Time
and the Vedic Scriptures
What
does the word religion mean? The Oxford
dictionary
tells us that it is the belief in and worship of a
superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or
gods. It concerns a set of beliefs, values, and practices
based on the teachings of a certain spiritual leader or
Lordship. In the broadest sense it pertains to a cause,
principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious
devotion. Lastly it is a life or condition of a person in
a religious order.
We
know from the vedic scriptures the superhuman controlling
power as mentioned in the dictionary to be the Time (see
time-quotes).
The Lord or Godhead is, operating from the beyond or
right in front of us, just the messenger of or chastiser
for the sake of the morality of keeping the soul properly
associated with Time. In respect with the Time of the
Lord is one of God and thus is respect for His time not
just an impersonal but also a personal matter. In other
words: if we are proper with the impersonal of Time, we
will automatically be personally correct by the grace of
His identification with that time (thus capitalized as
Time). We in our religions worship the Lord who gave His
life to be the order of time of regular worship that
carries His grace. Other types of time respect do not
carry His grace according the purâna. The
book states that deceitful religiosity, viz.
religiousness with an ulterior motive, or an order of
time that is motivated and manipulated for the money, is
rejected as being offensive to the divine interest
(S.B.
1.1.2). The
vedic scripture the Bhagavad Gîtâ -
veda means knowledge, thus the scripture of
Knowledge -, explicitly states that such worship of
'other gods' - read: forms of time-respect - is, even
though confirmed as a form of devotion, simply wrong
(B.G. 9.23).
The respect of Time must be according His nature, in fact
your own nature shared with Him or your and His
dharma, or else one runs into danger being
alienated from His will or creation (B.G.
3.35).
From this we may conclude that the effort to control the
time, outside of His will, outside of the nature of our
own planet and position in the sky, is a fundamental
source of discord between not only the religions but all
associations of man, political, sportive or otherwise,
that thus conceived, are to be considered deceitful and
of a false ego. From this notion does half the world -
scripturally correct though - reject all religion while
the other half of mankind by the latter again is rejected
for its other types of association being profane and
possibly heretical or materialistic. Thus seen would all
human association be wrong in a democratic hell of
indecision. The Gîtâ (18.66)
on top of that confirms this negative attitude in saying:
'abandon all forms of religion (and other association)
and surrender to Me only'. Any human accord of time not
in tune with His nature is thus, fundamentally seen,
nothing but an obstruction as a selfish arbitrary
paradigm relative of value that, confounding, can be
exchanged for another, and any religion about that power
of conditioning is thus factually wrong vedically
speaking. Only He and what is His, the divine ordinance
and the person thereof, is, vedically to be considered
correct. Since He identifies with the natural
manifestation of time (see again time-quotes)
is thus the true of religion in the end a scientific
affair, since with Him one is scientifically bona fide or
of a valid respect for the impersonal order of His Time.
He is also thus the Godhead or original scientist of the
scientists. Or put in simple civil language: don't mess
with the time of nature or you're in illusion. Thus is
the thesis held by some that science and religion are
incommensurable refuted. Science tells the numbers free
from illusion and religion, faithful to the vedic
command, tells what to do with it once you get them
right, viz. once you are valid or free from illusion in
the more personal reckoning.
'Draupadî
humiliated' -Modern time humuliates mother nature. - by
R.R.
Varma
When
Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei, 1885, said that
"The equal toleration of all religions ... is the same
thing as atheism", he in fact said that religion or
theism is the intolerance of other respects of time, and
that is confirmed by the vedic view. The problem though
is that most religions nowadays have fallen in their
factually abiding by human and not by divine or
scripturally defined concepts of time in knowing the
politically set standard time and the commercially set
linear weeks. So, not to throw away the child with the
bathing water, must the religions of the world all learn
to follow to the original, scripturally defined, order of
Time and, thus purifying, restore their stature as
personalistic sciences in stead of being political
philosophies of deceit and fraud that, messing with
numbers, end up in materialistic impersonalism and
voidism. We can't have religions that in a political,
unholy defense of their own order of time, go against
civil rights that defend the freedom of association and
religion. That fundamentalist option is unwanted
democratically. The exclusivist egotistical options of
the politicized religions must be treated to their own
practice: with denial as for their offenses with the
Time. All religions will have to purify their
time-respect to be able to coexist peacefully and to
continue existing on themselves: Islam mustn't follow
standard time and timezones, Christianity must not act
contrary in doing it on earth different as it is in the
sky or 'heaven' and Hindus can't afford to manage
the state with clocks and calendars that deviate from the
light of the sun and the moon that would be their Lord in
the Bhagavad Gîtâ. That conceit with ulterior
motives must be over. Standardtime is something for
railroads, the telephone company and broadcasting
companies. It is pragmatical and economical. Religiously
though it must be condemned. Let the religion be the
example that is to the principle and scientific at the
original time and let politics and trade be the watering
down of that wine with standard-time manipulations that
are known to be dangerous and alienating from the
personal relevance vedically speaking.
