Eyes Wide Shut

I have been having a debate of sorts with Mayesvara for the past few weeks, Here, Here and Here. I wasn’t surprised at what he believed to be true when it came to Gaudiya Vaishnava theology, but I was hoping he would be able to start to think for himself. In my last comment to [...]

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Update on the Hridayananda situation

The Sampradaya Sun has posted an article by Ameyatma Das where he tells people that he has made a video rebuttal of what Hridayananda said about Prabhupada and infallibility. I wrote a post about this topic a while ago called Hridayananda Goswami: “Prabhupada wasn’t perfect”.
In his video rebuttal Ameyatma tells us that sastra claims that [...]

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Back to Reality

This is a reply to a long comment by Mayesvara on the Jiv Jago post:
Clearly your idea of bhakti is based upon the theological idea that there is a strict antagonistic dichotomy between the desire to enjoy and the desire to serve Krishna. This misunderstanding is what I have written a lot about on this [...]

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Jiv Jago

This is a reply to Mayesvara’s comment on the Reality Check post:
The teaching about the desire to enjoy that actually makes sense is that conditioned souls shouldn’t spend their lives solely devoted to seeking enjoyment. There is a higher purpose in life. Not that the desire for enjoyment is bad in and of itself, it [...]

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Sripad Narayana Maharaja: The Irony and the Ecstasy

This is a reply to Mayesvara’s comments on the Reality Check post:
Mayesvara, in your comment you said:
So you are saying that Krishna’s words should be understood like this: “Though they be of lower birth, or vaisyas, or sudras or women…” In other words, lower birth is one category of people whilst women are another category [...]

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