Gaur Purnima

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Dear Anna

 

Prasadam means mercy. When we cook food we are supposed to cook for the Lord

because He is the giver of life and food. In the Bhagavad Gita, the Supreme

Lord says that he accepts food offered to Him with Love and Devotion. The Lord

is lacto-vegetarian, that means that He does not like meat, fish, eggs, garlic

or onions. So, we cook for Him any kind of vegetables, fruits and grains and He

accepts them. The Lord by being the Supreme can eat with His eyes if He wants

to. So when we offer to Him with love & devotion food that He likes, He accepts

it and by doing that that food becomes prasadam, His mercy to us. When we eat

prasadam, we avoid the karma of killing the living entities within that food and

we purify ourselves to understand higher levels of conciousness. That golden

age already started and soon we will be able to see its wonderful effects.

 

Natabara

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Actually, we are already seeing the effects of the Golden Age of Lord

Caitanya. Any great social-religious movement has to incubate, often for

centuries, before it manifests its full effect in mainstream society. That

was historically the case with Buddhism, Christianity and even the

Reformation and material scientific movement of the Renaissance.

 

For example, scientific materialism was conceived as a revolution in thought

against the Roman Catholic orthodoxy. The Church had deviated from pure God

consciousness in many ways, notably by accepting Aristotelianism as its

theory of knowledge and method of philosophical reasoning. Thus the

tradition of Aristotelian logic with its thesis, antithesis and synthesis

that, fittingly enough, laid the philosophical foundation for godless

communism. They also accepted the whole Aristotelian cosmology, which was a

big mistake because it posited a flat earth at the center of the universe.

(They would have been far better off with Platonic philosophy, but that's a

tale for another day.)

 

When telescopes came into use, the Aristotlean cosmology was proven false

and this laid the ground for a full-scale scientific revolution against the

Church. The Church, of course, stupidly held on to their wrong ideas,

demonstrating clearly to everyone what muttonheads they were. The result was

a tremendous wave of popular support for the empirical scientific

world-view. This was amplified by the obvious material conveniences of

technology that came into wide use in the 19th century.

 

However, for many generations the only people who understood anything about

empirical scientific method were the philosophers and scientists themselves.

Only in the last century or so has education in scientific principles become

commonplace. Thus mainstream awareness of empiricism came rather late,

200-300 years after this major revolution in thinking.

 

We could also look at the beginnings of Christianity, which was an obscure,

unpopular cult until the third century when Emperor Constantine made it the

official state religion in an attempt to prop up the tattered Roman empire.

 

Similarly, the Golden Age of Lord Caitanya has already begun, but its

effects are thus far rather esoteric and subtle. Perhaps the most

significant of these was Bhaktivedanta Swami's success in attracting

thousands of Western disciples to Vaisnavism, who now are a common sight in

the most sacred holy places of India. This was actually a revolutionary

event that was unthinkable until very recently.

 

The insufficiencies of the scientific paradigm are becoming obvious only in

recent times. As more and more studies by the scientists themselves reveal

their lack of foresight in deploying things like DDT, the cracks in their

edifice of thought become known to the people in general, laying the

groundwork for the next revolution in thought. I can just imagine the

effects that cloning and genetic engineering are going to have in this

regard!

 

IMHO we will have to experience quite a bit more of the failures of the

scientific world-view before people in general are ready to shift to a

God-centered way of life. But when they do, it will be world-changing just

as the scientific revolution was. I hope I live to see the day, but the

timing of great social revolutions is generally on a historical rather than

human scale.

 

Everything has a gestation, birth, childhood, youth, adolescence, maturity,

old age and death. If the Golden Age is to last 10,000 years, its gestation,

birth and childhood will have to occupy perhaps 2,000 years. In other words,

it's here, but don't hold your breath to see the whole world chanting the

Holy Names of God.

 

It is quite fitting, though, that these kind of discussions take place among

astrologers, who are among the few people trained to contemplate such

long-scale changes. Vedic astrology is definitely part of the revolution of

the Golden Age of Lord Caitanya, as it becomes more popular its superior

accuracy and predictive power will help steer people in general toward the

Vedas. As usual, change propagates downward from the top of the pyramid.

 

All the best,

Dasanudas

, Harmony School of Conscious Art (Miami)

International Conscious Art Gallery: www.consciousart.org/

Vedic Astrologer . Writer . Musician www.harinam-arts.org/

Listen to some of my tunes! www.mp3.com/DavidBruceHughes/

 

 

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