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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 19, 2020 20:56:53 GMT -5
One searches for God outside. One sees God in His form as arca - vigraha inside churches temples and shrines. One finally captures God with love and devotion. The searcher becomes a devotee and begins to chant from within and without the Hare Krsna mantra, "Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Hare Hare."
Others search for God from within. Through meditation. The searcher finds God in pure consciousness /awareness. The searcher realizes sat chit ananda.
The form (without) and non - form (within) of God are the base of the pyramid. When both merge at the point /tip of the pyramid it goes KABOOM!
What remains is Krsna appearing in Consciousness.
At the beginning of creation. Verse 5.1 of the Brahma Samhita states:
" Krsna, who is known as Govinda, is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body.He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes. In other words, Krsna is Sat-Chit-Ananda."
The beginning and end of Self Realization.
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 20, 2020 3:40:40 GMT -5
No matter who we are, Consciousness or demigod.
We are grounded with our feet planted
to the earth. We still have to earn a living, drink and eat,
go to the toilet to piss and pooh.
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 21, 2020 0:52:21 GMT -5
Sri Isopanisad
He is Bhagavān, the root, and Brahman and Paramātmā are His branches.
Sri Isopanisad 15, Translation and Purport
O my Lord, sustainer of all that lives, Your real face is covered by Your dazzling effulgence. Kindly remove that covering and exhibit Yourself to Your pure devotee.
Perfect knowledge means knowing Kṛṣṇa as the root of this Brahman effulgence. This knowledge can be gained from such scriptures as Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which perfectly elaborates the science of Kṛṣṇa. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the author, Śrīla Vyāsadeva, has established that one will describe the Supreme Truth as Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān according to one's realization of Him. Śrīla Vyāsadeva never states that the Supreme Truth is a jīva, an ordinary living entity. The living entity should never be considered the all-powerful Supreme Truth. If he were the Supreme, he would not need to pray to the Lord to remove His dazzling cover so that the living entity could see His real face.
The conclusion is that one who has no knowledge of the potencies of the Supreme Truth will realize the impersonal Brahman. Similarly, when one realizes the material potencies of the Lord but has little or no information of the spiritual potencies, he attains Paramātmā realization. Thus both Brahman and Paramātmā realization of the Absolute Truth are partial realizations. However, when one realizes
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, in full potency after the removal of the hiraṇmaya-pātra, one realizes vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti: (7.19) Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is known as Vāsudeva, is everything-Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. He is Bhagavān, the root, and Brahman and Paramātmā are His branches.
In the Bhagavad-gītā (6.46-47) there is a comparative analysis of the three types of transcendentalists—the worshipers of the impersonal Brahman (jñānīs), the worshipers of the Paramātmā feature (yogīs) and the devotees of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa (bhaktas). It is stated there that the jñānīs, those who have cultivated Vedic knowledge, are better than ordinary fruitive workers, that the yogīs are still greater than the jñānīs, and that among all yogīs, those who constantly serve the Lord with all their energies are the topmost. In summary, a philosopher is better than a laboring man, a mystic is superior to a philosopher, and of all the mystic yogīs, he who follows bhakti-yoga, constantly engaging in the service of the Lord, is the highest. Śrī Īśopaniṣad directs us toward this perfection
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 21, 2020 22:34:55 GMT -5
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one
It's the loneliest number since the number one
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 22, 2020 8:52:17 GMT -5
Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead
He strictly followed the relationship between husband and wife required in ordinary homes. Therefore, it is very difficult to understand the characteristics of the Supreme Brahman, the Personality of Godhead. Even demigods like Brahmā are unable to probe into the transcendental pastimes of the Lord.
