Philosophy
By editor - 22.2 2024
In several Vedic texts, living entities are classified into four categories based on the type of birth: (a) Andaj, born from an egg, (b) Svedaja, born from sweat, (c) Udbhija, born from a seed, and (d) Jarāyuja, born from a womb. These four descriptions are...Read more...
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By editor - 22.2 2024
We often see debates between personalists and impersonalists regarding the “size” of Brahman. The impersonalist says that Brahman is infinite and therefore it cannot be reduced to a form. Form, according to the impersonalist, especially understood...Read more...
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By editor - 22.2 2024
There is no equivalent of the term Atheist in the Vedic tradition. But there is a word—Nāstika—that describes an intellectual position little different from Atheism. Nāstika comprises two roots—na (which means not) and asti (which means it is)....Read more...
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By editor - 14.12 2023
This philosophy was established by Sripad Sankaracarya, in order to refute Buddhistic doctrine.
The Mayavadis believe that the Supreme Truth is brahman or spiritual energy which is unlimited, without form, qualities, or activity. According to Mayavada philosophy, all...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 27.11 2023
Baul Singers, Painting by Jamini Roy
The last in a series on various unbonafide sampradayas.
Bauls
"The bauliyas, or baulas, are one of thirteen unauthorized sects that pass as followers of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The Lord ordered Govinda, His...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 24.11 2023
Smarta-brahmanas
A 7-part overview of various unbonafide sampradayas.
"There is a hereditary class of brahmanas called the smarta-brahmanas, however, who are of the opinion that even if such persons who are chanting the holy name of the...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 23.11 2023
Shada Bhuja Caitanya
A 7-part overview of various unbonafide sampradayas.
"There is a class of devotees called Gauranga-nagari, who stage plays of Krsna's pastimes using a vigraha, or form, of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. This is a mistake that is...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 20.11 2023
Sakhibekhis
A 7-part overview of various unbonafide sampradayas.
Srila Prabhupada: "Ha hanta ha hanta visa-bhaksana... Caitanya Mahaprabhu said this sex is the more dangerous than drinking poison for person who are going to advance in spiritual...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 17.11 2023
Enticement of Sex Life
A 7-part overview of various unbonafide sampradayas.
"When the world becomes degraded, civilization becomes demoniac, and for the common man the rectum and the genital are taken very seriously as the centers of all...Read more...
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By editor - 16.11 2023
100: THE HONEST THIEVES
After stealing some property, a group of thieves assembled together and the leader said, "Let us divide this booty honestly and religiously."
MORAL: They are thieves. What is the question of honesty? Similarly,...Read more...
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By editor - 15.11 2023
61: THE WOMAN WHO LOST HER BABY
There was a lady going around the village asking, "Where is my baby? Did you see my baby?" And everyone she asked simply laughed at her. She couldn't understand why they were laughing. Finally she went to a sadhu. She...Read more...
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By editor - 15.11 2023
1: CLOSE THE DOOR
An employer advertised for an opening in his firm and received many applications. Based on these, he selected two men and asked them to come for an interview. The employer then observed each man carefully during the interview. When...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 15.11 2023
Religious Mendicants in Benares
A 7-part overview of various unbonafide sampradayas.
Srila Prabhupada: "There were thirteen pseudo Vaisnavas, thirteen sects: Aula, Baula, Karttabhaja, Neda, Daravesa, Sani, Sahajiya, Sakhibheki. Sani community... You have...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 13.11 2023
Unbonafide Sampradayas
Baul musician, Ramakrishna Mission, Kabir, Kartabhajas, Swami Sivananda (top right, clockwise)
A 7-part overview of various unbonafide sampradayas.
"There are four Vaisnava sampradayas (systems) of disciplic...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 23.10 2023
Sri Madhvacarya
Sri Madhvacarya's appearance is observed on October 23rd.
vede ramayane caiva purane bharate tatha
adavante ca madhye ca visnu sarvatra giyate
Harivamsa
"In the Vedas, Ramayana, Puranas and the Mahabharata, from the...Read more...
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By editor - 11.10 2023
The philosophy of Sri Vaishnavism is known in Sanskrit as Visistadvaita. The term literally means ``non-duality of Reality as characterized by attributes.'' As a classical expression of Vedanta (the philosophical basis for much of Hinduism), the goal of...Read more...
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By Chaitanya Charan - 15.9 2023
From Revati Vallabh Pr:
Sometimes different Vaishnava acharays give different meanings of the same scriptural verse. Which is the original, actual meaning of the verse? If the same verse can have multiple interpretations, then how can some...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 15.8 2023
A lecture by Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, New Vrindavana.
So every Vaisnava, every devotee of Krsna, pure devotee of Krsna, is a paramahamsa. We are teaching people to become immediately paramahamsa, the highest stage of sannyasa. The...Read more...
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By Stephen Knapp - 30.6 2023
Reincarnation is called samsara in the classic Vedic texts of India. The word samsara is Sanskrit and means being bound to the cycle of repeated birth and death...Read more...
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By Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami - 22.6 2023
Which way does one go in moments of despair?
LORD KRSNA HAS TWO ENERGIES, material and spiritual, but they can be used interchangeably if one knows how. Just as the same electricity can be used to heat or cool a building, so Krsna’s...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 15.3 2023
Conversations wtih HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, excerpted from Dialectical Spiritualism: A Vedic View of Western Philosophy.
IX. UTILITARIANISM AND POSITIVISM
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
Hayagriva dasa: In Essay on Nature, Mill writes:...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 9.2 2023
Vasudeva–Narayana
"Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha constitute this second quadruple. They are purely transcendental."
"Purport: Sripada Sankaracarya has misleadingly explained the quadruple form (catur-vyuha) in his...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 8.2 2023
Lord Caitanya Defeats the Mayavadi Philosophers.
"The Puranas are called supplementary Vedic literatures. Because sometimes in the original Vedas the subject matter is too difficult for the common man to understand, the Puranas explain matters simply by the...Read more...
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By editor - 6.1 2023
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Śrīla Prabhupāda: “What is known in India as sanātana-dharma, or “the eternal religion,” is meant for this living spirit. That is to say, real spiritualism is transcendental to the various religions that focus on the gross material body or...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 2.1 2023
The last in a six-part summary of the primary schools of classic Indian philosophy.
The Vedanta School
"In summary it should be understood that all these materialistic philosophers have tried to avoid the Supreme Personality of Godhead by putting forward...Read more...
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