Love

1. Love IS The Ultimate Reality

2. LOVE is the ultimate reality L - Liberty is not "the freedom for", but "the freedom from" O – Opportunity to love the eternal is rare V - Variety expresses Krishna's accessibility E - Experience is the ultimate harmonizer & verifier

3. The Consequences of “Freedom For”…

5. The American Paradox Since 1960, • The divorce rate has doubled. • The teen suicide rate has tripled. • The recorded violent crime rate has quadrupled. • The prison population has quintupled. • The percentage of babies born outside marriage has sextupled. • Depression has soared - to ten times the pre - World War II level.

6. Can Science Offer us Freedom For?

7. “The twentieth century was the most violent century in known human history. Indeed, three times more people died in wars of the twentieth century than in the entire history of warfare between A.D. 1 and 1899.” - Ending Violent Conflict, Worldwatch Institute (Washington D.C.)

8. First World War (1914–18): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 million Russian Civil War (1917–22): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 million Soviet Union, Stalin’s regime (1924–53): . . . . . . . . . 20 million Second World War (1937–45): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 million Chinese Civil War (1945–49): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 million People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong’s regime (1949–75): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 million Congo Free State (1886–1908): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 million Mexico (1910–20): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 million Turkish massacres of Armenians (1915–23): . . . . . 1.5 million China, Nationalist era (1928–37): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 million Korean War (1950–53): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8 million

9. North Korea (1948 et seq.): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 million Rwanda and Burundi (1959–95): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.35 million Second Indochina War (1960–75): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 million Nigeria (1966–70): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 million Bangladesh (1971): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.25 million Cambodia, Khmer Rouge (1975–78): . . . . . . . . . . . 1.65 million Mozambique (1975–92): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 million Afghanistan (1979–2001): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 million Iran–Iraq War (1980–88): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 million Sudan (1983 et seq.): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.9 million Kinshasa, Congo (1998 et seq.): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.8 million

10. What we need to discover is not the god particle in the atom, but the godly particle in the heart

11. LOVE is the ultimate reality L - Liberty is not "the freedom for", but "the freedom from" O – Opportunity to love the eternal is rare V - Variety expresses Krishna's accessibility E - Experience is the ultimate harmonizer & verifier

12. Let’s Make Our Intelligence FIT and choose to love the eternal F:FUTILITY I:INSUBSTANTIALITY T:TEMPORALITY

13. Spirituality, a Higher Dimensional Science Theory Philosophy Science Spirituality Religion Experiment

14. Philosophy Srila Prabhupada - “Philosophy without religion is just mental speculation” Spirituality Religion

15. Srila Prabhupada - “Religion without philosophy is at best sentimentalism and at worst fanaticism.” Philosophy Spirituality Religion

16. The world’s great religions are facilities for us to redirect our love from the temporary to the eternaleg University, Hospital

17. LOVE is the ultimate reality L - Liberty is not "the freedom for", but "the freedom from" O – Opportunity to love the eternal is rare V - Variety expresses Krishna's accessibility E - Experience is the ultimate harmonizer & verifier

18. The Story of the Prodigal Son Krishna is a God who doesn’t just welcome us back, but also strives multifariously to get us back. One such extraordinary effort of his is the system of demigod worship

20. Why so many gods? 1. kämais tais tair håta-jïänäù prapadyante 'nya-devatäù taà taà niyamam ästhäya prakåtyä niyatäù svayä 2. yo yo yäà yäà tanuà bhaktaù çraddhayärcitum icchati tasya tasyäcaläà çraddhäà täm eva vidadhämy aham (Bhagavad Gita 7.20-21)

21. Why so many gods? 3. sa tayä çraddhayä yuktas tasyärädhanam éhate labhate ca tataù kämän mayaiva vihitän hi tän 4. antavat tu phalaà teñäà tad bhavaty alpa-medhasäm devän deva-yajo yänti mad-bhaktä yänti mäm api (Bhagavad Gita 7.22-23)

22. The compassionate logic of • demigod worship • Is 60% score good or bad? • For one capable of scoring 40%, it is excellent • For one capable of scoring 80%, it is undesirable • Is demigod worship good or bad? • For atheists and materialists, it is recommended • For serious spiritual seekers, it is discouraged

23. Vallabhacharya

24. Keshav Kashmiri

25. The Vedic system of multi-level • worship bears testimony to: • A unique concern for the individuality • of the worshipper and • 2. An unparalleled flexibility of the worshipable • in making himself accessible

26. LOVE is the ultimate reality L - Liberty is not "the freedom for", but "the freedom from" O – Opportunity to love the eternal is rare V - Variety expresses Krishna's accessibility E - Experience is the ultimate harmonizer & verifier

27. Material science is experimental, Spiritual Science is experiential

28. Science of devotional service

29. Lila: Where Love Reigns as the Ultimate Reality Hero – Krishna Director – Yoga-Maya Script-Writer – Krishna

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