We should know this. The preachers and the Bhajananandis ..if they are strict Vaisnavas are both glorious . But sometimes the Bhajananandi may find it difficult to comprehend the liberties of the preacher .. The monks of the Scottish Island of Iona came to the mainland to preach but became a little too absorbed in the adapted process and got too absorbed the wrong way .. So good preachers must have strong Bhajan , without which they will fail to make the correct impacts . Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur himself and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaj were perfect examples of strictness and adapted process, which Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada followed. It’s a fine line …a razors edge ..
Family line ??
Siksa comes by blessings of Sastra sanga as well as through devotees Trancendental knowledge is never limited. Thus, Krishna is the Acarya himself. If a family line Guru from a good authentic line is available and he is pure , take Diksa or Siksa from him , Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur says . But Krishna is not limited to family lines , The holy names brought by Mahāprabhu wait for no-one, but immediately give their mercy , in some parts , it is said the Holy name is enough…but in general we accept training by association and Bhajana kriya ,anartha nrviti etc etc . If you have your representative of Diksa Siksa all well and good … Know though that Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu have inundated the world with the trancendental Holy names , and there are great souls are taking birth to assist Them ..those souls have in themselves previously taken up this process of Krishna consciousness, as Krishna indicates in Gita , automatically they again become attracted… http://www.thevedicspectator.com
There is a need for major reviews in the way current democracies function . They have become infiltrated and paid for by global fail in USA’s case they are also infiltrated by the Israeli lobby , with 60 million dollars donated yearly and probably a lot more unofficially. Political classes who are beholding to financial institutions are not representing the electorate or the good . Administrative classes need to be governed at a distance and take input from the intelligentsia . Not from businessmen , businessmen do not have the sensitivities , intelligence , or know-how , they are clueless in understanding how society’s should be given positive and progressive direction that brings progressive values . Keynesian economics , trickle-down economics, and ever existing growth based on exploitation in every way fail the people and society, it brings war and conflicts and exploitative so-called trade deals, it leads to mass immigration. The intelligentsia know how to set a balance and elevate the consciousness of the citizens that brings peace, respect as well as knowledge of the equality of all beings. Life is not a competition or a race to death to gain as many commodities as one can .
The businessman’s duties are to care for the tradesman and workers in their employ . The political administration should be the supervisors of the creative economic sectors, making sure everything is a genuine free market economy, and unfair encroachment is avoided ,both locally, nationally, and internationally. The political classes need direction , they are not leaders . In ancient times, the lifetime “kingly person” who was dedicated for life to all his citizens and had genuine care for all was the system. That was and is the natural consciousness of a a true leader . ” kingly persons ” in previous ages were obliged to work under an intelligentsia . They were a team of scholars who are well versed in all the sciences , primarily in the sciences of dualism, mind , matter, and consciousness. But they also had other scholars under them called Vipras, who were expert in many feilds . The intelligentsia were always guided by the previous intelligentsia , and the preservation of cultures is important . Conservative means to conserve . Each period of time naturally adapts to place and circumstance by a current intelligentsia of the day . Times are circumstances that are always changing and in flux, and new approaches are needed naturally. Such are the ever well wishing Vedic cultural systems that are forever personally dedicated to all living beings.. They are eternal and originated from Divinity Himself.
The speculative Darwinians , who are clueless about consciousness , they also can not even give a credible account of how even one part of a body might form . Ask them to make a tiny cell or even a blade of grass from scratch. The Darwinians would have to rely on molecules already produced by ” nature ” because they can not by themselves create chemical synthesis from scratch. Such Darwinians are so foolhardy that they suppose we have evolved into civilizations from our previous savagery , while being clueless about consciousness, it’s another indication as to how unscientific and ” lost ” the Darwinians really are , sentiments and guesses are unscientific. How do they know that consciousness is not devolving and becoming more degraded , as further and further identification with the material energies takes place. Ignorance of dualism could be taking humanity in a backwards step . Great civilizations come and go , as the seasons do , the Vedas says we are in the dark winter periods currently, and knowledge of the potential and greatness of consciousness has been lost . Although the process of revival of inherent wisdom is always possible . http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Living in love and living in truth are important, and essential elements to human consciousness , such higher cultures can give opportunity to reach out far beyond human existence , and the Vedic Culures are practically based on easy journeys to other planets. The universes are full of planets, and it’s a minor affair in comparison to the spiritual kingdoms. We should never limit ourselves by being conditioned by limitations that may initially restrain us . Truth and beaulty of all kinds brings us the path of freedom from every kind of illusion and deceit . How can one be attracted and switched onto truth and freedom, which brings all kinds of insights and realisations ? There are systematic paths chalked out in the Vedas , as much as learning anything, consciousness development is experienced through practical and therapeutic processes.
