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

O best among the twice-born, it is therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve by discharging the duties prescribed for one’s own occupation according to caste divisions and orders of life is to please the Personality of Godhead…

Krishna is suggesting many things , one executes duties allotted by nature , in ways  recommended by those who represent our best interests , namely the intelligentsia,  who know the science of body , mind, and consciousness.  The goal of Vedic life is consciousness development, a progressive educational life , which differ according to station , but the same goal for everyone is to  advance one’s consciousness towards Divinity and live  comfortably.

It is indicated in the Vedas that one should help everyone to progress materially and spiritually through family,  community, and a nation  . Everything was based locally and nationally  in support of each others development. The bee hive is a good example of community living .

In Vedic Culture, all  financial resources were invested in only the national interests , so naturally, a country developed all its citizens , it was  the  main responsibility of the head of state .

Currently, we find ourselves in complex global relationships with untraceable  macro economics at work ,  distant global companies interacting in local communities,   but communities they know nothing about or  really care for .

The Vedic  nationally based systems are far more beneficial for all residents of a country,  along with  genuine authentic scientific  and philosophical studies,  making for a peaceful positive and progressive life .

Global macroeconomics is not working , and is causing a great struggle for 95% of people ,and causing world conflict,  it sets the goals for us , everyone of them artificial goals , whilst the billionaires walk in space instead of understanding what the needs are on the ground , the world deteriates.

catur-varnyam maya srstam
guna-karma-vibhagasah
tasya kartaram api mam
viddhy akartaram avyayam
TRANSLATION

According to the three modes of material nature and the work ascribed to them, the four divisions of human society were created by Me. And, although I am the creator of this system, you should know that I am yet the non-doer, being unchangeable.

Here we see the words of Lord  Krishna in Bhagavad Gita,  so He suggests, there are already in place in  every single nation , an  intelligentsia,  consisting of realised philosophically minded persons who know body , mind and consciousness, along with the  Vipras , various scholars who have inking for various studies,  leading to expertise in sciences ,medicine ,economics, etc etc .  There are also military men and administrative persons who can easily impose governance and compliance on society and manage risks . Also, there are traders and buisness men ,and there are ample tradesmen and workers .

So each nation has  self-reliance, built in , regretfully the industrial revolution and later the technological revolution, along with globalisation, have  disturbed this natural balance of nations and their self-reliance has been compromised , they have been used and exploited , this has led to poverty and disempowerment  a nation states , as they try to keep up with false promises of the Globalist dreams of shared wealth , which they market to  unintelligent leaders , who are not  part of the real intelligensia . This  exploitation is  historically very deep rooted , but  countries need some reorientation policies set in place , aimed at self-reliance and its  its own people at the heart of decisions. All types of persons needed to  make a successful nation are present in every country , Krishna says so , and we can see it ourselves,  so a conglomerate of nations , each self reliant in Vedic ways , and  not   global  conglomerates creating global networks from the USA or Europe.

This will be the future ,  the Vedas call it ,  one and difference. This is the Vedic way and a fundermental truth one word different nations .

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Enclosed universe, infinite space, the accuracy of cosmic calculations using limited senses and parallax measurements.

Aug 7th, 2024

Many ancient cultures speak of the universe  being enclosed with lower , middle, and upper planetary systems within a shell.

Outside this  universal shell , they thought ,  was the place that Divinity had His residency.

The Greeks and later the Arabic cultures as well as a  Vedic culture and other cultures from the South Americas held similar understandings , thus their cultures were intertwined and evidence of  a much earlier concept of a global world can be thought of .

When the Roman empire conquered most of  Europe, taking within their cultures some aspects of Christianity,  some or most of these ways of looking at our universe came to  decline  and when finally  Roman empire came to an end , Christians predominanted and scientific thinking outside the bible came to an end . But the old Arabic and Greek texts were still available, and the  Mogal empires preserved some of this   universal thinking, which was theological in nature

The Renaissance period gave a rebirth to science and a  rethinking of  the universe . Modern geometric systems and euclidean math was the new way of looking at life , so much so , that God was pushed out the picture, and so was dualism,   the mechanistic Darwinian world had begun, scientific materialism, that used  math and mechanistic thinking  , placed our stars millions of miles away,  and a  concept of an infinite space,  with no God outside of a universal shell . If there were a God ,  some thought,  it’s  probably an impersonal energy . The idea of a separate mind to matter was written off because the mind could not be measured , and math could not be applied .

