It’s always important to keep positive and grateful to ISKCON not only because of Srila Prabhupada and his sacrifice, but the sacrifice that so many of the early devotees made . Listening to the Radha Krishna Temple album, is there anything better today with so many devotees trying their hand at devotional music ? The great George Harrison produced this work , his personal dedication to the early ISKCON movement. This album is full of bhakti and empowered Bhaki …All glories to all those early devotees of ISKCON without which Prabhupada could not have done what he did . And all Glories to other branches of the Caitanya tree both in and outside of ISKCON that directly or indirectly stemmed from ISKCON in one way or another .. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The mysterious conditions of wakefulness, dreaming, and deep sleep can not be understood by those following scientific materialism or Darwinian hypothesis , they have, in reality, nothing at all to offer on the subject .….guessing is all they can do , unless dualism is understood, nothing is understood of universal affairs, ignoring consciousness is no solution to scientific affairs , but we can safely say that is the modern approach to science, its a pitiful state of affairs in real terms. However, the Vedas enlightenments very easily tackle every scientific issue directly or indirectly. Srila Jiva Goswami in his Tattva Sandarbha examines all three conditions of consciousness, wakefulness, dreaming, and deep sleep , and explains them . Wakefulness, in reality, is the artificial state of the consciousness enclosed in a surreal material body . Dreaming is the artificial state of the mental and subtle surreal body where karmas are played out on a different level , other mysterious circumstances can come about with messages being exchanged on different levels. Deep sleep is where both other states on consciousness are absent , however, on awakening, one thinks I experienced a very good deep sleep . There is a certain peaceful experience in deep sleep that people hanker for and enjoy. Srila Jiva Goswami compares this state as a reflection of merging in the impersonal light of Divinity, where relief from material existence is experienced. A Oneness without the botheration of stressful relationships and stressful material conditions. In deep sleep, the living being is merely consciousness, having been temporarily removed from the gross and subtle body, which brings them considerable difficulty. Thus, God, in His mercy, gives us a break from karmic synchronicities.
Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur commented on the psychology of the conditioned soul ..
“When he sees others happy he becomes unhappy when he sees others unhappy he becomes happy”.
News programmes regularly feature the unhappy conditions of other , as people comfortably sit back in their armchairs thinking and musing of their own relative and temporary happiness which has expiry dates ..
The foreign policy of most governments seem to be based on inflicted suffering on other countries and their peoples and then leaders proudly boasting to their electorate, ” we have never has it so good ” as their nations and peoples enjoys the spoils … Thus, Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has given frank assessments of material life .. The life of free consciousness Bhativinoda calls for , meaning freed from lust , anger , greed ,envy , madness, and illusions .. . The Bhagavad Gita, as it is, brings us gives the run down . Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains some of these truths in his commentary.
The uncontrolled mind and senses are big business to the conglomerate liberalists with global empires , and they are literally banking on you to follow them and your senses anywhere they want to take you . Enjoy enjoy enjoy……suffer later .
Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur tells us to “Jiv jargo” …wake up wake up sleeping soul .
You can not have Adharma in a place of Dharma and call it Dharma, the saints don’t walk on the paths where the demons tread .Although many fraudulent spiritualists think you can , in the Uddhava Sandesh Krishna tells Uddhava not to walk on the path where the demon elephants tried to kill Krishna.
The material world has been critiqued in the Vedas, its a surreal world , and as such its said by our acaryas life in the material world can be thought of as ” night time dream , day time dream”. One disciple of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami once said ….”but it seems so real if you say its like a dream ” Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami said “its just that the day time dream last longer ” . Like a dream is soon forgotten, although some dreams remain with us for long periods, we can hardly remember most details of our lives , we are practically dead to it . The Srimad Bhagavatam says the body , mind , and senses propels the livings beings forward passionately in acts of lust , anger , greed, and envy and madness. We remain in illusion about so many things and clouded from truths . A madman does not know his true postion in life and acts without any sane calculations. As such, many conflicts occur in the material world that lead to ruthless aggressions against families, communities , and other countries or cultures. Humans can easily act like like animals , with no rational feelings if they are not properly directed by a real human with real human qualities , the intelligentsia with the greatest of characteristics and knowledge of the sciences of consciousness and psychological matters within the social sciences must be heard from . Such a person has control over their senses and mind they are philosophically astute and clearly see and understand objective sciences . Ultimately, this material world gives very little displays of Godliness most of the time , but there are , by the arrangements of Divinity always worthy persons to hear and take directions from . We must find out the qualities of such persons and look out for them Most displays of Godliness or religion in the material world are also tinged with personal attachments , many crooked politicians use religion in perverted ways , ways that currupt its real purposes. God , they think , becomes their order supplier, and often fools follow fools , and presume something is genuine when its a perversion or misinterpreted speculation. Pure exhibitions of spirituality, however, in reality, are without any expectations for anything other than pure unmotivated and unalloyed love towards Divinity and all his parts and parcels. Such a person sees the self-evident truth of equality that a crooked person cannot. Currently, our leaders are driving humanity and pushing them into further and further conflicts . They are totally clueless in regard to the true worth of humanity and its intended purposes. The world is degrading fast right in front of our eyes . Anyhow, history shows us that the material world has a very, very long history of all types of aggressive militant activities .Right now, things look like boiling over . Srila Ragganatha das Goswami in his Manah Siksa advice is that the spiritual person renounce being exclusively concerned with these political or geopolitical types of concerns , but rather concentrate ones time in understanding and developing our spiritual transcendental and spiritual form and cultivate our direct relationship with Krishna along with His various associates and family. By practising serious meditations and deep remembrances , the fullness of absolute beauty and the highest of spiritual culture along within the supreme artistry of ever new loving relationships will be experienced . This is also the underlying advice of all of our Vedic Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas . AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada would say , “First, save yourself.. But also try giving some time to assisting others benefit from the Vedas in some way . We can learn to become , on one level , oblivious to the activities of the foolishness of the ungodly and their uneducated leaders , but on another level, we must point out the foolishness for everyone’s benefit.
