Aisvarya and the Monks
Krsna's working in everyone's heart, including, dare I say it; Buddhist monks. Actually, these days Buddhism is so watered down that many of its adherents believe in God. Needless to say in their minds God is Buddha… and by a funny twist of fate they're right. I keep getting this mental snapshot of showing a Bhagavad-Gita to a Tibetan Buddhist Monk. We were both shaved-up, standing at the edge of a parking lot; he in...
Letter by Manidhara Prabhu
Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Before the marathon, I asked His Grace Manidhara Prabhu about wearing Tilak during book distribution. He gave me permission to post his reply, which is as follows: Question: Did you wear Tilak when you did book distribution with Rohinisuta Prabhu in the seventies? I am asking because several times Srila Prabhupada states that the devotees may wear...
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...




