The real acaryas teach by example, they are capable of delivering Krishna consciousness from its  beginning to its perfection….they are engaged twenty four hours daily and their only motivation is to serve those who are always engaged in giving all pleasure to Krishna ,to satisfy His emaculate trancendental senses. The Acarya is engaged both  externally in various missionary activities and internally within the spiritual realms,  what Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur calls the spiritual minds realised spiritual form and services within an eternal spiritual realm .

Whatever the Acarya speaks is always a  valuable lesson in a practical and spiritual  sense.  When Krishna Katha emanates from their lips , it can enter deep within the heart, and change takes place , a  lost consciousness is found . Either the subject matter spoken or read through Sastra sanga is realised immediately and acted upon , or relished as Rasa realisations , or  it will be relished and realised at a later time , the super subjective plane decends of its own accord.  Such Krishna Katha  or instructions decend from the eternal realms,  by its own sweet will and by the mercy of Bhakti Devi , who gives the pure acaryas freedoms to distribute such trancendental knowledge . As such, the Lila’s spoken of are eternal , and entrance is  eternally taking place where such loving services are flourishing and being received . The acaryas also perfectly describe the other param para acaryas in their songs and teachings .  Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja said in regard to spiritual  instructions “Those  acaryas are self effulgent to the sincere  prospective disciple” They are present by Sadhu sanga and sastra sanga , if one has had their grace , and time space are of no consequence,  nor the various generations they will act . These acaryas are merciful to one and all because they are Bhaktas of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu who is in the mood of Srimati Radharani , They , by Krishna’s desire , rescue the stricken living entities from all their entangled circumstances in Kali yuga in specific ways .

Ultimately speading Krishna is also pleasing to Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and  the param para , all those who follow Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu . In current times, wherever those missionary activities can be done, it is perfect . Within or outside  ISKCON, in one sense, is a relative term , some outside ISKCON could be within in an  absolute sense, and some within ISKCON could be outside in a relative sense.

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The philosophically inclined say the flapping of the butterflies wing has an effect on the state of the atmosphere, air pressures, and air movement in miniscule unmeasured ways are taking place .Similarly our activities in this world whether insignificant or significant are reactive on many different levels, every action , thought or deed has an appropriate effect , nothing can act outside the laws of science and sciences work on many levels some relatively understood others completely unknown . The Vedic universe is the reactive and responsive universe, the bigger you are the harder you fall , leaders ought to be especially careful, they have special responsibility and they ought to know the risks , a fool rushes in where as man of wisdom ways up all consequences seen and unseen.

How many wars has the USA started? How many military bases does it have ? How many neuclar bombs has it dropped .Edward Teller says USA were told by scientists of the day that the bomb it dropped in Japan could have been dropped off the coast miles out , that would have been enough to stop the second world war , because Japan would have had to surrender , however the USA chose to drop them on the citizens, unnecessarily killing thousands.The advice of the scientific community was ignored good sense did not prevail, the intelligentsia ignored, have USA learned anything over the years , the answer is a resounding NO .
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The principle teachings taught  by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu as made clear  by his conversations with Ramananda Roy, is  one should systematically from a particular starting place , according to ones station , steadily and eagerly come to the essence of the teachings of Gaudia Vaisnavism . Srila Rupa Goswami has brought more details within his teachings of this scientific spiritual development and the association of trancendental professors  , i.e., Sri Guru is essential for the personal checks and balances in ones progress

