Prab­hu­pada Is Always Right (Click for a humor­ous, yet insight­ful article.)

They com­bine breadth of spirit, intense mod­u­la­tions, eter­nal peace, and calm per­fec­tion with dynamic, eter­nally self-revealing, self-fulfilling cre­ative activ­ity, and quick­ness of move­ment with intense har­mony and grace. Radha-Krishna awaken these mod­u­la­tions in us, sat­is­fy­ing our long­ings for love, knowl­edge, and peace in an inte­gra­tive synthesis.

In our pro­gres­sive aes­thetic view which uses the amount of sweet taste as a mea­sure of spir­i­tual rap­ture, Undif­fer­en­ti­ated One­ness is con­sid­ered the low­est man­i­fes­ta­tion of divine self energy and Radha-Krishna are the high­est manifestation.

To Radha on Her Appear­ance Day

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.