https://lightofdharma.com/tags/spiritual-community/ Recent content in Spiritual Community on Light of Dharma Publishing Hugo en-us Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:41:00 +0530 https://lightofdharma.com/recognizing-and-overcoming-envy-in-spiritual-communities/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:41:00 +0530 https://lightofdharma.com/recognizing-and-overcoming-envy-in-spiritual-communities/ <p>Madhava das had spent four years building something small and good. A Bhagavatam class in a rented room above a hardware store, three people the first night, then seven, then thirty. He paid for the chairs himself. He learned to cook for a crowd. On the night the room finally filled, he drove home with the windows down, lighter than he had felt in years.</p> <p>At the next festival he mentioned it to a godbrother he had known for a decade. He expected nothing. A nod, maybe. What he got was a smile and a question.</p>