“So much, O Krishna, do I long for you”
Love is characterized by desire: strong, sustained, single-pointed desire. As spiritual seekers, we aspire to awaken our love for Krishna. In the ultimate sense, that [...]
Don’t miss the feast of the heart because of the lethargy of the mind
Love has its own life, and it needs its own food to survive and thrive. The food that love feasts on is the glory, the [...]
The Light that brings Lightness
Many of us may sometimes feel burdened by the various problems and anxieties that life brings our way. This mental burden often debilitates and disorients [...]
Life is a disaster movie in slow motion
Disaster movies generally show people caught in a natural disaster trying heroically to save themselves and others from impending doom. However, not many of the [...]
The Gita shows the Route to the Root
“Let’s go back to our roots.” This passion consumes many people. Some of them take the route of genealogical investigation for discovering unsung ancestors. Others [...]
Knowledge about Krishna is not for pooling, but for pulling
Our times are characterized by an infatuation for information. Those with the ability to commandeer uncommon bits and bytes of information on the spur of [...]
Bhakti offers emotional liquidity that is above, not below, intellectual solidity
We may sometimes wonder how to harmonize the two aspects of our human personality: the head and the heart. A preponderance of the head makes [...]
Our heart deserves more than a consolation prize
Our heart is flooded with many desires for happiness. However, most of these desires are unfulfillable due to the limitations of time, financial resources, bodily [...]
When the immediate encroaches repeatedly on the ultimate, we need an immediate reality check
We often get caught in the exigencies and emergencies that keep coming up in our lives. Despite knowing the importance of developing our relationship with [...]
Grasp the sense, the nonsense and the trans-sense of worldly mania
Our world is beset by various manias: filmstar-mania, sportstar-mania, musician-mania, to name a few. Some of us may have wondered: why do people spend so [...]
Time expresses Krishna’s tough love
The Bhagavad-gita (10.33) identifies time as a manifestation of Krishna. Time is one of the most forceful teachers about the temporary nature of worldly existence. [...]
Buddhi-yoga comprises both the eyes and the wings for our spiritual flight
To advance on the devotional path, we need both eyes and wings. The eyes help us see the spiritual world of love that is invisible [...]
Transform pains and strains into gains
During our journey through life, we sometimes feel disheartened by the pains of yesterday and the strains of today. The pains of yesterday are all [...]
Time is irrecoverable and unstorable
The great diplomat Chanakya Pandita pointed out that one moment of time is more valuable than wealth equivalent to millions of gold coins. Why? Because [...]
Devotion protects us from destruction by distraction
Just as weapons of mass destruction can destroy thousands of bodies, weapons of mass distraction – the mass media – can destroy thousands of minds. [...]