Volume 7

Vyasa Puja Address to Partha Sarathi das Goswami

Volume 7, Chapter 21 November 11, 2006, Vrindavan, India. Dear Maharaja, Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. This evening you have asked me to speak at your auspicious Vyasa Puja celebration, but with your permission I would prefer to read an offering. Please don’t feel that this is inappropriate. The [...]

Disappearance Day Offering to Srila Prabhupada

Volume 7, Chapter 20 October 26, 2006, Vrindavan, India. Dear Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you! I am writing my offering to you today at Sankari Cor, a most sacred place at the foot of Varsana hill, in Sri Vrindavan Dhama. Though [...]

Fruit of Vrindavan

Volume 7, Chapter 19 October 11 – 25, 2006, Vrindavan, India. Dhruva das and I arrived in Delhi after our short trip to Bangladesh and took a taxi to Vrindavan. Though I have been to Vrindavan many times in the last 35 years, coming into that transcendental abode is always a fresh and exhilarating experience. [...]

Mysterious Antiques

Volume 7, Chapter 18 October 06 – 10, 2006, Bangladesh. As autumn descended on Europe, I started thinking of my yearly pilgrimage to India. Going to India is more of a necessity than a luxury for one in the renounced order of life. To do his service well, a sannyasi must remain always pure in [...]

Luck of the Irish

Volume 7, Chapter 17 September 19 – October 05, 2006, Ireland. When I was young, my mother would often speak of her Britannic forebears. “Your grandmother was from Wales,” she told me on many occasions. But what she liked best was the Irish part. “Your grandfather was an Irishman from Cork,” she would say proudly. [...]

A Lion among Men

Volume 7, Chapter 16 September 13 – 18, 2006, Russian Federation. Boarded a flight from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk with my secretary, Uttama-sloka das. We tried to get comfortable, but it wasn’t easy. The seats were small and close together. Although the plane had been renovated, it was still a vintage model, dating back at least [...]

Bearing the Burden

Volume 7, Chapter 15 September 08 – 12, 2006, Odessa, Russian Federation. During the festival in Odessa, one of my aspiring disciples asked to see me. Fifteen-year-old Radha Sakhi dasi was born into the Krsna consciousness movement. When she was a child, I gave her a lot of attention and care, as I do for [...]

Our Fervent Prayers

Volume 7, Chapter 14 August 26 – September 08, 2006, Hungary. After the Polish festival tour, I went to New Vraja Dhama in Hungary. Under the guidance of Sivarama Swami, it has become one of the most successful communities in ISKCON. I had planned to read and chant in the spiritual atmosphere there, but instead [...]

Giving and Receiving Gifts

Volume 7, Chapter 13 August 08 – 25, 2006, Poland. During the final phase of our summer tour, more and more people were coming, as many as 6,000 on some days. The mayor of a beach town told us that just before summer his secretary had been inundated with calls asking whether our festival was [...]

No Ordinary Festival

Volume 7, Chapter 12 August 02 – 07, 2006, Poland. After Woodstock, we moved our operation back to the Baltic coast. It wasn’t easy. Our 250 devotees were tired from the 18 festivals in July, not to mention Woodstock. Only their determination to serve guru and Gauranga enabled us to set up a festival in [...]