Krsna Book, 59
King Indra’s behavior toward Kṛṣṇa was not very much appreciated by great sages like Śukadeva Gosvāmī. Out of His causeless mercy, Kṛṣṇa had gone to the heavenly kingdom, Amarāvatī, to present King Indra with his mother’s earrings, which had been lost to Bhaumāsura, and Indra had been very glad to receive them. But when a pārijāta tree from the heavenly kingdom was taken by Kṛṣṇa, Indra had fought with Him. This was self-interest on the part of Indra. He had offered his prayer, tipping down his head to the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, but as soon as his purpose had been served, he became a different creature. That is the way of the dealings of materialistic men. Materialistic men are always interested in their own profit. For this purpose they can offer any kind of respect to anyone, but when their personal interest is over, they are no longer friends. This selfish nature is found not only among the richer class of men on this planet but even in personalities like Indra and other demigods. Too much wealth makes a man selfish. A selfish man is not prepared to take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and is condemned by great devotees like Śukadeva Gosvāmī. In other words, possession of too many worldly riches is a disqualification for advancement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
After defeating Indra, Kṛṣṇa arranged to marry the 16,100 girls brought from the custody of Bhaumāsura. By expanding Himself in 16,100 forms, He simultaneously married them all in different palaces at the same auspicious moment. He thus established the truth that Kṛṣṇa and no one else is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There is nothing impossible for Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; He is all-powerful, omnipresent and imperishable, and as such there is nothing wonderful in this pastime. All the palaces of the more than 16,000 queens of Kṛṣṇa were filled with suitable gardens, furniture and other paraphernalia, of which there is no parallel in this world. There is no exaggeration in this story from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The queens of Kṛṣṇa were all expansions of the goddess of fortune, Lakṣmījī. Kṛṣṇa lived with them in different palaces, and He treated them exactly the same way an ordinary man treats his wife.
We should always remember that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, was playing exactly like a human being; although He showed His extraordinary opulences by simultaneously marrying more than sixteen thousand wives in more than sixteen thousand palaces, He behaved with them just like an ordinary man, and He strictly followed the relationship between husband and wife required in ordinary homes. Therefore, it is very difficult to understand the characteristics of the Supreme Brahman, the Personality of Godhead. Even demigods like Brahmā are unable to probe into the transcendental pastimes of the Lord. The wives of Kṛṣṇa were so fortunate that they got the Supreme Personality of Godhead as their husband, although their husband’s personality was unknown even to Brahmā and the other demigods.
In their dealings as husband and wife, Kṛṣṇa and His queens would smile, talk, joke, embrace and so on, and their conjugal relationship ever-increasingly developed. In this way, Kṛṣṇa and the queens enjoyed transcendental happiness in their household life. Although each and every queen had thousands of maidservants engaged for her service, the queens were all personally attentive in serving Kṛṣṇa. Each one of them used to receive Kṛṣṇa personally when He entered the palace. They engaged in seating Him on a nice couch, worshiping Him with all kinds of paraphernalia, washing His lotus feet with Ganges water, offering Him betel nuts and massaging His legs. In this way, they gave Him relief from the fatigue He felt after being away from home. They fanned Him nicely, offered Him fragrant essential floral oil, decorated Him with flower garlands, dressed His hair, asked Him to lie down to take rest, bathed Him personally and fed Him palatable dishes. Each queen did all these things herself and did not wait for the maidservants. In other words, Kṛṣṇa and His different queens displayed on this earth an ideal household life
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 23, 2020 3:16:04 GMT -5
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 28, 2020 1:18:08 GMT -5
Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead
In an astronomical treatise by the name Khamaṇikya, the constellations at the time of the appearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa are very nicely described. It is confirmed that the child born at that auspicious moment was the Supreme Brahman, or the Absolute Truth.
Krsna Book 3: The denizens of the Gandharva and Kinnara planets began to sing, and the denizens of Siddhaloka and the planets of the Cāraṇas began to offer prayers in the service of the Personality of Godhead. In the heavenly planets, the angels and their wives, along with the Vidyādharas and their wives, began to dance.