Measurements of the distance of planets in a multidimensional space,  as spoken about by Lisa Randall the Harvard Prof,  may not be so easy,  the laws of physics are said in the Vedas to operate differently in different parts of the universe, so what  is far is near ,what is near is far in a multidimensional universe.

The ancient culture and sciences should not be discarded and rubbished , and replaced by scientific materialism, which  cannot even account for a mind , but rather believe  it to be simple neurons firing in a mechanistic mathematical brain , these events  happening by chance events in a chance universe , this mechanistic veiw could be said to be  ludicrously absurd , and discards the notion of intelligence and obvious design in just about everything, as well as perfect mathematics , where there is perfect mathematics you can bet your bottom dollar there is a perfect mathematician behind it .

The third Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam,  and the chapter entitled The fundermental principles of material nature is a summary of universal events.

Aug 7, 2024

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When Srimati Radharani is feeling intense separation from Her eternal paramour , Her Manjari friends have the ability to remind Vrsabhanu Nandini Sri Radha of Her  previous encounters with Krishna within the trysting grouds .

Because these Manjaris are tad bhavika devotees,  they are able to fully express the various trancendental Parakiya encounters that Srimati Radharani has previously experienced. The Manjaris reminds Srimati Radharani of those encounters, and such Krishna Katha  fills Radharanis,’ heart and mind with that blissful absolute nature of those trancendental encounters with Krishna in Their  spiritual loving affairs . Srimati Radharani experiences those trancendental ecstatic emotions  in seperation as much as She does in union.

Such are the trancendental mysteries of a trancendental world where everything is absolute.

Indeed Caitanya Mahāprabhu has taught the world,  the Names of God are non different than God , He is fully present,  we just have to develop the kind of devotion that can bring us to the point of realising this truth and we associate with devotees who can serve in similar ways , and such devotees can help us understand and relish sastra sanga.

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Where there is a lotus flower, there is the beautiful scent of the flower. They are synonymous in that sense .

The acaryas tell us where there is Lord Krishna, there is Srimati Radharani , The Supreme Goddess of fortune,  and wherever Krishna appears in His incarnations or His expansions in  Vaikuntha regions or when He leaves Vrndavana and takes up residence in Dwarka , Radharani in one of  Her expansions appears with Him . Indeed the mystery of Nava Vrndavana and Satyabhama is given by Rupa Goswami, while Krishna was in Dwarka ,  Srimati Radharanis deep effection for Krishna is revealed,  knowing that Krishna of Vrndavana, even though residing in Dwarka,  was feeling the pangs of seperation from Vraj , Radharani knew Krishna could not live without Her ,so she came  as Satyabhama and brought  along Her  Vrndavana,  wherever there is Vrndavana there is Radharani.

Srimati Radharani serves Krishna in all capacities . As a friend, mother ,servant, and lover , as a friend, she plays many  competitive games with him and generally comes out victorious , as a mother she thinks of the pain He must feel when His lotus feet trample of grass storks , as a servant , she wants to serve His lotus feet in every way , but He wants more so she sacrifices everything,  even Her reputation,  and as a lover she exhibits the highest Bhava , madana maha bhava , in conjugal mellows ,and Krishna faints , and Radharani boldly declares to Her friends “The beautiful one is mine .”

Radharani , as Durga devi, administers strict discipline on the jiva in a bid to wake them up from the foolish attempts to become an enjoyer of a temporary material situation , and  encourages them to revive their original purposes of rendering loving services and  in a cooperation with Her family.

In Vedic terms, we may have a romantic idea of how societies, nations, and the  myriad of cultures  could all successfully live in harmony . Currently, much  discord is evident  in the world,  so what could the Vedas offer humanity ? Does it have relevant advice ?  After all  individuals will be individuals , and forever more shall be so . Individuals mean differences, and actually, differences are appealing in so many ways . Can everything be harmonized?

Historic records of any events of  times gone by are generally tainted by a historians perspective,  depending on the historian , whom he is  representing or paid by . Everyone is a political animal with opinions.  Another problem with  extremely ancient historic calculations  is that it’s the view of the Darwinians along with  scientific materialism peddlers,   we evolved from apes, and our recent ancestors lived in caves , and had to discover fire and learn  how to use it successfully.

