The Big Island of Hawai’i is won­der­fully beau­ti­ful. It plays a big part in my prac­tice of Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism. I’m an avid ama­teur pho­tog­ra­pher and post albums on Face­book. If you are on Face­book, I invite you to be my friend. Here are pub­lic links to the albums that any­one can see.
Cherry Blos­som Fest 2012
As I See It 16
World […]

After three years of not much rain com­par­a­tively, the rains are now back to nor­mal. Aver­age rain­fall here is 125 inches a year, mak­ing Hilo the raini­est city in the world. As a result the tele­phone lines I depend on for my dialup inter­net con­nec­tion get water in them, and my com­puter can’t detect a […]

In Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism’s Essen­tial Teach­ings, it says:
6. Prac­ti­tion­ers live as spir­i­tual beings on Earth, one with Earth and life. God-dess per­vades all. Prac­ti­tion­ers embrace a lifestyle of sim­ple liv­ing and high think­ing. They offer all to God-dess as a liv­ing sac­ri­fice of love, are ves­sels of divine love, and live in accord with eter­nal spir­i­tual values. […]

I want to thank Steven Rosen and oth­ers of the Jour­nal of Vaish­nava Stud­ies (JVS) for their Spring 2011 issue, which focuses on the Crit­i­cal Edi­tion of the Mahab­harata. It presents arti­cles by seven schol­ars dis­cussing the impact of the Crit­i­cal Edi­tion on Mahab­harata schol­ar­ship. They expose the prej­u­dices of early Ori­en­tal­ists that influ­ence scholarship […]

Daniel Cooper Clark is one of A.C. Bhak­tivedanta Swami’s orig­i­nal New York dis­ci­ples. We met at the 26 Sec­ond Avenue tem­ple in Jan­u­ary 1968 when I vis­ited there from my Santa Fe tem­ple. We later worked together closely at Back to God­head and the New Age Cau­cus. I sent him a pdf man­u­script of my new book […]

Here is a pre­view of the dust jacket for my soon to be released Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism: The Way of Nat­ural Devo­tion; A Practitioner’s Hand­book. Thanks to Zvon­imir Tosic for his excel­lent design work. The book will be case­bound with a dust jacket for dura­bil­ity in prac­ti­tion­ers regular use.

With the upcom­ing pub­li­ca­tion of my new book, peo­ple have been ask­ing how I plan to insti­tu­tion­al­ize my teach­ings. Will I start a com­mu­nity, a church, a tem­ple, … ? No, I am not going to. Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism is an indi­vid­ual path that appeals to peo­ple who belong to the grow­ing seg­ment of the American […]

I just read A Rene­gade His­tory of the United States by Thad­deus Rus­sell. It pro­vides a view of Amer­ica from the per­spec­tive of the “bad” peo­ple — slaves, pros­ti­tutes, Jews, Ital­ians, jazz musi­cians, beats, gays, hip­pies and the like. They all made great con­tri­bu­tions to our free­dom and hap­pi­ness. I must admit to a lifelong […]

In an exclu­sive inter­view with the Guardian, the cos­mol­o­gist Stephen Hawk­ing said, “I regard the brain as a com­puter which will stop work­ing when its com­po­nents fail. There is no heaven or after­life for bro­ken down com­put­ers; that is a fairy story for peo­ple afraid of the dark.”
I have to dis­agree with Stephen Hawk­ing that my […]

While the nat­ural devo­tional prac­tice of visu­al­iz­ing life in Braj is tra­di­tion­ally used by recluses, Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism makes it clear that this is not nec­es­sary. A life of con­tem­pla­tive reflec­tion com­bined with inspired action in the world is prefer­able. Prac­tion­ers seek to live holis­tic lives as stated in the “Essen­tial Teachings:”

6. Prac­ti­tion­ers live as spiritual […]