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  • Yoga Made Easy By Music: How Kirtan Works

    ESSAY: YOGA MADE EASY BY MUSIC: HOW KIRTAN WORKS An Essay by Dhanurdhara Swami.

  • Remembering Her Grace Rasajna Devi Dasi

    This morning I got the news that my dear god-sister, Her Grace Rasajna devi dasi, passed away from this world. I will miss her dearly. I can’t remember where I heard the saying, but it goes something like, “One will be remembered more for how one made others feel than for what one has accomplished.”…

  • Seven Ways In Which Hearing Sacred Texts Purifies the Mind

    Dhanudhara Swami on Bhakti’s First Limb: Sravanam (Hearing)

  • ESSAY: Dhanurdhara Swami discusses in depth “Is there therapy in the Vedas?” and examines the effect of one’s nature, actions, environment and heartfelt devotion on the development of a healthy mind.

  • The Mother, The Mind, and Food

    Recently my mother related to me how she was advising her daughter-in-law, who had become overwhelmed with the responsibilities of her family and job. She quoted to her daughter-in-law a Yiddish saying that her own mother told her when my mother was similarly overwhelmed with the care of her three young sons. She said something…

  • Japa Thoughts I

    Japa takes concentration. A moment of inattention and the mind jumps from the mantra to mundane thought. We even sometimes become lost in one of the deep groves of attachment (samskaras) embedded in our consciousness, sliding on the path of those impressions until good sense drags us back to the holy name.

  • Kirtan and Humility or: Scrambled Thoughts on Grass

    “One should chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind, thinking oneself lower than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and ready to offer all respects to others. In such a state of mind one can chant constantly.” (Shri Shikshastakam…

  • Windows to the Material World

    I just finished assembling my journals into book form for a final edit. Fortunately, I finished the work before my computer crashed. I knew it was on the blink, but I dreaded the day when it need to be sent for repair. Leaving the shop on my way home, however, I felt a surprising relief,…

  • Srila Bhaktisiddhanta and Raganuga Sadhana Bhakti

    ESSAY: Dhanurdhara Swami’s paper, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta and Raganuga Sadhana Bhakti explores a central point of contention regarding the influence of Vaishnava reformer and modernizer, Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati.