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Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga! A few weeks ago we were visiting Tampere Finland on travelling sankirtana. I met an old man, who was in a nice shape and was quite cheerful. He told me he is almost ninety years old. I asked him whether he had been to the war. "Not only one but four wars, the Winter War, the Continuation War, the War of Lapland and the War against the British (which they waged during the II world war against...
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Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. While distributing books at a college in Los Angeles, I met a student who told me that when he was three years old he had said to his mother, "I'm older than you. I've lived many lives." His mother had then said to him, "Oh, that's called reincarnation, son." He said to me, "So I've always been interested in spiritual life and reincarnation." I explained to him that the goal is to get out of the cycle of birth...
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Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to to Srila Prabhupada. When I saw the advertisement that Carlos Santana was coming to play in the Rio Grande Valley it was hard not to get tickets for the concert and distribute books. My wife and I began the journey by frying up a batch of curd and cauliflower samosas in golden ghee, offering them to Pancha Tattva, and placing them in a red-riding hood type basket. Arriving at the parking lot in dhoti, sari, and tilak, we took the basket of samosas to the stage entrance of the...
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"And begging is bad. To keep the people, whole population, in terrified condition, that is very good, and if anyone in a humble way begs, that is bad. This is your culture. Vedic way allows the brahmacari to beg just to learn humbleness, not beggar. Coming from very big, big family all family, they practice it. This is not begging. This is to learn how to become humble and meek". Room Conversation Excerpt, February 4, 1977, Calcutta The Vedic system of begging has been transcendentally adopted by Srila Prabhupada for the modern...
read moreBattlefield Bhajans Vol. 23
Scared from the War I boarded the flight from JFK to LAX, and hoped to catch up on some rest. As I looked for my seat I noticed the man sitting next to me was an amputee. I sat down and made some small talk with him. It turned out he lost his legs to a roadside blast in Iraq. I explained to him that I was a soldier also and showed my id card. He asked if I saw anything crazy there. My friend, too much… is what i responded. He looked down and with a sad expression explained how now he drinks all the time and is very depressed. As he...
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By Partha-sarathi Dasa written at Bhaktivedanta Ashram, NYC I am sitting in New York City now, looking out the window and thinking how fortunate we are to have this movement. Below on the street people are running from here to there, with no goal or purpose. No realization of what the purpose of this life is. It is very sad, and it breaks the heart of a devotee to see this. I just arrived from Washington, DC, and the monitor in the cab said, “If eating meat was a religion, then consider us your church.” It was an ad for a steak...
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written at Bhaktivedanta Ashram, NYC I am sitting in New York City now, looking out the window and thinking how fortunate we are to have this movement. Below on the street people are running from here to there, with no goal or purpose. No realization of what the purpose of this life is. It is very sad, and it breaks the heart of a devotee to see this. I just arrived from Washington, DC, and the monitor in the cab said, "If eating meat was a religion, then consider us your church." It was an ad for a steak house. I was blown away....
read moreThe Attitude of all Preachers
The author of Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, Srila Rupa Gosvami, very humbly submits that he is just trying to spread Krsna consciousness all over the world, although he humbly thinks himself unfit for this work. That should be the attitude of all preachers of the Krsna consciousness movement, following in the footsteps of Srila Rupa Gosvami. We should never think of ourselves as great preachers, but should always consider that we are simply instrumental to the previous acaryas, and simply by following in their footsteps we may be able to do...
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Battlefield Bhajans Vol. 21 written from Potomac, Maryland Now I am back from Iraq and transitioning from a war zone, to another war zone. The war zone I am in now is a field of material desires and wants. I pray that I can take the lessons I learned in Iraq and apply them and not become a casualty of war. I recently went to San Jose to visited my adoptive parents, HG Vaisesika Prabhu and his wife Mother Nirakula. While on my flight I was reading and the man next to me asked about the book I was reading. I explained I was reading the Caitanya...
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Dear prabhus, Pleace accept my humble obesiences.All glories to Srila Prabhupada! A few weeks ago I went to distribute Prabhupadas books door to door in Slovakia. I met one girl who had cancer. Her name was Jana. She was happy to see me and she took two books. Before I left I promised that I will come again soon. A few days later I found out she was in the hospital. I went there and found her in a place where they send people to die. She was so happy to see me again. I preached Krsna conscious philosophy to her and also to all the family...
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