Volume 8

No Worries Mate

Volume 8, Chapter 14 December 02 – 25, 2007. After a month-long parikrama of Vrindavan, Mayapura and Jagannatha Puri, I was sad to be leaving India. I boarded my flight to Sydney, Australia, on December 2 with memories of the places I had visited still fresh in my mind. The trip had made a deep [...]

Just Wander

Volume 8, Chapter 13 November 15, 2007 – December 01, 2007. By the time our parikrama group of 250 devotees arrived in Jagannatha Puri, there was only one week left of the auspicious month of Kartika. We had spent the first three weeks visiting holy places in Vrindavan and Mayapura. It had been intense, traveling [...]

Feelings of Separation

Volume 8, Chapter 12 November 14, 2007. Dear Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. My dear Lord and master, today is the anniversary of your disappearance from this world and from our external vision. As I look around the grounds of your beloved Mayapura Candrodaya Mandir, [...]

Farewell

Volume 8, Chapter 11 October 15, 2007. Dear Nirguna prabhu, Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I am following the news of your departure from this world due to cancer through the Dandavats website, as well as through devotees who are coming to Vrindavan from Mayapura Dhama. The website has [...]

Vyasa Puja Offering

Volume 8, Chapter 10 September 05, 2007. My dearest Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you. Today I sit to compose my Vyasa-puja offering to you just minutes before I will be called on to speak. Ordinarily a disciple writes his or her [...]

Prepared for Peace – Ready for War

Volume 8, Chapter 9 August 21, 2007 – September 07, 2007. After a series of programs in the Republic of Ireland, I drove north with several other devotees to Belfast. On the way I turned to Praghosa Dasa, the local GBC representative, and congratulated him on the Ratha-yatra we had held the previous day in [...]

Self-evident Truths

Volume 8, Chapter 8 August 09 – 20, 2007 After Woodstock, the festival group returned to our base on the Baltic Sea to continue the programs in the coastal towns. There were still two weeks of summer left and we planned to do 14 festivals in rapid succession. After six weeks of rain, the sunshine [...]

One Love

Volume 8, Chapter 7 July 29, 2007 – August 08, 2007. I grew up in the United States in the 1960s and 70s. As with many other young Americans of my generation, my world view was significantly influenced by the music of Bob Marley. His songs about revolution, social change, world peace, and racial equality [...]

A Flood of Happiness and Joy

Volume 8, Chapter 6 July 18 – 28, 2007. As the fire chief in Niechorze had predicted, it rained endlessly as we continued our festivals along the Baltic Sea coast in July. The Polish media attributed the unprecedented bad weather to global warming. Pious local farmers concluded it was because God was displeased with the [...]

The Sunshine of His Mercy

Volume 8, Chapter 5 April 17, 2007 – July 17, 2007 I preached in the United States through the first week in June. Then I went to stay with Giriraja Swami in California to rest and prepare myself for the summer festivals in Poland. Every day I chanted and read and also exercised. After months [...]