Once the late Sripada B. S. Govinda Maharaja—spiritual heir to the Sri Caitanya Saraswata Math of Srila B R Sridhara Maharaja—said of the followers of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura, “We are all living on the remnants of Swami Maharaja.”
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With seemingly endless examples of less-than-ideal guru-disciple relationships, how should the principle of guru be conceived and how should one go about incorporating that relationship into their spiritual life?
For those who aspire for Krishna’s abode, his eternal associates are more important than Krishna himself because they embody the love that is sought. This love is nondifferent from Krishna, for his appearance in his form of eternity, knowledge, and bliss in Vrindavana is in reciprocation with that love.
Under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, one may have visions of Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, or dancing elephants for that matter, but such visions are only temporary creations of the mind.
Nobel Prize winning physicist and foundational contributor to quantum mechanics Werner Heisenberg gives us a glimpse into the “science and religion” discourse as it took place among some prominent scientists of the twentieth century.
Brahma prays: Salutations to the cowherd who is addicted to playing his flute, who defeated the snake Aghasura, who enjoys playing on the banks of the Kalindi, and who wears swinging earrings.
The males are the aggressors; they are responsible for all the difficulties and troubles, not the ladies. That we possess the aggressive nature of a male is the disease in us.
Assuming that vegetarians and vegans—because of their underlying moral philosophies—show greater empathy towards animal suffering, it is very well possible that this enhanced empathy extends to other humans also.
Even in the best of relationships one thing is for sure: our connections will come to an end. It is this fact that is readily acknowledged at wedding nuptials with the ominous phrase “until death do us part.”
To slow down or stop aging , today’s longevity scientists have been trying to figure out how to manage deadly cellular gunk by re-engineering either its production, a cell’s repair system or the garbage itself.
