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The greatest love letter in history?

This engaging exploration reveals the profound nature of what is the greatest love letter: the Bhagavad Gita. Initially perplexed by its inaccurate and dishonest translations, the writer eventually recognized the eternal and deep message of eternal love within it. Unlike conventional love letters, this sacred text transcends time, offering a deep, genuine, poetic understanding of love and connection. I invite you to find joy and solace by turning toward true love, emphasizing that despite life’s turmoil, one can always return to the enduring embrace of this loving essence. Will you?

What is the greatest love letter in history?

Would it be a letter from Frida Kahlo to Diego Riviera? Would it be Beethoven’s letter to his “Immortal Beloved”? Or would it be a letter from Romeo to Juliet, or from Juliet to Romeo?

I’ve read many of these letters myself. They were pale, untrue, and insipid. They do not compare to the greatest love letter of all time.

In fact, I discovered this love letter many many years ago, at the age of ten. I didn’t know what it was back then. I couldn’t understand it. It was in a language I didn’t fully understand, and the English translation confused me. Then I read another translation, then another, then another. Each was filled with contradictions and inconsistencies. Frustrated, I gave up after about fifteen tries with different English translations. Based on all these translations, I even wrote off the original as an absurd, useless piece of writing. But I must admit, was still intrigued by it.

Then, one day, I did get yet another translation. I had already made up my mind this would be another waste of my time. With low expectations, I read that one. I still didn’t understand it, but it seemed to make more sense than ever before. Then I read it again, and again, and again. I read that translation hundreds of times.

Now, after about 30 years of reading over and over again, I am convinced. Yes, this is the greatest love letter of all time. No, I haven’t fully understood everything yet. Or rather, it is so deep that many, many lifetimes of reading won’t be enough to fully plumb it’s depths. Yes, it’s that great.

What makes a love letter great? Well, it should be poetic, of course. It should be true, in the sense that the writer really meant what they wrote. And not just true in a fleeting moment of passion, but true forever. It should not be full of “sweet nothings” but it must be full of substance. After all, is love not eternal?

What is that love that changes with the seasons? What is love that fades with time? What is that love that ends with aging bodies and death? What is that love that does not endure?

What is great about this love letter? Is it that it is poetic, loving, and has endured millions and millions of years?

Anyone who reads this love letter, and understands it, falls head over heels in love. And that love causes them to rise, rise, rise above everything that is impermanent. This is a love that inspires countless sacrifices in millions. This is a love that is so great, that when someone associates with the smitten, they become smitten themselves. Indeed, this love is so contagious that no one can resist its clarion call, unless they dull themselves to it.

What is this love, and why is it so amazing?

Think about this… A lover separates from the beloved, and spends lifetime after lifetime separated, angry, envious, upset, sad. Millions of lifetimes… But the Beloved continues to love, continues to live in the heart of the lover. The lover goes through ups and downs. Sometimes the circumstances are fortunate, sometimes unfortunate. Sometimes the lover is happy, sometimes not. Sometimes the lover is angry, sometimes calm. But the beloved stays put. Continues to whisper loving guidance, with full freedom to the lover, to love the beloved or or leave the beloved.

In this love letter, the beloved discloses all.

  • This is who you are, my dear lover
  • You are inseparable from me, a part-and-parcel of myself
  • You are indestructible, just like me, why do you feer?
  • You dreamt that you can be happy without me, but are you happy?
  • This is where you are now, living your dream, or is it a nightmare now?
  • This is the nature of the world you inhabit, do you see as it is?
  • Oh, how you are hopelessly entangled in the consequences of your actions!
  • One action leads to a million reactions, and each reaction leaves behind a seed!
  • Lost in the forest of your actions and reactions, you have forgotten yourself
  • This is time, eternal time, absolute and relative, but how you are trapped!
  • This is who I am, your best friend and well-wisher
  • I am opulent in every respect, beauty, wealth, knowledge, fame, power, but I am renounced too!
  • I am all-powerful, but never force myself upon you
  • I know that you are unhappy and dissatisfied
  • I know you feel empty and lost, tired and confused
  • But you are a spark of my splendor!
  • I can get you out of that mess in less than a moment, easy, will you come back?
  • The love and joy you seek there can only be found with me, do you not see?
  • This is where you can be, with me here is my world, also yours
  • If you come back to me, you will have no troubles, no anxiety, no lamentation
  • Let go of your false pride, dear lover, it has come between us, I forgive you
  • You envied me, and you acted against me, but did it bring you any joy?
  • But here is what I have done for you since time immemorial…
  • This is what I will do for you forevermore
  • I care for you, more than you can ever imagine, can you see?
  • I hate to see you suffer, your suffering pains me!
  • Will you come back my dear part-and-parcel?
  • This is how you can come back, if you want to, will you turn to me?
  • I will show you the way, every step of your way, here, follow me!
  • I love you, even though I don’t need you, for I am self-satisfied
  • No one can make you feel as good as I can, can you see?
  • I am here, always available, should you ever care to turn my way
  • I will forgive, forget, and arrange for your return, fear not
  • But only if you want to come back, or else not.
  • All will be forgiven and it will be as if you never left
  • Love me or leave me, the choice is yours
  • But I shall love you for ever no matter what, for you are mine and I am yours

This is a tiny fragment of the essence of that love letter, of course, I can’t do it full justice.

Why don’t you read it for yourself?

