L - Liberty is not "the freedom for", but "the freedom from" O – Opportunity to love the eternal...

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L - Liberty is not "the freedom for", but "the freedom from"

O – Opportunity to love the eternal is rare

V - Variety expresses Krishna's accessibility

E - Experience is the ultimate harmonizer & verifier

LOVE is the ultimate reality

The American Paradox

Since 1960, The divorce rate has doubled. The teen suicide rate has tripled. The recorded violent crime rate has

quadrupled. The prison population has quintupled. The percentage of babies born outside

marriage has sextupled. Depression has soared - to ten times the

pre - World War II level.

Casualties in the Century of Science

“The twentieth century was the most violent century in known human history. Indeed, three times more people died in wars of the twentieth century than in the entire history of warfare between A.D. 1 and 1899.” - Ending Violent Conflict, Worldwatch Institute (Washington D.C.)

Casualties in the Century of Science - I

First World War (1914–18): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 millionRussian Civil War (1917–22): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 millionSoviet Union, Stalin’s regime (1924–53): . . . . . . . . . 20 millionSecond World War (1937–45): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 millionChinese Civil War (1945–49): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 millionPeople’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong’sregime (1949–75): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 millionCongo Free State (1886–1908): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 millionMexico (1910–20): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 millionTurkish massacres of Armenians (1915–23): . . . . . 1.5 millionChina, Nationalist era (1928–37): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 millionKorean War (1950–53): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8 million

Casualties in the Century of Science - II

North Korea (1948 et seq.): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 millionRwanda and Burundi (1959–95): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.35 millionSecond Indochina War (1960–75): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 millionNigeria (1966–70): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 millionBangladesh (1971): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.25 millionCambodia, Khmer Rouge (1975–78): . . . . . . . . . . . 1.65 millionMozambique (1975–92): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 millionAfghanistan (1979–2001): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 millionIran–Iraq War (1980–88): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 millionSudan (1983 et seq.): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.9 millionKinshasa, Congo (1998 et seq.): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.8 million

What we need to

discover is not the god

particle in the atom, but the godly particle in the heart

Let’s Make Our Intelligence FIT and choose to love the eternal

F:FUTILITY

I:INSUBSTANTIALITY

T:TEMPORALITY

Spirituality, a Higher Dimensional Science

Science

Theory

Experiment

Spirituality

Religion

Philosophy

Srila Prabhupada - “Philosophy without religion is just mental speculation”

Spirituality

Philosophy

Religion

Srila Prabhupada - “Religion without philosophy is at best sentimentalism and at

worst fanaticism.”

Spirituality

Philosophy

Religion

The world’s great religions are facilities for us to redirect our

love from the temporary to the eternal

eg University, Hospital

The Story of the Prodigal Son

Krishna is a God who doesn’t just welcome us back, but also strives multifariously to get us back. One such extraordinary effort of his is the system of demigod worship

Story Object

of Servic

Real Object

of Servic

Motive

Some other Land Lord

Semi-god (Say-me

Wealth Materialism

Minister of King

Demi-god Wealth Karma Kanda

King Krishna Wealth Sakama Bhakti

King Krishna Love Suddha Bhakti

Why so many gods?

1. kämais tais tair håta-jïänäù prapadyante 'nya-devatäù taà taà niyamam ästhäya

prakåtyä niyatäù svayä

2. yo yo yäà yäà tanuà bhaktaù çraddhayärcitum icchati

tasya tasyäcaläà çraddhäà täm eva vidadhämy aham

(Bhagavad Gita 7.20-21)

Why so many gods?

3. sa tayä çraddhayä yuktas tasyärädhanam éhate labhate ca tataù kämän mayaiva vihitän hi tän

4. antavat tu phalaà teñäà tad bhavaty alpa-medhasäm

devän deva-yajo yänti mad-bhaktä yänti mäm api

(Bhagavad Gita 7.22-23)

The compassionate logic of demigod worship

Is 60% score good or bad?

For one capable of scoring 40%, it is excellent

For one capable of scoring 80%, it is undesirable

Is demigod worship good or bad?

For atheists and materialists, it is recommended

For serious spiritual seekers, it is discouraged

Vallabhacharya

Keshav Kashmiri

The Vedic system of multi-level worship bears testimony to:

1. A unique concern for the individuality of the worshipper and

2. An unparalleled flexibility of the worshipable

in making himself accessible

Material science is experimental,

Spiritual Science is experiential

Science of devotional service

Adhav Shraddha

Sadhu Sangh

Bhajana Kriya

Anartha Nivritti

Nishtha

Ruchi Asakti

Hero – Krishna Director – Yoga-MayaScript-Writer – Krishna

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