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Approaches to Prayer

Thursday, February 24, 2011

From our weekly discussions, it seems that even among those who believe in God, our approaches to God/religion vary. For the most part, I’ve noticed two main ways of thinking of God/religion. Of course,  many of us probably mix both approaches together in our practice of religion. Also, please correct me if you’ve noticed other views, or if [...]

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A beautiful verse on Kṛṣṇa

Friday, October 15, 2010

This is a gorgeous verse on Kṛṣṇa, in a style that I’ve never seen before. I found it in Michael Coulson’s Teach Yourself Sanskrit (which is a good heavy introduction to the language, but no substitute for personal instruction ), and I was immediately struck by its unusualness of description.
mand(r)a-kvāṇita-veṇur ahni śithile vyāvartayan [...]

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Go Not To the Temple….

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

A friend recently sent me this poem; I hadn’t read it before, but I really liked it — so I thought to share it! It definitely captures the way I think about religion, as something that should be applied to our lives, not as something restricted to what we do in a temple.

Go Not To [...]

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