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Session 3 : Session 3 Session 2 Super Consciousness back

Slide 2 : We see wonderful creations around us

Slide 3 : Fragrant Roses

Slide 4 : Best Swimmers

Slide 5 : Exotic Creatures

Slide 6 : A big banyan tree in a small banyan seed!!!

Slide 7 : Energy emitted by sun per sec is greater than the amount of energy human species has consumed throughout its entire history.

Slide 8 : Artist: Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa

Slide 9 : Landscape Artist: David Copenhagen

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Slide 11 : Who is the ARTIST?

Slide 12 : SPACE Technology

Slide 13 : Satellite

Slide 14 : Control Room

Slide 15 : Satellite Monitoring ROUND-THE-CLOCK CRITICAL OBSERVATION OF THE CRITICAL PARAMETERS

Slide 16 : Earth Earth 21 Mass: 6x10 Speed around the Sun: 106,000 kmph metric tons

Slide 17 : Who is in Control?

Slide 18 : “Handsome”

Slide 19 : “Ugly”

Slide 20 : “Stinking rich!”

Slide 21 : “Poverty-stricken”

Slide 22 : WHO DECIDES ?

We choose : We choose A job A wife or a husband The type of car An apartment And many more things

We don’t choose : We don’t choose Our parents Our beauty Our intelligence

Slide 25 : WHO CHOOSES ? AND ON WHAT BASIS ?

Slide 26 : IS IT BY CHANCE?

Slide 27 : We see order and systematic arrangement in the universe…

Slide 28 : Oxford dictionary meaning of the word ‘COSMOS’ AN ORDERLY HARMONIOUS SYSTEMATIC UNIVERSE FCC / BCC STRUCTURE ATOMIC STRUCTURE SOLAR SYSTEM RNA DNA Amazing Order…

Slide 29 : ALL PLANETS ARE FLOATING LIKE SWABS OF COTTON… KEEP YOUR TRACK If traffic policeman controls the traffic of vehicles, Who controls the traffic of revolving planets? …..IN A PERFECT TRAFFIC CONTROL MECHANISM

Slide 30 : EVEN A ROADSIGN THAT REGULATES TRAFFIC HAS A ORIGINATOR AND CONTROLLER CHEMICAL ELEMENTS ARRANGEMENT IS “THE PERIODIC LAW” AND NOT “THE PERIODIC CHANCE” EVEN INSENSIBLE MATTER OBEYS DEFINITE NATURAL LAWS LAWS GOVERNING THE UNIVERSE FROM SUB-ATOMIC SPHERE TO SUPER-GALACTIC SPHERE LAWS GOVERNING HEAT, LIGHT AND GRAVITY LAWS OF PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, MATHEMATICS, THERMODYNAMICS, ETC. ??? ?? ??? ???? ??? ??? ???

Slide 31 : How can our birth, beauty, intelligence… alone be random events ?

Slide 32 : Human Brain The Most Sophisticated Computer in the Universe

Slide 33 : The human brain can store more information than all the libraries in the world. -Dr Richard Restak, MD Author, The Brain

Slide 34 : The human brain is made of a trilliion brain cells. …and each one of these is more powerful and sophisticated than most computers around the planet today. - Dr. Tony Buzon British Psychologist, educator & author.

Slide 35 : Who made the natural intelligence of this incredibly complex computer : THE HUMAN BRAIN ?

Slide 36 : Any Creation Implies a Creator

“There is a perfect brain behind all the natural physical laws.” : “There is a perfect brain behind all the natural physical laws.” Albert Einstein

“If you think strongly enough, you will be forced by science to believe in God.” : “If you think strongly enough, you will be forced by science to believe in God.” Lord Kelvin

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being… : “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being… Newton

Slide 40 : THE UNSEEN CAN BE KNOWN FROM THE SEEN Although we may not have seen the personality of God with our eyes directly, there are innumerable evidences to prove God’s existence from the things that we see around us. “I DON’T BELIEVE IN GOD BECAUSE I CAN’T SEE HIM”

Slide 41 : THE UNSEEN IS PROVEN BY THE SEEN “NO ONE IS SUPERIOR TO ME, O ARJUNA. EVERYTHING RESTS UPON ME, AS PEARLS ARE STRUNG ON A NECKLACE.” “mattah parataram nanyat kincit asti dhananjaya mayi sarvam idam protam sutre mani-gana iva”

Slide 42 : VEDANTA SUTRA janmadyasya yatah “He is the original source andcause of everything.”

