https://lightofdharma.com/tags/saranagati/ Recent content in Saranagati on Light of Dharma Publishing Hugo en-us Tue, 26 May 2026 21:33:00 +0530 https://lightofdharma.com/the-russian-vaishnava-who-speaks-like-a-dostoevsky-character/ Tue, 26 May 2026 21:33:00 +0530 https://lightofdharma.com/the-russian-vaishnava-who-speaks-like-a-dostoevsky-character/ <p>The old man sat on a low cushion in a seminar room somewhere in the Russian winter, a microphone clipped to his sweater, and said the thing that froze everyone listening. Almost fifty years of chanting. Decades of service. And looking back, he said, it was all nothing. Imagination. A long, elaborate self-deception. When that realization came, he admitted, it did not humble him into peace. It pushed him to the edge of taking his own life.</p>