Articles in editorials
The “more disturbing question is whether there has been any lasting ethical progress in the behavior of states and societies over the past millennia.”
Same-sex desire and even sexual activity have been represented and discussed in Indian literature for two millennia, often in a nonjudgmental and even celebratory manner, but a new virulent form of modern homophobia developed in India during the colonial period.
Complex decision-making requires we defer the feeling of being right, by tolerating the tension of not knowing, but our innate craving for certainty undermines our ability.
Vrindaranya dasi addresses three of Harris’s arguments to show that while attacking fundamentalism within the religious traditions, Harris himself would benefit from a more nuanced understanding.
Science is not only the enterprise of harnessing nature to serve the practical needs of humankind. It is also part of man’s unending search for knowledge about the universe and his place within it.
For most of Western history, the primary and most valued characteristic of manhood was self-mastery. Today, it may be worth recalling that sexual restraint rather than sexual prowess was once the measure of a man.
Gurunistha sits down with Yogesvara dasa and discusses his long history with the Bhagavad-Gita and his experience publishing his 2009 introductory edition, The Gita Wisdom.
Though there is a great deal of consensus on the importance of the idea of being true to oneself, there is far less agreement about what it actually tells us to do in any concrete situation.
The greatness and importance of Sri Madhavendra Puri does not rely so much on his simply being a bona-fide member of the Madhva community as in his being the pioneer of the faith of transcendental love of Sri Krishna, which Sri Caitanyadeva descended on earth to proclaim.