Such a narrow-minded approach to world history limits a  western audience .  On the other hand, if we look to the historic accounts of other great  cultures, including the Vedic cultures,  millions of years of great civilisations coming and going in the waves of time are found in different ways . Its logical and rational  in theological calculations,  to consider the material energies in time ,  degrade  consciousness , its the nature of material living  , where everyone is looking to enjoy to the maximum and avoid disturbing situations . Thus, the rise and fall of societies are recorded in places like the Mahabharata ,amongst  many other cultures.

Today, although supposedly a civilised global world , we see  international laws  are not taken seriously,  and major global players are out  to get for themselves . Vedic culture has evidence that that has not always been the case , and studies of the Vedas  and its political and social systems, that were  based on consciousness development and good living ,and administrated by the intelligentsia, and not politicians will bring a valuable contribution to current geopolitical and socio-economic affairs. ISKCON has that responsibility and its work in progress.

Actually , gain of function research is encouraged by Krishna in Bhagavad Gita , in reality its a  re-establishment of an original purpose that  bring ever increasing  gains of all descriptions , something that’s  deep within everyone’s psyche , in other words directly or indirectly  love and pleasure are everyone’s innermost need

Never mind the cleavage site of a virus in a Wuhan Laboratory.  Which incidentally is the news coming down the line on the origins of covid . The inserted DNA within a cleavage site of a Viras , giving it a gain of function,  namely being easily able to enter the chest of a human and kill was engineered and cross contamination caused the leak , USA EU and UK and private pharmaceutical industries have been all involved in funding gain of function research.

Krishna encourages  us in His Bhagavad Gita to research a lost function  of our consciousness and to understand original spiritual senses  , we currently have mutated into a material plane and endlessly wonder following our  material minds and senses , causing the physical body to mutate into the 8,400000 species of life in our multidimensional universes,  higher lower and middle planetary systems.

This mutated process is under the complete supervision of Divinity and His agents , nothing is happening by chance , and a responsive universe follows  our desire and free will , along with automated responses.

So nothing by chance  , but rather by the Supreme desire of Krishna and His judiciary systems  . The complexities of the  entanglements in matter  of consciousness  are seemingly unfathomable to us ,  but this administrative process takes up by a miniscule fraction of Krishna’s consciousness.

So, as a matter of priority, find out about gain of function research of the consciousness and begin the journey for which you were meant to take , and stop artificial mutations of a material body and mind . Urgently pick up a copy of Bhagavad-Gita as it is , AC Bhaktivedanta Swami is most expert at explaining to Western audiences the secret of all secrets

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In 1922 approx , Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja met with one Professor Suthers , who visited India on behalf of the British government to try to get an understanding of the complexities of Sanskrit languages that appeared to  contain, many levels of  sciences  within them . So envious  and dumbfounded were the British   that they set up a sanskrit college in Hertfordshire to learn the language and then retured to India to introduce twisted meanings , using words like mythology in an attempt to subjugate the people of India and the great Vedic cultures .

The Proffesor  made an observation to Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami,  that  ” your Krishna who you worship appears to be immoral ”

Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami immediately retorted , with his usual brilliance and trancendental insights , that Krishna activities exhibited the highest levels of morality.

How this can be understood can only  be found out by questioning a self realised soul who is a mature Vedic scholar . Who is  also  Krishna’s pure devotee and who has the appropriate symptoms of knowledge and detachment from the material world , being a topmost Yogi , as Krishna mentioned in His Bhagavad Gita , ” the best of the yogis “

Spiritual texts can be confusing sometimes the absolute truth appears to  speak  lies and  so do his intimate friends , why this is so or why on the battlefield of Kuruksetra Arjuna’s call for moral actions were ignored by Krishna and  why both Yudhisthira and Bhismadeva,  who were overly attached to speaking truth were  wrong  can revealed  by speaking to Krishna’s pure devotee.

Thus, this  great conundrum can be laid to rest .

Here is a hint , if a murderous person were  looking for a person that you were  hiding in your house  and  asked You  “Have you seen such and such ?” a moral and ethical person would immediately lie .

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