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Life Comes From Life: 2012-03-11
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Life Comes From Life. Monday, March 12, 2012. The Heart of Mantra Meditation. One of my favorite passages in the Bhagavad-gītā. Is where Krishna, the personification of the Divine, tells his stricken warrior friend Arjuna that:. For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy. (Chapter 6, Verse 6). How does it work? How does it exist? Why does it seem unable to focus when I need it to? As our students at NYU...
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Life Comes From Life: 2012-02-19
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Life Comes From Life. Saturday, February 25, 2012. A new essay, based on a lecture from Varsana Swami, published at Elephant Journal. N 1965, teacher and scholar A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami transplanted the culture of Bhakti, or the yoga of devotion, from its roots in the ancient culture of India to the Western world. Over the last forty years — beginning from the crystallized aesthetic beauty of the famous “Blue Marble” picture of our Mother Earth taken by the astronauts of Apollo 17 ̵...The degree of o...
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Life Comes From Life: 2012-06-17
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Life Comes From Life. Thursday, June 21, 2012. Q and A with Swami B. V. Tripurari. 8220;Times change and with new information new opinions form, and if they are spiritually reasonable, the task for devotees is to support them with scriptural logic—sastra-yukti—or the logic that supports the essential conclusions of revelation.”. Q Is being gay a sin? A In the Hindu canon there is no condemnation of homosexuality that I am aware of. You profess to be Hindu but are unable to cite any of our scriptures ...
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Life Comes From Life: Why This Devotee of God Doesn’t Think To Be Atheist Is To Be A Demon
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Life Comes From Life. Monday, April 15, 2013. Why This Devotee of God Doesn’t Think To Be Atheist Is To Be A Demon. There are two kinds of people in this world. I think this is absolutely true. But let’s parse this out a bit. First of all, what is the source of my seemingly eccentric and dogmatic statement? In the sixteenth chapter of the. Speaks of two kinds of natures that exist in this world and in our being: the. In the ninth verse of the chapter, Krishna says:. As a follower of the. A surface interp...
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Life Comes From Life: 2012-02-26
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Life Comes From Life. Saturday, March 3, 2012. The Regulative Principles of Freedom. The Vedic spiritual tradition, as magnificently manifested in the. Animals in bodies lower than that of the human being are conscious only as far as their bodily distress and happiness are concerned; they cannot think of more than their bodily necessities of life-eating, sleeping, mating and defending. But in the human form of life, by the grace of God, the consciousness is so developed that a man can evaluate his ex...
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Life Comes From Life: When Saying "It's Just Kali-Yuga" Is Not Enough
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Life Comes From Life. Tuesday, March 12, 2013. When Saying "It's Just Kali-Yuga" Is Not Enough. Dr James Cone is one of the formative personalities in the living history of. A Black Theology of Liberation, The God of the Oppressed. The Cross and The Lynching Tree. He is considered one of its “founding fathers,” as it were, and is a historically important and vital figure in the field of contemporary Christian theology. Bad theology is removed from this balance. A theology which doesn't work gives a f...
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Life Comes From Life: Loving Ourselves, Part 1
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Life Comes From Life. Sunday, July 15, 2012. Loving Ourselves, Part 1. There is so much we have to do to insure that ISKCON thrives and grows as we move into the 21. Century, but I do not think there is anything more important that in improving the health of our culture of relationships and communities within ISKCON. Without addressing the stones of this essential foundation of our society, all of our aspirations will trend towards an inadequate and disappointing outcome. The profundity of our offering c...
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Life Comes From Life: 2013-01-13
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Life Comes From Life. Wednesday, January 16, 2013. When Saying "You Are Not Your Body" Is Not Enough. This is the first in a series of essays I am writing based on my thoughts and experience as a devotee of Krishna, associated with ISKCON, in the 21. Century. These thoughts are mine and mine alone, resonant surely with other devotee's thoughts, but not representative of any community, temple president, or any other personality or spiritual master. Those who claimed to represent the exquisitely magnanimou...
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Life Comes From Life: 2012-05-20
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Life Comes From Life. Monday, May 21, 2012. A Hindu Response to Gay Rights. From the Religion section at The Huffington Post. The cultural waters in terms of gay rights continue to move and shift in profound and irreversible ways. I see this as well in the religious communities that I am part of. Recently, my friend Bowie Snodgrass, who is one of the executive directors of the excellent Interfaith community Faith House. To visit the Episcopal Church's "Same-Gender Blessings Project"). I feel comforted kn...
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10 ways to spiritualize your day – Hare Krishna Brighton & Hove!
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Hare Krishna Brighton and Hove! International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). About / Contact Us. Brighton Rathayatra Festival 2016. Hare Krishna Fridays Food. What the Vedas say. The Hare Krishna ‘Maha Mantra’. 10 ways to spiritualize your day. Tulasi Gift Shop & Lotus. 10 ways to spiritualize your day. This is an excerpt an article on the site ‘ www.bhaktivedantacenter.com. Sing kirtan, or chant as you walk, wash dishes, or do the laundry. Srila Prabhupada said that we don’t have to cha...
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