Slide 43 : BRAHMA SAMHITA anadi adir govindahsarva karana karanam “He has no beginning, for He is thebeginning of everything; He isthe ultimate cause of all causes.”

Message of God Presented According to the Level of Audience to Digest : Message of God Presented According to the Level of Audience to Digest Undiluted pure message for the spiritually advanced. Suitably modified message for the morally and spiritually degraded.

Slide 45 : Elementary School Maths 5 - 3 = 2 High School Maths 3 - 5 = -2 College Maths, Ph.D. Maths Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus etc., All are Mathematics; Still the level of knowledge is different.

Different Religions, Same Message : Different Religions, Same Message Essence of all the major religious scriptures:- God is one and love of god Obedience to the laws of god Service to god Return to the kingdom of god

Slide 47 : Sin no more Glory of the holy names Sacrifice and renunciation of material pleasure Approach a spiritual master

All religions - Same message : All religions - Same message ‘Love Thy God with all thy soul and all thy might’ (Bible) Islam means ‘complete surender’ ‘sarva dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja’ (Bhagavad Gita) Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender to Me’ Glorification of Holy Name – 99 names of Allah, 1000 names of Visnu, ‘Hallowed by Thy Name’ (Bible)

How does one explain these differences? : How does one explain these differences? Although all empowered messengers of God have the same message they restrict their teachings to what their audience can digest.

Slide 50 : There is much that I have to tell you but you cannot bear it now-----Jesus For little that Mohammed taught, he fled from Mecca under threat of death

Slide 51 : Lord Sri Krishna tells Arjuna in Bhagavad Gita, ‘jnanam te ‘ham sa-vijnanam idam vaksyamy asesatah Yaj jnatva neha bhuyo ‘nyaj jnatavyam avasisyate’ “I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge both phenomenal and nomenal, by knowing which there shall remain nothing further to be known.” [BG 7.2]

Islam & Christianity – Taught According to Time-Place-Circumstance : Islam & Christianity – Taught According to Time-Place-Circumstance “ Do not have sex with your mother and sister” - 16th Surah of The Koran “Thou Shall Not Kill” Ten Commandments, Bible Bhagavad Gita spoken to Arjuna – Best human being when Indian Civilisation was at it’s best

Examples : Examples Meat Eating Allowed for Muslims except Pig and Dog For Christians it is allowed everyday except Friday In Sanatana Dharma, meat eating is prohibited (One of the pillars of sinful life)

Example : Example Sex Life Islam permits to marry 4 wives at a time In Bible St. Paul says it is better to marry than to burn with passion Srimad Bhagavatam says we must give up sex life completely except for procreation of God conscious children

Slide 55 : Authorised religions like Christianity, Islam are like pocket dictionaries (where there is partial revelation of Truth according to the level of audience) Scriptures of Sanatana dharma is like Chambers Dictionary (Where there is complete knowledge)

Slide 56 : Words like come, go…..are in all dictionaries. Similarly subjects on mode of goodness like ‘do not steal’, ‘Love everyone’, ‘forgive your enemy’, ‘always do good to others’ are in all religious scriptures

Slide 57 : subjects on mode of PURE goodness, like ‘surrendering to the will of God out of unmotivated uninterrupted love’, ‘thinking and serving God 24 hours a day’, ‘renouncing all worldly pleasures and having a desire to serve God birth after birth even without desire for liberation’ found only in most advanced scriptures of Sanatana Dharma (for eg in SB)

Sanatana dharma : Sanatana dharma Islam – 1300 years Bible – 2000 years Buddhism – 2500 years Hinduism --not real term.only because of sindhu Sanatana dharma coming down from time immemorial Bhagavad Gita – re-spoken to Arjuna 5000 years before intially millions years back to Sun-God.

