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(Originally published in Tattva Prakasha newsletter.) The topic of this issue is the Mahabharata war in relation to world history and culture. We will begin the topic with a question we received sometime back: “In the...

Brihaspati said: Long ago there was a brahmana named Heli, in the beautiful city Pampapura. He was a worshiper of the sun-god and he knew the 64 arts. He avoided the mood of accepting dakshina (donations) and he became an...

[ Excerpts from Sri Caitanya-shikshamrita, chapter one. First published in 1886, by Sri Bhaktivinoda Thakur. ] Four Types of Motivated Worship According to his condition man attempts to please the Lord for four reasons: 1) Bhaya...

There have been times when the seeking for spiritual attainment was, at least in certain civilisations, more intense and widespread than now or rather than it has been in the world in general during the past few centuries. For...

Who was Chaitanya Mahaprabhu? Sri Chaitanya is the kali-yuga avatara, and He descended for the purpose of establishing the yuga dharma, which in this age is the chanting of Lord Krishna’s names. He appeared in the guise of...

All the phases of human history may be regarded as a working out of the earth-consciousness in which each phase has its place and significance, so this materialistic intellectual phase had to come and has had, no doubt, its...

What is meant here is the Divine in its essential manifestation which reveals itself to us as Light and Consciousness, Power, Love and Beauty. But in its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound...

What we are doing, if and when we succeed, will be a beginning, not a completion. It is the foundation of a new consciousness on earth—a consciousness with infinite possibilities of manifestation. The eternal progression is in...

If Shankara’s conception of the undifferentiated pure Consciousness as the Brahman is your view of it, then it is not the path of this yoga that you should choose; for here the realisation of pure Consciousness and Being...

I don’t know that I can help you very much with an answer to your friend’s questions. I can only state my own position with regard to these matters. 1. Shankara’s Explanation of the Universe It is rather...