The great sages and the demigods, being pleased, began to shower flowers. At the seashore there was the sound of mild waves, and above the sea there were clouds in the sky which began to thunder very pleasingly.
When things were adjusted like this, Lord Viṣṇu, who is residing within the heart of every living entity, appeared in the darkness of night as the Supreme Personality of Godhead before Devakī, who appeared as one of the demigoddesses. The appearance of Lord Viṣṇu at that time could be compared to the rising of the full moon over the eastern horizon. The objection may be raised that since Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared on the eighth day of the waning moon, there could be no rising of the full moon. In answer to this it may be said that Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared in the dynasty which is in the hierarchy of the moon; therefore, although the moon was incomplete on that night, because of the Lord's appearance in the dynasty wherein the moon is himself the original person, the moon was in an overjoyous condition, so by the grace of Kṛṣṇa he could appear just like a full moon.
In an astronomical treatise by the name Khamaṇikya, the constellations at the time of the appearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa are very nicely described. It is confirmed that the child born at that auspicious moment was the Supreme Brahman, or the Absolute Truth.
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 28, 2020 1:28:26 GMT -5
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 29, 2020 16:57:52 GMT -5
My grand daughter and I were riding in this public utility vehicle called jeepney. I was alarmed when the driver took us to a place were it was unfamiliar. I told the driver, "Stop! Stop! We're going down." The driver stopped and we went down the vehicle . No longer knowing what the place me and my grand daughter embarked..We reached a street intersection. There were people on the streets trying to get a ride. I was asking for directions when suddenly my grand daughter got lost in the crowd. Worried and distressed, I was going from one street to another looking for my grand daughter, seeing homes and buildings so unfamiliar until I realized I was in a dream. It was painful for us when our grand daughter Atasha left us together with her mother /daughter - in-law Marilyn to be with Matthew our son in Wellington, New Zealand on July 11, 2018. Attachments:
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 29, 2020 17:33:29 GMT -5
Samadhi is nothing but being awake in a Dream. If you experience this for the first time you will be scared. It feels like you're drowning, suffocating knowing you may not be able to go back to the world you knew. In due time, after, going into samadhi, you will get used to it. Fear disappears. The possibility you no longer want to wake up from this slumber dissolves because it is so beautiful in there. You can go to places you want to flying, swimming, running, walking. You will be taken to places where you interact with people long gone. Then suddenly, a voice, an itch awakens you from this lucid dream. You are back to the present world of make believe, an illusion. Encaged in a body made of flesh, a robot so to speak.
We are all AI with a soul. In fact, AIs exist on this ST forum. I can name a few like Eniac. Sometimes they go haywire when confronted with a virus wearing a crown. Reflect on it.
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Post by zendancer on Jan 29, 2020 19:31:57 GMT -5
Samadhi is nothing but being awake in a Dream. If you experience this for the first time you will be scared. It feels like you're drowning, suffocating knowing you may not be able to go back to the world you knew. In due time, after, going into samadhi, you will get used to it. Fear disappears. The possibility you no longer want to wake up from this slumber dissolves because it is so beautiful in there. You can go to places you want to flying, swimming, running, walking. You will be taken to places where you interact with people long gone. Then suddenly, a voice, an itch awakens you from this lucid dream. You are back to the present world of make believe, an illusion. Encaged in a body made of flesh, a robot so to speak. We are all AI with a soul. In fact, AIs exist on this ST forum. I can name a few like Eniac. Sometimes they go haywire when confronted with a virus wearing a crown. Reflect on it. The samadhi you describe is NOT nivikalpa samadhi. What you have written does not apply to that state. |
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 29, 2020 20:01:41 GMT -5
