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"Who is God? Is He just an abstract concept conceived in the bewildered mind looking for some real meaning to life? Fruitive activity seems to be the obvious solution to redress mental ailments. 'Just go wherever the sense impulses take you and you will be alright. If you feel like eating something now, go for it. Want to indulge in intoxication, why not give it a try?' When the pattern of repeated acceptance and rejection, happiness and dissatisfaction, is recognized, the search continues for a higher truth. Perhaps there is something beyond this temporary realm. Maybe there is a supreme...

"If you sway from the mission, Lakshmana's exceedingly violent, vehement, ghastly and sharp arrows, travelling very fast and being difficult to even look at, will make you their target for destruction." (Hanuman speaking to Angada, Valmiki Ramayana, Kishkindha Kand, 54.19)

Hanuman Sowing Dissension is a collection of eleven essays discussing the verses in the Ramayana where Hanuman uses the divide and conquer method of diplomacy to try to get Angada to continue on in the search for Sita instead of give up.

"As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.13)

"What we refer to as death is nothing more than the changing of bodies. For example, we were all infants at one point in our life, though we have no memory of it. We take it on authority from our parents that we were indeed once small children who roamed around in tiny bodies, not having much intelligence. As we became adults, what changed? The body,...

In dream one moment you're dwelling upon, And then the next moment it is gone. The universal manifestation in son's mouth to see, Then in an instant Yashoda from vision set free. To loving her beautiful son she returned, In process a deep respect for God was earned. But devotion in maternal affection not to stop, Concern for darling of Vrindavana she couldn't drop. Thus know there is higher state than reverence, Love in bhakti-rasa God's preference.

"Yashoda's son" is a collection of twenty-one essays discussing the pastime where Lord Krishna shows the universal form to mother Yashoda.

If you are like most people, you want to achieve things during your time on earth. Like many of us, you may find your hopes to achieve your goals stifled by burdens, some of your own making and some not. Does this mean your hoped-for dreams of achievements are dashed?

According to author Rev. Mary Mercy's book, God Is Turning Your Miseries to Missiles: Your Tears into Joy, it absolutely does not. She shares her beliefs and faith to show how God uses what may seem like burdens to defeat the Enemy-Satan. Regardless of your religious background, her stories will stir you to...