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Review: On the Way to Vaikuntha

October 26th, 2012 | by Harmonist staff

In this book, Bon Maharaja shares his dreams with us, both literally and figuratively, and we see a sincere and repentant sadhu

Review: Religion for Atheists

April 25th, 2012 | by Harmonist staff

Alain de Botton\'s attempt to encourage secular society to steal religion\'s most fruitful ideas is admirable but ultimately hollow

Review: A Universe from Nothing

March 25th, 2012 | by Harmonist staff

In this new book, Krauss argues that the laws of quantum mechanics have in them the makings of a thoroughly scientific and adamantly secular explanation of why there is something rather than nothing. Period. Case closed. End of story. I kid you not

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Review: Christ and Krishna: Where the Jordan Meets the Ganges

November 2nd, 2011 | by Harmonist staff

At the confluence of India\'s holiest rivers, two childhood friends meet and share the respective traditions to which they have committed their lives

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Review: Mathematics in India

October 8th, 2011 | by Harmonist staff

Plofker\'s book fills a huge gap: a detailed, eminently readable, scholarly survey of the full scope of Indian mathematics and astronomy (the two were inseparable in India) from their Vedic beginnings to roughly 1800.

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Review: Food for the Soul: Vegetarianism and Yoga Traditions

August 1st, 2011 | by Harmonist staff

Patanjali and other early authorities on the Yoga tradition assert that ahimsa, nonaggression, is as integral to yoga as meditation is, and Rosen\'s contributors cite all the right sources, making this clear and obvious

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Review: Krishna’s Other Song

May 8th, 2011 | by Harmonist staff

Steven J. Rosen (Satyaraja Dasa) is one of the most prolific of our modern Gaudiya Vaishnava authors, with innumerable books and articles to his credit. In Krishna’s Other Song, he attempts something new: scriptural commentary

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Review: American Veda

May 1st, 2011 | by Harmonist staff

For Goldberg, it all adds up to the slow “Vedicization” of American spirituality. By this he means that Americans have become more comfortable with a view of the world ultimately found in the ancient literature of India—the Vedas, the Upanisads, and the Bhagavad-gita