Why Yoga has a Role to Play in Politics
June 13th, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
Without acknowledging the transcendent dignity of all individuals, whatever their background or offense, democracy and freedom are nothing but empty words
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Faith and Knowledge
June 9th, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
Faith unlocks the potential for knowledge, the potential for knowledge inspires our practice, our practice kindles the fire of realized knowledge, and the illumination radiating from that fire deepens our faith; the process comes full circle
Hall of Mirrors
June 2nd, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
Some see the ashram as an asylum for the troubled, while others see simply a paradise on earth. What is common to both groups is that they consist mostly of people who have never actually set foot in an ashram.
To Err Is Human
May 23rd, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
To err is human. To err is inevitable for all, being not perfect. Still, no one wants to remain imperfect. There is an element within all that is animate that tends towards perfection. If it were not so, we would feel no want at all
How Does The Human Brain Create Consciousness?
May 16th, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
Does the brain create consciousness? I’m not so sure. At the very least, I know that no neuroscientist has caught the brain “red-handed” in the act of creating consciousness
Is the World Living or Dead?
May 12th, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
Reality eludes all efforts to reduce it too much, or to use only formalisms to describe it. It seems to be trying to tell the scientists who will listen that things in connection with one another, evolving in time, are not just different in scale from things studied in isolation but fundamentally different in kind
Srila Prabhupada and His Vaisnavi Disciples
May 8th, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
Women in Krsna consciousness are an intricate, essential part of Srila Prabhupada\'s legacy
Remembering Who I Am: The Nature of Self
April 28th, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
It seems almost a paradox of sorts to finds such joy at the realization of the prospect of being something the material world would think less of you for being—a servant
A Year Without Resolutions
March 28th, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
As I saw at the monk’s quiet, simple lives in comparison to my hectic, rushed one, I began reading about the teachings that guided their community. I discovered not only a new way of praying, but a new way of living
Daring to Defy Darwin
February 15th, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
\"Traditional reductionist views of science, with their focus on \'bottom-up\' mechanisms, do not suffice in the quest to understand top-down and circular causality and a world of nested processes.\"
When Philosophy Lost Its Way
February 1st, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
Lost is the once common-sense notion that philosophers are seeking the good life — that we ought to be (in spite of our failings) model citizens and human beings
Life on Another Level
January 21st, 2016 | by Harmonist staff
When I tell my students about Brother at the monastery in Iowa they listen. They nod their heads in affirmation. “That’s real,” says one
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