Volume 10

Twenty Beads of Causeless Mercy

Volume 10, Chapter 17 September 2009 When I arrived at my residence in Vrindavan-dhama, the strain of eleven months of traveling and preaching caught up with me, and I was unable to go outside for two weeks. I spent the time resting, chanting extra rounds, and reading. One evening I decided that the next morning [...]

Feelings of Separation

Volume 10, Chapter 16 September 12, 2009 My dear godbrother Sridhar Maharaja, Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Today is the celebration of your appearance in this world, and those of us who remember your kindness gather to glorify you and show how much we appreciate what you have done [...]

The Yogi

Volume 10, Chapter 15 August 24 – September 1 2009, Poland The day after our last festival in Poland, I boarded a flight for India and landed the next morning in Delhi. I was going down a flight of stairs leading to Immigration and Customs when my knees buckled and I began to fall. A [...]

Will Those Sweet Days Ever Return?

Volume 10, Chapter 14 August 7 – 23, 2009, Poland After the Woodstock festival we went back to our programs on the Baltic Sea coast. We were exhausted but determined to make it through the last seventeen days of our tour. There might be some austerities, but the satisfaction of sharing Krsna consciousness with thousands [...]

How Fortunate We Are to Have Seen It

Volume 10, Chapter 13 August 1 – 30, 2009, Poland “Over my dead body!” screamed the woman over the telephone. As I entered the office I could hear every word she was saying to Nandini dasi: “Never! I’ll never rent my school to you people! Not in a million years!” With that, she hung up. [...]

This Sacred Task

Volume 10, Chapter 12 August 14, 2009 Dearest Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you! On this auspicious day, as I celebrate your appearance in this world, I stop for a few moments and reflect on your mercy upon me. I shudder to [...]

Summer Has Never Been the Same

Volume 10, Chapter 11 August 5 – July 23, 2009, Poland “Losing the battle doesn’t mean losing the war,” I said to Nandini dasi. One of our festivals had been canceled despite her determined efforts, and she was sitting there fuming. I tried to smile. “It’s OK, Nandini,” I said. “You can’t win them all. [...]

Friends and Enemies in High Places

Volume 10, Chapter 10 July 22, 2009, Poland On Monday the Polish police raided our school base looking for drugs. The next day, the devotees went for harinama on the beach. Most of the devotees went by bus, and I was in a van with a few others. Amritananda das turned to me as we [...]

The Enemy Never Sleeps

Volume 10, Chapter 9 July 1 – 4, 2009. After seven months of preaching and fundraising around the world, I came back to Poland for our twentieth annual summer festival tour. Twenty-three artistic performers from India and more than three hundred devotees from fourteen countries had already assembled at our base on the Baltic Sea [...]

Never Too Late to Pray

Volume 10, Chapter 8 June 06 – 28, 2009. One thing I appreciate about traveling in Russia is the constant reminders that this world is an unhappy place. I am reminded again and again to become serious and to focus on my devotional service. Russia is a G-8 country, but life is hard there, owing [...]