“There’s noth­ing worth carv­ing out of this worth­less piece of stone”, Ital­ian sculp­tor Duc­cio said many cen­turies ago. Like him, many have said the same lines in all walks of life: from phi­los­o­phy, human sci­ences, lit­er­a­ture, art, pol­i­tics, physics, meta­physics, etc. But what we at Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism can say? It is not our fault many so called great teach­ers and thinkers and every­day men who fol­low them find this world defec­tive. It is not our fault they have zero vision and inspi­ra­tion to see beyond their own blindness …

It was rain­ing last night
but we could feel rain was approach­ing, many days before
Some gems were falling down
and some pearls scat­tered from heavens …

Every­thing we do is bet­ter to do with love, no mat­ter how small, or how insignif­i­cant we think it is. We can­not mea­sure love. Lov­ing atti­tude is bet­ter than purity of any kind, no mat­ter how big the lat­ter one is. Love is a higher prin­ci­ple than purity. Purity is a seri­ous imped­i­ment and becomes a goal in itself, which is a sad truth in all spir­i­tual prac­tices today and of antiquity …

If the iPad and its suc­ces­sor devices free every­day peo­ple to focus on what they do best, it will dra­mat­i­cally change people’s per­cep­tions of com­put­ing from some­thing to fear to some­thing to engage enthu­si­as­ti­cally with. We aim the same for the Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism in the field of spir­i­tu­al­ity and mod­ern thinking.

It is a sad truth today — man is not only sep­a­rated from the envi­ron­ment, but is dis­in­te­grated even inside, into quanta of incom­pre­hen­si­ble, mean­ing­less feel­ings and thoughts. Noth­ing holds him together any­more. Let’s explore how this relates to cir­cum­stances and change in one soci­ety of some 500 years ago.

Imag­ine this: One morn­ing you wake up, brush your teeth, have break­fast, go out, walk the street and con­tinue with your excit­ing new daily plan. How­ever, every­one around starts address­ing you as you were a per­son 30 years ago — a per­son from another time.

Although sourc­ing from pro­gres­sive Chris­tian­ity its out­look on per­sonal rev­e­la­tion, and from Gaudiya Vaish­nav­ism its enchant­ment with all-attractive God-dess, in its heart and mind Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism is clos­est to ancient wis­dom of Tao­ism than to either Gaudiya Vaish­nav­ism or Chris­tian­ity, for it refuses to share their pre­dom­i­nantly out­dated worldviews.

Quan­tum physics’ the observer effect says that there is no real­ity until that real­ity is per­ceived. This pro­found insight tells us that we alter every object in the world sim­ply by pay­ing atten­tion to it.

Albert Ein­stein, per­haps the most highly cel­e­brated and rec­og­nized sci­en­tist / philoso­pher, said once, ‘Peo­ple like us, who believe in physics, know that the dis­tinc­tion between past, present, and future is only a stub­bornly per­sis­tent illu­sion.’ What would this remark­able view bring into the world of spir­i­tual ideas?

No mat­ter how green it might be, money still can­not be as sweet and nour­ish­ing as real but­ter. Our soci­ety has tried its best try­ing to sub­sti­tute the nat­ural bal­ance for world of immense cri­sis and anx­i­ety, swap­ping econ­omy in its true mean­ing and choos­ing prof­iton­omy instead. Results are all around us: poverty, wars, end­less crisis.