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A kalpa is only 5,000 years? I heard the duration of Kali-yuga itself is 432,000 years

Yes you are correct This story is copied again and again, mirrored over and over...thus is the nature of fractal expansion, nothing unusual at all

Study the Vedic conception of sound on indiadivine.org http://www.indiadivine.org/hinduism/articles/7/1/The-Vedic-Conception-of-Sound-in-Four-Features If you choose not to, then consider this saying my father taught me: "If you think what you always thought, you'll get what you always got" If you remain so skeptical and pessimistic, you will always look on the world through a veil on the other hand, if you believe blindly without careful consideration and research, you will always be led around by an unsteady mind

I was taught "sin" just meant separation, to be apart from God not that you are actually apart from God but when you sin you set yourself apart from God through your perception you're an observer riding the chariot of perception

have you not heard Krishna proclaim tri-vedanti-sloka? BG 15.16: There are two classes of beings, the fallible and the infallible. In the material world every living entity is fallible, and in the spiritual world every living entity is called infallible. BG 15.17: Besides these two, there is the greatest living personality, the Supreme Soul, the imperishable Lord Himself, who has entered the three worlds and is maintaining them. Where is Vaikuntha? You are already there There is no where no when no what no how no why only WHO the rest is vanity

Actually by reading Srila Prabhupada's books you are already initiated as his disciple, you *have* a bonafide spiritual master.... Srila Prbahupada himself says that the initiation ceremony is CEREMONIAL, true initiation begins when knowledge of Krishna is awakaned as for full Krishna consciousness that means always being aware of Krishna in every situation at every moment some clues to help you along the way: #1. when you begin to see how things that previously seemed different are actually the same, know you are on your way to full Krishna consciousnes...then... #2. giving and receiving will become one emotion, one action, and understood to be non-different.... #3. you will never experience prema until you give your love to Him (because giving and receiving are the same) #4. lust=WANTING, love=GIVING #5. to give your love to Him you must remember how...chanting Krishna, reading Krishna, hearing Krishna, etc, will remind you (and it's not some technical process, it's an awakenance of remembrace you feel in your heart, where the soul rests) #6. you must suffer so that all attachment to finite things will wither away...do not inflict this suffering on yourself, but consider yourself blessed if Krishna takes everything away from you #7. the truth can only be understood in love, not by any logic/reasoning...don't worry...it will come #8. Krishna knows how much you can handle and how much you can't... sometimes a little comes at a time, sometimes none, and sometimes you get a brick thrown at you /images/graemlins/smile.gif #9. you have to force yourself to ignore your passions when a situation arises and you become emotional... try to look at the situation with an even-mind and chant the holy name #10. above all, remember that EVERYTHING comes from Krishna and it's only your perception that is thwarted by lust...you are just an observer travelling on the wings of your perception Jai Sri Krishna Govinda Hare Murari Hey Natha Narayana Vasudeva

nothing exists without the potential already existing in Krishna... read Sri Brahma-Samhita (http://vedabase.net) to find out from whence comes this perverted cognition you call illusion

There now I have a username (I just posted about Adam & Eve and fruit and all that) now then to Krishna being God particles are only particles when observed and are actually waveforms since they are not particles except when observed that proves that the observer is the cause therefore, being the original (observer/cause), God must be EXCLUSIVELY personality KRISHNA is that original personality because He attracts all (only the personality of God could be all-attractive)