Meditations on Transcendence

 In the modern AI information age, we find ourselves adrift in a vast ocean of data. However, as seekers of truth, we must realize that information is not wisdom. To truly understand the divine, one must recognize that the bliss of jnana is the absorption of rasa "essence" behind it. Knowledge without flavor is merely a burden. According to our tradition, every jnana has essence and that is saras. This "saras" is the sap, the juice, and the life-force of spiritual understanding that transforms a dry fact into a living realization. How do we distinguish between mere data and this life-giving essence? It is taught that only by blessings of Shuddha Sarasvati you will be a essence seeker. Without Her grace, the mind becomes a collector of trivia rather than a vessel for truth. Otherwise one will be drowned in information, lost in the noise of algorithms and endless "content." To find the Lord, we must look past the information and taste the Rasa.

We have to invest in the Lord for happiness. This is the first and forgotten economics of life. Yet we do wrongly invest in objects, in properties, in assets, hoping interest will accrue in the heart. Matter pays dividends only in anxiety. The Lord alone is the reservoir of bliss, the inexhaustible treasury from which joy is withdrawn without loss. Disconnected from Him is nirānanda, a polished emptiness where pleasure flickers and fades. True wealth is not what appreciates in markets but what deepens in meaning. The Lord is wealth for eternity, untouched by inflation, theft, or time. Every other possession eventually possesses us, demanding maintenance, fear, and defense. Devotional service reverses this burden. It lightens the soul. To invest in His relationship through devotional service is to place capital where returns are certain. Each act of service compounds into peace, clarity, and love. The heart becomes solvent. Life turns profitable in the truest sense.

 अमरत्व का प्रवाह बहे, हरिनाम सरिता संग। ज्ञान-विज्ञान उजास हो, मिटे अज्ञान का रंग॥ ह्लादिनी आनंद छुए, सूखे मन का छोर। रामरस कहे हरिनाम से, जागे जीवन भोर॥ Purport: The holy name is not a material vibration but the Supreme Lord Himself appearing as sound. Therefore amaratva flows with harināma, because the soul is eternal and the name awakens that forgotten eternity. As A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada repeatedly emphasized, chanting is both philosophy and realization together. Jñāna reveals what we are not, and vijñāna confirms what we truly are through direct experience. The hlādinī-śakti manifests as causeless joy, drying up the desert of material life. One need not be qualified; contact itself purifies. Thus by harināma, ignorance retreats, consciousness revives, and the real morning of life begins.

 In Krishna’s itihāsa arc, the slaying of demons unfolds not as random heroics but as a carefully ordered dharmic progression. Narakasura falls first, during Krishna’s Dvārakā phase, in a direct battlefield act that frees the imprisoned princesses and restores violated order. Next comes Jarasandha , whose power is more political than feral; Krishna does not strike him down personally but orchestrates his end through Bhīma , dissolving a systemic obstruction and clearing the path for Yudhiṣṭhira’s Rājasūya yajña. Finally, Shishupala is slain at the very altar of kingship itself, after exhausting his measure of offenses, when Krishna’s Sudarśana responds not to arms but to accumulated adharma. Read together, the sequence reveals a deep logic: Naraka represents gross tyranny cut down by force, Jarāsandha embodies entrenched oppression undone by strategy, and Śiśupāla signifies verbal and moral transgression resolved by cosmic sanction. The order is not merely chronological; it is pe...

ಖ್ಯಾತಿ ಅಂದರೆ ಅವನದ್ದು ಕಣ್ರಿ. ನಿಮಗ್ಯಾಕೆ ರಿ ಪರವಸ್ತು? ದಾಸನಾಗು, ವಿಶೇಷನಾಗು. ಪ್ರೇಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಖಿಸು. ಖ್ಯಾತಿ ಅಂದರೆ ಹೊರಗೆ ತಿರುಗುವ ನೆರಳು. ಅದು ಯಾರದ್ದೋ, ಯಾರ ಕೈಯಲ್ಲೋ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಇಂದು ಹೊಗಳಿಕೆ, ನಾಳೆ ಮೌನ. ಅದನ್ನು ಹಿಡಿಯಲು ಓಡುವವನು ತನ್ನೊಳಗಿನ ನೆಮ್ಮದಿಯನ್ನು ಕಳೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾನೆ. “ನಿಮಗ್ಯಾಕೆ ರಿ ಪರವಸ್ತು?” ಎಂಬ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ತೀಕ್ಷ್ಣ. ಪರದ್ರವ್ಯ, ಪರಕೀರ್ತಿ, ಪರಮತ ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಮನಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಚೂರುಮೂರು ಮಾಡುವ ವಸ್ತುಗಳು. ಸ್ವಂತ ನೆಲವಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಮರ ಬೆಳೆದು ನಿಲ್ಲುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ದಾಸನಾಗು ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಹೀನತೆ ಅಲ್ಲ; ಅದು ಅಹಂಕಾರದ ಭಾರ ಇಳಿಸುವ ಮಾರ್ಗ. ದಾಸತ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ಇದೆ. ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಹೊರೆ ಇಲ್ಲ, ಹೋಲಿಕೆ ಇಲ್ಲ. ವಿಶೇಷನಾಗು ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಬೇರೆವರಿಗಿಂತ ಮೇಲು ಎನ್ನುವುದಲ್ಲ; ತನ್ನ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯವನ್ನು ಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ಬದುಕುವುದು. ಕರ್ತವ್ಯ ನಿಷ್ಠೆಯಿಂದ ನೆರವೇರಿಸಿದಾಗ ಜೀವನವೇ ವಿಶೇಷವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಪ್ರೇಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಖಿಸು ಎಂಬುದು ಅಂತಿಮ ಉಪದೇಶ. ಪ್ರೇಮ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾವೋದ್ರೇಕವಲ್ಲ, ಅದು ಬದುಕಿನ ಸರಿಯಾದ ದೃಷ್ಠಿ. ಪ್ರೇಮವಿರುವಲ್ಲಿ ಲೆಕ್ಕಾಚಾರ ಇಲ್ಲ, ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಶಾಂತಿ ಇದೆ. ಖ್ಯಾತಿ ಹೊರಗೆ ಹೊಳೆಯುತ್ತದೆ; ಪ್ರೇಮ ಒಳಗೆ ಬೆಳಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಅದೇ ಶಾಶ್ವತ.

 world is ranga - play of emotions with Ranganatha at the center  relate with emotions, grow beyond concept  always be on stage,  universe is a drama  this is how to deal with Vishnu the all pervading Purport: The World as Ranga The world is ranga , not a problem to be solved but a drama to be lived. Emotions rise, collide, soften, and fade. At the center of this moving stage stands Ranganatha , unmoving amid motion. To see life only as concept is to remain a spectator; to feel it fully and yet not be bound is to become wise. The Gita does not ask us to escape the stage, but to stand rightly upon it. मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः । आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ॥ (Gita 2.14) Sense contacts give rise to pleasure and pain; they come and go, endure them. This verse reframes emotion not as enemy but as passing scene. One who knows this remains present, yet free. Vishnu, the all-pervading, is not met by withdrawal but by right particip...