Experiencing Radha-Krishna: A Guide for Entering Into Their Play

For many months now, I’ve been work­ing as an edi­tor and pub­lisher get­ting Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism ready for release. I’m just wait­ing for Zvon­imir to fin­ish his won­der­ful design work, and it will be out soon.

Mean­while, it feels really good to be work­ing as a writer on my new book titled Expe­ri­enc­ing Radha-Krishna: A Guide for Enter­ing Into Their Play. My energy is up. I feel enthused and invig­o­rated anew. Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism was work–writing phi­los­o­phy, mak­ing sure every­thing fit together right, and makes log­i­cal sense. Of course, it had to be done for me to be able to move on to the next step.

When I moved here and began seri­ously med­i­tat­ing on the eter­nal play a few years ago, the old Gaudiya Vaish­nav way of under­stand­ing things no longer worked for me. My under­stand­ing had grown since Lalita Prasad Thakur taught me, and his teach­ings needed to be put in a con­tem­po­rary philo­soph­i­cal con­text in order for me to be able to immerse myself in them con­vinc­ingly. Now that I han­dled that to my sat­is­fac­tion with con­fir­ma­tion from respected oth­ers, I can get on to the real work which is not work but play.

Expe­ri­enc­ing Radha-Krishna will be a guide­book mod­eled on ear­lier guide­books such as Ujj­val Nil­mani, Sri Krish­nah­nika Kau­mudi, and Bha­vanasara San­graha. It will pro­vide the struc­tural frame­work of char­ac­ter, set­ting, and plot for us to enter the play of Radha-Krishna using a process sim­i­lar to that of a method actor. I really look for­ward to immers­ing myself in this new project.

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