Browsing the "philosophy" Category

Love and Power

March 29th, 2018 | by Harmonist staff

Sri Krishna is the original form of Bhagavan. The practical proof of this is that He deals with His associates with love, not authority. This makes Him more powerful than all other forms of Bhagavan


On Hearing and Reflection

March 15th, 2018 | by Harmonist staff

Even after an aspirant to spiritual life has attained the company of devotees and hears the Bhagavatam in their association, he must still be careful to hear it in the proper manner. Otherwise he will not get the full result of this powerful devotional activity


Slow and Steady

February 26th, 2018 | by Harmonist staff

Our attitude will be humble, and if we think that we are being done wrong, still we shall take to patience. Amani: under no circumstances shall we work for our own position and prestige. That should not be our aim


On the Theory of Evolution

February 19th, 2018 | by Harmonist staff

TheBhagavata has a different language than science. It has a different audience than science and it has a different purpose. The purpose of the Bhagavata is not to explain creation without God. Nor is it interested in explaining evolution just for the sake of it. Its intention is to show that Krsna is the source and regulator of everything


The Progression of Scriptural Understanding

February 15th, 2018 | by Harmonist staff

By drawing philosophical lessons from the lila and learning to apply them in spiritual practice, one begins to find their way onto the canvas on which the art of Krishna lila is drawn


How to Make Progress

February 8th, 2018 | by Harmonist staff

Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Goswami explains the attitude needed to progress quickly in Krishna consciousness. Student: In the talks &hellip


Buddhism and the Self

December 28th, 2017 | by Harmonist staff

\"Many have interpreted anatta to be a metaphysical assertion that there is no self, but I argue that this is mistaken.\"


Is Krishna Unfair to Us?

December 21st, 2017 | by Harmonist staff

By practicing sadhana-bhakti, the jiva becomes imbued with the svarupa-sakti, as a combination of its hladini and samvit aspects, descending into the heart of the jiva. Attaining svarupa-siddhi, the jiva becomes immersed in the endless ocean of unlimited bliss full of prema-bhakti</em


How to Find Your Guru

December 11th, 2017 | by Harmonist staff

Whose instructions and impressions do you find to satisfy the innermost demand of your heart? Then, you are to select there. You are to decide that such deep, such spacious, such sweet, instructive waves are coming from a particular place and that they will be wholesome for you


Smaranam

November 9th, 2017 | by Harmonist staff

The heart of smaranam is love, for that which we love, we remember. And that which we remember during our life is what our life is about, and it is that existence of ours that determines our rememberance at the final hour of our life, and thus our next life as well.



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