Shrila B.R. Sridhar Maharaj From the Archives Ashé Journal #3.2, 2004. Why does our consciousness come down and cannot have a higher conception of higher spiritual existence, but our attention is drawn to some material thing? We think some medicine, or some intoxication can help us. When I cannot...
Variations of the Vaisnava School of Krishna Devotion By Phil Hine From the Archives Ashé Journal #2.4, 2003. Western pagans seeking for queer-positive themes & representations in Indian mysticism have tended to focus on popularized notions of Tantra, possibly due to Tantra’s supposed emphasis on ‘sacred sexuality.’ In this...
by Gail Gutradt From the Archives Ashé Journal 2.1, 2003. 24 January, 2001, Allahabad, India After a week of wandering through dusty Mela grounds, sitting with gnarly, ganja-smoking Naga Babas practicing various degrees of intense tapasya, sleeping on stone floors, eating endless ghee-glistening chapatis with dal and subjie, sneezing and...
Letter from Syamasundara dasa From the Archives Ashé Journal #2.3, 2003. Please accept my best wishes, and most humble obeisances. All glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Where would any of us be had He not so mercifully come to the West? What would any Westerner...
by Shri Gurudev Mahendranath From the Archives Ashé Journal, Vol 2, Issue 4, 2003. The Lodestar and explicate of our way of life. The Laboratory and working notes as guidelines to Think. Being the terminal scribe scrawl of Shri Gurudev. The Nathas have or will find that most dynamic grouping...