Handing power over to political classes who represent global conglomerate liberalisation of society and giving them the freedom to do what they like with your children, with the planet and to every creature that lives on it is the desciptions best applied to modern ” democracies ” main stream media and “Jollywood ” artificially keep the illusion ticking along …..Take a look at the world… That’s not the Vedic way ..
Rather, the Vedic way is for the administrations to be advised by the real intelligentsia who are well versed in the sciences of mind , matter and consciousness, and all that brings. And who importantly protects family culture and traditional culture , but who share the benefits of the modern world …
In matters of love sometimes, even in this world, people risk everything . Although in this world, love is somewhat tainted with self-interest. Lust to be an enjoyer , or profit or benefit from activities to one degree or another , is always present in the heart of a non spiritual person. Who acts without any self-interest in this world? Different degrees of love mixed with lust and self interests are exhibited in this world. The love between the mother and the child is very pure, relatively, for instance. Nevertheless, Srila BR Sridhar Swami gives the example of the purest of pure love , and he cleverly termed it ” All risk no gain.” In the material world, we hear of no risk, no gain .But all risk no gain ? The residents of Vraja in Krishna lila those in the topmost realms of spiritual love , which is ever expanding and feels ever new , and particularly thd love of Srimati Radharani and all of her close associates demonstrated the highest of the highest principles of spiritual ecstatic love . They risked everything for love . When Krishna “left them” and Vrndavana , their hometown , they thought everything of their love was lost. still, they never gave up on their unalloyed love and feelings for Krishna , even though He had appeared to reject or disappoint them .Their motivations were only ever to satisfy the emaculate senses of Krishna . In doing so, they had risked everything and were still hankering for Krishna, thinking of Him 24 hours and prepared in that love to gain nothing . In their extreme separation from the object of their love , their hearts were the abode of love , it seemed they had risked and risked but that everything in the relationship was finished . In their supreme separation, their was still hope against hope lost . Thus in our spiritual life Srila BR Sridhar Swami says , we are risking risking risking but we do not feel we have gained our goal , and can never feel we have done enough in our services to Divinity or that we have truely gotten Krishna. Such is the path of pure spiritual love . On the rooftops of Mathura having left Vrndavana, Krishna Himself wept tears of love, and indeed, His separation was even more difficult to bear . Remembering the pure love of Srimati Radharani and Her friends Krishna thought He could never pay back such a sacrifice of hearts . The spiritual truth of pure unmotivated love between God and His devotees is delineated in the 10th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam and greatly elaborated upon by Srila Rupa and Ragganatha das Goswami’s. Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has come to reveal this mystery of all risk, no gain , and union in separation and separation in union
Smriti and Sruti.
In the teachings of Gaudia Vaisnavas, the Smriti must follow the Sruti , otherwise, it is not Smriti. The supposed Smriti of the smarta Brahminical classes or the Smriti of the impersonal philosophers is not to be classed as Smriti .The Smriti per se are paths that lead genuinely to the spiritual world. They are directly windows to the spiritual worlds .The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas follow Srila Rupa and Ragganatha das Goswami’s Smriti as well as Srila Jiva Goswami and Srila Sanantana Goswami plus all the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas in param para from them .
In the summary of the Bramha sutra , which are the encoded four Vedas , along with the fifth Veda , consisting of the Itihasas , the Puranas and the Mahabharata, the Srimad Bhagavatam, which its natural commentary , curiously, glow worms are mentioned.
In the 10th Canto of that great Srimad Bhagavatam, ” in the Autumn season chapter,” It is said” that the rain clouds gather at twilight and the starlight is hampered by the darkening of the atmosphere.”
At that time, glow worms thrive, providing a glimps of light that the moths may mistake for something substantial , and they are fooled .
