Philosophy

Differentiating material and spiritual attachments

By Radhanath Swami - 3.7 2019 “When we love those who love the Lord, the Lord reveals his love to us. Krishna sends his loving devotees to this world, so that we can transfer our attachment.”- Radhanath Swami Shivananda Sen, he was taking all the 200-300 devotees from Bengal to...Read more...

Sri Krishna and the Original Sporting Propensity

The Chaitanya School: Role of Ethics

Mystic Understanding

Mystic Understanding By Kesava Krsna dasa Some devotees seldom use the word ‘mystical’ when describing other worldly subjects, due to obscure hazy connotations; preferring instead to use terms like inconceivable, transcendental or spiritual. Srila Prabhupada quite often used...Read more...

A Bhagavata Philosophy Of Education

By Radhika Ramana Dasa (Prof. Ravi M. Gupta). Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies, Utah State University Philosophy as a ﬁeld of study is generally divided into four branches: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics (or praxis), and aesthetics. Thus, for ease of organization, we...Read more...

The Many Faces of Impersonalism

BY: MAYESA DASA (ACBSP) - 27.6 2019 IMPERSONALISM is the cancer of humanity. It appears everywhere. Impersonalism is behind the killing of the unborn. Impersonalism is behind the call for Socialism and Communism. In Vaisnava spiritual circles, impersonalism appears in many guises. Lets...Read more...

Impersonalism and the Doomed to Fail Attempt to Judge Sadhus

Impersonalism, Voidism and Science

A genuine alternative to modern misconceptions of God

By Jaya Gopal das - 21.6 2019 Who or what is God? In our modern world, when we observe the amount of energy consumed by all of the other topics that fill our lives, this question is given almost no consideration or thought whatsoever. As such, we are burdened with so many frivolous...Read more...

Relativity and the Path to the Absolute

By Arcana Siddhi Devi Dasi - 21.6 2019 Because many factors influence the way we see the world, too much faith in our own perspective can be materially and spiritually dangerous. My husband and I were counseling a couple and making progress, but then we reached an impasse. The husband...Read more...

Yoga as a Science of Consciousness

By editor - 18.6 2019 Need for Higher Consciousness How can we bring a higher consciousness into the world to create peace and harmony, removing all division and conflict? That is the foundation of the practice of Yoga. As long as we are trapped in our usual self-centered thoughts and...Read more...

Yoga

Vedic Light and Tantric Energy Yogas

Flat-Earth or Globular Earth

BY: MAYESVARA DASA - 10.6 2019 Part One The following is the first part of a response to Danavir Goswami's article, "Flat Earth or Globular Earth?". We welcome this public statement by Danavir Goswami as it brings the discussion of the Vedic Earth into the open, and...Read more...

GANDHARVAS

By editor - 7.6 2019 The Gandharvas are a very difficult idea to define, but simply, they are supernatural beings strongly tied to music. They are celestial bards, demi-gods, demons, but predominantly celestial musicians (Thite 52-53). They preside in many places but are mostly...Read more...

Time and Again

By Mathuresha Dasa - 7.6 2019 Being God, Krishna has no work to do and simply enjoys in His original abode, while His expansions and energies, such as time, take care of the material creation. As working men and women we typically leave home in the early morning and spend eight or nine...Read more...

Deśa – Kāla – Pātra – Time, Place and Circumstances

Time

Timings of the Four Yugas: The Shastric Evidence

By Sri Nandanandana das (Stephen Knapp) - 7.6 2019 When describing the length of the yugas or ages, and which yuga we are in and how far along we are in it, there is sometimes confusion about how to calculate them. Some people think we are already in the next Satya-yuga, known as the...Read more...

Predictions about Kali yuga

Kali Yuga: When Did It End

Lord Brahma

By His Divine Grace A.C.B. Swami Prabhupada O Brahma, whatever appears to be of any value, if it is without relation to Me, has no reality Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana) – Canto 2: The Cosmic Manifestation – SB 2.9: Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version SB...Read more...

Brahma and Saraswati or Gayatri

Life and Afterlife

By Navina Syama Dasa - 4.5 2019 Life and Afterlife: Does Modern Science Have it Right? The intellectual community fails to even consider the validity of evidence of reincarnation. I recently read one of the latest books by Ian Stevenson, entitled European Cases of the Reincarnation Type...Read more...

