...I am a fool? How has your knowledge benefited you at all? Your false knowledge has only mislead you down the path to thinking that the truth of the Vedas is false.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was the GREATEST authority of Vedanta.
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He propounded the greatest meanings of the Vedas.
You apparently have come into contact with some atheistic school of Vedanta.
Quoting: SaveTheLivingEntitiesI have only studied the veda from an objective historical perspective. It was a system that was (still is) used to manipulate the peasantry into working extremely hard all their lives for zero gain, thinking it would come in the after-life and later on in the 'next' life. The people who developed this particular religion also created the karmic doctrine for similar purposes. I feel as though you are bastardizing a practice that was once taken extremely seriously and now is completely obsolete to any critically thinking logical person.
My knowledge that I might or might not have has benefited me extremely well in my own personal opinion. I have have been all the way.
You have not studied the vedas at all. I am speaking from the greatest more in depth authorities on the Vedas, and you think your whimisical musings over the various Vedas, which may or may not have been presented correctly, could give you a grasp of the deep philosophy that takes one a lifetime to fully absorb?
There is no manipulating peasantry. Everyone is placed according to their qualities. If you display propensities toward being an administrator/intellectual (brahmana), a protector of the people (kshatriya), a merchant (vaishya) or a laborer (sudra). These are not FORCED. They are placed according to the qualities of the individual.
Have you ever attended college or applied for military service?
You get a placement test, to determine how far along your path you are, and then it is up to an administrator to ensure you get the proper training to catch up to speed?
That is varnasrama dharma, it is already ongoing right now. The problem is we have many sudras or laborers trying to run the world.
The goal of the Gaudiya-vaishnav movement is to create more Vedic Brahmanas who can help adminstrate the affairs of man kind and ensure that we become successful.
In regard to a societal body, the brahmanas are the head and brain of society.
The kshatriyas or protectors of peace are considered to be the arms of society.
The arms are required to protect the body from all harm,
but the arms must act according to the directions of the head and brain. That is a natural arrangement made by the supreme order, for it is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gitä that four social orders or castes, namely the brähmanas, the kshatriyas, the vaishyas and the südras, are set up according to quality and work done by them.
You may be speaking of the Vedic Civilizations of the last few thousand years, but they have been degraded since Satya yuga, millions of years ago.
