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Sri Upadesamrta: Text Two, Part One
January 11, 2012 – 2:07 pm | 2 Comments
Sri Upadesamrta: Text Two, Part One

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.

Sanga: Balarama and the Gopis
December 24, 2011 – 2:47 pm | 2 Comments
Sanga: Balarama and the Gopis

“The Goswamis are revealing the feeling of the text as they understand its implications even better than its author Vyasa did- vyaso vetti na vetti va.”

Stepping Back Before Reaching Out
December 11, 2011 – 10:44 pm | 26 Comments
Stepping Back Before Reaching Out

To share Gaudiya Vaishnavism in a way that will resonate with a world that is reaping the fruits (some ripe, some spoiled) of reason and science necessitates an understanding of the essential spirituality that serves as the tradition’s basis.

Thomas Merton on the Bhagavad-Gita
December 1, 2011 – 10:54 pm | 31 Comments
Thomas Merton on the Bhagavad-Gita

Thomas Merton’s introduction to Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s 1968 Bhagavad-Gita As It Is.