The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna – a dialogue between Man and God. Hence it touches on all aspects of the various relationships between man and god. The dialogue is made more dramatic by the fact that it is set in the middle of a battlefield in which Arjuna, the human being, is faced with an unimaginable dilemma from which he can find no reasonable escape. The teacher, Krishna tries to bring him to a recognition of the reality of life from the highest stand- point. Thus it starts with the Advaitic or non-dualistic view that everything is the Supreme alone and that duality exists only in our minds and is only the apparent phenomenon of the world and not its actual reality. The human being is part of this phenomenon and imagines himself to be totally different from the Supreme. However the human being is potentially divine and therefore Lord Krishna urges his disciple Arjuna to discover this truth in himself.
This talk is for yoga enthusiasts and spiritual seekers who want to deepen their experience of bhakti by invoking the transcendental assistance of she who can conquer the Unconquerable. Pranada Comtois will discuss how the bhakti tradition of Gaudiya Vaishnavism elevates the Feminine Divine to th...
Hanuman is the endearing central figure of the sacred text from India called the “Ramayana” or the “Ramacharitamanasa". He is worshipped as the remover of obstacles, reliever of difficulties, and the wide-hearted compassionate, courageous deity at whose feet we fall in surrender. Using the text f...
Arguably in Krsna lila—divine play—we fully encounter the “play that is played eternally before [the creation of] all creatures,” and also the notion that at play God is and we are (with him) “what we really are.” Therein Goddess Bhakti, who in her early stages manifests as a spiritual practice (...
