Blog Index

A Conference of Stones

A Presence Etched in My Heart

A Question About the Middle Way

A Reunion Story

A Spiritual Response to the Virus

Absorbed into What’s Out There

Adventure and Security

All the World’s a Stage

Bathing the Lord

Being a River—For Now

Beyond Duty

Bhagavad Gita and “Strength”

Bringing the Lord Home

Can a Religion Be Bad?

Change and the Changeless

Cosmic Person (Virāṭ)

Cosmic Play (Līlā)

Creation—Gradual or Sudden?

Death by Choice

Death, Silence, Space

Disappointment Is the First Step

Doing Dialogue Interreligiously

Four Goals?

Getting Along With People

God as Guest

God as Mother

God Is Seeing Me

God—Personal or Impersonal?

Hearing the Mantra

Interfaith Harmony and World Peace

“I Am the Resurrection”

“I Have a Mother”

Joy and Sorrow

Judge Not …

Keeping It New

Krishna, The Stealer

“Let the Rascal Be God’s Servant”

Life Above the Clouds

Life as a Series of Dreams

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Looking But Not Seeing

Looking Deeply

Looking Out, Looking In

Many Windows, One Truth

Mental Impressions (Saṁskāra)

On Relationships

Opium and the Peacock

Our Addiction to the Cosmic TV

Overcoming Loneliness

Overcoming Forgetfulness

Peace—Its Spiritual Foundation

Personal Religion

Questions About God

Questions About Me

Questions About the World

Real, Unreal, and “Apparently Real”

Religions of the World: Same or Different?

Responsive Hearing

Satsang and Antar Yoga

Sarada Devi’s Gifts (1): Hope

Sarada Devi’s Gifts (2): Love

Should Masks Go?

Social Distancing Reconsidered

Spiritual But Not Religious

Spiritual Care

Spiritual Fitness (Adhikāra)

Spiritual Maturity

Stepping Back

Study of Great Lives

The Art of Dying

The Art of Not Standing Out

The Art of Merging

The Flow

The Grandest of All Truths

The Last Day

The Many and the One Are Not Two

The Mysterious Snake

The Mystery Door

The Pseudo-Ātmans

The Ramakrishna Kalpataru

The Razor’s Edge 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

The Third Eye

The Truth in Me

The World of “Many”

This, That, and Me

Thoughts on Service

Three Rare Blessings

To a Child the Mother Comes

To Drive or Be Driven?

To Forgive or Not to Forgive

Trinity of Bondage

Trinity of Freedom

Understanding Rāma

What Is My Duty?

What Survives Death and What Doesn’t

“What’s the Point?”

Where Am I?

Where Are You Parked?

“Where Shall I Stay?”

Where Will I Go After Death?

Why?