Realisations about inescapable truths are not mere academic exercises or fanciful analytical studies , but something deeply felt primarily because a person hankers to understand universal fundermentals. A beginning of a trancendental intelligence is involved , the Bhagavad Gita calls this Buddhi yoga, the yoga of intelligence , its dependent on a decending process , something that everyone is entitled to feel and experience for themselves. Through Divinity directly , through His representatives and through the Sruti and Smriti of the theological writings, when they are maturely and properly reflected upon realisations and insights, begin to dawn and they can steadily grow if carefully cultured . Living within the laws of the land and government is also not exactly an academic exercise. There are systems and laws to follow, and a government is enforcing them . These laws are designed for peace , happiness, and security. Similarly, our deepest feelings and aspirations are within everyones hearts, need cultivation, and following universal laws and theological paths will quickly enable us to find our own inherant truthfulness , honesty and feelings of effection , but we will connect with others in love .Such a higher culture of consciousness stems from our souls. The material coverings and subtle conditioning places artificial layers on our soul and should be shaken off by the yoga processes . Theological sciences teach those processes , karma yoga , niskama karma yoga , jnana yoga , astanga yoga , bhakti is the real connection in all yogas .The scientific process of self-evident dualism will be realised and acted upon . The soul becomes captivated , captured, and covered by the spell of illusions , this material world acts like that .The spell of becoming an independent enjoyer and the master of all it surveys . Thus, it gradually becomes more entangled and appears to lose any inherant truths it once possessed . In such a condition, an increase in deceitful entanglements takes place . The Vedas call this “Maya,”” that which is not .” Underlying this artificial positioning, though , truth and beauty remains , bug covered , inherant truth and beaulty can never be destroyed . One should take advice from thd pure Gaudia Vaisnavas and revive ones original pure consciousness and become happy , blissful, and nonenvious .
That very personality who stole away my heart during my youth is now again my master. These are the same moonlit nights of the month of Caitra. The same fragrance of malati flowers is there, and the same sweet breezes are blowing from the kadamba forest. I am also the same lover, yet still my mind is not happy here. I am eager to go back to that place on the bank of the Reva under the Vetasi tree. That is my desire.”
The deep meaning of this verse, which appears to be the hankering between some ordinary boy and girl, was known only to Svarupa Damodara. By chance, one year, Rupa Gosvami was also present when Lord Caitanya recited it. After hearing the verse, Rupa Gosvami composed another verse, which described the meaning of the original verse. It was a verse spoken by Srimati Radharani to a gopi friend at Kuruksetra:
“My dear friend, now I have met My very old and dear friend Krsna on this field of Kuruksetra. I am the same Radharani, and now We are meeting together. It is very pleasant, but still I would like to go to the bank of the Yamuna beneath the trees of the forest there. I wish to hear the vibration of His sweet flute playing the fifth note within that forest of Vrndavana.”
Madhavendra Puri composed a wonderfully trancendental verse …that also brought these verses together in a simple and deep expression by Srimati Radharani. Granted to him by Srimati Radharani , Madhavendra puri’s verse was chanted by Mahāprabhu in pure love ..It reveals the trancendental desperation contained within the heart of Srimati Radharani in Parakiya Rasa.
This is Srimati Radharani’s plea to Krishna “O My Lord! O most merciful master! O master of Mathurā! When shall I see you again? Because of My not seeing You, My agitated heart has become unsteady. O most beloved one, what shall I do now?”
“As the Kaustubha-maṇi is considered the most precious of valuable stones, this verse is similarly considered the best of poems dealing with the mellows of devotional service . This verse was spoken by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī Herself, and by Her wishes it was manifest in the words of Mādhavendra Purī . Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu tasted the full mellows of this poetry . Mādhavendra Purī recited this verse again and again at the end of his life . Thus, uttering this verse, he attained the ultimate goal of life.Text 197: “O My Lord! O most merciful master! O master of Mathurā! When shall I see You again? Because of My not seeing You, My agitated heart has become unsteady. O most beloved one, what shall I do now?” When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recited this verse, He immediately fell to the ground unconscious.
Thus, the teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu have been described by the Goswami’s of Vrndavana and Srila BR Sridhar Swami says that in time as devotional services mature one will be irresistibly drawn towards them .
Unfortunately with social and a mainstream media 95% of people are taught what to think instead of how , and its getting worse .
One needs to aquire the means to identify truth .
Although morals , ethics , philosophy , theological sciences as well as clear objective sciences are essential in helping us to access truthfulness, we also need to check our own motivations . Are we sincere searchers for truth . A sincere searcher for truth becomes truthful and honest about their own flaws and weaknesses , an honest assessment of oneself is useful because truth is attracted to those who are honest , the positive is attracted to the negative . Humility is the first point of knowledge. One of the symptoms of truth is to see the true equality of every living being and become their well wisher . There are many other symptoms of truth , such as not to encroach on others territories everyone has their lot , and they deserve it , and we should be in the mind to preserve it .
