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.
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“And what a delicious irony it is that science, that model of sober investigation, is inexorably returning us to vistas so peculiarly like the deranged imaginings of our ‘superstitious’ past.”
It is stated in the Vedanta-sutra that Brahman’s motivation for expanding himself as the universe is to express joy in the form of divine play (lokavat tu lila kaivalyam), the lila of creation (srsti-lila).
Akshaya Patra, which in Hindu mythology means an inexhaustible food vessel, feeds 1.2 million school children every day from 18 centralized kitchens across eight Indian states.
Research suggests that the relentless pursuit of happiness may be doing us more harm than good.
“‘The Cloud of the Impossible’ is the experience that you simply can’t not enter, if you’re not going to settle for clichés and incoherencies, or repressed questions, in your spirituality.
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.
Thomas Merton’s introduction to Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s 1968 Bhagavad-Gita As It Is.
At the confluence of India’s holiest rivers, two childhood friends meet and share the respective traditions to which they have committed their lives.
