Black Suits. Black Dresses.
By Dinesh Pulandram
Black suits. Black dresses. Like automatons they march out of the train. Taking the escalator out of the deep dark tunnels, they blink when they hit the warm sunlight. Coffee time. Tired, you see. Their lives don’t energize them. They need a constant intravenous drip of caffeine into their veins.
Elevator music.
Sitting in the [...]
Stepping Towards Transcendence
by Tota-gopinatha Dasa
Step 1: Understanding Our Identity
I can perceive my existence. I can feel positively that I, as an individual, exist. And I cannot imagine not existing in the future. This should be meditated upon.
If someone were to ask me who I am, what would I say? Am I a student? Yes. But was I [...]
Technology’s Blind Spot
The ancient spiritual texts of India tell us that a person’s internal state translates into external action. How someone uses things, for better or worse, is the outer manifestation of a
Eating, Sleeping, Mating, & Defending
By improving the method of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending one does not come to human life. A person sleeps and a dog sleeps. So
Happiness and It’s Shadow
by Mahat-Tattva Dasa
Have you have ever seen a goat, a real actual goat? If you ever have, then you might have noticed that there are some peculiar nipples on the goat’s neck. What are these nipples for? In India people say that only a fool will try to milk such nipples as that’s not how [...]
Natural Prosperity
by Stephen Knapp
The divine wisdom of the Vedas offers us a valuable insight into a vision of society based on selflessness and simplicity. It’s a tonic badly needed as we deal with the effects of economic beliefs and actions gone haywire.
In the following article, spiritual scholar Stephen Knapp gives us practical and enlightening perspectives on [...]
MEAT: Making Global Warming Worse
by Bryan Walsh
(Taken from www.time.com)
Need another reason to feel guilty about feeding your children that Happy Meal — aside from the fat, the calories and that voice in your head asking why you can’t be bothered to actually cook a well-balanced meal now and then? Rajendra Pachauri would like to offer you one. The head [...]
Chant For Change
This transcendental vibration of chanting
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
is the sublime method of reviving our Krishna consciousness. As living spiritual souls we are all originally Krishna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter since time immemorial, our consciousness is now polluted by the material atmosphere.
Pointing
For we are no more to be identified with our minds than with our bodies. The mind belongs to the category of the not-self as much as the body does. Both mind and body are material, the former being merely finer or subtler than the latter. Vedic seers know this, but Western philosophers have conflated the spiritual and the mental; “mind” and “soul” are synonymous.
Authenticity
Why is inauthenticity so rampant despite everyone detesting it? The answer is that all of us have a fundamentally wrong conception of who we actually are; we identify ourselves as material when factually we are not. No wonder cheating is so all-pervasive; it starts with our cheating ourselves! Right from the start the very basis is wrong, so it is not surprising that everything that follows is influenced by this primordial mistake.