I just started my sec­ond book which will expand upon the final chap­ter of my Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism book, “Remem­ber­ing Radha-Krishna Through­out the Day.” I gave the philo­soph­i­cal basis and an intro­duc­tion to the praxis of nat­ural devo­tion in Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism. Now, I will give a detailed expla­na­tion of the prac­tice of involv­ing our­selves in the […]

I used to be quite an ecsta­tic dancer in kir­tan, but now I don’t do that. I think it’s a cul­tural prac­tice that just isn’t part of the cul­ture I live in. Now kir­tan is my wife and I chant­ing sit­ting before our home altar.
Just as the Orissa devo­tees moved from loud kir­tans to more personal, […]

Thus, we arrive at a point where the high­est human con­cep­tion of God-dess and the high­est ser­vice one can ren­der them is for them to be a lov­ing young cou­ple, with us as their friends and lovers, totally unaware of their divin­ity. Deep, intense love remains the key element.

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 […]

Braj is a place of pil­grim­age in Uttar Pradesh, India, but the spir­i­tual Braj exists in the hearts of devo­tees wher­ever they are. Radha-Krishna’s pas­times go on there now and for­ever. One can see them only by the grace and sweet will of Radha-Krishna or their beloveds.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]