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Granted that within an endlessly cycling and recyc

Granted that within an endlessly cycling and recycling cosmic history, the notion of a final, definitive end of violence is quite naive. Still, much good can be done in the world, and efforts to bring about that good should elicit our gratitude, and not merely our “dismay.” To give an example, gardens must perpetually be weeded, but they are weeded and there are many beautiful gardens in the world. The lack of a final, once-and-for-all weeding should not elicit our dismay when we see people caring for lovely gardens.

The Gita seems to teach this view in the famous verse 4.7: yadA yadA hi dharmasya glanir bhavati… The very term yadA yadA acknowledges that adharma is perpetual, but so should be our efforts to restore dharma. Gardens must ever be weeded,
To use an example from the article, despite the tragic miscalculations after WW I, all post-war calculations have not been equally tragic. Indeed, despite serious mistakes, the post WW II arrangements were better. The UN survived where the League of Nations failed. The Marshall plan was an effective corrective to the harsh conditions imposed on Germany after WW I.

Endless peace and virtue in the world of Maya would be hopeless utopianism. But we can and should make a difference. That’s why Holocaust Museums elicit in me much more than dismay.

2. "The only way to break free from the violent instinct is to outgrow our hungers and fears. This a sage can achieve through rigorous mental re-conditioning, but he also realises that such an enterprise cannot be forced on a population. It remains an individual endeavour, and can never be a collective enterprise.” Really? I find this incomprehensible, given the picture we find in, say, Mahabharata where good kings enact and protect peace in their realms, often with the committed encouragement and guidance of sages. #hdg #hdgoswami #prabhupada #ahimsa #vedas #shastra #worldpeace

The passenger in the chariot normally tells the dr

The passenger in the chariot normally tells the driver where to go. That is especially true in Vedic culture in which chariot DRIVER was clearly a subordinate position, taking orders from the driver.

Thus Gita verses such as 5.18 -- “a knower of tattva thinks 'I am not doing anything, etc.'” But that is simply a way of emphasizing that we are not the body, that the soul is not literally running or eating when the body runs or eats.
We know that our free will is conditional, we are conditional souls. Thus a human cannot will to fly in one’s body, or to live forever in the same body. There are many conditions imposed upon us, but within those conditions we make choices. And even our ability to make choices depends on our position in the gunas. Sattva-guna gives more clarity, more freedom, tamo-guna hardly any. It is a stage of addicton, compulsion etc. Rajo-guna is in the middle.

These are all factors but there is nothing at all in Vaishnava literature that suggests absolute determinism, or the absence of free will. At the Gita’s end, Krishna tells Arjuna, “Do as you wish!” This bi-partite causality in which we have free will, but the body is conditioned by nature, is clearly explained in Bg 13.21. #hdg #hdgoswami #freewill #karma #shastra #vedas #prabhupada #krishna

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Tomorrow, Sunday, @7AM PST LIVE SB 1.7.22. También en vivo con República Dominicana 🇩🇴 @1PM PST #hdg #hdgoswami #bhakti #srimadbhagavatam #vedas #shastra #sanskrit #prabhupada

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Tonight! The Vedas vs. "New Age"
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It seems clear that sraddha, faith, interacts with

It seems clear that sraddha, faith, interacts with our life choices. For example, Krishna states in 4.39 that sraddhavan labhate jnanam, “One who has faith obtains knowledge. Clearly, that knowledge reinforces and expands faith, which expands knowledge.
On the negative side, people create addictions, which is a type of blind faith that drugs, sex or other addictive things will satisfy one, despite massive experience to the contrary. #hdg #hdgoswami #faith #sraddha #shastra #vedas #prabhupada #bhakti

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Today: H.D.Goswami FB LIVE – Brain, Mind and Consciousness: How to better understand the true nature of self
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LIVE Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.12 class tomorrow, Sunday, May 24th, @7am PDT. “Sūta Gosvāmī thus addressed the ṛṣis headed by Śaunaka: Now I shall begin the transcendental narration of the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and topics of the birth, activities and deliverance of King Parīkṣit, the sage amongst kings, as well as topics of the renunciation of the worldly order by the sons of Pāṇḍu.“ #hdg #hdgoswami #srimadbhagavatam #shastra #vedas #prabhupada

I now use material legs and in Krishna Loka I have

I now use material legs and in Krishna Loka I have my own eternal legs (assuming I’m not an eternal tomato). Similarly, as a thinking, feeling soul, I now think and feel in the material realm with the aid of manas and buddhi. But in my eternal form I do my own thinking and feeling. I don’t think that any linguistic, philological, philosophical or heremeneutic argument will change what I and many others experience as the reality of our existence. #hdg #hdgoswami #shastra #vedas #prabhupada #soul #jiva

The verse quoted below, which in the MBh critical

The verse quoted below, which in the MBh critical edition is 4.39.18, does not explicitly say that Arjuna has light skin. The Sanskrit simply states that Arjuna’s ‘varna’ or ‘color’ is ‘durlabha’, ‘rare, and ’samah’, ’smooth.’ and that he performs ’shukla karma’, Shukla is a direct synonym of Arjuna, meaning ‘white, clear, pure, spotless, etc. Thus Arjuna’s deeds, not his skin, are directly called white, clear, or
pure, “shukla”. Further, in text 4.39.20, 2 verses later, Arjuna says that his tenth (and last) name is Krsna, a name given by his father out of love for the “little boy of dazzling dark complexion.” #hdg #hdgoswami #mahabharata #shastra #sanskrit #literaltranslation #vedas #bhakti #arjuna #prabhupada

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It is not so easy to get out of Maya's clutches, so we have to be patient. You must continue to do your best without being discouraged by the inevitable imperfections of this world. With time you will be able to overcome all the problems. Krishna is always with us, even in the imperfect stages of life. #hdg #hdgoswami #sincerity #dharma #shastra #prabhupada #bhakti

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It may not be easy for most to revive pure consciousness of Krishna but it is possible. For example, relatively few persons share your level of academic achievement, yet your research and study will ultimately benefit society in general. As we know, we live in an unusually materialistic, and even narcissistic age, but that very fact awakens in many a wish for something higher. #hdg #hdgoswami #bhakti #shastra #highertaste #gita #prabhupada #iskcon #krishnawest

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