Hare Krsna
Dear Vaisesika prabhu & Sarvatma prabhu, I read both your comments and thought they were good points. But, as both of you have distributed books with tilak and sikha showing and not showing I also have, and personally I can say my consciousness was much better with tilak and Sikha showing. I even have found that I distriute more books with tilak. This last summer I was distributing in Boston, all the seasoned book distributers...
Post Marathon talk by His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami
Post marathon talk, Johannesburg, February 2, 2003: In Vrindavan in 1977, when Srila Prabhupada was enacting his final pastimes, he appeared very sick. For weeks on end, he practically would not eat anything. Only once in a while he would take a little fruit juice or diluted milk. But Tamal Krsna Maharaja, who was Srila Prabhupada's secretary at that time, used to read out letters to him from different devotees. Srila Prabhupada...
Bhakta Steve in hospital.
Dear Vaisnavas and Vaisnavis, I just received this very sad news from Hrdaya Caitanya Prabhu the president of the Radhadesh Temple in Belgium: "I just want to let you know about some heavy incident that happened around 10 days ago. Bhakta Steve prabhu who won the Benelux Srila Prabhupada marathon one month ago was on Sankirtan in the center of Nijmegen in front of a jewellery shop and saw that guys were robbing the shop. One boy...
Book Sold on Film
Johannesburg: The shooting of an episode of the "Abhay Charan" television series is being done right now here in Johannesburg. One scene was that of a Harinam party dancing through town. [it's supposed to be Detroit in 1970]. I am playing the role of Shyamasundara Prabhu. When the scene was done, the director and cameraman asked me to discretely walk up to a group of non-devotees who were discussing among themselves...
Los Angeles SD Newsletter Vol.4 Issue 3
UNIQUE QUALITY By Mahat tattva Dasa The guy said (in a joking mood): “THIS BOOK WILL MAKE US FORTUNATE!” And that is so true. The knowledge presented in Srila Prabhupada’s books is so pure that there is nothing in this world that could be compared to it. That knowledge is completely different from everything we see around us. It is of a different quality. Just like 100 lbs of garbage cannot be compared to even a little bit of gold...