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‪The only true religion is the one that can account for all the other “true religions”. That religion is called Sanatana Dharma - the eternal occupation of the soul. Many forms of religion have arise, in different times and places; all as attempts to capture the un-capturable. ‬

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“Come back to your senses, boy.”

Modern material life is very imbalanced. We don’t eat healthy, we don’t do yoga and we don’t do paranayama and this is causing our selves to be in physical and spiritual discomfort.

The body is forced to act. Take time right now to breath and observe your body moving. Feel the urges that pull your body around in order to achieve deep down demands. Because we are forced to act we become imbalanced; bodily karmas, reactions. If we remain unbalanced we get sick. Modern people take intoxication to seperate them from the pain of an imbalanced body-mind-soul, and allow them to continue their works. Although this approach is useful for forgetting things, the down side is one becomes separated from their intelligence. Because of this separation they struggle to understand the purpose and necessity of yoga. In fact everyone is doing yoga; it’s just that not all yogas are equal. Yoga means to link, and we can be linking with lower or higher states of being.

If one wants to resolve this issue of pain and suffering, the first step is to practice coming to the mode of goodness (sattva-guna) through gradual lifestyle changes; eat living foods, perform hatha yoga, meditation and pranayama (breathing exercises). That way one will come back to their senses (instead of being separated from them) - “come back to your senses, boy”. Once one comes back to their senses they will feel the pain in their body and mind; the pain that they were hiding from. Then one has to heal by doing more yoga, pranayama, and mantra meditation.

When one’s body and mind are again in harmony with sattva-guna, one can understand that actually everything is spiritual, that it is our responsibility to take care of our vehicles (our body; material or spiritual) so that we can do service for Krishna, the Supreme All Attractive Resovior of Pleasure.

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Shiva Shankara

Shiva is expert at taking you to the gates of the prison house (the material conception) because he is the prison master. Once you see outside the gate you will have enough Shradha (confidence) to continue into Vaikuntha. For those who don’t need to see the edge of the prison first in order to take to Krishna Consciousness, they can simply approach Krishna directly. But the funny thing is that you can’t actually get to Krishna if you don’t go through Mahadeva first.

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Make Vrindavan

Wanna know how bad the six goswamis wanted to see Krishna? They went and excavated Vrindavan, a whole village which was completely covered over, just so Radha and Krishna would be appear there.

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Eternal flux

Everything is in flux. The only thing that doesn’t change is that we are always seeing Krishna’s energies. That’s how the atma is unchanging. But the scene, the stage for Krishna’s pleasure, is ever fresh.

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You are the seer

Atma (the self, the soul) is not a thing there for you cannot see it. It is the seer.

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Krishna never appears without his associates and paraphernalia. Therefore we find Krishna through relationships and paraphernalia. Mother Yasoda wants to hear about everything that Krishna has done today out in the forest, even though He is standing right in front of her, because she sees Krishna through His pastimes. I learnt this from observing my daughter come home from school and interact with her mother. We want to know everything about her day so that we can see and know her.

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Introduction
The Vedic Upanishads and Buddhism are two of the most influential bodies of philosophical work and practice of all time; the works of which have even strongly influenced the West, what to speak of their origin – the East. One of the most intriguing concepts discussed in Eastern philosophy and religion is the idea of the self. Given that Buddhism arose partly as a response to the preceding Upanishadic thought in India, it shares some ideas and processes with the Upanishads, but also differs greatly in its final conclusion - apparently. Both agree that material reality is an illusion that causes suffering and both utilise the processes of negation and contemplation to uncover the true self. But they disagree on the final conclusion of what the true self is exactly. Whereas the Upanishads see the self as factual, eternal, fundamental, and ultimately one, Buddhism sees the self as a product of processes, and ultimately an illusion. In this essay, using the chariot allegory from both doctrines, I argue that by following the middle way, we will find that the non-self of Buddhism and the Purusha-dependent self of the Upanishads, are actually the same conclusion.

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In the hands of the white coats.

Engineering and science (minus psychology and philosophy) is only the study and manipulation of the modes of material nature, tri guna, in the form of physical matter. All experience relies on facts more subtle than the physical; mind, intelligence and ego. Therefore modern science, in its restricted incarnation today, is not sufficient for understanding reality in detail.

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Mahadeva

Shiva is expert at taking you to the gates of the prison house (the material conception) because he is the prison master. Once you see outside the gate you will have enough Shradha to continue into Vaikuntha. For those who don’t need to see the edge of the prison first in order to take to Krishna Consciousness, they can simply approach Krishna directly. But the funny thing is that you can’t actually get to Krishna if you don’t go through Mahadeva first.

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https://essenceseekers.wordpress.com/2018/10/16/plato-vs-nietzsche-an-ontological-analysis/#more-1826

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Something; different, powerful and real. Enjoy. In this episode I share with you some history of my life in relation to a dream I had, a premonition, when I was 17 years old. You will hear about the turmoil I was experiencing in my life before I had the dream as well as the details of the dream. Then you will hear how the dream unraveled in my day life, with the peaks valleys leading to triumphant breakthroughs. You might not like the theme music but I don't care. It's my podcast so I can do what I like, lolz.

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Jordan B Peterson vs Harris 2 (Vancouver). At approx 48min Sam Harris admits that, if he knew with full certainty that if he didn’t make the right sounds (religious prayer) he would suffer in hell eternally, then he would indeed make those sounds. This is a perfect example of my argument that says dualism destroys free will, in general - because dualism implies that God has created us seperate from Him and with an essence that if we don’t serve Him we suffer - but more specifically, that you cannot have free will and objective proof of the existence of God simultaneously. Free will requires that your world view is not imposed upon you. Indeed we find that this is the case that, although a lot of what we accept as the correct interpretation of reality is gifted to us by our culture, we still experience everything subjectively and we are free to formulate our perspective of reality based on your attitude towards it. If God forces Himself upon you you have not be left to approach Him freely, which is the requirement for true love, the love which is the basses of every relationship including your relationship with God. Someone who truly loves God doesn’t do so because He is God, they do it because He is loveable.

This might be a helpful example. I don’t love my wife because she is my wife. She is my wife because I love her.