Chai­tanya presents a com­pre­hen­sive con­crete monism, dipo­lar monothe­ism or panen­the­ism. The per­sonal Absolute enfolds even the form­less, attribut­e­less Absolute. God-dess’ incon­ceiv­able power to rec­on­cile the irrec­on­cil­able rec­on­ciles our imper­fect and con­tra­dic­tory ideas of qual­i­fied and unqual­i­fied Absolute in a higher syn­the­sis.
The Absolute can­not be com­pletely expressed by words, but this does not mean it cannot […]

“Shabda (rev­e­la­tion) is clearly rec­og­nized as the only proper source of knowl­edge. Sri Chai­tanya is rep­re­sented, in Chaitanya-charitamrita, as say­ing to Sanatan that the only way to right knowl­edge is through scriptures…Most philoso­phers, how­ever, limit them­selves to per­cep­tion and infer­ence as the only sources of knowl­edge. Accord­ing to Sri Chai­tanya, per­cep­tion and infer­ence, as based […]

This is my lat­est attempt to define Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha Krish­naism. I will approach it using The Phi­los­o­phy and Reli­gion of Sri Cai­tanya by O.B.L. Kapoor. Dr. Kapoor was a dear friend and men­tor when I lived in Vrind­a­ban, India in the early 1970s. He was a retired phi­los­o­phy pro­fes­sor and life long devo­tee of Radha […]

I am happy to report the Hawaii County Coun­cil voted not to accept over $400,000 for Green­har­vest oper­a­tions Wednes­day. Angel Pilago, coun­cil mem­ber and may­oral can­di­date, changed his mind and voted against the fund­ing as a result of tes­ti­mony given by me and many other con­cerned cit­i­zens. I con­grat­u­lated him for hav­ing the courage to […]

God-dess cre­ates and sus­tains the uni­verse. All crea­tures and things depend upon God-dess who alone is inde­pen­dent. God-dess is incon­ceiv­ably, simul­ta­ne­ously imma­nent and tran­scen­dent. We should wor­ship God-dess always and open our­selves to grace, the only way to attain free­dom from the seem­ingly never-ending cycle of birth and rebirth.
When one achieves lib­er­a­tion, one does not […]

Yes­ter­day, I met with Rev. Roger Christie head of The Hawai’i Cannabis Min­istry and may­oral can­di­date. He asked me to speak at this morning’s com­mit­tee meet­ing. There was a good turn out of per­sons opposed to cannabis erad­i­ca­tion efforts by the police. My wife and I went and tes­ti­fied. This is what I said:
To: Hawai’i County […]

How can a tem­ple be in the present when it is presided over by a dead statue of a for­mer guru as many ISKCON tem­ples are? They also like to quote Prab­hu­pad as say­ing “Don’t change any­thing.” A dead guru, a dead reli­gion focused on the past. This was not Bhaktivinode’s view, and it is […]

Dr. Michael Valle and Subal Das con­tinue our con­ver­sa­tion:
MV: Uni­ver­sal­ist sys­tems of spir­i­tu­al­ity are often crit­i­cized as being too per­mis­sive. You have writ­ten that all of the pri­mary reli­gious texts in the world are revealed, although you con­cede that some may be more advanced than oth­ers. How might a per­son iden­tify a can­di­date scrip­ture as […]

Dr. Michael Valle and Subal Das con­tinue our con­ver­sa­tion:
MV: Are all or many of the pri­mary reli­gious texts in the world, in some sig­nif­i­cant sense, revealed by God-dess? If so, in what way?
SD: Yes. They are revealed scrip­tures. God-dess is within every­one. When we sur­ren­der, our life, will, thoughts and actions to God-dess, […]

Dr. Michael Valle and Subal Das con­tinue our dis­cus­sion of Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha Krish­naism.
MV: Is God-dess present in other reli­gions? If so, in what way? And how do we explain the exclu­sivism that is often present in reli­gions?
SD: God-dess is present in other reli­gions, but usu­ally in a more lim­ited stage of […]