December 24th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Krsna and Arjuna discuss dharma from a number of angles, ranging from conventional concepts of dharma, such as karma kanda and varnasrama dharma, to the ultimate dharma, which is love of God, Krsna prema
December 21st, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Absorbing the mind in the Absolute is the goal of meditation, and since there is no more consuming mental state than that of passionate love, this passion for Kṛṣṇa is the realization of that goal
December 17th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Bhagavān is not physically present, as Kṛṣṇa was to Arjuna, to advise us that we are rationalizing our egoistic acts to conceive of them as genuine acts of surrender. This is the function of the guru. Thus traditionally, the student lived with his guru so that he could be guided directly. The guru is the litmus test of one’s surrender
December 10th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
When the gopīs feel transcendental suffering, it is because they know Kṛṣṇa cannot be fully happy without them
December 3rd, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
The śravaṇa-guru is the teacher from whom one learns the śāstra, and the bhajana-śikṣā-guru is the one who teaches practical aspects of sādhana-bhakti
November 26th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Krishna asked the girls to wear only their smile as they came out of the water. Similarly, we should never begrudge one who asks us to bare our soul
November 23rd, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Some people worship the right person for the wrong thing, others the wrong person for the right thing. However, If we worship Krishna for any reason, we will ultimately attain love of Krishna
November 18th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
After performing this service, he aspires after a life in the cow-keeping lila of Krishna, and he is appreciating that sort of friendly service of Krishna very much from the core of his heart, his aspiration after finishing his worldly preaching campaign
November 16th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
By this time, Kṛṣṇa had perfected his flute playing, which was intended all along to attract Rādhā
November 12th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Any discussion on bhakti’s inherence should give careful consideration to what Jīva presented in his Sandarbhas
November 5th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Our pūrva-ācāryas made necessary adjustments considering not only the (generally limited) adhikāra of their audience but also their own robust adhikāra—on the basis of their own samādhi
October 29th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
In this article, we will try to expand on this topic, showing how these types of adjustments were present even before Mahāprabhu’s times, and we will also further analyze the psychological impediments to our acceptance of this well-known preaching-strategy phenomenon
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