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Erotic Spirituality - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

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I also believe that we need to articulate a distinct<br />

spirituality that involves guidance but not<br />

intrusive authority; discipleship and the<br />

willingness to learn from anyone but not mindless<br />

submission to a master; self-discipline but not<br />

excessive self-mortification; self-knowledge but<br />

not obsessive self-watching; and constancy but not<br />

dogmatic adherence to principles or practices.<br />

Above all, the new spirituality should overcome<br />

the dualistic opposition between heart and brain,<br />

body and mind, Heaven and Earth, God and<br />

creature, and one person and another. It should<br />

appreciate that life is a palette splashed with<br />

colors: Reality, or the numinous, irrevocably<br />

inheres in and is all things. (212-13)<br />

I call this new spirituality <strong>Universalist</strong> <strong>Radha</strong>-<br />

<strong>Krishnaism</strong> or natural devotion.

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