“Is there an ethical argument in favor of flesh consumption? That is, can a meat-eating human find solid moral ground for her more carnivorous appetites?”
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I want my children and future generations to be able to visit here and see the animals from Krishna’s pastimes and the village beauty of Vraja. I want the stories from the Krishna Book to be able to come alive to them in the locations where those very stories took place.
“Then Advaita Prabhu thought, ‘I have to make a plan so I can prove Mahaprabhu’s superiority in relation to myself.’”
“Therefore, in the consciousness that ‘I am the divine Lord beyond the mode of passion,’ one should meditate on the self, [thinking], ‘I am Gopala.’”
We should not imitate the Vaishnavas but rather we should follow. Not anukarana (imitation) but anusarana. Anusarana means to follow in the footsteps. We must understand the difference. Anusarana means sincerity and anukarana is only for pratistha
In honor of Swami B. V. Tripurari’s 63rd Vyasa Puja celebration, the following lecture on the subject of spiritual masters is adapted from a lecture given by Huston Smith in 2003.
In the past decade the number of retraction notices for scientific journals has increased more than 10-fold while the number of journals articles published has only increased by 44%.
I was recently asked if there is a form of secular meditation that I could recommend. Perhaps there is, but the reason behind this question is more interesting than the question itself.
In this new book, Krauss argues that the laws of quantum mechanics have in them the makings of a thoroughly scientific and adamantly secular explanation of why there is something rather than nothing. Period. Case closed. End of story. I kid you not.
