1830: Bhakti Doesn't Grow in a Hard Heart / Q&A Vol. 300
Someone on the street asks you for money, and you're fairly sure where it will go, and it's not good. Can walking past be compassion, or is...
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1829: A Field Guide to Your Inner Demons | Bhaktivinoda Thakur Decodes Krishna's Pastimes
In the 19th century, British colonial scholars dismissed the pastimes of Krishna as primitive and immoral, and a generation of educated Indi...
1828: We Never Learned the Power of Our Thoughts | You Become What You Think About
Be good. Behave. Behave yourself. Growing up, most of us heard plenty about our actions and almost nothing about the thoughts that produce t...
1827: The Emptiness of Peace and the Fullness of Love | Meditation Beyond Stillness
Most of us long for a quiet mind. But what fills it once the noise is gone? On a solo bike ride across upstate New York, Raghunath finds tha...
1826: Why the Comment Thread Is Killing Your Soul | Speaking Truth to Power
When something is wrong and we say nothing, our own inner light begins to fade. But speaking up only heals when it comes from a place of lov...
1825: Our Labels Are Warping Our Vision | The Many Ways We Respond to Krishna
I'm a man. I'm a woman. I'm American. I'm this, I'm that. Every label we carry colors how we see the world, ourselves and God. Yoga starts f...
1824: You're Not in Control | The Placebo Illusion and the Bhakti Reality
Our sense of security is based on illusion — confirmed by both modern science and the sages of the Bhakti Yoga tradition. A landmark psychia...
1823: Life Is Sacred and Life Is Everywhere | The Earth Personified in Krishna's Pastimes
In the form of a beautiful teenager God enters a new city, meets a hunchback girl in the street, transforms her body and enters a romance wi...
1822: Grace in Your Face | Human Nature's Resistance to Unconditional Love
Are we all like wounded animals caught in a fence, biting the hand of the person trying to help? Is spiritual grace something exceptionally...
1821: Krishna Doesn't Need Your Zucchini Bread | But He Wants Your Love
The Bhagavad-gītā sings of Krishna as the Absolute Truth — complete in himself, independent and lacking nothing. He doesn't need anything we...
1820: They Took Him Into Their Hearts Through Their Eyes | Krishna Enters Mathurā
When Krishna and Balarāma entered Mathurā, the women climbed to the rooftops and showered them with flowers. They took him into their hearts...
1819: Daring to Fly Higher | Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the Ascent to Bhakti
In the 1970s the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull became a bestseller. A parable about a gull who refuses to follow the flock and discovers...
1818: Why Nothing in This World Satisfies Us
Voltaire — the greatest writer of the French Enlightenment wrote that there is a dim flame burning in every heart — an intuition that somewh...
1817: All Rivers Flow to the Sea | Beyond Exclusivism and Hyper-Inclusivism
Westerners who take interest in Eastern Spirituality may be reacting to elements of exclusivism found in Western religion (we're right and e...
1816: Krishna, Vishnu and the Mystery of the Avatars
Most Vedic literature speaks from a perspective within this universe. But some reveal that this universe is just a tiny bubble among countle...
1815: Watch Until the Dust Settles | Krishna's Love Never Leaves Vrindavan
It is said that Krishna never takes one step out of Vrindavan. But it appears that he does leave, and breaks the hearts of the Gopis. In thi...
1814: We Crash | God's Opulences and Our Limitations
What happens when an individual soul thinks the gifts they have are their own? Why do we see so many celebrities struggle, even though they...
1813: The Philosopher vs the Mystic | Understanding the Passion of the Gopīs
To the philosopher, the weeping of Krishna's lovers looks like ordinary suffering. To the mystics it's the culmination of the highest knowle...
1812: The Love Sewed in Every Stitch | Dolly Parton and the Bhagavad Gīta
It's not the coat of many colors that mattered. It was the love her momma sewed into every stitch. Dolly Parton understood something the Bha...
1811: Proust's Madeleine and Krishna's Footprints | The Power of the Senses to Transport You
A taste, a smell, a place, a song — something dormant rises suddenly from the depths. The Vedic tradition calls this Udīpana — stimuli that...