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What a Scene
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. As I was speaking to someone in the airport, a man came up to me who was so nasty cussing and criticizing that the person I was speaking to left. Then the nasty man got even worse. He was so loud that everyone in the airport lobby, whether at the ticket counter, the gift shop, or the restaurant, turned their head to look. He had a real foul mouth, this critic. I considered leaving, but then I thought he might throw my books around. Anyway, I just sort of...
read moreBattlefield Bhajans Vol. 26
Battlefield Bhajans Vol. 26 written in Olympia, WA Dedicated to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Halloween Krishna's We have a tradition in my unit to dress up every year before Halloween and go for a run around base. Since it was so cold, I decided to not dress up and stay warm. As the first sergeant told everyone with a costume to come in front of the formation and we are going to vote on who has the best costume. Their were so many people dressed up, we had basketball players, skateboarders, a cat burglar; even two...
read moreA Higher Taste
At the airport, one of the supervisors was famous for his anger. Somehow one day he stopped to ask about a vegetarian cookbook. He didn't want to hear about anything else — especially chanting. He just wanted to lose some weight by eating a vegetarian diet for awhile. He loved his meat and had to have it — five hamburgers at a time — but just for a short time, to lose weight, he wanted to eat only a vegetarian diet. So I gave him "The Higher Taste." I also gave him some prasadam, which he loved. The next time I...
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Battlefield Bhajans Vol. a5 Written en-route to LA Dedicated to HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada " I grew up a Bhuddist…" I met with my lawyer this week, and the first thing she asked me was " What religion are you?" I told her I was a Hare Krishna, and she explained that she grew up buddhist. I asked her why she wanted to know. She went on to tell me how she called my cell about our appointment and left a message. My voice mail was interesting to her, so she googled Krsna. She asked me to explain some aspects...
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Hare Krsna, A devotee in New Zealand has just received his masters degree in accounting, based on his thesis 'Spiritual Accounting,' (accounting at the masters and PhD levels means not number crunching, but dealing with the precepts underlying the entire accounting system). The new wave of accounting attacks the old school of concerning itself with only fiscal profit/loss. The new school says accounting should include ecological, physical health, and inner happiness evaluations–not just the bucks. This devotee presented his...
read moreDoor to Door
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. This is in response to Mishra Bhagavan's nice stories of his experience doing door to door preaching. Recently I heard Mother Akuti tell this story, Srila Prabhupada was in his garden in Los Angeles reading Krsna Book with his disciples. They were reading about Lord Krsna steeling butter and getting into trouble. Mother Yasoda chastized Krsna, but He was so naughty that he and his friends passed urine on the clean floor. The devotees were all laughing...
read moreThe Nectar of Door to Door Book Distribution
Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. Al glories to Srila Prabhupada. Sri Rangavati Dasi and I decided to try some door to door sankirtan while we were in Dallas over the weekend. Srila Prabhupada wrote in his books 90 times that devotees go door to door to spread the teachings of Lord Krsna. Compared to public places I find door to door to be slow. Although less books get sold in the same amount of time, there is a charming painlessness to this approach. You do not have to stop people. They come to the door. We chose a block near...
read moreBus Sankirtan from Madhumangala dasa
Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to your Guru Maharaj, all glories to our most dearly beloved Srila Prabhupada, all glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga, all glories to the sankirtan devotees of the Lord! Our bus from Johannesburg to Durban, (I had gone to join the sankirtan devotees from Pretoria and Lenasia, to distribute books at the 3-day Lucky Fish Music Festival), which was scheduled to depart at 11 am, after nearly 3 hours finally arrived. The waiting passengers began to get extremely frustrated as they...
read moreBattlefield Bhajans Vol. 24
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I haven't written any journal in sometime due to a serious illness requiring me to be admitted to Stanford hospital. I am slowly recovering and think I jumped to fast into traveling. So i have slowed down a little and am recovering now. Things with the Army are moving along. Everyone is really pushing for my release, and as it looks we are 90% finished with the military. Now I don't have a job and my supervisor told me to stay at home and chant...
read moreSrila Prabhupada’s Mercy on Mad Mick
Told by Bhaktin Annette to Kalyani Devi Dasi This is a story which proves that the mercy of Srila Prabhupada flows like the river Ganga, reaching those souls others cannot. A few years ago, in a small village in Roscommon County, one of the most rural parts of Ireland, there lived a man by the name of Michael Henmore. He never married and at an early life became a hermit. He had few possessions except a cow, a horse and a cart, and a small house that time had forgotten. He lived without running water or electricity. Every few days he would...
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