The cradle of Western Civilization may have been birthed in the Tigris-Euphrates valley as Westerners have be taught for years - or possibly not. New evidence of Western and Eastern cultures on newly flexible timelines based on new artifacts, and geologic discoveries, constantly challenge previous assumptions and theories. 

What was happening across the planet 2,000 to 5,000 years ago, is a matter of various, relatively informed opinions, along with rampant speculation and claims. Do the victors of humankind's warring history, truly tell the whole story, as some cynically suggest?

What is the real story of man's history on earth, and it's origin?

Well, for answers, It depends on who one asks.

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Brother, Can You Spare Some Time?

The information to to follow, is gleaned from the many volumes of ancient holy texts, recorded in India, many thousands of years ago in the Sanskrit language. These texts provide a very different account of not only life on this planet, but live throughout this universe, unknown to modern thinkers.

From a historical perspective, and even up to the present moment, Creator/God/Source constantly speaks, broadcasts to the divine-but-covered hearts of humanity.  The Personality of Godhead, as divine spirit personally manifests on from time to time, and through those pure-hearted souls who fully perceive Holy Presence and direction, from within.

The All-pervasive, All-knowing, All-powerful, Ever-present Creator/Source energy, cannot be limited by human conceptions, expectations or intellect, is what the Vedic texts reveal. Measures of these truths, have be offered in various religious traditions.

The mission of Godhead within this world, and the mission of those who have a direct, open channel in the heart to Source is the same - to remind the conditioned beings in this universe that they too have a direct link to Creator/Source, but have simply forgotten their spiritual birthright, due to contact, with the three modes of material nature, as described in Bhagavad Gita texts.

Bound by competing modes of goodness, passion, and ignorance, a conditioned soul wonders from higher to lower planetary systems continuously, suffering good and evil along the way - until reminded of one's forgotten identity of having an unconditionally loving and empowered connection to Creator/Source/Godhead. This divine recollection/revelation is the perfection of all spiritual knowledge and practice, and all permutations of states of being.

Once given the knowledge, the heart has it's choice - either to soften one's battle-weary stubborn stance, in surrender to a deeper love and reality - which is symptomized by unity, harmony and transcendent action - or, not. One can always choose to hunker down in the me-first conditions and calculations of only "I and mine" - effectively galvanizing one's bondage in a temporary, ever-fleeting pleasure/pain illusory dynamic, reinforced by the material body and it's relativistic self-conceptions, in the cycle of birth and death.

Welcome to 3 Minute Guru
Short Instalments of Wisdom As Handed Down From The Original Guru
Bhagavan Sri Krishna
To His Friend and Disciple Arjuna

The system of knowledge being passed down from arealized teacher to a sincere student, is timeless. In the time honoured wisdom of the Gita, which was a conversation before an impending battle for the blessed sovereignty of planet earth, Arjuna accepted Sri Krishna as his guru, due to being overwhelmed by the internal and external predicament he was facing, on the verge of a global conflict.

The questions and answers provided to Arjuna, have guided many throughout time, when purely passed down from master to disciple as it is, without deviation or unnecessary calculations, additions or subtractions.

Over time however, on this planet and others, sometimes the system breaks down. When a teacher is not fully realized and breaks tradition - sometimes changing the teachings to serve one's own ego, desires or ill motives. The transmission of knowledge becomes corrupted to some degree or another. Simply put, stuff happens over time, and clear concepts can be muddied, or lost in translation, from one person to another. Free will can, and does go south sometimes, into the shadow-lands of personal ambition and speculation
Therefore thoughout time and space divinity takes form in the shape of divine incarnations or avatars, and by empowered pure-hearted representatives of Creator/Godhead.
Krishna had explained to Arjuna that throughout time, He personally appears to re-estabhish the actual principles of truth and pure religion, which periodically become obscured and compromised.

"Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all sentient beings, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form."
In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.
One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna."
Creator/Godhead/Source not only appears on different planets throughout the universe to protect and enliven the faithful, but He also sends saints and prophets who spread the same diving message according to time, place and circumstances. Thus different spiritual practices and traditions manifest at different points in time, according to the needs and mentality of those in various specific circumstances.

Later in this divine conversation which is the Gita, Arjuna realized that Krishna was not only his friend and advisor, but was also the Personality of Godhead - the creator of unlimited universes who simultaneously resides in the heart of each living being as divine source, guide and most intimate well-wisher of each living being.

