Stray Dog
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Lively, insightful commentary on contemporary issues facing spiritual practitioners.
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To become big is easy. “I am a big man, I have something to be proud of.” But to accept that we are nothing in the face of the Absolute, to accept this creed in its true color, is very difficult.
In the following excerpt from Sermons of the Guardian of Devotion Srila Sridhara Maharaja begins to speak about some of the numerous events that make Vasanta-pancami an especially holy day.
The Yamuna River starts out clear as rainwater from a lake and hot spring at the foot of a glacier, 19,200 feet up in the Himalayas. But for much of its 853-mile length, it is now one of the world’s most defiled rivers.
Although Ganges water and tulasi blossoms are not difficult to acquire, Advaita offered them with uncommon love, and thus the world knows something about love that in our times has never been known before.
At the confluence of India’s holiest rivers, two childhood friends meet and share the respective traditions to which they have committed their lives.
This one is just off the hook, just like the one about marriage. You guy/s are simply pros. Great!