From
etymology is, according to Cicero, the word religion
derived from relegare, re- "again" and
legere "to read" and thus the word would mean "go
through again, read again,". Therefore is it essential to
any religion to re-read its scriptures and so do we,
following this introduction, introduce the scriptures
humanity started with: the most basic vedic ones. One
evidently forgets the time of nature and God (in
repression of the 'Father') as one working for ulterior
purposes corrupts in degraded forms of culture and thus
must that truth be remembered. Also does the word in
popular etymology mean 'to reconnect' or 'to restore the
bond'. It is necessary in association with other devotees
to return to the Book of Books in order to celebrate its
truth and thus restore and reconnect to its divinity.
Considering the above mentioned that can never happen
with standard time without becoming an hypocrite and
cheater doing damage to the credibility and livability of
the religious claim in fostering sectarianism and
fundamentalist exclusivism. In fact is all religion
abiding by standard time, as said, wrong according the
Gîtâ and must it, that time-practice, be
abandoned. This is the vedic purport: strictly speaking
is Judaism, unless the Messiah is respected, no
religion at all, but only a historical form of attachment
to a speculative and inconsistent notion of God, since it
is not clear who the ultimate religious leader is or what
the spiritual kernel of purity is, and thus what the
integrity and authority of the approach would be (should
we kill for a 'promised land' or 
shouldn't
we kill at all?) . With Jesus then as the Messiah,
the King of Heaven, we have reached integrity with the
jewish claim of God but have we not found the exact
meaning of what Christ called doing it on earth as it is
in heaven, all too materialistic being indifferent about
God's order of time. Islam corrected that passionately
condemning the Jews while propounding the times for
prayer and fasting, but couldn't determine the right time
themselves for the religious gatherings in the mosque in
positioning the culture in linear weeks from the
beginning and, even lower, managing their affairs by
standard time nowadays, so that their linear Fridays and
times of work are not of Allah in fact, nor being pure to
the moon nor to the sun as Mohammed demanded. Thus fallen
with passionate Islam disobedient to itself and their
sometimes outright and warmongering, projective hatred
against the jewish error and the christian shortcoming of
not finding the father of Time by them called Allah, had
we, after the fall of catholic Rome that abolished its
own monasterial order of time in 1582 (the julian order
that was only wrong in leaping), the philosophy of a
rationalist and empiricist enlightenment. That
philosophy, though scientifically successful, itself came
to a bloody fall in the ulterior motives of a political
opposition going for worldly gain with debilitating wars
of horrid regimes worldwide in the centuries following.
With the enlightenment of western science the religion
was in correct reform indeed abandoned, but the Lord of
the natural sciences wasn't found, and thus turned
democracy out to be a failure of quantitative fixations
running into the dictatures that fought for supremacy in
a hell of modern time disarray with the natural sun and
moon. Modern time proved a difficult time indeed and so
it, beginning the 21th century, still is. The modern
sense of the word religion as "recognition of, obedience
to, and worship of a higher, unseen power" that was from
1535, turned after the gregorian time-reform into a
mechanized religion in the sense of "scrupulous and
exact" as recorded from 1599 (see etymological
dictionary).
Thus
is religion in popular etymology among the later
classical and many other modern writers connected with
religare in the sense of "to bind fast" as a notion of
"placing an obligation on," or "bond between humans and
gods". And that bond was originally described by Einstein
(1879-1955) in Science, Philosophy and Religion
(1941) as necessary in his saying: 'Science without
religion is lame, religion without science is blind'. But
having turned into politics as in the to Bertrand Russell
1872-1970 attributed saying that: 'Religion may in most
of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are
on the side of the government', must the concept of
religion be drawn out of the political sphere and be
restored to its authentic purity and stature of being
religious in respecting the natural local environment,
people included. And that must be done by means of the
exclusive but broadminded vedic wisdom that critically
defends the personal selfrealization of enlightenment and
liberation in service of and association with God and the
Time, as it should have been, and as it by all of us,
world citizens, always has been envisioned. After all
does the dutch word for religion 'godsdienst'
simply mean being of service to God and not, also
commemorating this writer, to a guy or system in between,
and that is that. Only then do we have an order that can
be called truly religious.
The vedic
classics:
For
the sake of clarity and loyalty the present popular
versions of the Bhagavad Gîtâ (counting five
on the Internet when the translator began) have been
studied. There has been concluded to a concatenated,
readable version of filognosy: The
Bhagavad Gîtâ of
Order
(also
read out in
Audio):
a translation as close to the original Sanskrit as
possible with no literary pretenses. The book,
constituting a serious work of personalist philosophy, is
the sermon of Lord Krishna on the battlefield of
Kuruksetra just before the great war of the Mahabharat.
