Meditations on Transcendence

The goal of life is not merely existence (sattā) , nor accumulation (sañcaya) , nor enjoyment (bhoga) . The goal is sevā (सेवा) , loving service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead (Puruṣottama) . Every living being seeks activity (karma) because activity is the natural expression of consciousness (cit) . The question is not whether we serve, but whom we serve and with what motivation (bhāva) . In conditioned existence, action is governed by the three guṇas (त्रिगुणाः) : sattva , rajas , and tamas . These modes create different energy bands of consciousness. A person absorbed in tamas (inertia) experiences heaviness and confusion. One dominated by rajas (passion) burns with desire (kāma) and endless striving. Even sattva (goodness) , though illuminating, remains within material nature (prakṛti) . Thus the soul continues to revolve within the wheel of guṇa-bandhana (bondage to the modes) . Bhagavad Gītā explains this elevation of consciousness: ऊर्ध्वं गच्छन्ति सत्त्वस्था मध्ये ति...

 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.

Sanatana dharma festivals have impact in all living dimensions We live in - physical, mental, intellectual, emotional, imaginative, spiritual dimensions Some dimension will be more prevalent active at different time of the day All will be operating but one dimension will dominate, hope you all agree Festivals uplift all dimensions of life There is a primary object which is central core to any festival For example til sesame in Sankranti, Lamp in Diwali One has to become extremely inquisitive on this specific food substances or worship substances recommended during festivals. Analyse the energy emission from these and on specific days of festivals and how it will benefit our overall wellbeing by absorbing the same All subsidiary energies push one towards getting drenched in the rain of satchitananda

Existance of another world and we really belong there than here. The world of suffering, anxiety, unpredicatability. Is it just escapism and hallucination about a world of God where the supreme Hero Lord Sri Krishna rules? or is there such a reality? Whom to believe? Whom to trust? Our ideal ambition should be to achieve Sat-Chit-ananda. The universal energy assists one in achieving whatever goal one has. So we will be treading the right path when we have to right goal. To decide the right goal - as expansive and as ideal as ever - which has all other goals as subsets. Can such a goal be possible? Yes - Sat-chit-ananda is such a goal. Dont have means as your goals - but the goal has to be a core need - a fundamental need thru which everything else will be satisified - attaining which there will be no more to attain - Friends - Sat-chit-ananda is such a goal. We are in a hopeless situation - we dont know what we really need. Scriptures say that Krishna Bhakti is what we as a minute unit...