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What Would the Buddha Say?
Although the Buddha thinks that the notion of an eternal self generates suffering, if he had he compared notes with a good number of Vedantins, in terms of how much they suffered in their mortal frame, it would have been interesting to speak with him afterwards.
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His Divine Grace
Deep realization lies within the ability to adapt the spiritual reality to diverse material circumstances, making it accessible to one and all. Such is the glory of Srila Prabhupada.
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Go Within or Go Without
Ascetics are known for distancing themselves from the world by their austerity, but while ostensibly it is a life of deprivation, asceticism declares just the opposite—”Go within, or go without.”
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Gods in Goloka
The Bhagavata’s cosmology is an old one, one that did not even conform with leading secular thinkers’ understanding at the time that our sampradaya’s principle commentaries were written. So shall we simply throw it out?
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Mahabhagavata
Should we look for anything less than the most qualified person when we are looking for our spiritual guide? Certainly not. But the search must begin within ourselves.
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Entering Gaura Lila
The many lilas of Radha-Krishna are comparable to rivers flowing in all directions, but the fountain from which they flow is the lila of Sri Gauranga. And only by being admitted into the latter can we ever enter the Vraja lila.
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Mystic Poetry and Yogic Enlightenment
Enlightenment lies beyond the limits of speech. So how then can we say anything about it? Is the only solution to simply speak about that which enlightenment is not, or is there a speech that results from the inability to ever say enough?
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Appetite of the Absolute
One might justifiably ask what God eats, or if God eats at all. Does God get hungry? God does not hunger for food but for the love with which one makes the offering, and by eating only the remnants of such offerings, one’s diet becomes divine.
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Chaste and Pure
The ideal all devotees strive for is exclusive dedication to sri guru. This certainly involves chastity, but on a higher level it also involves purity, within which the dynamic expression of chastity is contained.
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