Your Extended Fortune
May 16th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
You may not catch Mahaprabhu’s ecstasy in this life, but in one life you will
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Celebrating 10 Years of the Harmonist
March 18th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
This month the Harmonist celebrates ten years online. Launched in April 2009 with inspiration from Swami B.V. Tripurari, we have published over 1,000 articles exploring the depths of Gaudiya Vedanta and how modern thought and intellectual trends interface with the tradition of Caitanya Vaisnavism
Creating Cohesion between Spiritual Practice and Family Life: From Time-outs to Time-ins
February 28th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
Eventually, I started to understand that sadhana and parenting have a symbiotic relationship. The more of my heart I gave to my family, the more I could give my heart to my practice and which in turn allowed me to be increasingly loving and kind to my wife and children
Confronting the Culture of Death
February 18th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
The issue before us is death. Not only our individual death, which is more imminent for some of us this morning than others, but our collective death. We have begun the sixth great mass extinction
Jaya Sri Nityananda Rama!
February 17th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
Nityananda Prabhu traveled throughout Bengal making his humble appeal: \"Give all your attention to Gauranga and you will be benefited beyond expectation. This is my request to you.\"
Must We Learn to Love?
February 14th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something one \"falls into\" if one is lucky
The Beauty of Charles Darwin
February 4th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
Darwin reasoned that beauty existed ultimately unto itself and for itself alone and did not think it was necessary to connect aesthetics and survival
The Many Ways We Try to Replace Religion
January 24th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
Some who reject both traditional and non-traditional supernatural beliefs are attracted to what I refer to as “supernatural-lite.” This label encompasses beliefs that require a leap of faith and have characteristics reminiscent of religion but do not explicitly rely on the idea of supernatural power
Why should anyone care about Thomas Merton today?
January 3rd, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
People want \"real\" Christian models who inspire us by their by their committed struggle in life to keep the faith
Faith and Femininity
December 31st, 2018 | by Harmonist staff
By Ananda-mayidasi, originally published at Ruminate, a place where writers, artists, believers, and seekers share stories, poetry, and art, including the &hellip
Are You the Lord’s Handmaiden?
December 20th, 2018 | by Harmonist staff
When the angel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she was the bear the Son of God, Mary, a young girl perhaps no more than sixteen, was drawing water from a well. It was during this mundane act in the midst of the hustle and bustle of Nazareth that the most profound decision was ever made: a woman accepted to have God dwell in her
Christ, Krishna, Caitanya
December 17th, 2018 | by Harmonist staff
Within the Krishna conception we find Sri Krishna Caitanya, the sacrificing half of the equation of love, Krishna endowed with Radha’s love for himself. In this manifestation of the Krishna conception we also find “the way” personified. Sri Krishna Caitanya did not die on the cross, but he did forego the love of Visnupriya
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