Please read this text in its entirety before reading Vraja Journal any further.

An obvious question after the note on my revised spiritual course is one concerning the future of Vraja Journal — even if it isn't likely to be the greatest of questions in the readers' minds following the announcement. It needs to be addressed nonetheless.

Someone actually wrote to me a while back, insisting that I must either change my tone to one that is faithful to the Radhakund babaji tradition (following my writings on some of its corruption), or otherwise change the name of the site to something else. While I am rarely one to bow to the thought police, the old site description is obviously no longer relevant.

The word vraja has a dual meaning. The meanings we are more accustomed to are "cattle-shed", "station of herdsmen" and so forth, meanings tied with the actual geographical location. The primary dictionary meanings of vraja however are "way" and "road", as also "wandering" and "roaming" — which are very much on the mark. I'll do a slight retouch of the journal style in the days to come as a symbolic shift to mark its next phase; the wanderer's journal.

With this, I wish to be clear in noting — although it perhaps goes without saying — that you shouldn't expect future content to conform to a orthodox Gaudiya Vaisnava point of view. Those among the orthodox Gaudiyas with pliable faiths will want to reconsider their habit of visiting my journal. If you don't stop reading the journal here and now, don't hold me responsible for the possible effects my future writings may have on you. You have been warned.

I will be writing, time and inspiration permitting, on many of the issues that led to my shift of direction. With hordes of taboos dissolved with my absolution from doctrinal conformance, I am now in a more comfortable position to openly discuss issues that may have been bothering or perplexing many. While I am obviously not going to say anything objectively bad, and while I seek to write only for giving rise to goodness and wisdom, not everyone will be happy with future writings appearing on this site.

That said, I wish to reiterate that I have no objective in persuading anyone to believe or disbelieve in any particular manner. Those who are mature enough to take my writings for what they are and explore the content in a critical and reflective spirit are welcome to keep reading. The rest are encouraged to quit reading here and now and focus on their spiritual practice of choice while finding safer sources of inspiration.