The Nature of the Self by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa

Jan 4, 2015 | Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, Volume-49 Number-01

A Gaudiya Vaisnava Understanding Vaisnava Vedanta resolves an apparent contradiction in the Upanisads, which assert both the identity of the individual soul and the Supreme Soul and the difference between them. The Sparks of God The Soul, or self (atma), is described... read more

Honest Happiness by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa

Nov 1, 2013 | Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, Volume-47 Number-06

If we don’t want to be cheated, we must accept one undeniable law of spiritual life. One Saturday afternoon at the Krishna-Balarama Mandir in Queens, NY, toward the end of conducting a workshop in chanting (japa-yoga), I felt thankful as indeed I had on similar... read more

Doctors of Happiness by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa

May 1, 2011 | Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, Volume-45 Number-03

  A Harvard professor discovers something about happiness that Vedic sages knew long ago. Derived From assiduous research into human happiness, the findings of Dr. Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychology professor both funny and smart, have revealed to him an... read more

Platonic and Vedic Accounts Of Creation by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa

Jan 1, 2011 | Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, Volume-45 Number-01

  Plato , in his dialogue on cosmology, the Timaeus, clearly articulates a concept of the self-existent ultimate source of all there is. This doctrine of the ultimate source, or what Vaishnavas call the Absolute Truth, contains the Platonic notion of an... read more

Conviction by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa

May 1, 2010 | Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, Volume-44 Number-03

  Is Certainty; possible in an age of Doubt. Doubt is the motor of the modern mentality, the indefatigable engine that drives the spirit of our age. Doubt was honored with an early recognition in the essays of the Renaissance courtier Michel de Montaigne:... read more