Sri Krishna did not just claim this position of inconceivable potency; he actually gave Arjuna a divine vision of His universal form and potencies, upon Arjuna's request. In the last 3 verses of Chapter 11, Krishna informs Arjuna:

"The form which you are seeing with your transcendental eyes cannot be understood simply by studying the Vedas, nor by undergoing serious penances, nor by charity, nor by worship. It is not by these means that one can see Me as I am.
My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.
My dear Arjuna, one who is engaged in My pure devotional service, free from the contamination of previous activities and from mental speculation, who is friendly to every living entity, certainly comes to Me.





I'm your host, Brian Wesley Nash, initiated into the lineage of the Brahma-Madhava-Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, as a student named Bhojadeva Dasa.
My intention, or sankalpa (Sanskrit - desire or objective) is to provide measures of universal, inspirational, practical spiritual truth in a 3 minute read or less, on a regular basis, as an offering of service to each treasured reader of this blog, and to the mission of my own Gurudeva, who was entrusted to spread this message originally found in India, to the rest of the world, by the desire of his own Gurudeva.
I'm eternally indebted and grateful to my own beloved Guru, His Divine Grace, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada (1896-1977) who so mercifully initiated me into the Brahma-Madhava-Gaudiya Sampradaya lineage, which traces back to the original guru, Bhagavan Sri Krishna.
So let me begin, by remembering these traditional prayers:
Om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah
"I was born in the darkest ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge."
vande 'ham sri-guroh sri-yuta-pada-kamalam sri-gurun vaisnavams ca
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master and unto the feet of all Vaisnavas. 
he krsna karuna-sindho dina-bandho jagat-pate
gopesa gopika-kanta radha-kanta namo 'stu te
O my dear Krsna, You are the friend of the distressed and the source of creation. You are the master of the gopis and the lover of Radharani. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. tapta-kancana-gaurangi radhe vrndavanesvari
vrsabhanu-sute devi pranamami hari-priye
I offer my respects to Radharani whose bodily complexion is like molten gold and who is the Queen of Vrndavana. You are the daughter of King Vrsabhanu, and You are very dear to Lord Krsna. vancha-kalpatarubhyas ca krpa-sindhubhya eva ca
patitanam pavanebhyo vaisnavebhyo namo namah
I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaisnava devotees of the Lord who can fulfill the desires of everyone, just like desire trees, and who are full of compassion for the fallen souls. sri-krsna-caitanya prabhu-nityananda
sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda
I offer my obeisances to Sri Krsna Caitanya, Prabhu Nityananda, Sri Advaita, Gadadhara, Srivasa and all others in the line of devotion.

hare krsna hare krsna, krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama, rama rama hare hare.
"Oh my Lord, oh divine energy of the Lord,
Please engage me in your loving service"
(Hare = Oh Divine Internal Energy of God/Source)
(Krishna = All Attractive Creator/Godhead)
(Rama = Source of All Spiritual Happiness and Strength)


Source material for these reads, are from those rare realized saints, holy men and scriptures. Such knowledge is revealed in the pure-hearted, from God/CreatorSource in order to be recorded and taught. The sole purpose of these divine transmissions, is to help everyone remember their own blissful, loving, amazing connection to spirit/God/Source/Universal Energy.

In other words, however one frames the sense of a higher power one has faith in, reviving and understanding that  relationship with the Supreme Person / Universal Consciousness is what one's spiritual path is leads to as it's perfection, whether it's called religion or yoga. Notably however, not all practitioners of religion or yoga seek loving communioin with spirit as a final destination. Some seek to be God, or eliminate God, a imitate God with strong bodies gleaned from breathing and stretching as yoga, in spite of a short duration of life on earth and no known position in the afterlife. Integral to all yoga practise, is to control the mind for a higher purpose. As described in Bhagavad Gita Ch 6 verse 6 ?For one who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be the greatest enemy. One can control the mind by acting on spiritual intelligence, and by prayer, mantra and mediation.
The most highly recommended and powerful mantra, for prayerful meditation practice in his age, is described as the Maha-mantra:
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare 
Whatever was achieved in past ages by the practice of unbroken mediation, ceremonial sacrifice, and temple worship, is automatically achieved in this age by chanting silently or aloud, the Maha-mantra.
God/Source/Creator is unlimited, and  has unlimited names in countless languages. By vibrating such holy sound, one becomes spiritually purified, similar to experiencing light and warmth, by being close to fire.
There are no hard and fast rules for chanting this great (maha) mantra containing the holy names of Source/Godhead.
Anyone, anywhere, at any time, in any condition of life, can benefit by chanting, hearing, remembering or singing, the Maha-mantra.
Most of us have forgotten our eternal connection to spirit and ongoing relationship ever existed, or only had fleeting glimpses or suspicions of it - but it has always existed. Sri Krishna informs Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita (Bg 4.5) Many, many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of the enemy!

