Defeating the Illusory Energy
Jan31

Defeating the Illusory Energy

There is one young girl with a young child who has been visiting the temple in Los Angeles. However her boyfriend, the father to her child, did not like it. He ended up babysitting and making angry phone calls to her while she was trying to do service at the temple, (why are you leaving your child for so long? how could you do this? why do you like that Hare Krishna anyway?) He did not like the devotees. She is a generally a good...

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That smells like Krishna
Jan30

That smells like Krishna

I had a short window of time for books the other day, so I went to Cuba St. It was an odd time of the day, but Krishna is in control so I thought that He could make the right people come by even at this time, even in this weather. Sure enough, I met some wonderful souls, but the last encounter was striking. This young man wears all black and has several piercings and tattoos. As he walked by, he was focused on filling his cigarette...

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Madhumangala in South Africa
Jan29

Madhumangala in South Africa

One Saturday, waiting in the car park with the devotees who were having a swim at the beach after a long harinam downtown, I approached a tattooed surfer guy loading his surf board onto the back of his truck. I introduced myself and told him that I was a travelling monk. "You're a monk, that right?" I told him that I was based in San Diego, where surfing is part of the local culture, and that he should there one day. We...

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Book Distribution in Ukraine
Jan29

Book Distribution in Ukraine

Yesterday after a seminar I gave at the annual maha festival in Russia I asked if any of the Sankirtan devotees had any stories they would like to share, so one devotee told us of this incident: He was going door to door in one posh office complex in South Ukraine, when he went to one office he met a man that was very interested in reading the books. He was going through a change in his life, he wanted to know about God, and give up...

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Krsna and His devotees arrive just in time
Jan28

Krsna and His devotees arrive just in time

Hare Krsna, We meet many wonderful souls today at Silicon Valley, one of them was Ida who was here from Dallas for training, she was so happy to receive a copy of BG and was very much enthusiastic to learn about Krishna consciousness. She thanked us so many times and kept saying we were sent to her by someone, as she was feeling stressed out and low and kept thinking about past and was just sad. Just then we knocked on her door and...

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Book distribution in Slovenia
Jan28

Book distribution in Slovenia

Recently I was in Ljubljana, Slovenia. They have a very nice team of sankirtan devotees dedicated to distributing Srila Prabhupada's books. I asked one of the sankirtan devotees Lamancita Prabhu, the sankirtan leader how he joined. He said, "When I was in school my physical education coach started talking to me about Krsna and the philosophy. He gave me some books, and I found them a little interesting. The next year I was...

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