How the Essence of Religions Came From Vedic Culture

Reincarnation, past lives, NDE

CARVARKA (MATERIALIST) PHILOSOPHY

By editor - 31.5 2019 The Carvaka (sweet-talkers), also known as Lokayata philosophy, is a heterodox Hindu philosophy named after its founder and often classified with its fellow dissenter philosophies of Buddhism and Jainism. However, unlike Jainism and Buddhism, Carvaka has not turned into...Read more...

JAINISM - THE HETERODOX PHILOSOPHIES -MAHAVIRA

By editor - 30.5 2019 In the year 599 BCE, a son was born to the ruler of a territory in India known as Kundalpura. The ruler’s name was Siddhartha, and his wife, Trisala, was sister to the king of a large collection of clans, the Vajjis. They belonged to a religion called...Read more...

Religion and Hinduism

Buddhism

Segments of life: Looking at death under another perspective

By Matsya Avatara Dasa - 30.4 2019 Nowadays the great innovations of medical and scientific science can maintain patients alive, even those that in the past were given no hope to survive. These innovations can prolong the patient’s existence artificially even knowing that they will...Read more...

Death – The Life Stalker

DEATH AND CREMATION

Transcendental Poetry and Muslim Poets

By Damodara Nityananda Dasa - 29.5 2019 For centuries, Muslim poets have revealed their attraction to all-attractive Lord Krishna. In Chaitanya-charitamrita (Madhya 22.80), Lord Chaitanya lists “poetic” as one of the twenty-six qualities of a Vaishnava,...Read more...

50 Muslim saints who wrote about Shri Krishna

The Mughal Influence on Vaisnavism, Part 50

Spiritual Lessons From Flying

By Suvarna Radhika Devi Dasi - 29.4 2019 I leaned back in my seat and closed my eyes. My flight was circling over Delhi, waiting for permission to land. My thoughts flashed through the entire process of flying from purchasing the ticket till reaching my destination. Some facet of...Read more...

Is God Partial?

By Gauranga Darshan Das - 25.4 2019 How would you feel if your parents are partial towards your sibling? Would you be comfortable when your teacher is biased towards your classmate? It is natural to expect from one’s superior or guardian a similar treatment as one’s equals...Read more...

How Much Can You Tolerate?

By Giriraj Swami - 25.4 2019 As long as we are in the material world, we must suffer—pain caused by others, pain caused by our own bodies and minds, pain caused by acts of nature. And unless we can tolerate, we cannot live in this world. But how much can a person tolerate? Should we...Read more...

Why is There Suffering?

By Sri Nandanandana dasa (Stephen Knapp) - 17.4 2019 It is natural that at some point in our lives we ask, “Why is there suffering?” Or “Why am I not happy?” “Why can’t we simply go on with life and not undergo so many trials and tribulations? Why can...Read more...

Happiness and Suffering

Why is There Suffering?

Pancaratrika-vidhi versus Bhagavad-vidhi

By Nrsimha Kavaca dasa - 16.4 2019 The world around us is changing at an ever-increasing rate. The notion of keeping up with the changing world may have relevance in devotional service. But is this perspective relevant in all areas of our practices of bhakti? Are there some elements of...Read more...

Arcana Deites worship conference

Harinama Initiation Lecture

Essential Technologies For Empowered Management

By Bhakti Tirtha Swami - 16.4 2019 The metaphysical technologies listed here are simple yet profound tools that you may want to incorporate into your management style. To reap the greatest benefits from these principles, you can include meditation on these ten technologies in your...Read more...

Bhakti Tirtha Swami

Is the Ramayana relevant today?

By Chaitanya Charan das - 15.4 2019 Question: Is the Ramayana, comprising as it does stories from ancient times, practically relevant today? Answer: Yes, it is relevant because the stories, though from an ancient setting, embody timeless values. From “me” to “we...Read more...

Who are the Grama Devatas?

The Authority of the Puranas

The Floating Stones

By Gauranga Darshan Das - 15.4 2019 “Nothing Is Impossible for the Omnipotent! “ How can stones float on water!? But they did…once upon a time! In treta-yuga, God appeared as a human being, and engaged some monkeys to throw stones in water. By the power of His name...Read more...

Lord Rama: Fact or Fiction

The incident of Lord Rama and the Dog

Philosophy

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