Purely translated theological texts from every culture chime in the same way , as do good philosophical thoughts . Don’t let anyone get in your way to understand truth and thoughtfulness , find a truely honest teacher who has the symptoms of truthfulness, and begin to apply their teachings carefully, thoughtfully, and truthfully .
The vedic way ..
No question of in or out .
Heaven or hell
But rather prescribed methods of many different regulations for persons either in ignorance, in passion , in goodness , or who have transcended material living .
The Vedas teach in very practical ways that everyone can live with purpose . The outsider may look in without understanding the variables of the Vedas and how everyone is catered for The progressive march of social and spiritual mobility for everyone is the Vedic way.
To understand truth , first understand the untruthful. When you understand the untruthful and the qualities they have and their Modus operandi , from that point you can test the truth , the truth is self evident to the person who lives in truth . There is no American truth , British truth ,Chinese truth, or Indian truth , truth is truth and truth comes along with beauty and harmony. The Vedas list the four types of persons who can not surrender to truth and the five types of irreligious persons , some of whom claim affiliation to religion . We live in the material world , and it begins with deceit , illusion, and ignoring truth . Nevertheless, the truth and the absolute truth can be accessed by those who are seeking absolute truth . Once one thing is known in truth , everything is known http://www.thevedicspectator.com
The process of understanding God with one’s intelligence is certainly progressive, the process of giving some prayers and offering in a” I will give you this , but can you give me that ” is also certainly progressive. But we can not fully understand and enter into a relationship with Divinity and His associates merely by intellectualism or by formal business dealing. To enter into a relationship with Divinity or His associates headed by the Supreme Goddess of Fortune Srimati Radharani, there must be pure unalloyed love . In the Vedas this is called pure Bhakti yoga . This type of devotion is bestowed on one by being in the association of one who has it , the seed is planted within our own heart , and we can make it grow by our sincerity of purpose. The Vedas describes a watering process . It’s the type of love that makes one feel inadequate or that one just does not possess. But , you have heard of no risk no gain , in spiritual life , Srila BR Sridhar Swami says , its more like all risk no gain .. Spiritual life means trying to relate with unlimited Divinity , how can the limited understand and love the unlimited . The pure person never thinks he can achieve this , but he or she is risking risking, risking, risking everything, one’s whole life dedicated , hope against hope , says Srila Rupa Goswami http://www.thevedicspectator.com
Everything is connected to Divinity, and Divinity is connected to everything ..
It’s a question of utilising and identifying honest intelligentsia . One who directly understands the simple principle of the equality of all living beings . Who know how to direct people both in terms of their social mobility with education as well as a progressive culture of their inner spiritual consciousness . The vedas have simply forms that the broad Vedas outline , what can be termed as peripherals , but also highly esoteric forms that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has discussed with Ramananda Roy . Many varied objective sciences are given within the Vedas including explanations to the many social structures, all of which are beneficial and can be linked to the best of wisdom. Free market economics as opposed to cheating greedy economics are essentially discussed . Philosophical positions, along with their specific explanations, are clearly elucidated within the varied theological cultures . Ultimately, the Param Gatim , the pefection in understanding who the supreme personality of God is and how to enter into a loving relationship is the final goal set . Leaders in every field must be of quality , a businessman man has business interests , that is good , but leadership of people’s best interests are beyond the understanding of the business men . The all-around all-encompassinging persons who have broad visions of religion , politics , and philosophical matters the Vedas say are those who speak with ” Sabdha” , realised truth . The truthful and the honest attracts truth as well as the absolute truth , and they share their genuine insights for everyone’s benefit.
