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More Mercy from Lord Nrsimhadeva
by Manidhara das It was sometime in the year 1979. The city was Freiburg, South Germany. It has several small shopping streets connected with small water channels at the sides of the city. As I distributed in one of the small side streets I could suddenly hear the shouts of people. Then I saw a big crazy man running around half naked, attacking people with a big leather belt. A very unusual sight. I decided to turn into another side street to stay away from the trouble and kept on distributing. Again the screams came, only closer this time,...
read moreIn Convent Gardens, London
by Candrasekhar Aacarya Dasa In Convent Gardens, near the Soho temple, I met a young man as he walked along with a very beautiful girl. I asked him, "Is this beautiful lady your girlfriend?" He replied modestly yet with confidence, "Yes, she is." I said, "Wow. That's great." I continued, joking, "But you know what? This ancient scripture from India says that when a man has a very beautiful wife or girlfriend, it's actually a curse in disguise because he always anxiously thinks, "Is she going to...
read moreThe Friend of everyone
This verse describes the qualifications for devotees or persons highly elevated in spiritual consciousness. Devotees are always equal to everyone, seeing no distinction between lower and higher classes. pasitah sama-darinah [Bg. 5.18]. They look upon everyone as a spirit soul who is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord. Thus they are competent to search for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Understanding that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the friend of everyone (suhdan sarva-bhaktanam [Bg. 5.29]), they act as friends of...
read moreBook Distribution is Chowpatti
You definitely wouldn't want to give him a second look. A tall wily fellow bearded and with unkempt hair and sullen eyes was simply gazing through me. He pushed himself nearer to me. As I pulled back defensively, his person was repelling enough as he was stinking of alcohol. His trousers had probably seen a dozen summers unwashed and his shirt was jazzily incongruent with his dreary personality. Wanting to avoid an embarrassing confrontation, I gave him a half-nervous smile, hoping he retraces his steps, realizing he won't get...
read moreEngland Preaching
Dear Prabhu's, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Recently while in England I heard about some dynamic preaching activities. The sankirtan devotees go to a remote town around London, distribute books for one week and give out invitations to a program at the end of the week. The program is called "Meet the Monks". At every program there are twenty to thirty people attending. Krpa Maya das, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada is the inspiration behind these transcendental meetings. For those of you who...
read moreThe 108th aniversary of Prabhupada’s appearence
Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! While in Vrndavana, Lokanath Maharaja invited me into his room to talk about the 108th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada's appearance day, which is being observed this year until Gaurapurnima 2005 . As many of you know, he is the minister of Padayatra and the person who headed up the very successful 1996 centennial celebration. He plans on again increasing padayatras worldwide on this occasion. To celebrate this event, we also want to do something for the...
read moreMilk farmer preaching
Please accept our humble obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada, all glories to Sri-Sri-Panca-Tattva. While doing travelling sankirtan in the countryside of Finland, we sometimes by milk straightly from the farms. On the warm up week for Sri Nrsmha-marathon our skt-group was travelling in countryside of south Finland, and I followed by bus one day later. I just arrived when boys had finished their distribution and Avadhuta Candra prabhu asked me to drive us to one farm for milk. He told this one farmer had bought Bhakti-yoga, and man...
read moreI Had Never Been So Crushed
In the early 80's Radhanatha Swami started preaching in Chowpatti, he had one small room in the complex that they now have, and just a few devotees with him. Now they have a large and very beautiful temple hall, five guest rooms, and facility for sixty brahmacaries to live in. 95% of these devotees have college degrees. Some were doctors, lawyers, engineers, very qualified materially and now by the mercy of Lord Gauranga and His devotees, spiritually as well. I asked Gauranga Prabhu, a graduate from the most prestigious university in...
read moreAfrica preaching
In 1996 we were doing Padayatra from town to town. An advance party would ask a village chief or local king for a place for us to stay, which worked out quite well. But there was one village where the leaders would not give us a place to stay. This was a big cause of anxiety. Someone told the devotees that there was a school down the street, so the advanced party went to see the principal. To their surprise, as soon as he saw the devotees he rose from his seat and offered obeisances. He explained to the devotees that he has been chanting Hare...
read more“Our life will be successful” sent by Bhakti Vikasa Swami
As recommended by Srila Rupa Gosvami, tasmat kenapy upayena manah krsne nivesayet (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.2.4) [SB 7.1.32]. Somehow or other, whether one thinks of Krsna as an ordinary human child, as the source of the Brahman effulgence, as the origin of Paramatma, or as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one should concentrate one's full attention upon the lotus feet of Krsna. That is also the instruction of Bhagavad-gita (18.66): sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja. Srimad-Bhagavatam is the easiest way of directly...
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