Vedas 1: Digital Age Edition

Vedas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5: Digital Age Edition by Julien Coallier. Constructing the deity from individual to All-Mighty inspiration. Combining the social, symbolic values uniting individuals and society across time, within enhancements of the deity and All-Mighty. Works have generated through the usage of a Kabala linguistic ideal-type framework. Kindle Edition , 87 pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

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Therefore it can assure elevation. Unauthorized products, although usually cheaper, have no such benefits. Vedic education begins with acknowledgement of four errors of every conditioned living being illusion, imperfect senses, making mistakes, cheating and realization that sastra is not influenced by them. It leads to jnana, or knowledge of meanings, differences and relationships among five categories of reality tattva - isvara, jiva, prakrti, kala, karma - and enables differentiation between material and transcendental reality.

Otherwise there is a danger of confusing them, e. Jnana leads to vijnana realized knowledge and life in harmony with cosmic order dharma which brings minimal karma. That which is prescribed in the Vedas constitutes dharma, the religious principles, and the opposite of that is irreligion. This we have heard from Yamaraja.

Bhakti is the peak and the goal of jnana and vijnana opposite to mayavada's claim , beyond material intelligence:. Such a great soul is very rare. Bhakti sanatana-dharma, para-dharma is devotion expressed in actions. It is both means and end of itself. Bhakti is elaborated on in confidential sastras BG, SB, sattvika Upanisads, Puranas and Tantras, writings of Vaisnava acaryas and taught within four Vaisnava sampradayas philosophical schools, or traditions.

Sastras present four divisions or paths: Karma and jnana form apara-vidya, knowledge enabling life in this world in harmony with dharma. It creates karma and should be therefore minimized. Yoga impersonal and bhakti personal form para-vidya, knowledge enabling to leave this world and live in the transcendental realm. It does not create karma akarma. New Age is a mixture of various religious, philosophical and other teachings, some with very ancient roots. By no means it can be judged accepted or rejected as a homogeneous doctrine.

The New Age boom started in sixties and especially increased during last years thanks to the media TV, movies, videos, computer games, books. There are prophecies from various traditions awaiting new era characterized by profound spiritual restoration. They speak about an advent of an empowered personality e. Maitreya Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism and mention other specific signs e.

Miracle, white buffalo born in Wisconsin, August was an important sign for Prairie Indians. Formerly used term "Age of Aquarius" e. It is so called after the zodiac sign in which the sun rises during the vernal equinox. This sign changes approximately every years because of earth axis precession, whole cycle lasts 25 years so-called Platonic year.

Sastras like SB 1. It seems that modern materialism got this idea from various ancient esoteric philosophies like nirisvara atheistic Sankhya Caitanya-caritamrta Adi 6. It can't be shown how and why the passive dead matter started to act. Rather, matter tends to disintegrate Second Law of Thermodynamics. Similarly, matter is dull jada and cannot create.

Under its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again. The Supreme Soul is unlimited and beginningless, and although He is one, He has manifested Himself in many forms. How can human society understand the ways of the Supreme? This is a problem of all Western philosophies including Christianity Thomas Aquinas reflecting in many spheres of life, e.

Reputed Bible translator Eugene Nida said that Holy Spirit in some Bible translations may look as an evil demon due to lack of proper synonyms. Sunrays are not as powerful as the sun. Sages see that spiritual existence in trance, when their consciousness is free of the modes of material nature. Aham-mameti, or purusa-abhimana "Ye shall be as gods", Genesis 3: In the Western philosophy first seen in works of Roger Bacon 13th century and Francis Bacon , especially in his Novum Organum Scientiarum Science is newly emerging discipline endeavoring to subdue the 'inimical' nature and separating man from it.

Research is based on pratyaksa and anumana. Among its pioneers are Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton. Philosopher David Hume comes up with so-called "problem of evil". This ushers in an era of an attack on Christian paradigm in form of materialistic philosophies and profound secularization of Western society. This society is very proud of its scientific achievements and power to change the world but suffers of subconscious fear of God and nature natural disasters are perceived as reminders of their power.

