Volume 10

A Blessing in Disguise

Volume 10, Chapter 7 June 01 – 20, 2009. In early June, I arrived in St. Petersburg, one of the last stops on my Russian preaching tour. St. Petersburg is rich in history and culture. It was founded by Czar Peter I in 1703, and was the capital of the Russian Empire for more than [...]

One Step Closer to the Goal

Volume 10, Chapter 6 May 01 – June 11,2009. I arrived in Moscow last May for my annual Russian preaching tour. I had recently visited the United States, and as devotees drove me to the apartment where I’d be staying, I could see that Russia had also been much affected by the global recession. A [...]

It’s Krsna!

Volume 10, Chapter 5 May 15, 2009. After my American tour, I went back to Poland to prepare for my next stop: South Africa. I was excited because once again I would be traveling with my Radha-Krsna deities, given to me by an elderly sadhu several years ago in Vrindavan. In recent years it has [...]

A Difficult Place

Volume 10, Chapter 4 April 22, 2009. The America that Sri Prahlada das and I flew into after our Australian tour was not the America I had visited a year earlier. The country was mired in recession, sinking into despair with financial problems. Unemployment had hit a twenty-five-year high, with 5.1 million people having lost [...]

Following In His Footsteps

Volume 10, Chapter 3 December 31, 2008. Our festivals in Sydney were a huge hit. We had given the event a French name, Le Carnaval Spirituel. During December we averaged more than five hundred people a show. After the New Year, we traveled north to Brisbane and held another round of successful programs on the [...]

Down in the Pits

Volume 10, Chapter 2 December 01 – 30, 2008. Our festival programs continued in the Sydney area with great success. I had come with twenty-eight devotees from various countries, and many of them were staying in rooms at the Sydney temple. Devotees from other parts of Australia were also staying there for the Christmas Marathon. [...]

Coming Home

Volume 10, Chapter 1 November 16 – 30, 2008. During the 1970s, I would get culture shock whenever I went to India. The crowded cities, the heat, the food, the occasional sickness, and the austerities of local travel would painfully remind me that I was a stranger in a foreign land. But as the years [...]