People used to travel by different means such as walking, bullock
carts, chariots driven by horses, cars, superfast trains,
airplanes,ships in the ocean,boats in rivers. But all these are within
the world. Later in the 1950s,people were eager to travel in outer
space and other planets by using rockets,spaceships. People want to
travel to the highest places in the Universe but they have not found
any means yet to do so.
This eagerness to travel is quite common for dwellers of other
planetary systems as well. We find saucers of other planetary systems
flying around this world. They are much more faster than ours.
This kind of architecture of spaceships is found even in the
Bhagavatam. We find Vimanas with their proper structure for travelling
in space. The temple structures even though not flying are also called
as Vimanas. It could be because temples are helping us to take us to
the Spiritual world :)
We find in the Bhagavatam that Dhuruva was taken by Pushpaka Vimana.
Actually that Vimana is Spiritual one unlike the material ones.

To understand an object we use our different senses. Lets take the
example of Milk. Milk when seen with eyes we get the knowledge that
it's in white colour. With the touch of fingers we understand it's in
liquid state. With our nose,we smell the fragrance and with tongue we
taste it. With eyes we cannot taste.
Only when we experience this through all our different senses,we get
the complete knowledge of what milk is all about.

Similarly there are different levels of God realization and different
means to attain different realizations. The Vedas are like desiretrees
which can give whatever one desires. There are 3 categories in the
Vedic literature based on 3 modes.
Goodness-Vishnu(example-Garuda purana,Vishnu purana), Passion-Brahma,
Ignorance-Shiva(example skanda purana)
Mahabharata & Ramayana are itihasaas.
There are 3 things
1.Sambhanda(foundational knowledge)
2.Abhideya(Process)
3.Prayojana(results)
First thing is we need to have the knowledge of what is what. Only if
we know where we are, we can think about where we want to go.
Then secondly we have to practice based on the acquired knowledge.
And finally we yield the results of our practice.
The jnanis and yogis will attain Brahman.Those practicing Bhakti will
go to Vaikuntha but those who read Srimad Bhagavatam and understand
Krishna will go to Goloka.
Srimad Bhagavatam is nirguna,not in the modes whereas the Vedas deal
mainly with the 3 modes of material nature. The mature ripen fruit of
all the Vedas is Srimad Bhagavatam.One can have complete knowledge of
the Supreme Lord only by approaching Bhagavatam. Knowledge of the
Supreme Lord as Shyama Sundara with His 2 handed form is the perfect
and complete knowledge.Krishna is always surrounded by His intimate
associates with different rasas. The highest destination one can reach
by travelling is the Devotional Service taught by Lord Chaitanya.
(Excuse me for any errors or misinterpretation. I was not very brisk
during the class due to excessive travelling in a short period. Anyone
can correct or add more)
Notes from a presentation by HH.Bhanu Swami Maharaj

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Yours
Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com

The complete knowledge of the complete person,Lord Sri Krishna