April 22nd, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
Just as hearing about the name, form, qualities, and līlās of Bhagavān can award perfection in the form of divine love, so too hearing about His associates (parikaras) can grant the same perfection
April 15th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
In Ramanuja’s view, a special relationship exists between Brahman, the jivas, and the world. He calls this relationship aprthak-siddhi, or inseparability. With this term Ramanuja seeks to logically explain the identity and difference of Brahman
April 1st, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
Even great devotees like the Pāṇdavas faced immense difficulties but did not deter from the path of dharma
March 28th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
After Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu took sannyasa, he went to live in Jagannatha Puri. There, he converted the greatest scholar of the day, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya
March 25th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
The many lilas of Radha-Krishna are comparable to rivers flowing in all directions, but the fountain from which they flow is the lila of Sri Gauranga. And only by being admitted into the latter can we ever enter the Vraja-lila
March 22nd, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
In the auspicious invocation to his treatise, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Sri Krishna dasa Kaviraja Goswami offers two pranam verses. Of these two Sri Krishnadasa tells us that the second verse is specific (visesa), indicating that it names and describes the presiding deity of the text
March 18th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
Dārā Shukoh concludes his preface with a final definitive statement of what I have been calling his religious cosmopolitanism. The words of God, of which the Upaniṣads are a part, are available to all who are free of prejudice and bias
March 11th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
Regard for Siva and regard for Krishna are not at odds with one another. If we read and study the Bhagavatam we can find so much room to understand, accommodate, and appreciate Lord Siva
March 8th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
Śrīla Bhakti Rakṣak Śrīdhar Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj describes the spirit of pure devotion given in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. In the beginning, the Bhāgavata announces, &hellip
March 4th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
By Swāmī Śrī Bhaktivedānta Tripurāri, excerpted from Aesthetic Vedanta: The Sacred Path of Passionate Love. The gopīs’ long cherished hope to &hellip
February 25th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
Even those who Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu rejected, Nityananda Prabhu sheltered, and gradually Mahaprabhu had to accept them. So the grace of Nityananda is the greatest both in magnitude and circumference, and that is our solace, for by his mercy even the most fallen souls can attain the supreme goal
February 22nd, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
After arriving in Nadiya, it was Nitai who started the Gaudiya sampradaya along the Ganga delta. He did so with the help of twelve associates of his own—the dvadasa gopalas. While Gaura had begun his nocturnal school of Krishna sankirtana in the courtyard of Srivasa Thakura, upon his arrival, Nityananda-rama turned the focus from Krishna to Gaura—Gaura Krishna
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