Prabhupāda: “Our culture, our Vedic culture, is on religion, on God consciousness, everything. The whole social structure, political structure, philosophical structure, scientific structure, everything is aiming on Viṣṇu. Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanti sūraya. Viṣṇu, God. And in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa it is said, varṇāśramācāra-vatā puruṣeṇa paraḥ pumān viṣṇur ārādhyate [panthā] nānyat tat-toṣa-kāraṇam [Cc. Madhya 8.58] So our cultural aim, Vedic cultural aim, is tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ. How to satisfy Him. But they do not know about Viṣṇu. They have forgotten Viṣṇu. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ [SB 7.5.31]. Our self-interest is there in Viṣṇu. Na te viduḥ. These foolish men, they do not know. Durāśayā bahir-artha-māninaḥ. They are uselessly hoping that they will be able to adjust things by material advancement ”
Arrival Address… “At the present moment, the human society is giving stress on the mercantile class of men and worker class Actually, there is no intelligent class of men or administrative class of men. So our movement is creating some intelligent class of men. According to our Vedic knowledge, the first-class intelligent man is he who knows what is God. He’s first-class intelligent man.”…………
Unless this happens….we are left to the failed democracies, who are infiltrated by businessmen and who virtually pay for political parties and want a payback in the form of lobbying success. Fools will continue to vote in fools unless society can be educated to know what a real leader is and where he is leading the electorate to .Unless the electorate know of what is the ultimate good , they end up voting for the unthinking headless leaders who are clueless, they are interested in short term material goals , that are controlled and legislated by so called free markets, that are in reality fixed monopolies. Society is becoming influenced by the lowest classes of men who are infused with scientific materialism , and cheating science is presented to students as fact based sciences. Darwinian hypothesis is the name of the game with rampant materialism, the results , because sophisticated animals have no sense of the potential of consciousness. The conclusions of these Darwinian speculative sciences are not based on objective scientific methods. Everything concluded is based on subjectivity and best guessing. So the whole of the modern world is following the best guessing and subjective speculations of truely clueless persons. Modern Western societies have their political philosophy and policy based on sophisticated animal consciousness , and what do animals inevitably do ? You guessed it ….fight ….If you ask your leader what consciousness is and that is the most important question that anyone can ask , not one of our scientific or political leaders could give an answer . Yet they expect us all to follow them . What are the goals of sophisticated animals, eating , sleeping, sex , and snatching territories or defending snatched territories. Sophisticated animals do animalism big time , global conglomerates, and world led ruthless consumerism is the evidence. Cancel culture and narratives of every kind are spilling out of TV studies and out of social media . Speculations, and best guesses are passing as knowledge in place of authentic objective sciences and cultures of wisdom that originates from knowledge of consciousness . Divinity is represented in every theological culture , but such cultures without a scientific outlook to consciousness will be swamped by materially motivated practitioners. The self realised properly understand the broad topics of theological studies based around mind ,matter and consciousness in all its states and outward appearances in scientific ways , not sentiments.
Interfaith.
Although the immature followers of different faiths have problems with each other , the most spiritually advanced of them don’t . Srila Jiva Goswami in his Bhagavat Sandarbha says when one looks at a multicoloured cloth people see different colours , and each individual may see one colour as more prominent than anither individual. Similarly, theological cultures differ somewhat , but they are cut from the same cloth . In that way, people of wisdom rightly have much respect for each other and can easily share in their experiences of Divinity . So , it’s important for faiths to be primarily judged on the most advanced followers of each one . The lesser advanced persons who see so many differences in religious theological texts in time by becoming spiritual mature will also be able to share faith with no insecurities and with realized knowledge.
When leaders fail to take seriously the honest and wise intelligentsia problems arise of every kind. Leaders of today ignore the intelligentsia who are scientifically able to understand consciousness and dualism and who thus see the self-evident truth of the equality of all being and know of their rights under God’s laws .
Reagan …trickle down economics is the example of crooked capitalism gone mad ..
Fanatic ..and extremists follow this system. It’s what the world economics forum is based upon . Trickle-down economics fails .. Greed breeds more greed and more competing to be the most greedy ..this is sophisticated animalism. Thus ..for example , young people cant buy a house right now , as most are owed by private landlord’s . Lobbying by financial companies have escalated and forever upwards house prices , its built in to a system contrived by the greedy , who see to it their government friends don’t build too many houses ….The stock , currency, and commodity markets work primarily on insider information, that cause poverty and wealth at a micro second . Third world countries have no securities for economic developments, as the commodities they sell are subjected to not free markets , but fixed markets , every third world country has outside political interferences driving conflict . This is the dream of Ronald Reagan and the nightmare for everyone else . Businessmen can never never be left to run society unless they take instructions from a genuine government who are directed by an intelligensia with the highest characteristics http://www.thevedicspectator.com
When one loses touch with absolute truth , all truths proceed into continual decline in an every increasing march towards further and further deceit . Such is the nature of the illusory energy of Divinity. Truth declines so much that any man speaking truth is ridiculed or in todays world silenced , some call it cancel culture . The persons speaking lies are glorified as truthful. Current algorithmic processes or Ai assist the dishonest greatly. The most cooked of persons who together snatch the worlds recourses , pay very good money to anyone who will repeat their lies . With algorithms set in particular ways and that work in their favour, such crooked persons are seen by the public as purveyors of truth. Welome to the world where fools have voted in fools .. and where the Godless reign. To understand absolute truth, one’s lordship and argumentations against absolute truth should be in decline, and an acceptance of humility in the heart must be increased along with a general respect for all beings , with compassionate thoughts . A natural detachment, alongside peace within the heart, will develop , and the beginnings of a relationship with Divinity will be underway and realised http://www.thevedicspectator.com
