Stumbled across this in my blog archives while looking for something else. I posted it in 2008 but realize that many of my readers are new since then. I hope you find it fascinating too.
“For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me.
“PURPORT
“A person in Krsna consciousness certainly sees Lord Krsna everywhere, and he sees everything in Krsna. Such a person may appear to see all separate manifestations of the material nature, but in each and every instance he is conscious of Krsna, knowing that everything is a manifestation of Krsna’s energy. Nothing can exist without Krsna, and Krsna is the Lord of everything — this is the basic principle of Krsna consciousness. Krsna consciousness is the development of love of Krsna — a position transcendental even to material liberation.”
Bg 6.30
Why don’t we see Krishna everywhere? Take the test in this video to find out why (fully realized souls, go ahead and skip this exercise).
See comments for a purport.
If you want to know why this phenomenon works as it does, go to this website.
September 28, 2011 at 10:11 am
Even though Krishna is everywhere we are so caught up in the illusions of our daily busy – ness that we don’t see him.
Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness
for dynamic events
Perception, 1999, volume 28, pages 1059 ^ 1074
Daniel J Simons, Christopher F Chabris
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA;
e-mail: dsimons@wjh.harvard.edu
Received 9 May 1999, in revised form 20 June 1999
Abstract. With each eye fixation, we experience a richly detailed visual world. Yet recent work
on visual integration and change direction reveals that we are surprisingly unaware of the details
of our environment from one view to the next: we often do not detect large changes to objects
and scenes (`change blindness’). Furthermore, without attention, we may not even perceive
objects (`inattentional blindness’). Taken together, these findings suggest that we perceive and
remember only those objects and details that receive focused attention. In this paper, we briefly
review and discuss evidence for these cognitive forms of `blindness’. We then present a new study
that builds on classic studies of divided visual attention to examine inattentional blindness for
complex objects and events in dynamic scenes. Our results suggest that the likelihood of noticing
an unexpected object depends on the similarity of that object to other objects in the display and
on how difficult the priming monitoring task is. Interestingly, spatial proximity of the critical
unattended object to attended locations does not appear to affect detection, suggesting that
observers attend to objects and events, not spatial positions. We discuss the implications of these
results for visual representations and awareness of our visual environment.
September 28, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
Quoted Mr. Frost today;
September 30, 2011 at 9:44 am
>Quoted Mr. Frost today;
Indeed you have and what a pleasant surprise that you did. :-)