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Liberation Through Sound

August 21st, 2025 | by Harmonist staff

Lesson two on verse two of our Siksastakam classroom series addresses the ease with which nama-sankirtana, the difficulty of studying Vedanta, and the nature of Brahman


Bhakti Is Enough – Part 4

May 19th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff

It is not the action or even the desire but rather the misunderstanding of either in relation to bhakti that causes the practitioner to stray from the path of uttama-bhakti


Bhakti Is Enough – Part 1

April 28th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff

Many devotees wonder exactly where bhakti starts and stops in their lives. Can all activities be bhakti? Should one distinguish between sadhana and one’s engagement with work or family? To what extent is Krsna present in subtle healing modalities such as pranayama, astanga-yoga, or different types of therapy? Does engagement or reliance on such activities affect one’s standing on the path of bhakti? And, most importantly, how does faith play a role in all of this


Maintaining Steady Devotion During Unsteady Practice: Part 1

May 27th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff

Accustomed to speedy results based upon prior life experience—from instant pudding to instant credit—one typically thinks they have quickly attained their spiritual ideal simply by contact with a guru, scripture, and the community of devotees


The Form of Love in Separation

July 6th, 2017 | by Harmonist staff

While on the outside the effects of prema appear like poison, on the inside they are filled with ananda


Envy

June 8th, 2015 | by Harmonist staff

Endowed with full faith and devotion, listen to the lifework of Sri Caitanya... Cast aside envy and let your mouth sing, Hari, Hari!


Humility and Prema

May 22nd, 2014 | by Harmonist staff

True spiritual humility is found in those well endowed with spiritual excellences. Such humility is an integral component of prema, for just as humility fosters prema, prema in turn fosters humility.


Maintaining Steady Devotion During Unsteady Practice: Part 4

February 27th, 2014 | by Harmonist staff

Using the head to soften the heart, one who deeply contemplates the causeless nature of bhakti will easily overcome this final stage of unsteady devotion and advance blissfully to the stage of nistha


Interview: Gauravani of Mantralogy

January 18th, 2012 | by Harmonist staff

Often the line between renegade and reformer is a fine one. Here I offered Gauravani and Mantralogy a chance to draw the lines themselves instead of having others do it for them


Union and Separation

January 2nd, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

In the eighth stanza of Siksastakam, Mahaprabhu reveals that he now completely identifies himself as a maidservant of Krishna. This identification began in the fifth stanza of his, in which Mahaprabhu humbly prayed for divine service


The Constituents of Rasa

December 13th, 2009 | by Harmonist staff

In the second portion of chapter six of Siksastakam of Sri Caitanya, Swami Tripurari outlines the five components of rasa as developed in Indian aesthetics and adopted by Sri Rupa Goswami.



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