Prahlāda-Nṛsiṁha and Rāgānugā-bhakti
May 12th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Sri Nrsinghadeva is bhakti vighna vinasana—he who removes obstacles on the path of bhakti
May 12th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Sri Nrsinghadeva is bhakti vighna vinasana—he who removes obstacles on the path of bhakti
May 9th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Mahaprabhu simply saw the extent of Ramadasa Vipra\'s devotion and was very pleased with that
May 5th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
You are under the vigilant eye of your guardian, and that great eye is as living as the sun; its glance is just like that of the sun which is over your head
April 28th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Krishna in the form of Mahaprabhu has drawn the bhava, the essence, from Gadadhara, and Gadadhara, like a shadow, is following Mahaprabhu everywhere. As one’s shadow follows him, Gadadhara is following Mahaprabhu—Radharani trying to get her essence back
April 25th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Because Vrindavana Thakura has in such an ostentatious way apparently committed some wrong against that particular unbelieving section, it will draw Krishna’s attention
April 21st, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
In devotion to Krishna, we do not encounter the fanaticism that holds to only one spiritual revelation, for Krishna includes all forms of the Godhead and thus all varieties of love of God. Nor do we encounter the abstract rationalism that evaporates the essence of religion into a fog of indeterminate concepts
April 14th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Because Balarāma is Kṛṣṇa’s older brother, this precludes his being directly involved in the romanticism of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa that is central to the Vṛndāvana līlā
April 7th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
The real cause of our life and the whole satisfaction of our very existence will be found only in connection with the universal wave of the whole Absolute
April 4th, 2022 | 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
March 31st, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Ascetics are known for distancing themselves from the world by their austerity, but while ostensibly it is a life of deprivation, asceticism declares just the opposite—\"Go within, or go without.\"
March 28th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
If we want to get rid of our karma altogether, we should take to bhakti
March 17th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has shown by his own example how compassionate love for all animation arising in the context of the culture of uttama-bhakti precedes the attainment of bhakti-rasa</i