June 25th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
People on the spiritual path know that God loves all beings, and they know as well what would happen if all beings loved God. Spiritual practitioners also know what happens when a practitioner falls in love. However, they may not know what happens when God falls in love
June 11th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Sri Krishna alone is the speaker of Sri Gita. Although he has spoken Gita in his Vasudeva form, his own statements have revealed his real rasamaya-svarupa. Although Devaki-putra Vasudeva is apparently the speaker of Sri Gita, Sri Nanda-nandana Krishna is the actual speaker
June 8th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
It is indeed possible for us to mature out of a belief in God. But is it possible that the path of spiritual growth leads first out of superstition into agnosticism and then out of agnosticism toward an accurate knowledge of God
June 4th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Faith fully understood amounts to conformity to truth, whereas rational thought is but an imperfect means of apprehending truth. The former involves the latter, but the latter does not necessitate the former
May 28th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Non-violence (ahimsa) is a fundamental principle of dharma. “Do not be violent towards any living being.”
May 21st, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
God does not hunger for the food the devotee offers, but for the love with which one makes the offering
May 14th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Knowledge should come to help me make my position secure. To meet the negative tendencies that may spring up within me and stop them, some knowledge is necessary to a certain extent. But the real thing cannot come through knowledge
May 7th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Although from an abheda perspective there may be only one goal in life (Krishna prema), from the bheda perspective there will be two goals in life (Krishna prema and Gaura prema)
May 4th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
For Gaudiya Vaishnavas, the right reason to worship Narasinghadeva is as Bhaktivinoda prays, “to beg at the lotus feet of Lord Narasingha for the benediction of worshipping Radha and Krishna in Navadvipa, perfectly safe and free from all difficulties.”
April 30th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Women in today’s society may thus be encouraged both in their social struggle for equality and in their spiritual struggle for enlightenment to learn of Sri Caitanya\'s ideal
April 20th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Is there an Oz from which there is no return and from which one would never desire to depart
April 16th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Sri Krishna cannot check himself from speaking the core instructions, even in the midst of speaking his general instruction. That essential instruction is to render visrambha-seva, intimate loving service unto him
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