July 18th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
... the teacher’s approach to yoga not only appropriated South Asian traditions, it also erased Stanley’s Black American lineage: “it made me feel as though I was being told to steal someone else’s cultural identity and nullify my own.”
March 21st, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Inherent or Inherited? is an impressively solid piece of research, elegant in tone, coherently structured, well-written, and most importantly, definitive
October 14th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff
Syamananda dasa reviews the book Paramatma Vaibhava: Jiva Tattva by Bhaktivedanta Suddhadvaiti Swami. In modern Gaudiya Vaisnavism, a controversy has &hellip
June 29th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
What Maharaja does in this book, then, is to bring cow care into the 21st century by pairing it with modern animal ethics. Updating the way in which Vaishnavas think and speak about cow care has been long overdue
January 10th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
The book naturally highlights the mood of Krishna’s priya sakhas and will prove particularly useful to those sadhakas (practitioners) who aspire to follow that mood
September 27th, 2018 | by Harmonist staff
Wise Love may be particularly helpful to readers who have some exposure to bhakti thought and practice, especially to Caitanya vaisnavism, through having friends or family members engaged in Krishna bhakti. Those who have been exposed to bhakti through college or university courses on philosophy or religious studies may also find this book useful. As I’ve noted, this book may not necessarily serve as the best introduction to bhakti for those who don’t have some background that has already aroused their interest. This is not a book that wraps bhakti philosophy up into a neat package. Instead, it opens space for questions
June 28th, 2018 | by Harmonist staff
Published by academic publisher Lexington Books, the present volume is the second in a series dedicated to constructive work within the Indic traditions, that is, to delving into ethical, philosophical and theological questions from the practitioner\'s engaged perspective, but in a way that meets scholarly standards of logical argumentation and evidence
October 16th, 2017 | by Harmonist staff
Bhakti Blossoms, a new anthology of contemporary Vaishnavi poetry edited by Krishna Kanta dasi, offers readers the opportunity to hear from a wide range of female practitioners—feminine and masculine, newcomers and lifelong sadhakas—from a number of Gaudia groups
July 10th, 2017 | by Harmonist staff
This volume shows how a popularized version of Gaudiya Vaisnavism can indeed engage meaningfully with the modern yoga community, so as to offer new perspectives on important issues of spirituality and philosophy
June 26th, 2017 | by Harmonist staff
Sri Krsnadasa Kaviraja’s fourteen verse mangalacarana to his classic work Sri Caitanya Caritamrta serves as the seed conception containing all the central ideas of Gaudiya theology, metaphysics, and aesthetics that he intends to bring forth in the elaborated text. Exactly how this is so has been clearly, systematically and poetically illuminated by Swami B.V. Tripurari in his latest book, Sacred Preface
May 25th, 2017 | by Harmonist staff
For those of us who love Agnideva prabhu and his kirtana, it has been far too long since his last album
February 16th, 2017 | by Harmonist staff
The book is a must for artists and lovers of art, and for all who want to fully appreciate the visual beauty of Krishna Consciousness. It evinces a beautiful foray into an aspect of the Krishna movement that is rarely explored—its art
The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 7: The Soul is a Servant of Bhagavān Hari
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The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 6: The Search for Bliss
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The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 5: The Twenty-One Intrinsic Characteristics of the Soul
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The Simultaneous Inherency and Bestowal of Bhakti—Part 4: Vaiṣṇava Vedānta
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