Krishna will be there
Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. After the dust settled after the Lollapalooza concert I moved north to Wisconsin. I visited my friend Bhagavan Acarya. It's alway's nice visiting him because all I hear out of his mouth are stories from Radha Damodara TSKP and Srila Prabhupada etc. He told me he was in Atlanta in 1975 with Radha Damodara when they all got to go upstairs and have a personal Darshan with Srila Prabhupada. He said that even though he wasn't sure if he was allowed he...
read moreFollowing the Editorial Audit Trail
By Madhava Smullen In the late 1990s, a BBT conference handling questions from translators sparked a renewed interest in the history of Srila Prabhupada’s books. To give satisfactory answers, BBT staff found they often had to go back to early manuscripts, Prabhupada’s dictated tapes, or original Sanskrit or Bengali texts. This wasn’t new to Govinda Madhava Dasa, who’d served with the BBT since 1980 and as North European production manager had overseen book production in forty languages. He decided it was worth further...
read moreBattlefield Bhajans Vol. 16
Battlefield Bhajans Vol 16 Dedicated to Srila Prabhupada, who by his mercy is allowing me assist him in some way Last Mangala Arati The ashram is officaly closed. Because we have to make room for our replacments, I had to move in with another senior leader in my unit. Before I moved I asked my detachment sergeant, if I could have one more day to do a last morning program. I sent out the invitations, and in the morning of the program, I set up a book table and made a small feast. I woke up extra early and woke the Lords, and started chanting...
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Battlefield Bhajans Vol. 15 Dedicated to HDG A.C. Bhativedanta Swami Prabhupada Transcendental Karaoke Only two and half more weeks left. So missions are slowing down, for me because of my operation I have been on no missions and taking it very easy. My focus has been on hearing and chanting and trying to absorb myself in Srila Prabhupada's books. My soldiers came and got me because I have been in my room for so long. So they took me to the local morale and welfare facility, and as we walked in I saw it's karaoke. We watched some guys...
read moreBook Distribution at Los Angeles Ratha Yatra
During the Ratha Yatra devotees distributed 3,000 little packets of Krsna's mercy, these packets contained a Reservoir of Pleasure, prasad, a Jaganath sticker and an invitation to the temple. It was so nice to see our little vaisnava youth distributing these little packs of mercy. This year we had six tables at the festival site. The festival was filled with people getting the mercy of Krsna in so many ways, prasad, books the holy name and the association of devotees. I was at the main table near the entrance. I was fortunate to have next...
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