Volume 6

The Debate

Volume 6, Chapter 11 June 02 – 04, 2005. Throughout my Russian preaching tour, I had been corresponding by email with Sri Prahlada das about managing my time better. My schedule has been so intense the last six months that I have found little time to study, an essential practice for one who lectures two [...]

Sharing Good Fortune With Others

Volume 6, Chapter 10 May 26, 2005 – June 01, 2005. My three-day visit to Tatarstan went by fast. It is said that if you enjoy what you are doing time passes quickly but if you are bored or annoyed time drags on. And I was doing what I enjoy most: sharing my good fortune [...]

In Service To Him

Volume 6, Chapter 9 May 24 – 25, 2005. Just over a thousand devotees came to the festival in Dniepropetrovsk, a large city in Ukraine. It was a three-day event: a day in glorification of Srila Prabhupada, the appearance day of Lord Nrsimhadeva, and my birthday. It also marked the 18th year of my service [...]

A New Beginning

Volume 6, Chapter 8 May 16 – 23, 2005. I took a flight from Warsaw to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, with Sri Prahlad das and Rukmini Priya dasi. We landed in the early afternoon on a warm spring day. As we walked outside from the international terminal to the domestic for our connecting flight, [...]

Same Mission, Same Mercy

Volume 6, Chapter 7 April 29, 2005 – May 15, 2005 I arrived back in Warsaw on May 8, after an absence of nearly six months. My travels had taken me to the far corners of the earth, to such places as Australia, India, the United States and South Africa. People in those prominent countries [...]

Tales of Wonder

Volume 6, Chapter 6 April 14 – 28, 2005. As our two-month tour of the American temples was coming to a close, I found myself drawing on my body’s reserve energies. Our schedule of two or three programs a day meant I rarely went to bed before midnight. Constantly on the move, traveling back and [...]

Lessons on the Road

Volume 6, Chapter 5 February 11, 2005 – April 13, 2005. Since leaving Sri Lanka in late February I have had several dreams of the devastation caused by the tsunami and of the victims that I attended to. That real-life drama left an indelible impression on my mind. Even the most beautiful scenes of nature [...]

The Medicine of the Holy Names

Volume 6, Chapter 4 January 21, 2005 – February 10, 2005. The day after returning to Colombo from our trip to Matara we quickly busied ourselves for the relief work ahead. We used funds donated from overseas to purchase the basics required for cooking: tons of rice, dhal, and vegetables, as well as spices, five [...]

When Will It End?

Volume 6, Chapter 3 January 12 – 20, 2005. As my flight made its descent towards Colombo, the capitol of Sri Lanka, I gazed out at the tropical scenery below. Sri Lanka looked much the exotic land described in the in-flight magazine. It seemed all the more so when, after landing, I drove into the [...]

Tsunami!

Volume 6, Chapter 2 December 25, 2004 – January 11, 2005. Like most people, in the early hours of December 26, 2004, I had no idea what the word tsunami meant. Had I been a tourist on the beach at Phuket, Thailand, sunbathing on that ill-fated day the “harbor wave” (the Japanese translation for tsunami) [...]