February 4th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
Our deepest identity can only exist, improve, and reach its highest level of development from the basis of a personal practice that is carried out within a social and intersubjective context, through a personal interaction with those who from the outside make possible the creation of our innermost reality
January 28th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
The gopīs implied that with regard to religious duty (dharma), two things must be considered
January 21st, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
Spiritual practice brings together a number of elements that work with each other to ensure its success. At the center of them all, it has one essential constituent that serves as its catalyst: devotion to sri guru</em
January 14th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
Those who have only partial devotion, clinging still to the world of illusion, can never be full and thus never stay with Kṛṣṇa
January 11th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
The practice of churning wood to generate a fire was not just because matchboxes or lighters did not exist in the past, but because it was an essential part of the injunction to execute the yajña
January 7th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
In Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava theology, Kṛṣṇa is fully God and fully human, but not in the sense that he undergoes material suffering. The fullness of Kṛṣṇa’s humanity is expressed when he falls in love
December 31st, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
In honor of the avirbhava of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, Swami Tripurari discusses Bhaktisiddhanta\'s approach to raganuga sadhana</em
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
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