Bhagavad Gita As It Is
Bhagavad Gita As It Is

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Descartes did not understand Consciousness

Many believe that animals and other species in other bodies outside of humans are not souls, that they are mere automations. The misunderstanding can be traced back at least to Descartes’ “cogito ergo sum”, where he sadly misunderstood something very important…

René Descartes was a great thinker, an eminent Christian scholar, and his thoughts have arguably shaped the foundations of Christianity.

Unfortunately, he got at least one basic thing wrong, “cogito ergo sum” – translated as “I think, therefore I am”. This statement shows Descartes’ ignorance. Consciousness is not dependent on “thinking”.

Consciousness is the fundamental symptom of life – all living entities have lower or higher consciousness, some can think at a more advanced level based on how evolved their consciousness is, and some at a less advanced level.

Who am I to be criticizing the great Descartes? Yes. I must admit that I am not even a tiny fraction of that mighty thinker. I am just a little recovering atheist. But my knowledge, that is not mine, it is not original. I am not speaking on anything that I have come up with myself, but relying on the words of God Himself. The Bhagavad Gita is quite literally “The Song of God”. I rely on the Bhagavad Gita. But there are way too many mis-translations and misinterpretations of this Divine Book unfortunately, which have been written by speculators with a poor fund of knowledge.

So I rely on the great Acharyas, teachers who received this knowledge in disciplic succession from God. If I threw a mango from the top of a tree to the ground, it would smash, and become unfit to consume, but if I organized a chain of people from the topmost branch of the mango tree to the ground, with ladders and so on, as needed, then the mango could make it safely into my hands.

In the disciplic succession, Parampara, each person in the chain acts as an honest messenger – they repeat everything exactly in line with what their predecessor did, without any addition or subtraction – and you can verify what they said by checking up on what their spiritual master said. So, even if a particular link in the chain may be accepted as ordinary (though none of them can actually be ordinary, that is a matter for another day), still, the message is pristine and perfect.

So I rely on the Bhagavad Gita As It Is, by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is 32nd (from Krishna, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead), 28th(from Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa, the Literary Incarnation of Krishna), or 11th(Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Krishna Himself, appearing as His devotee to show us how to be one) link in the chain originating from God Himself. And even though I have not met Srila Prabhupada personally, I am a disciple of His Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari, who is a direct disciple of Srila Prabhupada, which makes my spiritual master 33rd, 29th, or 12th in line from God Himself. Not only my own spiritual master, but I have benefited from the thousands of disciples of Srila Prabhupada, and I have benefited from many other souls who are in other branches of the same tree of disciplic succession, going back at least 5,000 and 500 years. However, the knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita has been extant in civilized society in our Universe for at least 40 Million years. However, as the Universe is 114 Trillion years old, this knowledge is that ancient in this Universe.

However, as this Universe is just like a flash in the pan, a proverbial flash of lightning in the fabric of eternity, this knowledge is actually eternal.

The fact that my knowledge is not “original” but is coming from a long line of teachers originating from God Himself, that is my only strength. On the purity, strength, and intelligence of these great souls, I dare say Descartes is wrong.

A crude example is that a small child may say 2+2=4, not know how that is so, but it does not change the fact that the child is right. The child heard this from someone who does understand numbers and addition, so on the strength of that person’s knowledge, the child is right.

Or let’s take the example of a normal person, perfectly capable when sober, but when they are intoxicated, they are no better than an animal, at least temporarily. If another man were to kill the drunken person, would that not count as murder? So even a short-term mental disability is not grounds for ny mistreatment.

Now take for example two sons of the same father. One, the elder, is strong, intelligent, and capable… the other, younger, let’s say, for the purpose of this example, a whimpering idiot, cannot learn anything, cannot do much, and cannot, for the life of him, stand up to his brother. Comparing

If the capable boy were to propose to the father that they kill the retarded younger son, because, he might say, let’s face it, he’s no better than an animal, would the father agree? Even if the father agreed with the elder son’s assessment of the younger brother, still, he would not allow the younger son to be killed, even with his long-term disability.

On the streets of various cities in the world, I have personally met many drunk or drugged humans, and to be honest, they are actually lower than some animals!

Animals are no less than the mentally challenged human, whether long-term or short-term. They are spirit souls encaged in a body and mind that don’t permit higher consciousness, not very difficult from a drunk or drugged human. But this conflation of thinking with the presence or absence of a soul has caused a grave injustice in this world.

If only Descartes was fortunate enough to receive instruction from the Song of God!

सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तय: सम्भवन्ति या: ।
तासां ब्रह्म महद्योनिरहं बीजप्रद: पिता ॥ ४ ॥

sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya
mūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥ
tāsāṁ brahma mahad yonir
ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā

It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kuntī, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/14/4/

Descartes’ grave error has encouraged the Christians around the world to commit murder with impunity. They interpret the commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill” as “Thou shalt not kill another human unnecessarily”. This is leading hosts of Christians into endless lifetimes of suffering birth, death, old age, and disease, being born as animals repeatedly, only to be mercilessly slaughtered.

In modern times there is really no excuse for eating meat. Fruits, Roots, Nuts, Vegetables, Grains are abundantly available and milk products obtained from Ahimsa farms can be made available too.

Christians and others who follow any kind of spiritual tradition need to rise above the sad ignorance of Descartes and stop eating meat unless it were a matter of life and death, because Meat is not for spiritualists, meat is for animals, even if the animals happen to be in human form.

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