June 1st, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Colleges should offer a radically low-tech first-year program for students who want to apply: a secular monastery within the modern university, with a curated set of courses that ban glowing rectangles of any kind from the classroom
May 29th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
In meditation I recall Śrī Navadvīpa-dhāma, where Gaura Hari wandered widely with his bhaktas performing his celebrated prema-saṅkīrtana, drowning his devotees in the ocean of ujjvala-bhāva
May 25th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Australian philosopher Peter Singer’s book Animal Liberation, published in 1975, exposed the realities of life for animals in factory farms and testing laboratories and provided a powerful moral basis for rethinking our relationship to them. Now, nearly 50 years on, Singer, 76, has a revised version titled Animal Liberation Now
May 22nd, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
The early passing of Jagannātha Miśra is related to the fact that it was Nanda Mahārāja who accompanied Kṛṣṇa to Mathurā and promised to bring him back in short order, a promise he could not fulfill
May 18th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
These cowherd people come to you with houses, families, friends, and so on, all of which are extensions of their own identity as your devotees and as such all of which are placed at your disposal. Love is a thief, a house is a prison, and infatuation is a ball and chain if they are not extensions of those who consider themselves to be yours
May 11th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
In meditation I recall Śrī Navadvīpa-dhāma, where countless glorious abodes constructed of gold, capable of stealing away one’s mind—manoharāṇi—are manifest, and within every one of which Lakṣmī eternally resides
May 1st, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Śrī Rūpa depicts the Gaṅgā rising and falling almost musically, washing the golden stairs of her ghāṭas where Gaura bathes, as if preparing them for his morning bath
April 24th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
On the bank of the Ganges within a beautiful forest filled with the scent and sight of colorful flowers, the heat of the day is mitigated by cooling breezes and shade trees as Gaura remembers Kṛṣṇa’s madhyāhna-līlā
April 17th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
In meditation I recall Śrī Navadvīpa-dhāma, which some devotees proclaim is Vaikuṇṭha-paravyoma. Others say it is Goloka, but knowers of tattva exclaim, “Indeed, it is Vṛndāvana!”
April 13th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Śrī Rūpa shares two visions—spiritual and geographical—weaving effortlessly between them as if they are one