This leads to unnatural hiding of reality of suffering - poverty, hunger, disease, physical handicaps, old age and death. There is a great contrast in this regard with countries like India where these phenomena are accepted as normal part of life. Impersonalism is a common feature of all New Age doctrines. Although some acknowledge existence of superhuman beings devas, angels they reject personal God. Naivete and lack of knowledge leads to uncritical acceptance of "spiritual guides" of problematical character cheaters, false avataras or even unknown origin channeling.

Rejection of authority - one's ego becomes authority instead. Non-philosophical attitude - preference of secondary meaning of scriptures gauna-vrtti when primary one mukhya-vrtti doesn't fit one's ideas. Saksad upadesas tu srutih - "The instructions of the sruti-sastra should be accepted literally, without fanciful or allegorical gauna or laksana-vrtti interpretations. Trans-Saturnian planets Uranus, Neptune, Pluto discovered by modern astronomers were incorporated into modern Western astrology. Larwood Publishers the "progress" prevailed. As examples may serve paranormal phenomena like OBE, NDE or alien abductions, Nostradamus' prophecies their cryptic character enables unlimited speculation etc.

From Tibetan Buddhism comes the idea that from certain advanced human level rinpocche one allegedly cannot fall into lower species. This is refuted in BG 9. More at The New Age misconception of samsara. Some traditional sciences and practices were 'adopted' by New Age and molded according to its image - i.

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Thus nowadays they are seen as a part of New Age and share its criticism. Usually is called hatha-yoga and is limited to asana and pranayama; its goal is health improvement.

Its original form, astanga-yoga, comes from sage Patanjali. Astanga means "8 limbs" and is divided into hatha first 5 and raja other 3. The term "hatha" according to Hatha-yoga-pradipika by Swami Atmarama is composed of syllables "ha" sun and "tha" moon. Hatha-yoga is sometimes called kriya-yoga. Real kriya-yoga is defined in Padma Purana, Kriya-yogasara 3. Kriya-yoga consists of worship of: Ganga, Sri Laksmi , Visnu, generosity, devotion to brahmanas, observance of the Ekadasi-vrata, devotion to the Dhatri tree and the Tulasi plant, and hospitality to guests.

Prana is a subtle material energy in microcosm body and macrocosm universe. Origin of martial arts comes from Dhanurveda, one of Upavedas. It involved operation of hi-tech weapons and war machines as well as techniques of individual combat with and without weapons. He brought techniques of personal combat which were developed into famous chuan-fa kung-fu system. From it stemmed Korean, Japanese and other systems. Term wu-shu denotes all of these systems. Martial arts history overview is described in the article From Vedic martial arts to Aikido. This is however opposed to the goal of para-vidya, ultimate liberation from the material body.

Gems are often used in astrology to mitigate negative influences although the faultless ones are very expensive. Immense business profits made at the cost of uninformed people who do not know that other much less costly means can be used for the same end.

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Philosopher's stone cintamani is one of the goals of alchemy. The name "alchemy" is derived from the Arabic el-kimya, Khem being the name for Egypt where it was practiced even before the Christian era. It blended with the magic and mysticism of the legendary Hermes Trismegistus which became known as the Hermetic philosophy. In the fourth century A. Its tradition reached Europe through Muslim alchemists in Spain in the twelfth century.

Medieval alchemy contained Gnostic elements. In its popularized form it is considered the art of mutation of metals. Yet, it went deeper than that. It issued from the assumption that matter is alive and may grow abiogenesis and with the right rituals matter could be influenced to transmute into higher forms. This is the view of materialistic version of Sankhya philosophy mentioned in CC Adi 6.

It is shared by various esoteric philosophies, both Eastern and Western, and lead to modern materialistic philosophy.

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Vedanta understanding is that matter is jada-tattva, unconscious substance - CC Madhya Its power does not arise from the material energy itself but is endowed by Sankarsana. Under the cover of semi-scientific experiments some of its practitioners followed a secret tradition. Thus, in its deeper mystical sense, alchemy was not a search for the philosopher's stone for the transmutation of metals into gold but a search for purification and mystical transmutation of the mind necessary for obtaining direct divine knowledge. As bell metal is turned to gold when mixed with mercury in an alchemical process, so one who is properly trained and initiated by a bona fide spiritual master becomes a brahmana immediately.

