26 August 2018 Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. KINDLY POST THIS ON YOUR TEMPLE NOTICE BOARDS. Caturmasya and Monsoon is upon us, and the Samadhi Dome is quite damp inside because there was leaking from the Kalash base at the top. We repairedContinue Reading
So far your road-show is concerned, we are not meant for giving performances, we are simple kirtana men. There must always be kirtana going on wherever we travel, and nothing else. In this connection refer to the GBC letter which will be sent to you shortly by Karandhara and Syamasundara.Continue Reading
tatas te niryayur gopāḥ svaṁ svam ādāya go-dhanam śakaṭoḍhopakaraṇaṁ strī-bāla-sthavirāḥ śanaiḥ “After collecting their respective cows and loading their paraphernalia into their wagons, the cowherd men went out. The women, children and elderly persons gradually followed them.” SB 10.25.27 When I was little kid – almost every babushka onContinue Reading
Prabhupada: Why your dress is not as a sannyäs? Tusta Krsna: The robes make people uncomfortable, Prabhupada. They see you as different and can’t relate. They won’t relax enough to listen when I wear robes. Prabhupada: But sannyasis must dress in saffron with robes and shaved head. Tusta Krsna: IContinue Reading
“There is no doubt about it, to distribute books is our most important activity. The temple is a place not for eating and sleeping, but as a base from which we send out our soldiers to fight with maya. Fight with maya means to drop thousand and millions of booksContinue Reading
I had never before in my life even heard of Krsna or Hare Krsna, nor had I ever seen a Krsna devotee, probably, because there weren’t too many temples back in 1969–about 11 only. Anyway, this book I was reading, The Wisdom of God, turned out to be about KrsnaContinue Reading
Chant Hare Krishna, perform what is yours and do not pretend to be who you are not. Srila Prabhupāda never manufactured anything by his own. He always declared – that He gives only what is said in Scriptures, As it Is. Those who try to represent Srila Prabhupada as aContinue Reading
(An address by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur to his audience at the onset of their departure after a Krishna Conscious festival held at one of his temples.) All of you came with the intention to serve Kṛṣṇa, and on that basis I became attached to you. Yet now I seeContinue Reading
Srimad Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.13) declares that devotees of the Lord even though situated in the material world are actually under the spiritual energy of the Lord and therefore not subject to material laws. Srimad Bhagavatam (SB 1.1.15) further extols the glories of pure devotees of the Lord and states inContinue Reading
Over at American Greatness is this piece on recent revelations of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church (bolding added): Even in a faith founded upon the notion that there is no such thing as an unforgivable sin, should the penitent be sincere, what has been occurring in the churchContinue Reading