This is one of the message of the saints and scriptures, who have no other interested than humbly serving the highest truth, which is love exchanged in spirit, by spirit. Everyone is eternally connected to Godhead; one just needs to remember and act in that capacity to regain one's place in God's kingdom and reality.

The Supreme needs nothing, but anxiously awaits our return home, and to spiritual sanity and loving exchanges. The process of spiritual rejuvenation, can start now, at any given moment, just by hearing the truth. You as conscious spirit exist, God as supremely conscioius spirit exists. You and God are meant to perform acts of sweetness for each other, heart to heart. God/Spirit dwells next to our own spirit in the heart, waiting for us to turn within to find that Supreme shelter and source of grace and knowledge. Looking to the outside world and trying to mold it to one's liking has only trouble and fleeting moments as it's reward. The accomplishment and relationships of this world don't last; therefore they are called illusions - real for a moment but fading over time.

Godhead/Source, as the controlled of everything including time, reminds Arjuna, "Time I am, destroyer of worlds, and I have come to engage all people." (Bg 11.32)

Notification / Word to the wise / Disclaimer/ Spoiler alert:

If you have absolutely embraced atheism and reject 100% that God could ever exist, this is not the site for you. There is no need to debate here or elsewhere, and waste each other's time. Use can your free will to do your thing, I'll do my thing - that will be the best thing!

If you believe in a higher power of some sort, but not sure what it may be or look like, you may want to stick around out of curiosity at least. If you are open to the possibility of some type of higher knowledge, consciousness and reality, which may theoretically exist, you might want to hang around and hear more that was revealed from the mind of God, through the heart of purified men. Actually Supreme Spirit already transmits through the hearts of humankind, it's just a matter of how clear and pure the channel in the heart is, as a receptor, to clearly hear without any doubt or mental distortion.

As your host, I'm not here assuming to be anyone's guru in the formal, traditional sense, but rather I aim to offer doses of wisdom in hopefully digestible bites, as passed down over the ages from realized masters to their disciplined students.

Having met a rare and genuine guru in 1972, I decided to transfer my educational pursuits from the University Of California San Diego (UCSD) to ashram life in Laguna Beach, CA.

Since then it's been an interesting 50 years of ongoing education to say the least, having lived in numerous countries during the process. Naively or not, throwing caution to the wind in seeking truth over calculated security, probably contributed to finding myself in some sticky situations over the years. At the same time, having taken a more conservative, socially approved educational and career path would not have guaranteed a life where no rain would fall. One can balance both perhaps more easily these days - finding and following one's bliss and living in a world where income can be gleaned new ways wherein one necessities as practically needed.

Here you will find wisdom from a line of realized of spiritual gurus, starting with my own, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who received this knowledge from his spiritual master, in a line of realized souls going back thousands of years to the original Source - The Personality of Godhead.

Before we begin, a quick note and appreciation of healthy skepticism or questioning of authorities across the board. 

In past and modern times, charlatans have duped the sometimes naive public, pontificating from the platforms of religion, politics and science, time and time again. In this dog-eat-dog world, actual knowledge meant for the  benefit of all life forms, many times is surpressed or perverted by the powerful - or those seeking power for their own purposes of control and/or profiteering.

Genuine spiritual life and practice is just the opposite; one's integrity and sovereignty are established by seeing oneself as a part serving the whole or greater good, including Spirit/Godhead.
The rewards from such service come unsought, including satisfaction, peace of mind, happiness, freedom from all fears, plus liberation from all illusions and from the cycle of birth and death.

That having been said, one may question any idea up to the limits of one's intellect, and sit in consideration for some time. One may reach a conclusion over time by intellect, or intuition, or by revelation through grace from within. Just to be clear, blind faith in religion, science or anything else is not a recommended substitute for one's own informed discernment and inspired revelations.

After 50 years of observation and practice, I'm relived to report my guru of choice, HDG AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada has set an impeccable standard which was untarnished during his lifetime and remains so, even 45 years after his passing in 1977.

