I cre­ated stevebohlert.com and my Blog­ger blog, “Steve’s Mus­ings” in 2003. It went through var­i­ous muta­tions over the years, and is now going through yet another. It is merg­ing with this site–Universalist Radha-Krishnaism, radha-krishnaism.org–to take advan­tage of its con­tem­po­rary design and func­tion­ing and elim­i­nate the upkeep of two sites.
“Steve’s Mus­ings” from 2003 to 2009 are archived […]

The asso­ciates please God-dess accord­ing to their par­tic­u­lar rela­tion­ship, like ser­vant, friend, par­ent, or lover. This rela­tion­ship does not derive from birth or an exter­nal cer­e­mony like adop­tion or mar­riage, but it derives from the spe­cific emo­tion or devo­tional love an asso­ciate man­i­fests. Nat­ural devo­tional prac­tice includes cul­ti­vat­ing an emo­tional, lov­ing rela­tion­ship with God-dess.
God-dess is […]

Since we are finite parts of the holo­graphic whole, God-dess lives within us. When we attune our­selves to the spir­i­tual plane, God-dess awak­ens within us, and we con­sciously engage in a lov­ing relationship–the per­fec­tion of spir­i­tual life.
Radha-Krishna also live in Braj, the spir­i­tual abode. Like them, it con­sists of exis­tence, con­scious­ness, and bliss. As such, it […]

Prab­hu­pada Is Always Right

From our human point of view, Radha-Krishna, in their intrin­sic form, pos­sess infi­nite poten­cies, infi­nite attrib­utes, and all divine excel­lences. They con­sti­tute the ulti­mate source of every­thing, the prime cause of all causes. They pos­sess spir­i­tual bod­ies, which are beau­ti­ful beyond words. They man­i­fest in many places simul­ta­ne­ously, and no qual­i­ta­tive dif­fer­ence exists between these […]

God-dess’ infi­nite forms are like parts related to the whole. Since God-dess does not have inter­nal dif­fer­ence, the parts are not like pieces of stone chipped off the whole. The part is the whole, all-knowing, all-pervading being. We call it a part, because the self energy of God-dess does not fully man­i­fest in it. The […]

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 […]

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, […]

Cos­mic Con­scious­ness is higher than Undif­fer­en­ti­ated One­ness in the hier­ar­chy of man­i­fes­ta­tions as we under­stand the absolute, per­sonal God-dess. Undif­fer­en­ti­ated One­ness con­sti­tutes the basic real­ity under­ly­ing all con­crete for­ma­tions. Cos­mic Con­scious­ness cog­nizes, con­trols, and reg­u­lates the con­crete for­ma­tions. From our per­spec­tive, Cos­mic Con­scious­ness implies a dif­fer­en­ti­ated, qual­i­fied state of God-dess. Cos­mic Con­scious­ness is qual­i­fied in […]

God-dess, the high­est being, per­fectly man­i­fests all aus­pi­cious qual­i­ties. Undif­fer­en­ti­ated One­ness exists as the incom­plete man­i­fes­ta­tion of God-dess, in which the divine attrib­utes and poten­cies lie dor­mant. Dr. Kapoor explains:
It is pri­mor­dial same­ness, but not a bar­ren still­ness; it is inde­ter­mi­nate­ness, but not an inde­ter­mi­nate­ness that totally denies dis­tinc­tions and def­i­nite­ness; it has distinctions, […]