February 9th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati was of the opinion that practitioners without taste should adopt the methods of raganuga sadhana that they are qualified to adopt in proportion to their development of sacred greed, while following the limbs of regulated devotion
February 2nd, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
He is the Rama \"who gives pleasure to Krsna,\" as his best friend, and appearing as Nityananda he gives pleasure to Gaura and distributes fraternal love of God
January 26th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Today is the Holy Day of Vasanta-pancami, the fifth day of the light fortnight of the moon, month of Magha, when Krishna is worshiped with the new flowers of spring
January 16th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
He wants to take us to his lila where rasananda is experienced. In the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna tells us how to go there, from violence to nonviolence, and beyond
January 5th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Krishna consciousness means real love and beauty. Real love and beauty must predominate; not selfishness, or exploitation
December 22nd, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Sri Jiva turned his back on this illusory world to tell us of another, which, as it turns out, is no more than this world when viewed through eyes anointed with divine love
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
December 8th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Although outwardly he was like a lion, inwardly, he was very, very sweet
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
November 17th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Reason unto itself is dry. It needs a drink and it says so if we listen to it
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
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