In the person of Srila Prabhupada, there were no ghosts in the closet, or secret liasions or hidden bank accounts. He has praised even up to the present day (2022), by such personalities as the prime minister of India, Narendar Modi, along with other scholars, yogis and religionists alike.

Therefore with a sense of seemingly non-congruent humility and pride, that I attempt to pass on the fruit of knowledge, love and devotional service that Srila Prabhupada offered all his students and the world.

In essense, Srila Prabhupada taught that God/Source is both within and without. It is in realizing that the expansion and expression of unconditional love is a living mission and purpose of both Godhead and the individual spark of spirit which is each unique soul.

There is one religion and spiritual practice, the threads of which can be found in almost all religions, in their pure forms.

Essential religion/spirituality manifests as love and service, and initially meeting God in one's spiritual heart for gaining inspiration directly from God/Source. Meeting a bona fide spiritual master, is a rare and supreme blessing, as a pure-hearted guru will transmit the same message to a conditioned soul, namely how to serve and love God/Source, no matter what present one's circumstance may be. The degree to which this can happen, depends on one's own purity of heart and sincerity.

Source within, or the genuine spiritual master, can neither be bluffed, swindled or bought by any means, other than love and service. How to love the Supreme, who cannot seen with our present eyes, is shown by the spiritual master's example, and described by the nine processes of devotional service. The foremost of the nine processes, is hearing about the glories of God/Transcendence, from authorized sources (realized teachers and holy texts). Hearing, talking/chanting about, and remembering the topics of spirit and Godhead and their relationship, is part of the potent and powerful method of divine service, resulting in gradual self and God realization.

Spirituality is appreciating as well the underlying all-pervading spiritual energy which supports and connects everything manifested in the material universe(s), plus the subtle mental, intellectual and emotional realms of consciousness.


Bhojadeva Dasa is a name given by my spiritual grandfather, guide and guru, HDG Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Srila Prabhupada (1896-1977) hailed from the Brahma-Madhava-Gaudia Vaishnava Sampradaya. The name translates as, the servant of the Supreme Enjoyer. The Supreme Enjoyer, is understood to be Godhead/Source/Sri Krishna in the Gaudiya sampradaya. To be the servant of Godhead/ Source, has many inplications, one which is that the servant and the Served, enjoy endless cosmic bliss. That's why I signed up. I greedily wanted happiness all the time, which just cannot be found by a sense of a separate false ego that sees the temporary world of material manifestation, as it's source of endless pleasure. It just doesn't happen. The material body and it's pleasures have limitations. Life is ususally spent trying to outfox misery, and engineer a few moments of peace and pleasure - until time runs out. Perhaps the system is rigged, and has a message? Some of us think so. I came to that conclusion by the mercy and guidane of my guru, who was 75 years old at the time, and the most blissful, knowledgeable and mystically energetic person I had ever met, by far. Granted I was only 18 when I first met and studied with him, so one could argue I hadn't met that many people. But I have to say that my original claim still stands, after 50 years of appreciating and attempting to practice and digest even a fraction of the wisdom personally offered by Srila Prabhupada and through the treasure of his many books and recorded classes.


The lineage of this sampradaya, or tradition of revealed knowledge passed down from master to student, goes back 5,000 years to when Sri Krishna appeared on earth, and even beyond. It goes back to the dawn of creation and the "tattva" or truth revealed by Sri Krishna to Brahma, enabling Brahma to manifest the features of this particular universe.

Many of the topics of our 3-minute session, will be based on the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, considering that Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is accepted by millions on this planet and elsewhere as the adi-guru or original guru, and ceta-guru, the reflection of Godhead communicating from within each heart as Supersoul or Paramatma to each individual, or atma.

Reminding us who we are, where we came from, and why we are here, Bhagavad Gita has illuminated hearts, minds and spirits since it was spoken and recorded 5,000 years ago.

Preserved in it's original form and unchanged in the Sanskrit language Bhagavad Gita, aka "The Song of God" was spoken to a thoughtful, inquisitive and compassionate warrior prince named Arjuna.

Questioning the nature of life, duty, and reality, Arjunas questions were answered by his cosmic friend, guide, and guru, Sri Krishna.