Similarly, in the darkness of Kali yuga , the current age , the moon, and the starlight of the Vedas are covered by the darkness of cheating and hypocrisy, fake interpretations and speculations develop anx a misunderstandings of the original Vedas develop that do not follow the truthful speaking of the great great saints. Demons , fools, and materially motivated persons take shelter of the glow worms of many false doctrines or philosophically flawed speculations and interpretation of all kinds . Aggressive self-centred politics of hatred and violence develop. Subjective speculations in all kinds of sciences are presented as fact based sciences to children, and educational institutions are infiltrated.
Thus, scientific materialism, Darwinian hypothesis, impersonal philosophy tainted with voidism , and infiltrated democracies are thriving currently, they all claim to give light .However, a glow worm can never be compared to the moon , and moth like rascals flock around this artificial light of the modern man , who shed light like the glow worms and attempt to cover the light of the full moon of knowledge by their cloudlike speculations and deliberatecheating . The glow worm fizzles out ultimately, and the artificial light it produces attracts only those who want to be cheated . The real light of the full moon of knowledge and its inherant wisdom contained in the vedas can be properly only when understood when the glowworm is understood for what it is . Then, the darkness of the illusory energies subside .
By God’s grace , He can remove His illusory energies influence that make a worm in stool think he is happy.
Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is very expert in explaining the whole process of seeing the light of the Bhagavat and the Srimad Bhagavatam.
In Vedic Culures, the unfathomable complexities of living beings are spoken of , not just in human life but also throughout the 8400000 species of life, 400,000 of which are ” humanoids “
Generally , it is said that good and pious activities bring greater facilities . These include and are in terms of beauty , wealth , widom and insights , particular talents ,intelligence , etc, etc . If such facilities are offered back in services to humanity and ultimately Divinity Himself , a further progressed state of consciousness ensues . This gives an opportunity to reach the Lands of Divinity Himself . He who has supremely cultured consciousness along with spiritual blissful emotions and emaculate beauty with spiritual senses .
The problems come when those who have karmically earned good credits and opulences become intoxicated by such gifted opulences . They can become proud and exploitative . In that condition , great offences and harm to others might take place , and instead of elevation of consciousness , on the back of pious credit , an opportunity is wasted and one takes a step back in the great consciousness journey to Divinity.
In the same way , someone can quickly rise in their consciousness, even though initially born with lesser facilities . They can become humble and learned , if their life is led according to Vedic directions. An association with the good and great is possible for the humble . Spiritual and material mobility works both ways , with plenty of swings and roundabouts or snakes and ladders going on .
Pick up Bhagavad Gita as it is Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains all .
The Srimad Bhagavatam delves even deeper into these topics , the science of consciousness and the responsive universe..
It’s interesting to note how the Smriti of the Gaudia Vaisnavas greatly expanded during and after the appearance of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Mahāprabhu Himself taught by example and accepted the Smriti of Jayadeva Goswami and Bilvamangala Thakur as well as Candi das .. The essential elements of Sruti and Smriti greatly increase the understanding of Krishna consciousness , nothing is seperate from Krishna and everything Krishna does from His activities on the Battlefield of Kurukshetra to his pastimes in Vraja can be meditated and thought about, in fact they are eternally manifest , throughout billions of universes both spiritual and material. Our activities are finished in a moment, Krishna’s activities are not subjected to the atoms ,elements, compounds, or modes of psychological nature, which are all evaporated forever by time . The intimately connected devotees are able to assist us in our spiritual journeys by bringing us the Smriti , the windows to the spiritual plane , not by reading alone , but by Krishna’s mercy through the chanting of his names , which are the means and the end . By the mercy of those great Acaryas also , we may, by grace , get some trancendental insights of the life of Krishna and His devotees. Srila Rupa Goswami describes the process beginning with hearing and chanting about the names. forms , qualities, and pastimes of Krishna and His associates. Then, smaranam deeper and deeper meditation and remembrances, and much further details are given by Srila Rupa Goswami of deeper aspects of what you could say is ‘ pure Astanga ‘ saturated with unalloyed Bhakti . Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur indicates a spiritually mentally conceived spiritual body interacting in the eternal spiritual planes are indicated by the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana and by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu who came to teach by example. Krishna’s words in the Bhagavad Gita ” Think of Me become My devotee “Krishna’s form is absolute when we think or chant or remember Him he can become fully present to us by grace “
With Australia making a bid to protect young children on the WWW.
One may ask why has the “tech Giant’s ” not already done that ?
Some may say it is because of money making ..
But that is not the only reason…Tech Giants are super libeterians and believe themselves a product of nature , they think we should follow our mind and senses anywhere they want to go . They also allow many libeterians to be let loose on the WWW. They feel that libeterians have the right to influence your kids in any way they like, and your kids have the right to associate with them . This so-called freedom model that binds and addicts children to the unpleasant side of conditioned human nature absolutely needs regulating. It’s 20 years too late . The unintelligent political classes themselves need regulating by the real intelligensia who easily see the dark energies on line . There are different classes of persons, some divine , some demoniac, and some in-between.. Would you let your children play with anyone ? Thus, scientific materialism and Darwinian hypothesis, when grabbed by the wrong people who dominate and influence, are troublesome. They must be stopped. That’s the Vedic way .. http://www.thevedicspectator.com