Its title means the song of the Lord. It describes the
ins and outs of three basic kinds of yoga: the yoga of
work, the yoga of devotion and the yoga of spiritual
knowledge. It offers word-for-word-translations, the
preceding translation and links to the other versions on
the internet and the Sanskrit dictionary, so that each
can retrace this translation back to its original source.
A
Song of Fortune - A modern
Gîtâ:
Gnosis is the spiritual knowledge of Christianity which
not only connects all Christians, but also all others who
believe in an ideal spirit. Therefore is, concerning this
true mystery, in this modern version of the Bhagavad
Gîtâ the knowledge of finding liberation in
the spirit called filognosy, the love for the gnosis, the
love to be knowledgeable in spiritual matters. It is
simply so that we without filognosy
are
not human, because we essentially are homo sapiens, or
man by the love of our spiritual wisdom. Even though this
book for the rest contains not a single word not found in
the dictionary of English, except for the mantra AUM and
the footnotes explaining to the source, is it a
translation faithful to the original text and purport.
Sanskrit names were converted to western equivalents and
the scene of the original battlefield was transposed to a
modern one of a political campaign. The result is a Song
of Fortune accessible to any modern man contending with
the burden of modern politics and postmodern
cynicism.
In
the year 2000 was started with the concatenation of the,
already translated, story of Krishna, the
S'rîmad
Bhâgavatam
(the Bhâgavata Purâna) on the Internet (18000
verses in twelve sections called Canto's). This book
contains the essence of the vedic knowledge and tells the
complete story of the life and times, the appearance and
disappearance of Lord Krishna, the Lord of Yoga and his
other appearances and expansions. For that reason it
received the subtitle ''The Story of the Fortunate One'.
The book could be called the authentic 'Krishna-bible'.
In this version of the story the effort has been made at
the one hand to make it a readable but verse to verse and
word to word faithful story in the form of a running
narrative, while at the other hand the original
translations of the preceding version and the Sanskrit
have been added, so that anyone can see what has been
done with the text. There is also the
Bhâgavata
Wiki,
the wiki for discussing and maintaing an up-to-date
Bhâgavatam.
As
yet only in Dutch there is a study to the culture of
devotion, the philosopy and the music of Vaishnavism, the
tradition of the Vishnu-monks who took the Bhiagavatam to
the West. It is a book of about 400 pages presenting a
comment on the first four chapters of the Bhagavad Gita.
Not speaking Dutch it can be appreciated for its pictures
and music-files of the songs of the âcâryas.
The English versions of these songs can be found at the
music page of srimadbhagavatam.org.
For the Gîtâ in question, see above. The book
is called:
Krishna
en de Zingende
Filosoof
(Krishna and the Singing
Philosopher).
The
Yogasûtras of
Patañjali
are a classical concept. They constitute the backbone of
the discipline of yoga: the science of uniting one's
consciousness. There are many interpretations though of
this analytical masterpiece of the incarnation of
Âdi-S'esha who is Patañjali. Patanjali is
the first expansion of the ego of Vishnu in hindu
mythology. This condensed work, this summary so to say,
about the discipline of connecting oneself with the soul,
thus forms the ego of yoga, The different existing
interpretations all together plead for this text the same
way as the music of J. S. Bach is so excellent because it
cannot be spoilt by interpretation. This
literary-philosophical monument from the indian realm is
here represented from the perspective of this site: the
time, the ether, and gross matter are all equally
fundamental expressions of the divine of nature and thus
is the yoga actually the most concrete of all sciences
around. For it relates directly to these fundamental
absolute truths when it offers us the discipline to live
with them. The yoga turning away from time, space and
matter does, meditating on it, land right in the middle
of it as the one and only correct vision upon it, as the
only right consciousness of unifying therewith, ... of
the natural order of the consciousness of time
therewith.
Click
here to visit the
Homepage of Anand
Aadhar, the
translator. He offers also other writings on spirituality
and the unification of consciousness from the point of
view of the filognosy at this site and his
Aadhar
Yoga: the yoga of
the foundation of happiness.
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About the
pictures:
The first picture
above concerns Draupadî, standing for the purity of
the vedic religion, who as the wife of the Pândavas
is undressed in public by their malignant nephews as a
prelude to the war of Kurukshetra where the ancient glory
of the vedic culture came to a stop and the 'Kali ' or
iron' age of chronic political discord began. Krishna
from the beyond provides new cloth to preclude her
embarrasment. The second picture is called
'Religion
helped by Spain'
(by Tiziano), where also a naked religion is pictured
embarrassed about the new times of heretical modernity,
this time helped by the state of Spain also offering a
fabric for understanding.
