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Measures Of Truth - Can Truth Seekers Unite?

10/6/2024

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Introduction

Introduction
No one can know everything, but one can lean into knowing more.
A common expression in the English language is: The Truth Will Set You Free
This phrase is attributed to an English translation of a Bible verse, John 8:31-32, but the advice and wisdom could be appreciated and confirmed by many readers - including those navigating across diverse cultures, religions and timelines. Truth offers clarity, wisdom, light, and grace.

Appreciating this experiential proof of truth, might lead one to believe or conclude that truth can have aspects of a universal / unified nature; that is truth with a fountainhead and flow from a absolute basis - even is the midst of its appearance in different subjective, objective, and relativistic realities. How truth can be both universally one and absolute - yet individually revealed in seemingly contradictory ways and contexts, is a mystery satisfactorily explained, in the informative texts of Sri Krishna in Bhagavad Gita, and more recently clarified in the philosophical and scientific doctrines revealed by Sri Krishna's most recent incarnation, namely Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534 CE).
The truth and light revealed in India by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was sandwiched in so to speak, in the same general time frame as the European Renaissance during the 14th -17th centuries. The appearance and impact of Mahaprabhu's revelations in line with the ancient Brahma-Madhava Vaishnava Sampradaya (lineage) was scheduled to expand and more clearly explain the ideas historically sparked in India of Buddhism (Void-ism), Sri Adishankara's Non-Duality (Energetic Oneness), adding the truth or "tattva" of "Acintya-Bheda-Abheda Tattva" which translates as the truth of "Inconceivable Oneness and Individuality" regarding the Absolute Truth (Source/Godhead) and the sparks of that same ultimate truth, in the form of individual sparks of divine spirit, or spirit/souls - those of us manifested in Western/Biblical thought, as being "made in the image of God"
Although the timeline for humankind's existence on earth is legitimately open to serious debate from various cultural/religious/scientific perspectives, accounts handed down by oral tradition, writings, and archeology, loosely suggests the following, but not conclusively verified.

In the East, India and China have civilizations stretching back at least 5,000 years, with oral and written accounts found in arguably one of the world's oldest and most complex languages, Sanskrit, describing previous ages and cultures pre-existing "modern man" for many thousands of years.

In the West, we have been taught along with the mysterious Egyptian civilization existed around 4,000 years ago, along with another cradle of Western Cultures found in Greece, and Mesopotamian civilizations, in the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys, also about 5,000 years ago.

The above constitutes a very broad and general estimation of historical speculation and ideas that have no conclusive consensus.

The Vedic texts from India, speak of previously ages where life was actually more advanced compared the present Iron Age of Kaliyuga, Vedic texts descibe that in previous ages (more than 5,000 years ago) contact with off-world civilizations were not uncommon, and yogis and saints could travel inter-dimentionally without external spacecraft, to other planets. That weapons on a nuclear scale, were launched by mantra.

In Greece, the famous scholar and philosopher Plato, spoke of a previous civilization in Atlantis, and others over time haven spoken of an even more ancient civilization of Lemuria.
So where does this leave us today, in our ever changing, present moment? Armed with various factoids, statistics, theories, peer reviews, and opinion polls, various external agents and agencies pitch their truths outward, to anyone who will listen. How then, is one to discern truth from fiction, scams, or illusion? The truth of what's right for one person, may not be a truth that fits another, so does that mean truth is solely subjective? Are subjective and objectives truths mutually exclusive, or can their be an overlap?
What level of truth, if any, can be found in one's present situation, while being constantly bombarded by information from various sources, having various motives?

The answers to the above can be found from revealed knowledge, from saints, and from holy texts, for those who are situation-ally aware.
No matter what humankind's particular history may be, one truth that we know for sure is that wars, conflicts, and human suffering has always been in the mix of the human experience. Arguments, sometimes leading to violence and suffering, can be as micro-cosmically close as within one's own family, or on larger scales between divided communities, countries. The good news is that in every situation, one can choose to learn and embody the highest truths, both material and spiritual, for one's present and future benefit.
Free access to those truths, will be presented in the following pages.
In summary, we will seek reveal the highest truths and light, as distinguished from darkness, falsity and illusion, as established by the lineage of spiritual masters starting from Sri Krishna Himself 5,000 years ago, as well as through appointed agents over thousands of years, and solidified again by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, a little more than 500 years ago.

The truths revealed are like stairs on a staircase, leading continually upward, and true on the first step as well as one the highest level.

It should be noted, that if one is student of truth, installments of truth can be found in various cultures and time frames without prejudice, as in Egyptian culture (2,000 BC) Buddhism (500 BC) Judaism (500 BC) Christianity (2,000 years ago) Islam (631 AD) Adi Shankara (788-820 AD Advaita Vedanta) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1484-1534 AD (Brahma Madhava Gaudiya Sampradaya).

What is important regarding one's personal experience of truth, is the perfection of knowledge of oneself, plus knowledge of God/Source/Absolute Truth - along with the relationship of love and oneness that exists between each soul as a spark of divine consciousness, and the spontaneous loving service, to Source/God/Creator/Universal Truth.
This is the perfection of one's eternally true spiritual existence and identity.

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Godhead / Source Sends Many Messangers

5/11/2024

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His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) Founder of the Hare Krishna Movement (ISKCON) teaching from the ancient Vedas (Srimad Bhagavatam) in a class in Honolulu Hawaii

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Measures Of Truth - Can Truth Seekers Unite?

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Godhead / Source Sends Many Messangers

His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) Founder of the Hare Krishna Movement (ISKCON) teaching from the ancient Vedas (Srimad Bhagavatam) in a class in Honolulu Hawaii

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