God: Called by Different Names : God: Called by Different Names ALMIGHTY: There is no one mightier than God OMNIPOTENT: God is all potent JEHOVAH: ‘The Almighty ALLAH: The Greatest KRISHNA: The All-Attractive RAMA: The Supreme Enjoyer

WHO IS GOD? : WHO IS GOD? IN BIBLE: JESUS - SON OF GOD IN KORAN: MOHAMMED - MESSENGER OF GOD IN BHAGAVAD GITA: KRISHNA -THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD

Definition of God : Definition of God ‘janmady asya yatah’ - ‘From whom everything emanates’ [S.B.1.1.1] Parasara Muni, the father of Vyasa Dev defines God / ‘Bhagavan’

Slide 62 : The Supreme Personality of Godhead has: all Riches all Strength all Fame all Beauty all Knowledge all Renunciation

Anyone possessing all the opulence in full is naturally ‘ALL ATTRACTIVE’ : Anyone possessing all the opulence in full is naturally ‘ALL ATTRACTIVE’ Krsna means ‘all attractive’ in Sanskrit ALL KNOWLEDGE ALL STRONG ALL BEAUTIFUL ALL RENUNCIATION ALL FAMOUS ALL RICH

IS GOD PERSONAL OR IMPERSONAL? : IS GOD PERSONAL OR IMPERSONAL? LIGHT / BRAHMA JYOTI

Slide 65 : Microsoft

Slide 66 : A well-managed & world-renowned MNC with operations around the world.

Slide 67 : Behind all that, there is a person running and managing it. Bill Gates

Slide 68 : Who is the PERSON behing this gigantic manifestation?

Slide 69 : I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. Bhagavad – gétä 10.8

Slide 70 : Furthermore, O Arjuna, I am the generating seed of all existences. There is no being—moving or nonmoving—that can exist without Me. Bhagavad – gétä 10.39

Slide 71 : This material nature, which is one of My energies, is working under My direction, O son of Kunti, producing all moving and nonmoving beings. Bhagavad – gétä 9.10

Slide 72 : Bhagavad – gétä 9.8 The whole cosmic order is under Me. Under My will it is automatically manifested again and again, and under My will it is annihilated at the end.

Slide 73 : I enter into each planet, and by My energy they stay in orbit. Bhagavad – gétä 15.13

Slide 74 : Know that all opulent, beautiful and glorious creations spring from but a spark of My splendor. Bhagavad – gétä 10.41

Slide 75 : Kåñëa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes. Bramha Samhita 5.1

BRAHMA SAMHITA : BRAHMA SAMHITA Isvarah parama Krishna Saccid ananda vigraha Anadir adir govindah Sarva karana karanam “Krishna (God) is the supreme controller. He has a form of eternity, knowledge and bliss. He is the prime cause of all causes.”

Three levels of understanding God : Three levels of understanding God Braham--effulgence of Lord---impersonal feature. taste of water, heat, fragrance Parmatma-- Localised aspect ---Supersoul witness, friend in the heart. Eg. sun in diff pots Bhagvan---Topmost feature of Lord, Complete realization

Slide 78 : Srila Prabhupada used the words ‘SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD’ meaning there is form and personality instead of saying just ‘GOD’.

“IntelligenceKnowledgeFreedomfrom doubt and delusion…ForgivenessTruthfulnessSelf-controlCalmnessPleasurePainBirthDeathFear : “IntelligenceKnowledgeFreedomfrom doubt and delusion…ForgivenessTruthfulnessSelf-controlCalmnessPleasurePainBirthDeathFear Fearlessness Nonviolence Equanimity Satisfaction Austerity Charity Fame Infamy … are created by Me alone” B.G. 10.4-5

Slide 80 : Krishna, father of all living entities. “aham bija pradah pita”

Slide 81 : sarva-yonisu kaunteya murtayah sambhavanti yah tasam brahma mahad yonir aham bija-pradah pita TRANSLATION “It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kunti, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.”

Krishna: Fountainhead of all Avatars : Krishna: Fountainhead of all Avatars

Avatara : Avatara ‘One who descends from the Spiritual Sky’ Scheduled incarnations for specific purposes

KRISHNA & VISHNU : KRISHNA & VISHNU S.B.1.3.28. ‘ETE CAMSA KALA PUMSAH…’ KRSNA IS THE SOURCE OF EVERYONE.

Krishna: Source of all Demigods : Krishna: Source of all Demigods

How does a devotee deal with the demigods? : How does a devotee deal with the demigods? He understands that the demigods are empowered servants of Krsna who are given a particular service to do He is not offensive towards demigods

Demigods are empowered to offer material benedictions : Demigods are empowered to offer material benedictions Less intelligent persons approach demigods for material facilities An intelligent person surrenders to Krsna, the source of all demigods

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Slide 89 : Krishna Demigods Supremely conscious Always God Can give liberation Supremely Independent Possesses spiritual body Beyond the influence of 3 modes Individually conscious Posted temporarily Cannot give liberation to their worshippers Dependent on Krsna Possess material body Under 3 modes