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According to Srila Prabhupada: ′′ At the present moment, this world is being administered by the raksas. The raksasas are human eaters who abort their own children (p. 41 Raja-Vidhya), ′′ and ′′ Currently, especially on this planet earth, the influence of Lord Brahma has decreased considerably, and the representatives of Hiranyakasipu - the Raksas and demons - have taken over. Therefore, there is no protection of bramanic culture and cows, which are the basic prerequisites for all types of good fortune. This era is very dangerous because society is being administered by demons and Raksasas ".
(Srimad Bhagavatam 7.3.13 
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The spirit soul has free will, being made in the image of Govinda in a percentage of qualities. At some point, expressing our unlimited potentials, some of us wish to play games, to exercise our free will, like teenagers moving out of the house, or like skaters emboldened to skate even on what appears thin ice, or hearty souls adventuring into the forest in a new territory...
and so may temporarily venture away from the realm of Vaikuntha or Goloka.
It is not all negative! It is not necessarily "envious". It is a positive expression of Krsna's love, such that He allows us our freedom to choose, even if sometimes we choose something bold or temporary. It's a POSITIVE CHOICE, not a "fall down", nor some envious horror story, that leads to the jiva's adventures in independence and material temporary existence. The consequences may be horrid, however, when we misuse this independence. Actually, we are not independent, it is an illusion for our own sake.
So we may
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Gauridasa Pandita

"O Arjuna, I control heat, the rain and the drought. I am immortality, and I am also death personified. Both being and nonbeing are in Me." BG 9-19 Verse of the Day by HDG Swami Srila Prabhupada

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Asuras have infiltrated Srila Prabhupada's society and are working to change his teachings from within.

Here is just one example of the changes being made to his books (Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya Lila 19.157, purport):

Original paragraph:

"If one thinks that there are many pseudo devotees or nondevotees in the Krsna Consciousness Society, one can keep direct company with the spiritual master, and if there is any doubt, one should consult the spiritual master."

New corrupted version:

"Even if one thinks that there are many pseudo devotees or nondevotees in the Krsna Consciousness Society, still one should stick to the Society; if one thinks the Society's members are not pure devotees, one can keep direct company with the spiritual master, and if there is any doubt, one should consult the spiritual master."

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Every living being, out of many, many billions and trillions of living beings, has a particular relationship with the Lord eternally

"…Bhagavad-gītā is best understood by a person who has qualities similar to Arjuna's.

That is to say he must be a devotee in a direct relationship with the Lord.

As soon as one becomes a devotee of the Lord, he also has a direct relationship with the Lord.

That is a very elaborate subject matter, but briefly it can be stated that a devotee is in a relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in one of five different ways:

1. One may be a devotee in a passive state;
2. One may be a devotee in an active state;
3. One may be a devotee as a friend;
4. One may be a devotee as a parent;
5. One may be a devotee as a conjugal lover.

Arjuna was in a relationship with the Lord as friend.

Of course there is a gulf of difference between this friendship and the friendship found in the material world.

This is transcendental friendship

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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati;

"Do not try to discover the nature of truth by the exercise of your imagination. Do not endeavor to attain the truth through experience of this world. Do not manufacture truth in order to satisfy your erring inclinations, or hastily accept anything for the reason that it satisfies such inclinations. Do not regard as truth anything that has been “built up” or has the support of a majority of people like yourself, nor as untruth anything that is rejected by the overwhelming majority. According to the scriptures there will be found hardly one in a crore of human beings who really worships the truth. What is proclaimed by the united voices of all the people of this world as truth may turn out to be false. Therefore, cease to confront the truth in a challenging mood. The truth is not brought into existence by such arrogance. One has to approach the truth in the spirit of absolute submission. It is necessary to listen to truth. Truth is self-revealing, and

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Could we condemn criminals to suffer for hundreds of years? Biotechnology could let us extend convicts' lives 'indefinitely'. This is the scenario being explored by researchers at Oxford University


They claim life extension tech could mean prisoners serve longer sentences
Philosopher Dr Rebecca Roache also writes in her blog that a time distortion pill could make people feel like they were in prison longer


Another scenario the group looked at was uploading mind to a digital realm
Running it a million times faster than normal would enable the uploaded criminal to serve a 1,000 year sentence in eight-and-a-half hours

By Ellie Zolfagharifard

Sentencing a criminal to 1,000 years in an artificial hell may one day become a reality.

At least, that is the claim of scientists at Oxford University who have been exploring controversial technologies that could extend human life.

They say billions are being invested in techniques that could mean the cruellest criminals will be kept alive indefi

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original from ashtara command mayavadi new age site

I am a person-- you are a person-- why can't the Divine be a person?
There are those who would say that God cannot be a person , but I say to them why not?
If the divine is less than the creation then that would mean that the creation is Supreme. But the creation emanates from the Divine. In the divine creation we see so many many people and beings.
To dare to declare that that from which everything emanates is not personal has a certain insidious subtle implication.The subtle implication is that they are declaring their own Supreme postion out of some type of jealous enviousness.It is a bait and switch philosphy.It implies that they have knowledge of everything and can say what can and cannot be possible.To declare that the divine cannot be personal -- means that "I" know everything and "I " know what can and cannot be possible. I am the Supreme God.
There are those who say ---" I am God".Well you are a little little itty bitty God- a Go

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