To know Krishna is to relish a thrilling, fulfilling, unifying awareness of reality
Awareness: that’s what differentiates the living from the non-living. Though all living beings are aware, most of them are aware only of material reality. The [...]
Might we be devaluing sex by glamorizing it?
Our contemporary culture constantly glamorizes sex through gaudy images permeated with sexual undertones and overtones. Due to this incessant glamorization of sex, most people live [...]
Devotional spirituality offers breaks that are much more than brakes
The racehorse-pace of life nowadays impels many people to apply brakes, lest they break down. These break-seekers often explore spirituality for utilitarian purposes. Just as [...]
Rumble, Grumble, Tumble? Or Humble?
Our media periodically presents us with celebrities who are self-obsessed egotists.Three words sum their life-trajectory: rumble, grumble, tumble. Rumble: These people are so self-obsessed that [...]
Those who dismiss the invisible as insubstantial dissipate their lives in the insubstantial
We human beings have an intelligence more advanced than our nonhuman fellow beings. This developed intelligence enables us to think beyond the immediate issues that [...]
Cultivate the love that goes as far as the head goes – and also goes beyond it
To love anything in this temporary world, we need to suspend our head and close our eyes to the misery that will inevitably result because [...]
By living for animal pleasures, we violate our human rights
The Bhagavad-gita (07.15) uses the word mudhas, meaning asses, to refer to those unfortunate people who violate their own human rights. Our society exalts as [...]
Excess makes a good thing worse than bad
The Bhagavad-gita (7.24) indicates that impersonalists who consider Krishna’s form to be a temporary and illusory product of the impersonal Brahman are abuddhayah, bankrupt of [...]
Krishna is everything, but everything is not Krishna
The Bhagavad-gita (7.19) states that the wise surrender to Krishna, understanding him to be everything (vasudevah sarvam iti). Does this verse describe a naïve pantheism [...]
The trans-logical logic of love resolves seeming scriptural contradictions
The Bhagavad-gita (07.26) states initially that no one can know Krishna, but eventually it (18.55) states that he can be known by devotion. How do [...]
Those who desire to be fused are confused
Many people think that the ultimate goal of spirituality is to merge into God, whom they conceive as a dazzling, all-pervading spiritual light known as [...]
Cultivate devotion not for its survival value but for the value it brings to survival
The struggle for survival characterizes the existence of all living beings – nonhuman and human. So, while evaluating whether a particular thing is worth doing, [...]
The Bhagavad-gita is open-minded, not empty-minded
The Bhagavad-gita presents an open-minded worldview that integrates all people, no matter how diverse their values, goals and paths. According to their level of spiritual [...]