The advent of Sri Caitanya is not simply a historical event in the phenomenal world. It is the culmination of a transcendental dialectic. The dialectic is inherent in the very nature of parabrahma or the Supreme Being.

In this article A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains his motivation and reasoning for starting his publication Back to Godhead. It demonstrates his deep faith, his awareness of the world around him, and his spiritual affiliations at the time. For these reasons it is a significant historical document.

The ideal all devotees strive for is exclusive dedication to sri guru. This certainly involves chastity, but on a higher level it also involves purity, within which the dynamic expression of chastity is contained.

Amongst the assembly of priya-sakhas four are outstanding and in full knowledge of all of Krishna’s secrets. However, the priya-sakhas never reveal such secrets externally for fear of causing discord in the flow of rasa.

Perennialism proposes that all major esoteric spiritual traditions ultimately culminate in and are equally capable of delivering one to a singular spiritual experience. Sounds good, but is this truly the case?

Through every incident, the will of the Absolute is approaching us. With sincere attention we must try to read our environment like this. With a deeper vision we will detect that everything is positively good.

The acintya of the Gaudiyas is not an illogical notion seeking to do away with logical discourse on the nature of being. It is central to an angle of vision in which, arguably, something more about the Absolute is revealed than that which we learn from other forms of Vedanta.

Those who venerate the machine as superior to the human, who themselves can’t see what seems so perfectly obvious —that there is a difference between humans and machines— risk becoming full conspirators in the murder of God.

People on the spiritual path know that God loves all beings, and they know as well what would happen if all beings loved God. Spiritual practitioners also know what happens when a practitioner falls in love. However, they may not know what happens when God falls in love.

In devotion to Krishna, we do not encounter the fanaticism that holds to only one spiritual revelation, for Krishna includes all forms of the Godhead and thus all varieties of love of God. Nor do we encounter the abstract rationalism that evaporates the essence of religion into a fog of indeterminate concepts.

Although our consciousness is covered by a mountain of material misconception, its potential to shine remains undiminished. Rituals such as arati are intended to remove the mountain of our misconception, as well as shed light on our positive potential in a life of transcendental love.