Hav­ing been dis­il­lu­sioned by fun­da­men­tal­ist Chris­tian­ity as a teenager, I became a beat and then a hippy seeker. This led me to A.C. Bhak­tivedanta Swami. I was liv­ing in a com­mune in Haight Ash­bury on Ash­bury Street with a young woman. As soon as I saw Swamiji, I intu­itively knew he was my guru. My […]

I was doing some web research today and came across this book excerpt by emi­nent Chai­tanya Vaish­nav scholar, Joseph T. O’Connell. He con­cisely and insight­fully describes how Chaitanya’s devo­tional teach­ings and prac­tices became insti­tu­tion­al­ized in a soft, sym­bolic, decen­tral­ized man­ner as opposed to the hard, cen­tral­ized, coer­cive insti­tu­tions later formed by Gaudiya Math and ISKCON. […]

The bliss­ful energy enables God-dess to enjoy bliss and infuses bliss into the hearts of lov­ing devo­tees. The essence of the bliss­ful energy is divine love. The fullest man­i­fes­ta­tion of divine love is Radha, the eter­nal con­sort or counter-whole of Krishna, the per­sonal absolute. Just as Krishna pos­sesses infi­nite divine ener­gies in their high­est perfection, […]

Vedic metaphor sug­gests some­thing like this: sup­pose an expan­sion of God-dess sleeps and dreams this world. God-dess’ dream cre­ates a “real­ity” that goes on for bil­lions of human years, mea­sures bil­lions of light years across, and seems so solid and cap­ti­vat­ing that some believe it is all that exists. Yet it is a dream, an […]

We are finite, and God-dess is infi­nite. We can­not limit the infi­nite with mere human thought and words. We do not want to define a God that is too small and fits neatly in our box. God-dess’ incon­ceiv­able potency tran­scends the law of con­tra­dic­tion, blend­ing con­tra­dic­tory ideas and qual­i­ties within him-herself paradoxically. 

Since the Absolute is […]

Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism offers a panen­the­is­tic the­ol­ogy. The per­sonal Absolute enfolds even the form­less, attribut­e­less Absolute, which we call Undif­fer­en­ti­ated One­ness. God-dess’ power to rec­on­cile the irrec­on­cil­able rec­on­ciles our imper­fect, con­tra­dic­tory ideas of qual­i­fied and unqual­i­fied Absolute in a higher synthesis.

Rather than God-dess giv­ing humans domin­ion over other species and the envi­ron­ment, we are given stew­ard­ship of them–responsibility to care for them. In today’s urban envi­ron­ments we tend to loose our con­nec­tion with nature, and mate­ri­al­is­tic cap­i­tal­ism dominates.

One of the main under­ly­ing causes dri­ving a mul­ti­plic­ity of prob­lems is rapid pop­u­la­tion growth that takes us […]

Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism is aimed at a well edu­cated, open audi­ence. It presents eso­teric Vedic wis­dom in plain, well-written Eng­lish, avoid­ing tech­ni­cal San­skrit terms.

Remem­ber­ing Radha-Krishna Through­out the Day
The fol­low­ing is intended to be med­i­tated on daily while we imag­ine our­selves in our per­fect spir­i­tual iden­tity as a char­ac­ter inter­act­ing in the play. It fol­lows the basic plot out­line given by Rupa Goswami in his Ashta-Kaliya-Leela-Smarana-Mangala-Stotram. We updated it for con­tem­po­rary use, while try­ing to remain as faith­ful to the […]

I saw the DVD “Milk” last night–a poignant reminder of our not so dis­tant past and the ongo­ing strug­gle for equal rights for all. I want to make it clear that Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism is open to and affirm­ing of queers of all types.
I’ve always been an out­sider myself. My strug­gle against the con­ser­v­a­tive ele­ments Milk also […]