Posts made in September, 2015

Reality is a Dance, not Bureaucratic Law

Reality is a Dance, not Bureaucratic Law

“The blissful devotional service performed by the expert devotees is like a dance. The devotee begins to learn the lessons of that dance. Taken by the hands of the dance intructress, ruci, he learns all — experiencing an extraordinary, unprecedented, unimaginable, golden bliss which cannot be described. In what blissful realm will he come to exist, when in time, he is made to dance by the supreme masters of dance, bhava and...

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Rādhāṣṭamī

Rādhāṣṭamī

She stands by His side, sweet smile entreating Us to worship His feet, soft and pinkish. She massages them gently, offering tulasī. Oh, won’t you please come and see how beautiful they are? Rādhārāṇī, queen of worship, beauty supreme in female form, Please protect me, don’t let me slip from the path of bhakti. Soaring through transcendental treetops on a swing of flowers Downpour of nectar never stops where You are queen. Can You...

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Holy Name or Material Alphabet?

Holy Name or Material Alphabet?

“The letters of the holy name have so much spiritual potency that they act even when uttered improperly. PURPORT Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura states that the word vyavahita (“improperly uttered”) is not used here to refer to the mundane vibration of the letters of the alphabet. Such negligent utterance for the sense gratification of materialistic persons is not a vibration of transcendental sound. Utterance of the holy name while one...

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Clear direction for all circumstances

Clear direction for all circumstances

Life is full of so many decisions, big and small. Without knowing the results of our decisions, we can get stuck or choose wrongly. There are many systems taught to leaders, managers, or people in general, for making good decisions, but none of them can promise full satisfaction with our choices. Frankly, it’s even hard to know what is a big decision and what’s a small decision! Sometimes seemingly small decisions can have a large...

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