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Enlightenment: Brahma gayatri mantra

Enlightenment: Brahma gayatri mantra

Download By Urmila devi dasi I watch the sun rising over the horizon where the Pacific Ocean touches the sky. In the beauty of its red glow painting sea, sky, and clouds, I chant the Brahma gayatri mantra, a meditation on the sun. Receiving and chanting this mantra is an essential part of diksa, initiation into the succession of spiritual teachers and disciples from the beginning of universal creation. Those unfamiliar with gayatri might wonder...

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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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