Orthodoxy Faith Bhakti and Truth

Orthodoxy Faith Bhakti and Truth

Often times what happens in life is a test of faith and of a belief in love. Love is the closest thing to the divine and therefore atheist will stop at nothing to destroy it. The current move by the atheist armies against the world of man is to make love into a cheap thing and trivialize it totally. I cannot blame the race of Assuras on the current global events which plague the human race. If it was a demon who is behind what is happening at the current moment he is a rebel and not even of the race of Daitya or Danava for they on the whole don’t have the pure dark void in there soul which is the spawn of our current earthly delema. I blame Nagas or some other third Party race who hasn’t had a hand at universal power. Who is the great unholy eye I cannot say. But his vile gaze has spread all over the world.
When bad things happen to us in life it produces a test of faith. But the real question is faith in what? Is it faith in us or is it faith in God. These things I would propose are an outward manifestation of a test in faith in love itself. Love becomes equated with pain and so we often times will make walls to block feelings fearing the pain and not letting it come through to us. We need to have a y that Love is not a trivial thing which comes and goes and that when it seems that way in this world that is the warning that the great teachers of the world have warned against. The apparent appearance and disappearance of love is a simple blunder on our part. It is our perception of the matter which has been corrupted. We must have faith that love in the divine realm is eternal and flawless, That is the nature of the divine realm.
Often times there is a need to be attached to things which seem normal and which can be easily defined. We want the copper bottomed truth. However many human emotions are beyond our scope to define and often times they make people act in ways which are completely beyond the logical ability to understand. With the Bhakti cults there is often a kind of fear which comes about as emotion is hard to understand. We want a simple formula which is like 1 + 1 =2. This is the cause of Orthodox religions and quasi religions such as Modern Darwinian Evolution. An orthodox religion is a belief in which some one says I have a set of beliefs and they mean this and anyone who says anything different is obviously a loony. No matter how logical you make it sound there is always something which people need to understand. The amount that we can grasp with our limited vision and senses is so small that it is impossible for us to understand the truth of anything unless experience is talking to us
There are 3 kinds of ways of understanding the world around us. Sabda Manimaya and Pratyaksha The 2 most powerful ones in the modern age are Sabda and Pratyaksha. Sabda is the Sanskrit word for sound and basically it means any and all information which is based on that which has been told to us. This includes written materials as well. Pratyaksha means experience, or that which has been experienced. These two sources of knowledge are used every day to get information. Most orthodox faiths are based on Sabdha and only a very few on Pratyaksha.
Many times this is the full extent by which people learn anything at all. Some things like what it is like on the surface of the moon or stars we are typically limited to what we read in books or if we are lucky enough to meet a astronaut who can tell us what it is like there themselves
There is one glaring downside to this method of gaining knowledge which is that it is based only on the limitations or qualifications of the people who are speaking to you. More times than not we find in the academic world especially people are prone to copy and paste information which they have no experience in whatsoever.
As far as the medical field, Biology and other more technical fields and some others which experimentation is taken up it is quite easy to see and test direct results however when it comes to things like the distance between planets and The origin of life or the sham called archeology it is important to look at these things with a grain of salt as often times theories are replaced as soon as they are spoken. Most source material and research is based on second hand information which has a thousand separate understandings and which has no experienced value.
For thousands of years the big brains of the western world were certain for example that the earth was flat or that it was the center of the universe. This was based on the ideas of the great minds of the ancient world like Socrates and Aristotle. By copy and paste methodology people were not working on the process of experience It creates knowledge filters. What is written is law, any new evidence must be cast aside because it goes against the established norm. (Which on the other hand seems to change all the time)
Another problem especially with this method is that even if it is direct experience it can be clouded by some ones personal preferences or ideas. For example if I had a friend who went to a restaurant and told me the food was bad. I may not go, but what happened if I went there and I happened to like it a lot. The reverse can also happen some one can like a place and I may hate it.
This is a simple example but it goes with almost all opinions and even has the possibility to go into any form of knowledge which is written down, as in the end it is only an opinion of one form or another. I think it would be impossible to truly understand a ancient culture unless you have seen it with your eyes or live the life yourself. It is almost imposable to get a clear picture about things in this life unless we see them for ourselves especially if it is alien or different than what we are used to.
The prime example of this is the famous case of Java man. A so called scientist went to a heap of bones and found as skull cap from a monkey and about 100 feet away he found the leg of a man and said that obviously it must be a ancient monkey man. At the end of his life the scientist realized the truth however the Java man is proudly displayed in our school childrens science books. I was cooking rice the other day and used the same ingrediants I always do and came up with 10% more quantity than normal. It happened to be the full moon so obviously since the moon is known to bring about abundance in the plant life it caused me to make more rice. I think that claim is about just as credible as any theory of archeology.
Experience
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Information which comes to us based on external circumstances or which confirm ideas which we have already received from another place. Experience is solid proof of something which comes to us from outside sources. People can talk all day about how good something tastes but the real proof is in the eating of that thing.
In the same way people can debate for example the nature of a persons character government science or any topic at length, but the real proof of the said subject will be in how it is experienced in life. Experience serves to confirm information but it also can teach us new information as well which may be to the contrary.
People can talk about how good something is but when you try it yourself then it is completely the opposite. This is what experience can show us. It is something which can be an almost undeniable source of information. It is a conformation of ideas. It teaches by external and real life experiences, Knowledge receved tends to stick to the mind longer
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Pit falls
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There is several pitfalls to this method of learning which I will show. When he have a set Idea about how the world works then all data taken in by us, tends to be read in a certain way.
Two people can have the same thing happen to them and they can have two different reactions and two different conclusions. This is a danger of preconceived notions. For example two people can be sitting in a park on a sunny day. One person will be happy to see the children playing and feel the sun on his face, his experience of the situation will be a pleasant one. The other person can sit on the same park bench and they will feel sad that the children are playing because they wish they were a child again or maybe they just had a bad day and seeing people happy makes them feel even worse
Different preconceived notions can enter into our mind and affect how we experience things. Preconced notions however are a pitfall for all kinds of knowledge gathering so therefore it cannot be restriced only to experience. People who read and listen to others for example can also suffer from preconced notions.50 people can listen to the same lecture and you can have 50 different conclutions on the same topic coming from the same person. People can debate the meaning of one sentence for example for hours.

Fear of the unknown which is a animal instinct is the cause of our need for certainty however if we realy look at the big questions and the more aesthetic parts of life we will see that things are not nearly as defined or clear cut as we pretend or pray for. This however is not such a bad thing. We need to go to the other side of fear and our attachment to what is considered by us as normal to begin to enter into the divine realms. Its is pure folly to think that anything is of more value to us than our self realization or love of Krsna.