Tattva-sagara, quoted in Hari-bhakti-vilasa 2. It is a part of pravrtti-marga, path of sense gratification regulated by sastric injunctions. Pravrtti-marga consists of four goals of human life purusartha - dharma, artha, kama and moksa. In the context of varnasrama it is followed by grihasthas, whereas brahmacaris, vanaprasthas and sannyasis follow nivrtti-marga, path of detachment from material enjoyment. These paths are mentioned for example in SB 3. Famous Kama-sutra is only a part of the body of texts in the kama-sastra system and even this is too much to follow for Westerners who try it.

Tantric text Parama samhita Devotion to Me grows in him by itself alone and without his effort. Without previous enjoyment it is impossible for men to completely renounce pleasures. Therefore let them enjoy these as prescribed by dharma sastra but without allowing the desire to overpower them.

A wise man of good qualities, having enjoyed them in all conditions of life, should reflect that indulgence in these passions is a difficult matter, not everlasting, unclean, capable of enjoyment only by sacrificing all and otherwise beset with dangers, and then renounce it altogether. To one turning back from the gratification of the senses, serenity of mind results from this resolve. The best means to come to this decision is purity of life. To one who adopts purity of life, the feeling of fear springs in the mind in regard to indulgence in passion, and this saves the man.

For most people in the West the term "tantra" blends with "sexual exercises". It means "thread" in a reference to the subtle structure of universe or "ritual". Tantras are called agama and Vedas are called nigama.

Tantras are classified according to three gunas. Sattvika-tantras are Pancaratra, Gautamiya-tantra, Urdhvamnaya-tantra etc. It is an alternative to Western philosophies and religions which more or less exhausted their potential. Introduces missing concepts like karma, reincarnation etc.

It has raised an interest in environment and inspired an endeavor to protect it although the goal is just sense gratification. This is undermining the authority of materialistic science by attacking its linchpin, evolution theory. Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality - Violent and catastrophic scenes in movies often including inimical aliens are meant to invoke fear for easy manipulation of people e.

Negative entities need fear emotions to feed on. Cult of human power, violence and technology purusa-abhimana in action movies Stallone, Schwarzenegger. Action movies with Eastern martial arts. The pioneer was Bruce Lee at the end of sixties but the boom was at the end of eighties which lead to an upsurge of interest in wu-shu and Eastern philosophies. Lambert was based on combination of mortal combats with immortality phenomena movie covered several hundred years.

Later it was followed by at least two TV series. Movies Ghost, Poltergeist, Halloween featured ghosts, magic and evil powers, and ways how to face them. Movie series Matrix employ the analogy of maya as well as a host of other religious and other analogies. The idea of Matrix previously appeared in William Gibson's sci-fi classic Neuromancer. This is something like 'thetan' in Scientology, in other words purusa-abhimana isvaro 'ham syndrome of false ego. Combination of satanism with heavy-metal. Satanistic symbolism in texts and gestures.

One member of an Italian metal group in eighties lost his sanity because of satanistic rituals. Mass suicides of fanatical members of sects like Heaven's Gate. It was influenced by a false story about aliens in cosmic ship within the Hale-Bopp comet coming to save them from impending earth catastrophe.

Compare it with the effect of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" radio play from The whole New York and surrounding areas were in panic that inimical aliens landed. Allegedly it was mass mind control experiment. On the other hand some contactees propagate meditation and pure lifestyle four regs. Vedic, and especially Vaisnava tradition, offers knowledge especially para-vidya to everyone.

Bhagavata-dharma should be established in the West as authority on both apara- and para-vidya, replacing current so-called authorities for the sake of sincere seekers. Vaisnavas don't use much their potential in presentation of their tradition by non-traditional ways, e. Do you know 5 kinds of material suffering? Birth, death, disease, old age and New Age. The New Age misconception of samsara. Many New Age followers uphold an idea that there is no degradation to the lower species from the human form of life and "all paths are the same".

They think that if one acts wrongly he will be at worst born few times as a human being and then he will continue to be elevated. They think that the only purpose of this life is to get rid of one's hangups and gain some experience, and ultimately to become God, the common desire of all pseudo spiritualists.

One group with partially Christian background believes in a variation of this idea - the soul eternally develops so in the future we will become as powerful as God. But God also develops so He is always ahead