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Although Christian cultures for some unscientific reasons reject not only reincarnation but also surprisingly and although completely lacking any objective scientific observations that are readily observable, they somehow come to the conclusion that animals , birds ,insects or fish or anything that moves , does not have a soul , or consciousness like ours , and humans that do , get one throw of the dice , heaven or hell forever,  a curious state of affairs.

Einstein himself said religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame.

The great man had a  wondrously succinct way of putting things .

The Vedas contains much science, and in particular the science of consciousness , and a consciousness that has not come about by a make up of  combinations of atoms ,elements compounds and molecules ,  but rather that  all matter comes into existence,  because of the need of consciousness.

So the Vedas has a completely different way of looking at matter , and Bohr,  Schrödinger , Feynman , Einstein, and Teller would understand why the Vedas says that,  indeed many physicists will also be sympathetic to the Vedas .

Within the universal arrangements and the universal machine that is  connecting  consciousness to matter , via ethereal substances , i.e., mind and intelligence,  the symptoms of  which are  thinking  ,feeling , and willing . Vedas says there are many blueprints , many  information exchanges taking place , and self selections to  arrange suitability of one’s consciousness for a particular type of body , stemming from its baggage of karmic synchronicity.

If we examine wildlife and the bodily machines along with their various psychological makeup , we could probably catch ourselves matching particular people we might know to particular bodies , and not just humans

This incomprehensible machine of the responsive universe ,  serving up the  perfection of judicially served outcomes, is what the Vedas say is going on perpetually, but at any time , knowledge of a permanent stable and every increasing blissful life could be aquired , the super subjective plane of Divinity and the Supreme Goddess of fortune.

Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur , one of the great writers in the Vedic tradition,  who has  greatly elaborated the 10th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam  , has written in his Bhagavad Gita commentaries of something ….secret , more secret and most secret.

In Bhagavad Gita Krishna also  speaks of the secret of all secrets .

What is meant by this ?

One who lives in material consciousness is shrouded by his own subjective mind , one’s self made impressions,  and if we understand reincarnation,  that’s an awful lot of baggage or burdens one has to continually carry , that’s the Vedic opinion, you are what you are , and its complicated and its our doing .

So , Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur is highlighting how one could understand three types of secrets , how we may know something that’s confidential , in fact , another way  of  expressing  secret,  is in  AC Bhaktivedanta Swami writings , confidential,  more confidential and most confidential.

The first secret that one may have the good fortune to realise is , one is not a body ,but the consciousness within the body , along with this secret , comes a clear understanding of just exactly how our machines of our bodies are conditioned , and how we can become free from these conditionings , and we can also see how others are conditioned , to one extent or another.

The second secret is to know and understand Divinity in His various unlimited forms and how one can communicate and approach Him accordingly.

The third secret and the most confidential, or  the most secret , is to enter personally,  into the relationships that Divinity is experiencing and feeling with His most confidential and intimate family ,friends and lovers , this takes place under the tutelage and  in the services of the Supreme Goddess of fortune Srimati Radharani.

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In Srila Jiva Goswami Tattva Sandarbha, text no 43 , Jiva Goswami tells how the impossible becomes possible .

How the Tattva of Divinity being simultaneously one and different from His parts and parcels is played out .

The trancendental realm is ever fresh and ever new , love is an unpredictable and turbulent trancendental emotion , especially in the realms of Vraja, where   the most complete exhibition of “Ananda budhi vardanam ” is played out in the pure and spiritually surcharged  hearts of  Srimati Radharani and Her friends and Their assistants.

Such is the inconceivable nature of Divinity , that He has placed Himself within an atmosphere where He is experiencing ever new elements of artistry of the very highest order along with a love that He is astounded by , although being God Himself . Everything stems from Him , God, and His multifarious potency , so how is it Hrcan God be surprised by Himself

Thus, Srila Jiva Goswami indicates , that within Divinity the impossible becomes possible,  and not only the concepts of simultaneously and inconceivably one and difference is indicated by this , but also , for instance , the dancing and singing of the Manjaris , with newer and newer  melodies and newer and newer  artistic expression and poetry  that capture His consciousness, in ever beautiful ways.

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The above is a complex mix and ultimately beyond the  comprehension of the human brain. Nevertheless, the Vedas give information as to how these different energies and types of consciousness are combined and working under the supervision of Divine Sakti , or energies.

It’s notable,  that throughout the history of universal affairs,  a struggle between the Divine and Demoniac is recorded.

