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Essays
May 19, 2026
Fresh and Easy
A produce store in Southern California sparks a reflection on the ever-fresh, easy nature of bhakti yoga.
May 18, 2026
Overnight Success
A reflection from a Bangkok airport on Messi's 17 years of training — and the patience required in devotional service.
May 18, 2026
Appreciation
Vaisesika Dasa explores the profound nature of appreciation, particularly in the context of bhakti-yoga, where recognizing the devotional service of others deepens one's own connection to the divine. He highlights how appreciation is an inherent quality of the soul, culminating in pure love for Krishna and His devotees.
May 18, 2026
Want to change Stress to Serenity? Read this.
A disturbed mind brings anxiety. Mantra meditation runs like an antivirus program for the mind — clearing the noise so inner peace can surface.
May 18, 2026
Advent of the Bhagavad-gita
The Bhagavad-gita is our wake-up call — but we must be ready to hear it. A reflection on Arjuna's surrender and the mood in which Krishna's words can truly enter the heart.
May 18, 2026
The Four Questions
Four questions, asked honestly, can quietly rearrange a life. This is a short reading companion to the book that returns to them again and again.
May 18, 2026
Our Family Business
Every family is in some kind of business together — the question is what we are quietly producing. This is a small reading companion to the book.
May 18, 2026
A Few Quiet Questions, Briefly Answered
A short, plain-language FAQ for newer readers — the questions that arrive most often, answered without ceremony.
May 18, 2026
Serve Selflessly and Be Happy
I went into the shop for one pair of walking shoes. The salesperson held up two boxes — yellow or blue? — and a small, familiar anxiety arrived right on cue.
May 18, 2026
Our Preparation Leads Us to Our Destination
The verb prepare means: to make something ready for use. Wise people, across very different traditions, keep coming back to it.
May 18, 2026
Two Rabbits
If you chase two rabbits, the old saying goes, both will escape. The Gita, in its own register, says nearly the same thing.
May 18, 2026
A Little More Water, Please
During a long drought, I dialled the garden's automatic watering down. Two months later it was wilted. A five-percent increase brought it back.
May 18, 2026
Are You Whole-y?
The word holy is a near-cousin of whole, of healthy, and of an older English word, hale, meaning strong. Holiday is simply a compound: holy + day.
May 18, 2026
Cultivate Gratitude
Greed, whatever you give it, has only one word for you: more. Gratitude is the divine quality that turns toward whatever was given and quietly returns the kindness.
May 18, 2026
Sunshine Energy in Unlimited Flavors
All our food is, in the end, sunlight rearranged. The world could have given us one fruit. It gave us thousands.
May 18, 2026
Is the World Working Against You?
A small wild bird, frightened by a much larger figure trying to set it free, becomes — for a quiet hour at the kitchen table — a strangely accurate portrait of the soul.
May 18, 2026
From Stress to Serenity
The Yoga Sutras describe the mind much the way an engineer describes software — and the impressions our senses absorb each day, the vrittis, behave a great deal like viruses.
May 18, 2026
You Are an Atma
You are an atma, a spiritual entity that has nothing at all to do with this material world. You cannot be killed, cut, burned, or drowned. You are eternal. Feel better now?
May 18, 2026
The Quiet Discipline of the Senses
Bhakti yogis carefully control their senses and minds — not by force, but by giving them something better to do: service to Krishna and Krishna's devotees.
May 16, 2026
The Khatvanga Moment
Measured by geological time, our lifespans are not even a nanosecond. Yet the bhakti scriptures insist this brief flicker is enough for anyone to attain spiritual perfection — provided we do not wait.