“There’s noth­ing worth carv­ing out of this worth­less piece of stone”, Ital­ian sculp­tor Duc­cio said many cen­turies ago. Like him, many have said the same lines in all walks of life: from phi­los­o­phy, human sci­ences, lit­er­a­ture, art, pol­i­tics, physics, meta­physics, etc. But what we at Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism can say? It is not our fault many so called great teach­ers and thinkers and every­day men who fol­low them find this world defec­tive. It is not our fault they have zero vision and inspi­ra­tion to see beyond their own blindness …

In the Chai­tanya Chari­ta­m­rita (2.8.226–27 & s 52) Prabhu replies to Ramanand, “The mahab­ha­ga­vata looks at ani­mate and inan­i­mate objects, and every­where is the glow­ing of Sri Krishna. They look at ani­mate and inan­i­mate objects, but do not see those images; rather every­where they see the blos­som­ing of their own ista-deva. ‘He who sees his […]

It is a sad truth today — man is not only sep­a­rated from the envi­ron­ment, but is dis­in­te­grated even inside, into quanta of incom­pre­hen­si­ble, mean­ing­less feel­ings and thoughts. Noth­ing holds him together any­more. Let’s explore how this relates to cir­cum­stances and change in one soci­ety of some 500 years ago.