Volume 6

A Little Corner of Hell

Volume 6, Chapter 21 November 16, 2005 – December 25, 2005. After the Ratha-yatra in Buenos Aires and a week of preaching programs around the city, I was visited by a devotee with a message from Gunagrahi Maharaja: could I visit the ISKCON temples in Chile and Paraguay? I hesitated for a moment, only because [...]

The Past, Present and Future

Volume 6, Chapter 20 November 09 – 15, 2005. Before leaving Vrindavan for the West, I told Sri Prahlada das that I wanted to take darsan of the famous Deity of Sri Nathji, in Rajasthan. The Deity was discovered on Govardhan Hill by a great devotee, Madhavendra Puri, more than 500 years ago, before the [...]

Disappearance Day Offering to Srila Prabhupada

Volume 6, Chapter 19 September 27, 2005 – November 08, 2005. Dearest Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you! My glorious master, on this auspicious anniversary of your departure from the world, I once again find myself in the holy land of Vrindavan. [...]

Taking Care

Volume 6, Chapter 18 August 26, 2005 – September 26, 2005. Soon after our summer festival season, Nandini dasi and Jayatam dasa offered to organize a retreat for me so I could recover from the strain of 61 festivals in three months. No doubt I needed rest, but I turned the offer down. “I need [...]

The Last Festival

Volume 6, Chapter 17 August 11-25, 2005. By the time I returned to Poland after my short visit to Ukraine, the devotees had broken down Krsna’s Village of Peace at Woodstock and returned to our summer base on the Baltic coast. They greeted me with a small reception, and I spoke about our plans for [...]

Dreams Coming True

Volume 6, Chapter 16 July 29, 2005 – August 10, 2005. After the difficulties we went through on July 7, I started having nightmares every night. One evening, after a week, I talked about it with Sri Prahlada das. “It’s been a long time since I had a Krsna conscious dream,” I said. “Since the [...]

Difficult Lessons

Volume 6, Chapter 15 July 05 – 28, 2005 Our spring tour had been a success. We had put on 12 big festivals with a total attendance of over 60,000, so our spirits were high as we began the summer tour in early July along the Baltic Coast. Our ranks had swelled to over 220 [...]

The Frowning Girl

Volume 6, Chapter 14 June 21, 2005 – July 04, 2005. One day, when Monika was seven years old, she surprised her mother. “Mommy,” she said, “I believe in reincarnation.” “Really?” said her mother, a devout Catholic. “Where did you ever get such an idea? Certainly you haven’t learned this in church.” “I don’t know, [...]

Back On The Front Lines

Volume 6, Chapter 13 June 09 – 20, 2005. On the flight from Moscow to Warsaw, I counted the money I had collected for the festival program in Poland. I had gone to Russia to raise funds for increasing the security of the program, but my collection didn’t come to much. In fact it barely [...]

Without Discrimination

Volume 6, Chapter 12 June 05 – 08, 2005. Every morning while I was visiting Rostov, Russia we would drive from the apartment where I was staying to the temple, an old house in a poor neighborhood of dirt streets outside the city. The temple didn’t have facilities for more than a handful of devotees, [...]