Wisdom of the Sages

1822: Grace in Your Face | Human Nature's Resistance to Unconditional Love

Are we all like wounded animals caught in a fence, biting the hand of the person trying to help? Is spiritual grace something exceptionally rare — and most of us the unfo

1821: Krishna Doesn't Need Your Zucchini Bread | But He Wants Your Love

The Bhagavad-gītā sings of Krishna as the Absolute Truth — complete in himself, independent and lacking nothing. He doesn't need anything we can offer him. And yet — he w

1820: They Took Him Into Their Hearts Through Their Eyes | Krishna Enters Mathurā

When Krishna and Balarāma entered Mathurā, the women climbed to the rooftops and showered them with flowers. They took him into their hearts through their eyes — embraced

1819: Daring to Fly Higher | Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the Ascent to Bhakti

In the 1970s the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull became a bestseller. A parable about a gull who refuses to follow the flock and discovers that his true nature is limitl

1818: Why Nothing in This World Satisfies Us

Voltaire — the greatest writer of the French Enlightenment wrote that there is a dim flame burning in every heart — an intuition that somewhere there is a home, a happine

1817: All Rivers Flow to the Sea | Beyond Exclusivism and Hyper-Inclusivism

Westerners who take interest in Eastern Spirituality may be reacting to elements of exclusivism found in Western religion (we're right and everyone else is wrong). The sw

1816: Krishna, Vishnu and the Mystery of the Avatars

Most Vedic literature speaks from a perspective within this universe. But some reveal that this universe is just a tiny bubble among countless others — and invite us to v

1815: Watch Until the Dust Settles | Krishna's Love Never Leaves Vrindavan

It is said that Krishna never takes one step out of Vrindavan. But it appears that he does leave, and breaks the hearts of the Gopis. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustu

1814: We Crash | God's Opulences and Our Limitations

What happens when an individual soul thinks the gifts they have are their own? Why do we see so many celebrities struggle, even though they have achieved so much success?

1813: The Philosopher vs the Mystic | Understanding the Passion of the Gopīs

To the philosopher, the weeping of Krishna's lovers looks like ordinary suffering. To the mystics it's the culmination of the highest knowledge. Evelyn Underhill — first

1812: The Love Sewed in Every Stitch | Dolly Parton and the Bhagavad Gīta

It's not the coat of many colors that mattered. It was the love her momma sewed into every stitch. Dolly Parton understood something the Bhagavad Gīta states plainly: off

1811: Proust's Madeleine and Krishna's Footprints | The Power of the Senses to Transport You

A taste, a smell, a place, a song — something dormant rises suddenly from the depths. The Vedic tradition calls this Udīpana — stimuli that transport you. But where? Ragh

1810: Beneath Every Fear Is the Fear of Death

Anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, panic disorder, depression – beneath the specific symptoms of almost every mental health condition there is a fear of death at the root. T

1809: The Fish in the Water Is Thirsty | Kabir and the Departure of Gus

"I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house, and you walk from one holy c

1808: Everything on Earth Has a Purpose | Mourning Dove's Dharma

"Everything on the earth has a purpose. Every disease, an herb to cure it. And every person, a mission." Morning Dove — the first Native American women to publish a novel

1807: We're All Kings for a Moment | King Canute and the Force of Time

Commonly people speak of time as measurements – days, months, years, etc. Philosophers speak of time as the force that moves — and ultimately crushes — what we measure. T

1806: Low Self-Esteem and a Big Ego | Mike Tyson and the Keśī Demon

Low self-esteem and a big ego are two sides of the same coin. Mike Tyson saw it— there was "Iron Mike," the undefeatable persona built for the ring. And then there was th

1805: The Humility and Heroism of Accepting Your Fate

Mariano Rivera — the greatest closer in baseball history — was willing to teach his rivals exactly how to throw his most devastating pitch. He knew that, regardless of th

1804: The Love Is Gone | Gandhi on Warped Religion

People use religion it to feel superior, or to protect their position. The name and rituals remain. But the love is gone. "What passes as Christianity is a negation of th

1803: Everything Is Nothing | George Harrison and the Krishna Mantra

You need people who have everything to show you that everything is nothing. George Harrison had wealth, fame, mansions, cars — everything material desire could want. And