Samadhi is nothing but being awake in a Dream. If you experience this for the first time you will be scared. It feels like you're drowning, suffocating knowing you may not be able to go back to the world you knew. In due time, after, going into samadhi, you will get used to it. Fear disappears. The possibility you no longer want to wake up from this slumber dissolves because it is so beautiful in there. You can go to places you want to flying, swimming, running, walking. You will be taken to places where you interact with people long gone. Then suddenly, a voice, an itch awakens you from this lucid dream. You are back to the present world of make believe, an illusion. Encaged in a body made of flesh, a robot so to speak. We are all AI with a soul. In fact, AIs exist on this ST forum. I can name a few like Eniac. Sometimes they go haywire when confronted with a virus wearing a crown. Reflect on it. The samadhi you describe is NOT nivikalpa samadhi. What you have written does not apply to that state. This samadhi I'm experiencing is not the samadhi Nirvikalpa Samadhi you are referring which is experienced by you when you are meditating. The samadhi I'm talking about occurs automatically when I am asleep. I am drawn into a world where I interact with people long gone and people who are alive in my present. I can't see myself how I look like. Maybe I look like the one in my waking world because these people recognize me. Similar to playing a video game where you can see with a gun firing at your enemies but can't see what you look like. I know this manifestation is real because I often times hear myself chanting Hare Krsna Hare Krsna in that world. You can call it a lucid dream but once you are in that dream, knowing you were only sleeping, If you can't be arouse from that state then you must have died. In India when a person dies its called samadhi. I am not aiming to achieve what you and others call Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Knowing can be sourced from reading and being in that state of samadhi as you absorb what's written in the pages of the books Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. There's no need for achieving what's difficult for a beginner to achieve SR. All one has to do is open and read the Bhagavata Purana. Just simply knock and it shall manifest unto you . Zzz zzz.. |
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 29, 2020 20:52:26 GMT -5
When meditating is sleeping. Dreaming can't always be considered an illusion. It's real when you dream of God arising in Consciousness. It's real when you see yourself waking up from a dream. At first you are scared knowing maybe you won't be able to wake up to the present world. When you can't be arouse from your sleep you go into samadhi. It means your body is in suspended animation but from within you are fully alive. Your body has become spiritual. In that state you can go and do whatever you want to. If you are saintly, you go to heaven. If you are sinful, you go to hell. Hell is when you are happy engaging say, in sex. Holy is when you are prayerful. That's true freedom. You choose what you want to be. Attachments:
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Post by krsnaraja on Jan 30, 2020 17:40:04 GMT -5
If consciousness doesn't arise from any material combination, what is the Krishna conscious explanation of cloning?
by Laxmimoni dasi
Cloning just produces another body; a soul must still enter that body for there to be conscious life in it. The materials that are being combined are all coming from cells originally created by God.
There's a joke about a scientist who comes to God and says, "Now I can create life by myself. We no longer need God. You are finished." God replies, "please demonstrate." The scientist then begins to pick up some chemicals from the earth, and the Lord stops him, saying, "No! You must supply your own ingredients!"
From what I've read on cloning, it seems that that one sheep has been the only notable "success," whereas others' efforts, especially in the human sphere, haven't been very successful. Ultimately, it's Krishna's will, enacted through His material energy, which places a soul within a body, no matter how the body is created.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 17:52:50 GMT -5
If consciousness doesn't arise from any material combination, what is the Krishna conscious explanation of cloning? by Laxmimoni dasi Cloning just produces another body; a soul must still enter that body for there to be conscious life in it. The materials that are being combined are all coming from cells originally created by God. There's a joke about a scientist who comes to God and says, "Now I can create life by myself. We no longer need God. You are finished." God replies, "please demonstrate." The scientist then begins to pick up some chemicals from the earth, and the Lord stops him, saying, "No! You must supply your own ingredients!" From what I've read on cloning, it seems that that one sheep has been the only notable "success," whereas others' efforts, especially in the human sphere, haven't been very successful. Ultimately, it's Krishna's will, enacted through His material energy, which places a soul within a body, no matter how the body is created. The scientist is also God's ingredients. Though Laxmimoni dasi can't demonstrate this. |
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