for all beings ,and in all places .  Truthful persons from every culture throughout history , or indeed any part of this  universe, will be able to fully  realise and relate to and understand truth happily together .

A person of truth includes everyone in their realisations of truth it is shown in their effection and in their  care for all beings . Friends and enemies are conditioned consciousness expressions in absolute terms . Indeed , in the Vedas it says from Lord Bramha the engineer of this universe down to the tiny insects are all parts and parcels of the Supreme absolute truth who has expanded Himself into many  but has not diminished in the slightest degree in any way . The purpose of His expansions is to increase His pleasure and share His sense of trancendental joy . Realising the truth lies in reciprocating and recognising the absolute truth in appreciation and love and understanding His purpose. When one can with a proper attitude along with knowledge reciprocate with the absolute truth, every relative truth will automatically be understood . Everything living can be  properly respected and harmonized . Nothing will be veiwed as separate from truth ,  everything having a connection with truth . We also will feel a connection to everything that has the same connection. Even the absence of truth is connected with the absolute truth , the Vedas call it maya the world of selfish deceit and illusions , it is one of the energies of truth , one who knows truth remains free from its influences.

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“A fundamental principle of magnetism: like poles repel (north repels north, south repels south) while unlike poles attract (north attracts south), driven by the energy in their invisible magnetic fields, a behavior similar to electric charges..”

We could say spiritual truths in their highest calculations. the same principle is lived out ..
Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has revealed this topmost of truths  in his revelation of the  inconceivabe and simultaneously oneness and differences of all the living beings with Divinity
This means we are not only one with God , being expansions of Him ,  or parts and parcels , but we are different or ” opposites ” Some living beings in a  liberated state have a goal to become one with Him and lose their individuality . The Vedas states that after a long time in the one impersonal spiritual light, the individual living being again comes to the material atmosphere.
Why? , because ultimately, the differences or the “unlikeness ” of ourselves to Divinity ( oneness and difference) attract Divinity ,  and of course, Divinity Himself is extremely attractive with unlimited personal qualities  , He likes to exchange love with us and we are inwardly searching for a  perfect and eternally satisfying loving relationship , so , because of disappointment in relationships some spiritual seekers turn to the impersonal side to Divinity , His spiritual charisma which is purely spiritual and which is peaceful  but there is no variety of loving exchanges increasing in Ananda or Rasa , the Rasa of individual blissful relationships. Ultimately, that is what the individual soul is deeply hankering for ..Differences create beauty and love, and in the spiritual planes, everything is harmonized in increasing bliss in relationships with even discord harmonized

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In the world of Ai algorithms, robotics, and augmented realities, it should not be too  difficult for us to comprehend  devolved existences . A devolved existence stemming from the  originally intended home of homes , that everyone in their heart of hearts is searching for , one could say paradise lost perhaps. The independent mind that’s driven by free will , the Vedas say , is the cause of the material world and the 8,400,000 augmented life forms that interact with the atoms , elements and compounds that our conditioned senses call reality. Srila Jiva Goswami in his Bhagavata Sandarbha says the cause of this world is not God per se,  but rather the living beings that God is providing the augmented reality for ” artificial life ” forms are all explained throughout the Vedas from their beginnings to the universal annihilation and it cyclic cycles. The  sincere , honest, and inquisitive person has every question answered in regards to the various life forms and their purposes and importantly why a particular particle of consciousness finds itself in a particular  body . The  Vedas  also pertinently describes how every form of life originates from one original life form , an original form , a cause of all causes,  that being the supreme engineer Himself , Divinity or Krishna,  the master of the genome and Dna codes that are spread throughout the universes in  multidimensional existences  or planes of existence . The senses of one particular plane are  unable to veiw or understand another . Such are the intelligent arrangements of its original cause , the evidence of His intelligence is detected very easily within the creation .  The original spiritual existence is obviously  experienced with bodies , but they are full of varigatedness and unlimited quality , there are no deteriorating  factors or states such as changing conditions caused by time  that accompany  atoms , elements, or compounds which also inflict miseries. The machine like bodies of this world accompanied by prolific speciation, are the Ai and algorithmic  augmented systems of Divinity , so perfectly complete and inconceivably engineered ,  that the ” robots ” produce other” robots ” by sexual union . To support  “robotic ” human life comes other varieties of tweaked designs , which are the other species . The Vedas say,  same engineer  different engineering.  These life forms within species  are intertwined  within complex living systems that are all dependent on each other . Each of the life forms have similar goals of  eating,  sleeping, mating, and defending territories or possessions , they are all enjoying and suffering in the world of dualism.

The third Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam, as well as the first Canto, describe Maha Visnu as a  portion of a portion of the Original personality of Godhead who lies down in a mysterious sleeping condition and in his spiritually surcharged ” dreamlike state ” using the “original patterns ” from His own trancendental form and existence, manufactures the blueprints to all the species of life is a reflection from a reality,  and hands the blueprint to Lord Bramha . Maha Visnu manifests not just one planet with forms of life but millions situated within the fourteen planetary systems of the universe. Our senses limit us , but existence is not limited by our limited senses , for instance, at night, you can not see so well  as the cat .

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