Prague, Czech
I was on a train to Prague from Berlin, while I was in my compartment chanting gayatri a young man steps in and ask if he could come in because someone in the other compartment is smoking. I invite him in and he starts a conversation while I'm chanting gayatri, what to do. Then as he's eating his cake I take it as a chance to finish. Then we started talking, it turns out that he is from Culver City California, where I was...
Los Angeles. SD Newsletter Vol. 3, Issue 16
SRILA PRABHUPADA LOCAL LIBRARIES Letter to Jagadisa I am so pleased to know that your efforts at placing our books in the local libraries is successful and it is especially heartening to learn that they already have got our books on their shelves. EVERYTHING WILL BE DESTROYED Srimad Bhagavatam 6.10.6 Cäëakya Paëòita says, san-nimitte varaà tyägo vinäçe niyate sati: everything within this...
Los Angeles SD Newsletter Vol. 3, Issue 16
VANCA KALPA… PLACES OF PILGRIMAGE By Mahat-tattva das Srila Prabhupada said he would never die, that he would live forever in his books. When two of Prabhupäda's sannyäsés were taking leave of him, he smiled pleasingly and said, “I may stay or go, but in my books I will live forever." When he heard that forty thousand hardbound books had been distributed in one week, he said, “If book...
Be an Instrument
H.H Hridayananda Goswami, "Yes; one should be humble. But at the same time one should recognize the incredible opportunities which Prabhupada is offering us to represent him in a very significant way. It reminds me of a phrase from the Bible which is inscribed on the Philosophy building, Emerson Hall, at Harvard University. I am sure it is a tremendous embarrassment to the current occupants of that building, who are often...
The Backbone of our Society
This routine work, such as chanting, speaking, rising early, cleaning, cooking and offering prasadam, arati, reading books these activities are the backbone of our Society, and if we practice them nicely in a regulative manner, then our whole program will be successful. If we become slack or neglect these things, then everything else we may try will fail. So it is very important that you keep your standards very high in these...
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