When the founder of ISKCON met his spiritual master Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja,  the British had control of India,  and AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,  asked the question to Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati , who will take you seriously  , the British have stolen India,  it is a priority to deal with that first , Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati  said Mahaprabhu movement waits for nothing and is the real priority.

Jesus Christ preached in political times , with the Romans having usurped the middle east , Mahaprabhu preached in political times when the Mogal empire had snatched India .

Srila Ragganathha das Goswami in his Manah Siksa tells of the anartha of too much absorption in political matter , he calls it prostitution.

So, although Krishna Himself on the battlefield of Kuruksetra , demonstrated perfection in political manoeuvre and establishing justice systems,  and its no doubt an essential element of the Vedas,  more important for the individual is his own trancendental revival of God consciousness,  and from that positive position , the best influences can be administered to the world.

Everything is happening by the Supreme desire of Krishna,  this consciousness is Krishna consciousness,  Prabhupada said .

So some jivas really go for dominance , it appears , others are in a semi dominance position, and others have done with dominance and want out of the material matrix , and the modes of nature are assisting with the psychology that’s required for the task , and the karmic synchronicity of countless trillions of lives , goes on , not by chance , but by design.

Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has come to offer exceptional benedictions to even those who, really,  in Vedic terms , should not be able to receive them , because Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita,  only those who have done previous good ” Vedic works ” and have the karma Sukriti ,or jnana sukriti can advance in spiritual understanding.

But no ….Mahaprabhu has by-passed everything of the ” norms ” and is magnanimously  awarding Bhakti sukriti , and in   levels never seen before , which Mahaprabhu , also attempts to taste,  but actually,  Radharani brilliant ecstatic love , keeps on increasing,  its difficult to catch and understand , even for Krishna , such is the unpredictability of love .

So , along with Srimati Radharani’s love is Her confidential associates  love ,  the Manjaris , Mahaprabhu through the Goswamis of Vrndavana, are giving access to these secrets of all secrets . If you have no karma Sukriti or Jnana Sukriti,  fall at the feet of Krishna’s pure devotees who are freely distributing Bhakti Sukriti,  and taking no previous qualifications into account, its for  one and all , no matter the previous life and activities. Truely Mercy above justice.

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Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur instructs the devotees to increase their meditations.  Thus an element of astanga yoga is included in Bhakti yoga , as confirmed in Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur’s Bhagavad Gita commentaries.

If you have forgotten your original purposes or your family connections from time immemorial, obviously, some rehabilitation and a revival of a normal state will be necessary.

Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur in his Jiva Dharma,  speaks of the conditions of water .

In its original state, water is a liquidity state , but due to excessive heat or excessive cold , its origins state undergoes an imposed state , ice, or steam .

The original state is described in Bhagavad Gita,  one is an eternal blissful associate of God , and being so , one naturally has an attraction for the all attractive one .

Jiva Goswami speaks of the impossible becoming possible,  in the sense of Divinity expanding Himself and becoming many , one and difference simultaneously   is the particles condition.

Also, the free will of the individual is let loose , naturally, it’s exhibited in different ways . Love is spontaneous and never static , nothing is static in relationships,  and certainly not in a spiritual realm . That Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has come to distribute something that has never been distributed before,  the ecstatic and every increasing love of Srimati Radharani is mysterious.

And those receiving it , or attracted to it , are certainly extremely fortunate,  Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur gives the example of loggers in the forest , floating logs down a river to the saw mill , by chance a log is thrown up on the bank of the river .

So by association, one changes or increases an attraction towards Divinity , there are examples in the Bhagavatam,  of the wives of the Brahmanas association with Radharani and the Gopies , and Mahaprabhu through the teachings of the Goswamis,  in their writings have  delineated the whole mysterious process of Sadhana and Ragganuga practice,  note the word practice,  a practice,  a development of something,  in one sence a revival , in one sense,  something ever new , never before experienced.

Within the material worlds are the borrowed plumes of beauty,  beauty is all around us in many forms from a beautiful young lady to the beauty of nature displayed in millions of ways. This beauty seems eternal,  because there is always something or somebody exhibiting it , the reality is  beauty is a temporary borrowed plume , and in a relatively short time it fades and is replaced by old age and deteriation .

These borrowed plumes originally have a source in the super subjective higher spiritual planes , where unlimited and every increasing  states of consciousness and beauty are exhibited, in the absence of atoms ,elements and compounds,  which is the artificial glove placed over ones original intended form and existence.  In the absence of such  atoms,  compounds and elements that are ever changing,  the conjugal mellows of attractions in a spiritual realm  are unlimited affairs ,  such are the activities of the Supreme Goddess of fortune,  the spiritual emotions are as such that even when hearing the voice of a beloved , overwhelming ripples of ecstacy ripple throughout a spiritual body , our materially conditioned senses are an extremely pale reflection of the original pure  unrestricted senses . Intelligent philosophical persons should set their sights on something far higher than temporary atoms , elements, and compounds that are beset with the influences of deteriation and time and disappointment.

