The Backbone of our Society
Jul29

The Backbone of our Society

This routine work, such as chanting, speaking, rising early, cleaning, cooking and offering prasadam, arati, reading books these activities are the backbone of our Society, and if we practice them nicely in a regulative manner, then our whole program will be successful. If we become slack or neglect these things, then everything else we may try will fail. So it is very important that you keep your standards very high in these...

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Nitai Pada Kamala
Jul27

Nitai Pada Kamala

Dear Maharajas, Prabhus and Matajis, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. We are writing you on behalf of the Bhaktivedanta Academy, Mayapur. Recently the Mayapur authorities gave us the opportunity to be responsible for the repair and maintenance of Srila Prabhupada's Nitai Pada Kamala boat. Our plan is to have it fixed by the coming Gaura Purnima. We would like to use the Nitai Pada Kamala for...

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Air Tme
Jul23

Air Tme

This LA-Boston plane flight proved to be another one of those unexpected arrangements. We often attempt to serve Krsna on 'our time' when in actuality we are meant for service on 'His time'. While having finally reached our aisle seat, I focused on some quiet chanting as this corporate lady next to me began this loud conversation with this Corvette car collector in the window seat. The dialogue ranged from cars to...

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Prabhupada Lilamrita
Jul18

Prabhupada Lilamrita

Some lila, Last saturday I met an older mexican man at termimnal six and handed him the Srimad Bhagavatam. He told me: "Oh I know this man. I read his lifestory, so unbelievable that he came with so many years to create such a big movement here in America." So I kept talking to him a little more and he revealed to me that he was defending the rights of the workers of the airport. Especially the foreign people are exploited...

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Remembering Prabhupada
Jul18

Remembering Prabhupada

Dear Prabhus, Something happened to me in the Los Angeles Airport that made me think. I was distributing books on terminal one and talking to some lady when I heard somebody say:"They are completely bogus!" and I saw some older man pass by. So afterwards I thought: Wasn't it actually Srila Prabhupada who introduced this word for challenging the mayavadis? Perhaps somebody can confirm my idea and inspire me with some lila...

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Grandma’s Ajnata Sukrti
Jul17

Grandma’s Ajnata Sukrti

Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada I asked one devotee here in Berlin how he became a devotee, his answer was what I quite often hear, 'The Bhagavad Gita.' He was visiting his grandmothers house one day and saw this attractive looking book in her shelf so he pulled it out and started reading. He asked his grandmother where she had got it, she said she had never seen it before and...

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