Love Means Sacrifice
January 5th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Krishna consciousness means real love and beauty. Real love and beauty must predominate; not selfishness, or exploitation
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The Priya-Sakhas
December 19th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Śrīdāmā, Sudāmā, Vasudāmā, and Kiṅkiṇi are the foremost among Kṛṣṇa’s beloved boyfriends, being in full knowledge of all his secrets
Sri Gitopanishad’s Self Surrender
December 1st, 2022 | 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
Dry Reason Needs a Drink
November 17th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Reason unto itself is dry. It needs a drink and it says so if we listen to it
The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 18: Concluding Words
November 3rd, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Each school of Vedānta has to reconcile the apparent difference between the world—with all its variety—and the Vedāntic understanding of advaya-jñāna-tattva (one nondual Absolute Truth). The way that Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism explains this apparent contradiction is through śakti—the Lord is one and different with his śaktis
The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 17: Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa’s Govinda-Bhāṣya
October 31st, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Vedānta-sūtra 4.4.1 reconciles receiving grace with realizing one’s own true nature. By directly showing the paradox of needing mercy to realize one’s own inherent nature, it very clearly shows simultaneous inherence and bestowal
The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 16: The Manifestation of Śakti
October 27th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
The siddha-svarūpa is an extension of God’s own form, and thus the devotee identified with that siddha-rūpa experiences, through what is really an extension of God’s senses, a dynamic union with God in love
The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 15: Identity/Oneness (Tādātmya)
October 24th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas understand tādātmya in terms of acintya-bhedābheda-tattva. Thus, we should not think that tādātmya means absolute nondifference
The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 14: The Soul Is Not Subject to Transformation
October 20th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Although Jīva Gosvāmī often compares the material body to iron filings, he never compares the svarūpa-śakti to iron filings
The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 13: The Bliss of the Jīva
October 17th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
When the soul is analyzed in terms of svarūpa-śakty-ānanda, the amount of the soul’s bliss increases exponentially
The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 12: Understanding Śakti
October 13th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Jīva Gosvāmī says that when the jīva does spiritual action, the jīva himself is the doer, indicating that svarūpa-śakti is intrinsic to the soul
The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 11: Jīva Gosvāmī on Taṭasthā-Śakti
October 10th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Jīva Gosvāmī establishes that the jīva is only directly a doer when he performs action with the svarūpa-śakti
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