Finding himself as the leader of an army on an actual battlefield named Kurukshetra located in present-day India, Arjuna sought answers to questions which would benefit all of humanity. These questions pertained to the origin and primal nature of each living entity. These questions and answered also elucidated not only each living being's relationship to Godhead/Source/Creator, but also clarified one's relationship to material nature, time, and action (karma).

Arjuna's questions were answered as he inquired on the battlefield. Armed with such knowledge, he was given the option to choose which path to take in his existential crisis - whether to stand and fight as an act of surrender to love and Universal truth, or choose doubt and inaction.

Arjuna's internal battle and choices, were intimately related to his present external circumstances; not dissimilar to modern day life.

Arjuna is a person, personifying the human condition. Sri Krishna, happened to be his close friend, turned spiritual advisor in Arjuna's moment of crisis. In the course of the discussion, Arjuna realizes that Krishna is not only his best friend, but also is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Upon request, Krishna gave Arjuna universal vision, which revealed Krishna as God/Source. Arjuna was humbled by the revelation of Krishna as the all-pervading knower of past, present and future, and the ever-loving well-wisher of Arjuna and all living beings.

Being universal and non-sectarian, the vision of Bhagavad Gita describes each being as a spark of the Creator, a child of Godhead; each being made in the image of Source, having God/Source qualities. The primary qualities, or constitutional natures of both God/Source and the individual are three - namely Eternity, Knowledge, and Blissful Happiness.

Although "one" in a sense, Godhead is the controller of the material nature (as described in Chapter 7 of BG), whereas the individual being has a tendency to be controlled by the material nature, in spite of being a spark of spirit. In such a condition, the eternally blissful and knowledgeable spark of spirit mis-identifies with temporary matter and the material body. Each body is a vehicle of combined material elements in the form of trillions of cells which is pervaded and maintained by the spark of spiritual energy that is the materially invisible, spirit/soul.

In this conditioned state, the shifting tides and times of material perceptions robs one of one's sense of eternal connectivity, and identity as Source energy.

Battered by the waves of time and circumstance, one's experiences of happiness and distress ride the roller-coaster of one's previous actions and reactions (karma), seemingly with no one in full control at the helm of the ship. In actuality however, "not a blade of grass moves without the sanction of the Supreme".

A foundational Vedic text describes that every individual is cognizant or consciously aware, as is Godhead. Godhead and the individual living beings are also both eternal, non-material spiritual beings. The difference between the two, is that the One/Godhead maintains and supports the many (individuals). This understanding is one of many which clarifies how Godhead/Source is one, yet many at the same time. How there is a single Oneness which permeates and supports diversities within non-duality. Such a concept might bewilder the logical mind, but is reconciled when appreciating the inconceivably potent nature of the Absolute Truth. This Absolute Truth is also described in Vedanta Sutra and Srimad Bhagavatam - "Janmady Asya Yatah" translated as "That Source from which everything emanates". Sri Krishna is describes as this same "achintya" or "inconceiable" Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is "acyuta" or infallible, who never falls under the sway of illusion or the material energy - as the source of all material and spiritual energies as described in the Bhagavad Gita.



inherently able to download the knowledge required to settle the past, enhance the present, and serve one's highest future good, as revealed from God/Source within one's heart.

This is effected by loving one's self, the Creator, and all of creation with spiritually purified senses, and acts of unconditional love.

Such acts are described as "akarma" - those acts which do not bind one to the cycle of birth and death. Such love-imbued thoughts and deeds, actually liberate one from the duality of "good and bad action/karma", and future karmic bondage.

Free from all reservations and fears, one's spiritual existence, knowledge and happiness, begin to blossom in the core of one's liberated heart, mind and soul in ever-increasing measures, continually.

Real freedom from material duality, is not simply the negation of all feeling and activity leading to a void, but rather revelation of purified senses which give and receive love on the spiritual plane, devoid of material motivations which separate the spirit from its eternal connection with Source love and pure consciousness.

5 Star Reviews, Past and Present

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent,the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."

Hermann Hesse felt that "the marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."

Henry David Thoreau wrote "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.

Narendra D Modi
Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has strongly noted the Bhagavad Gita as "India's biggest gift to the world"

E. Sreedharan
"You see, spirituality has no religious overtones. The essence of spirituality is to make a person pure in his mind and his thoughts. When I started reading our old scriptures, like the “Baghavad Gita,” I found it was useful for day-to-day life, so I started practicing it. I consider it an administrative gospel, one that will help you in doing things like running an organization".

Krishna instructing Arjuna before the battle of Kurukshetra.