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My bandhavi Sri Madhumati ji has the following posted at her blog;

''Damodar das, the son of Banamali das of Radhakund is suffering from blood cancer. He is all four years old and is a bouncy little devotee of Swamini jiu. He is always full of energy (he looks it !) and truly transcendental. He rattles off mantras and hymns even at this age. Everyone loves him and he fill sus with his blissful talk of bhakti. But today he is cancer-ridden. Banamali who is a simple tailor in radhakund cannot bea… Continue

Though normally my workshops/seminars are designed for people with little to no bhakti background, I wish to offer the following for the Vaishnavas in our sanga, particularly for those from an ISKCON background, though really, it's applicable to all of us.

Some vaishnavas have expressed their concern to me over a possible faction in our Gurudeva's "sanga" - a faction between vaishnavas with thick ISKCON samskaras and vaishnavas without them.

While I do not think that factions are neccessarily… Continue

Sri Sri Guru Gouranga Jayatah!

Pranams to one and all! First of all I want to offer a heartfelt thanks to both Niscala devi and Srila das for bringing up a topic that is dear to my heart - raganuga bhakti and it's practical applications.

My heart danced with joy for the past 48 hours as I contemplated and compiled various references in order to honor the following request of Niscala ji;
"I welcome any comments by our acaryas which shed light on the question as to how to know when one is ready… Continue

I am going to use this space as a notebook and sounding board for the book I am currently working on, which will be a little autobiographical, tracing both my external and internal life as I traversed across the globe to India and back, and back again, and also philosophical, as I put together my experiences and insights into a cohesive whole as a means to explain raganuga bhakti and the phenomena of having a love affair with Spirit.

I am currently reading Ken Wilbur, and the theory of

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