We are never to  discard the Varna Ashram system and its true worth or the stages progressing from it .  The gradual developmental process of association and training by the trancendental intelligentsia in all their various capacities are an essential element of the development of Krishna consciousness . There are cor and peripheral elements to Krishna consciousness, and many Siksa Gurus may help us . 1st class devotees, 2nd class, and 3rd class devotees are consistently present in the theological cultures in the world  no matter the country or culture. Ultimately, the teaching of our spiritual cultures must have similarities, and so they do . God is unlimitedly merciful and makes Himself known in many many ways .
The Caitanya Caratamrita makes it clear that what Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has given society is ultimate the essence of love of God , the connoisseurs of love in spiritual matters , the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana have made this very clear and why it is so .
No matter what your external circumstances may be ,  by Nama Sankirtana chanted with sincere purposes, one can very quickly acquire love of God .  However, a top-class Brahminical man , although externally very knowledgeable in the Vedas  and he or she may be very expert with all the formalities of Vedic cultures , may or may not aquire what Mahāprabhu has given .That will  depend on a state of humility of the heart and a greed to understand something of the esoteric elements of Bhakti yoga . This is in the hands of those pure devotees who have tasted it and who are relishing it , and they can  bestow it. Thus, causless mercy is needed , and mercy above justice is an important principle demonstrated by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityananda prabhu. This is so because Krishna and Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu will wipe away all previous bad karma in a stroke. What is our due is excused , this is the essence of Nityananda prabhu and Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu

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What can you see and feel within augmented realities ?

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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A spiritual movement that fully  represents the Vedas is possible when the conversations between Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Ramananda Roy are properly reflected upon and understood in full , the whole conversation is representative of the benedictions that Mahāprabhu has brought , this brings the peripherals to the cor teachings as presented by the six Goswami’s of Vrndavana who Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu empowered. These messages are to be properly presented to members of the public as a systematic and all encompasing approach to spiritual progression leading to the goal of pure spontaneous loving service. . The peripherals begin with Varna Ashram that can very easily and quickly connect to the esoteric cor by the processes  outlined by Ramananda Roy and that Mahāprabhu approved of . Bhakti yoga is the process that Lord Krishna Himself speaks about in the Bhagavad Gita , its connections in the form of  karma yoga , jnana yoga , niskarma karma yoga and astanga yoga , are approved processes given by Krishna Himself and are the greatest hope for mankind  , especially when Bhakti is added to them in some way . Vedas means pure  knowledge , both knowledge of the means  to acquire  knowledge and what the perfection of knowledge looks and feels like .The names of God are non different than God , in current times , the easy process of calling with sincerity any name of God is the best and recommended means to aquire knowledge of God , by calling out to Divinity He will respond within the heart by inspiration making clear the directions and processes to follow .

Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana, the great devotional and brilliantly erudite scholar writes this in his commentary on the Tattva Sandarbha of Srila Jiva Goswami, ” May I have attraction and taste for the truth in the form of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu who is endowed with eternal bliss and non different than Divinity Himself,  for Caitanya who is named as the deliverer of the universe, is the supervisor of Dharma and who bestows satisfaction just by having slight devotion to Him “
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Take a look at your world. There is diversity in everything. Look at  even your lounge ,your kitchen , or your garden, its flowers and creatures, and birds, for example , dig into the soil , variety cannot be avoided.  What to speak of the whole world around us .There is an incomprehensible diversity of anything and everything that stems from the energies from an atomic realm that is also diverse but that are presenting themselves as the elements and compounds forming the shapes of life that all our sets of various senses react to , either in a liking way or we are  discarding them  or taking a neutral stance .Variety is the spice of life , and scientifically, we are clueless about its origins or purposes. Each of our bodies is a compact perfect unit and each different physically and what to speak of mentally and intellectually,  an incomprehensible display of thinking power , although it’s said there can be a meeting of minds, but in highest of spiritual circles that is possible otherwise not .The question arises in philosophical and theological circles as well as scientific circles , just how and why should there be such inconceivable quantities of diversity in everything ? A Darwinian is puzzled , survival of the fittest is no answer. The Vedas give the answer, from the one comes  many , this has always been and always will be . The driving forces of variety are pleasure , we are all pleasure seeking beings , and Divinity Himself is the original pleasure seeker .It’s the very nature of consciousness , ananda moya .  Ānanda means bliss, happiness. Ānanda. The spirit soul is ānanda-moya avyasat. The nature of the spirit soul is joyful and happy, the Vedas indicates. You can ask yourself if pleasure is the very nature of life, then why am I suffering? Why am I experiencing a lack of happiness, and why are conditions placed upon me that are  restricting me, and that goes against my liking . The impersonal following of Sankaracarya or the Buddha want to be rid of variety they think it is a problem.  The personalists, however, want to learn how to use variety so that it reacts perfectly with the inner consciousness of the soul itself and brings inner happiness. The reflection of a tree on the rivers waters can give us a clue regarding all varieties. The reality of the tree is that its full of varigatedness and life , although its reflection can appear similar and it remains real but at the same time unreal and subject to changes as the rippling waters change its appearance. The Vedas tell us of the material energies as reflections of the spiritual varigatedness where spiritual antimatter is eternally situated and where spiritual senses are experiencing the ever increasing energies of attraction of relationships of love along with the beautiful forms accompanying those who are connoisseurs of pleasure . There  Divinity or Krishna, along with the Supreme Goddess of fortune Srimati Radharani, are relishing the mellows of rasa in ever new ways,  there is no limit to Divinities consciousness explorations as He churns the ocean of pleasure.

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According to Maharaja Yudhisthira in the Mahabharata (Vana-parva 313), the most amazing or wonderful thing in the world is that every day, countless living beings die, yet those who remain live and act as if they are immortal.

This is certainly remarkable and it alone is proof of the eternal nature of the soul .

Another amazing thing is that the almighty unlimited God can come before each tiny particle of consciousness by decreasing His majesty and increasing His sweetness and enter into a  personal relationship and enjoy an exchange of love, Krishna or Divinity is the originator of love and Bhakti or love attracts Him . The bliss and love exhibited in association with Krishna and His devotees experienced with spiritual senses and spiritual consciousness greatly exceeds anything of love or bliss in this world . The souls power is diminished by matter , like the suns power is greatly diminished under heavy storms in the winter time , but in the blue sky of high summer something quite different occures .

If the absolute unlimited Lord could not make Himself known to the unlimited limited , then He would not be unlimited .The power of love supercedes everything.

Knowledge…

The Lord God does not need to attain knowledge. Rather, He is the source of all knowledge . Knowledge is unlimitedly and incomprehensible exhibited. A particular species is given knowledge, taking the weaver bird , what a complex structure it builds . There are 8,400,000 species of life, each with specific knowledge. Also, there is the brain of Albert Einstein and all of the great thinkers , and each has been granted insights in particular fields .
Spiritual planes take knowledge to other levels and dimensions knowledge and realisations of a consciousness seperate from the influences of a body and mind , or greater knowledge of Divinity within all things, or a direct relationship with God taking knowledge even further and further . No one religion or sect should think it has the monopoly on knowledge, Divinity gives knowledge to who He wants to , and His is independent of all .
Bhagavad Gita speaks about attitudes to develop, which are favourable to inspire knowledge to come , by grace, God may reciprocate.
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Scientific angle …

Bohr to Teller, ” Are you telling me this is all a dream?”
Bohr understood classical physics has its place , but behind it lies something that drives it.
The followers of Sankaracarya believe the world is an illusion created by the minds desire .
But classical physics is a reality, and those who absorb themselves in these energies remain within them .
Probably those that see something deeper going on and explore the source of matter and its perfectly structured arrangements with logic , rationale, and intelligence will move on to where Bohr and Teller were heading . Knowledge is infinite, and for the finite to understand something of the infinite, some connections must be made

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Those chains that bind you …

Having fallen into a dark well, how would a person climb out ? After all, it’s deep and very dark, and the sides are wet and smooth and slippery.

The Vedas description of the material world and the impossibility of taking oneself out by one’s own means our chains of illusory desire bind us .
The Vedas says that in this age, three things are needed for a comprehensive rescue remedy.
1. The holy names…the rope that has no limits.
2 . Those who can  throw the ropes , Sri Guru and the saints.
3. The scriptures, both in the form of written words and spoken words, they are the pulling mechanism..
Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami has made provisions for the entire world, and the relief work is underway.  Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has garlanded the whole world with those Holy names and added love of God to them ,  Nityananda prabhu is orchestrating everything very nicely ,and His agents are practically conducting the relief work .

What are the chains ?

I want to control the environment and not serve the environment. This consciousness means one enters into the material energies ,the land of  Maya , that which is not .
The land of misconceptions of every kind imaginable and then beyond. Starting with the smallest living being, a worm or a microbe,  to a national consciousness and their leaders who conduct vicious wars of one kind or another .Every being attempting Lordship.
The harmonized consciousness is a beginning of knowledge. It’s  a recognition of the equality of all beings , we are all particles of consciousness. Our absolute position is found in realised knowledge . That we are a  particle of consciousness and have the ability to harmonize with others and nature in a peaceful and contented spirit , free from artificial desires that haunt us and hound us .We can be totally free from the influences of a false identity of being just the material body or a turbulent or fading or building intellect , beyond those planes  is the soulful expressions   Automatically and quickly, this knowledge of consciousness is granted by Nityananda prabhu and Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu . Very swiftly , one frees oneself from the artificial designations of the illusions of Maya, and ultimately the Supreme Personality of Godhead , He is the originator of consciousness , begins to be revealed. Sri Guru is the representative of Nityananda prabhu . It’s Nityananda prabhu’s and Sri Gurus causeless mercy, which is the cause of the ocean of trancendental bliss to increase and exponentially expand in all directions and along with it full knowledge.  The deepest and darkest well is no obstacle,  Nityananda prabhu rope reaches everywhere,  no previous qualifications are needed, just grab the rope of the Divine Holy names, and automatically you will let go of the chains
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Vedic epistemology , ontology ,and etymology

” Ontology and epistemology are both branches of philosophy that study different aspects of reality: 

• Ontology
• The study of being, or the nature of existence and what is real. Ontology is concerned with what exists and what is true or real. It covers a wide range of entities, including everyday objects, living beings, and ideas. 
• Epistemology
• The study of knowledge, or how we can know things. Epistemology is concerned with how we can know about the existence of things and how we can separate true ideas from false ideas. It also studies theories of knowledge, such as how knowledge is derived and how reliable it is. “
• Etymology.
• Etymology is the study of the origin, history, and evolution of words, tracing how their forms and meanings have changed over time. It analyzes the roots of words, their development from earlier languages, and how they shifted meaning, often described as a “family history” for words……in Vedic context the history of Sanskrit and the way the meanings of words are used by acaryas in Gaudiya Vaisnavism according to their relationship with Krishna and the rasa they are experiencing.
• The Vedic perspective…..
• We should at the outset quote the great Scholar Sri Jiva Goswami when he says realised knowledge is within the heart of the pure representatives of God . When speaking to some people, they may be   literally like a book , and repeat what they have read , but do they realise what they read or use quotes out of context.  Srila Jiva Goswami says the example in Nyaya logic of  “where there is smoke there is fire ” is a good example because the fire may have just gone out , so smoke could continue without fire . Only by hearing from a person who sees and realises  the conditions on the ground can truth be known.
• The Vedas bring everyone on a journey of knowledge , no matter where they might currently be ,  the journey is an eternal one in one sense , the ever increasing ocean of trancendental bliss is refered to in the Srimad Bhagavatam . The Vedas offer appropriate wisdom and systematic learning from the beginning of our new incarnation as children , and is available on our death beds , and next life  learning and realising will carry on . The Vedas also offer a gradual learning programme for the doubtful,  an initial sign of intelligence is to be doubtful after all . According to where ones life journey ended from a previous one  , automatically , again one picks up the mantel of learning and sets off on the journey again .  Specifics of learning obviously vary in many ways , but onwards and upwards is the prescription for all  .That’s God’s plan for all . Ultimately, if we want to gain knowledge of Divinity along with His sciences , there are correct and  recognised epistemological processes that are accompanied by  purificatory processes within the different varnas and ashrams . The first thing is to become pure in consciousness by following particular standards alloted according to one’s current situation , they are of many types . Only  by the acceptance of due process will any understanding of the Supreme pure and His  personality be developed and perfected. The original Vedas have been summarised into short codes and aphorisms . The Srimad Bhagavatam is the natural commentary of these codes , called the Vedanta-sutra.
• Within the Srimad Bhagavatam, Jiva Goswami says are the epistemological systems of the Sruti , Smriti , Puranas, and Tantras , so everything complete .This is so because  the Vedas as a complete unit is very difficult to understand in a  comprehensive way . Srila Jiva Goswami says that in this in his  Tattva Sandarbha.

ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi
na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ
sevonmukhe hi jihvādau
svayam  eva sphuraty adaḥ

Translation

“ ‘Therefore material senses cannot appreciate Kṛṣṇa’s holy name, form, qualities and pastimes. When a conditioned soul is awakened to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and renders service by using his tongue to chant the Lord’s holy name and taste the remnants of the Lord’s food, the tongue is purified, and one gradually comes to understand who Kṛṣṇa really is .

Regarding ontological considerations.

Athato brahma jijnasa is a phrase from the Vedanta-sutra that means “Now is the time to inquire about the Absolute Trut

jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’
kṛṣṇera ‘taṭasthā-śakti’ 

bhedābheda-prakāśa

Translation

“It is the living entity’s constitutional position to be an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa because he is the marginal energy of Kṛṣṇa and a manifestation simultaneously one with and different from the Lord, like a molecular particle of sunshine or fire. Kṛṣṇa has three varieties of energy.

The conclusive understanding of who we are has been  given by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu , and it is summarised like this , we are inconceivably and simultaneous one and different from God .

This conclusive understanding separates Sankacarya and his oneness from the  philosophy of  Madhva Acarya,  Ramanuja Acarya , Srila Visnu Swami , and Nimbarka Acarya , who respectively taught , purified monism , ( a connection with Divinity) specific monism , ( as a servant of Divinity in varying ways ) pure monism ( indicating a oneness in love ) and one and difference.

Caitanya Mahāprabhu added the inconceivable and simultaneous oneness and difference in His revealing the pranaya , oneness in love , particularly of the Manjaris , technically called Tad tad bhava icha atmika .

Thus the Vedas lack nothing in the matter of epistemology or ontology and their conclusion.

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Extremism brings extremism

Extremism brings extremism , and then more  extremism . The wise are not only wise , but the  wise are balanced . The wise are those who understand the complexities of life . It’s a fact that once one truth is known, all truths fall into place . What is that truth ? It is to know and respond to an original cause of all causes . Everyone is part of that original cause  , thus, nothing lies outside truth and truth arises from Divinity , and because Krishna or God is the highest truth , all truth is fixed in Him . The Vedas are the breathing of Visnu , a breath of absolute and relative truth . Vedic means one who is in knowledge of all affairs , either directly or indirectly . Nothing is ever separated from Divinity , even illusion is part of the absolute truth . Multiculturalism needs respect, and so do  individual political systems.  The same also goes for religious practices that follow authorities , free from interpretations for personal and perverted reasons of any kind  .

Extremism has many formats , some obvious , some not so .

Extremism in political circles destroys family values as well as  historic and worthy traditions . Such libertine following and extremists also generally seek to limit theological influences , thinking modern democracies and their political classes know best . They are attempting to replace valuable cultures with  predominately atheistic speculative sciences , scientific materialism , and Darwinian hypothesis , is the name of the game , but they are presented in educational organisations as fact based sciences ,  but they are  clearly not  .Without knowledge of dualism , such  extremists are  orientated towards liberalism and  preach …”if it feels good, do it.”  into the heads and mindset of children with dishonesty and
bias science . However, the Discovery Institute and the Bhaktivedanta Institute  are fighting to present a real objective truth . They are presenting objective science rather than subjective speculations . Check out both organisations .
Scientific materialism , as well as Darwinian hypothesis and of course fanatical fanciful so-called religious teachers who teach exclusivity and hatred of other religions, are the cause of a misguided society , and they have allowed democracies to be infiltrated by unthinking business men , global conglomerates are bad news , they don’t create wealth , they steal from others directly or indirectly and create killing feilds.
In Vedic Culures, sometimes impersonal energies are presented as being God and   that God is not an individual . This philosophy has some truth to it , but  because such impersonal explanations can not explain how  the order and laws of the universe are perfectly constant or have  come into being , Sankaracarya followers arguments are flawed , the  world is real and present . It has purposes , and Divinity has set it in motion . An unintelligent” cop out “can’t explain truth , a “cop out”  much like a  Darwinian  “cop out ”  in  their explaining  order and universal laws as a random chance events .

Get balanced, get Vedic, get to know scientifically and objectively our life and times

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