Within the inconceivable power of the Sun ,  are practically uncountable photons,  particles of  light,  light , is not made of atoms, everything else in our material universe is .

According to the Vedas, the Sun is devolved from the original spiritual light called the brahman effulgence . Light is never destroyed,  but can be  oborbed , if not obsorbed.  the light particals will  it carry on existing,  within the  universal time .

In the same way within the unlimited Divinity are the  unlimited limited , Caitanya Mahāprabhu has revealed to  the  world the truth of the simultaneously one and difference  of the individual living beings ,who are expanded for  His pleasure  from Divinity. The unlimited expands Himself into the unlimited limited , one plus one equals  one , one minus one equals one equals one in an absolute realm . Srila Jiva Goswami, in his Tattva Sandarbha, says that Divinity makes the impossible possible.

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given us this understanding of the inconceivable and simultaneous one and difference.   in His explanation of the origins of the soul , the eternal comes from the eternal and there is no limit to the eternal’s , in that way it can be understood that there has never been a time when we or God did not exist, some souls are manifestly active , some dormant .

It is concluded by great Vaisnava philosophically minded thinkers , an over emphasise on the oneness,  or an over emphasise on the difference are both unsound philosophical positions , the real truth about God and the souls or particles of consciousness are revealed by Mahāprabhu and explained bh Srila Jiva Goswami .

Tosca Puccini 

Through the expressive power of music, opera conveys the deepest and most complex human emotions. It allows us to enter the psyche of characters and experience the drama on a gut level. Opera, with its far flung story lines and sung libretto, can’t be approached literally, as if you’re watching a movie or a play. It has to be experienced as metaphor…a story unfolding through music.

I lived for art 

I lived for art, I lived for love,
I never harmed a living soul!
With a discreet hand
I relieved all misfortunes I encountered.
Always with sincere faith
my prayer
rose to the holy tabernacles.
Always with sincere faith
I decorated the altars with flowers.
In this hour of grief,
why, why, Lord,
why do you reward me this way 
I donated jewels to the Madonna’s mantle,
and offered songs to the stars and heaven,
which thus shone with more beauty.
In this hour of grief,
why, why, Lord,
ah, why do you reward me this way .

In the Vedas , Srimad Bhagavatam, and Bhagavad Gita, unalloyed devotion is described .  Giving oneself fully to Divinity without any expectations,  and if any difficulties  are experienced , they are tolerated and one calculates,  in the words of Srila Sridhar Swami,  Prabhupada’s Godbrother, “I take the whole thing on my head , it is my doing and deserve ” 

Devotional service is not a business transaction. 

That  is the consciousness of the pure practitioners , we must strive for that , be patient and regularly apply ourselves , causeless mercy is just that causeless , same time Krishna says one who wants to know Me and sincerely takes shelter in the proccesses I outline , I will give the intelligence and inspiration to come to Me . Its a decending process , not an academic ascending one .

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In the Gaudia Vaisnava school , and particularly the teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu,  which Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja brought to the Western world in his establishment of the teachings of the Acaryas from the four sampradayas Madhva ,Ramanuja ,Visnu Swami and Nimbarka,  Srila Bhaktisiddanta takes us on the journey of understanding how we are not to think in terms of , not too much oneness , or too much difference with Krishna.

The Advaitans and the Dvaitans have an unbalanced approach to Tattva. That the one became many to expand His pleasure , but at the same time the particles have always been needs application of thought,  and simultaneously one and difference of Mahaprabhu is the key to understanding.

The fragmental parts of Krishna emnate from Krsna, or Balarama,  thus the fragments come from the whole , the whole has always been,  the dormant jivas expand as Krsna expands His pleasure,  dormant means always been , thus the Dvaitans , who overly state their case of being forever totally separated,  or the Advaitans overly stating the oneness are both unbalanced.

Mahaprabhu simultaneously one and difference is the correct way of thinking , and the oneness constantly reacting with the difference in expanding Love is indicated . The Dvaitans will be too fixed and not have the concept of nothing is static in love , as the difference intimately units with the oneness,  in its extreme technically termed Pranaya, or tad bhavika , which Mahaprabhu has brought to the world and which is being distributed,  and thus the oneness is increasing His effect on the difference,  nothing is static in love , overly stating difference stifles the flow of love