Bhakti Collective

Bhakti Collective

  • “God”?

    What the punctuation in the title indicates: Quotation marks: Draping the word God in quotation marks indicates that we are first concerned with the signifier, not the signified. (Compare these two sentences: I am interested in God. I am interested in “God.”) Question mark: The mark of interrogation backstopping “God” points us next to questions…

  • Radhanath Swami: A Few More Thoughts About Terror in Mumbai

    [EDITORS NOTE: On December 26th I arrived in Mumbai and have been the fortunate guest of Radhanath Swami and the many wonderful Vaishnavas of the Radha Gopinath Temple. Having seen my previous article “Finding Selflessness Amidst Mumbai’s Sorrow”, Radhanath Swami kindly shared some of his written thoughts about the Mumbai terrorist attacks. I’ll share them…

  • Sense Gratification: An Essay in Pathology

    In Bhagavad-gita (5.22) Krishna says this about enjoyment of the senses: ye hi samsparsha-ja bhoga duhkha-yonaya eva te “The pleasures that arise from contact between the senses and their objects are in truth the sources of all suffering.” The Sanskrit word bhoga (with the long ‘a’ of the plural) means ‘pleasures’ or ‘enjoyments’. What kinds?…

  • Radha Govinda Temple / Photos by Robert Stoetzel

    SLIDESHOW: Striking photos of Vrindavan’s Radha Govinda Temple by Robert Stoetzel.

  • Kirtan Podcast 4 – Karnamrita “The Story of Pingala”

    PODCAST: A brilliant recording of “The Story of Pingala” from Karnamrita’s CD Dasi-Prayers by Women.

  • Finding Selflessness Amidst Mumbai’s Sorrow

  • December Vrindavan

    SLIDESHOW: Photos of Vrindavan’s Keshi Ghat in December by Robert Stoetzel.

  • On Reason and Love

    Thus we find that the object of Reason is to help Love and not to create it. Reason may be properly styled as the servant of Love and must always be subject to her in all her hopes, aspirations, and holy works.

  • May You Be Blessed

    May your eyes be blessed with sweet tears of longing for the beloved of your heart, Sri Sri Radha and Krishna, for such tears cure the “mistaken outlook” and make the bitter tears of misery disappear.

  • Pointing

    Sometime in the 1730’s, a young Scottish philosopher tried, and failed, to find himself. David Hume reflected upon this experience in his first book, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739). The passage is much quoted and anthologized. I encountered it frequently as an undergraduate philosophy major, for my teachers regarded it as a watershed in…

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