Volume 9, Chapter 10 July 18 – 20, 2008, Miedzyzdroje, Poland Although we have had resounding success with our festivals this summer, we have had some setbacks as well. We thought we had another setback when Nandini dasi called the man in charge of the amphitheater in Miedzyzdroje, where our festival was to take place [...]
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Special MentionVolume 9, Chapter 9 July 13 – 15, 2008, Niechorze, Poland News of the good weather along the Baltic Sea coast spread throughout Poland, and the beaches swelled with vacationers from all over the country. By the second day of Harinam on the crowded streets of Niechorze, the town was buzzing about our festival for [...] |
The CurseVolume 9, Chapter 8 July 05 – 12, 2008, Mrzezyno, Gryfice, Poland The devotees were in high spirits after our resounding success with the festival on the beachfront. The next day we drove to Mrzezyno, the site of our next program. Several devotees asked me whether we could go out chanting earlier than usual. I [...] |
Can you see this?Volume 9, Chapter 7 July 1 – 04, 2008, Poland The first two festivals of the Polish tour went exceptionally well, with thousands of people attending. Throughout both of them, however, devotees were meditating on the third festival – in the town where the deputy mayor had almost succeeded in canceling the event. It would [...] |
Enemies in Powerful PositionVolume 9, Chapter 6 May 1, 2008, Poland I arrived back in Europe in early May and met with Jayatam dasa and Nandini dasi to discuss the summer Festival of India tour in Poland. We spend the entire year organizing the 50 festivals, including the Woodstock Festival, that we hold along the Baltic Sea coast. [...] |
Hurricane Katrina RevisitedVolume 9, Chapter 5 April 13 – 14, 2008, New Talavan, Mississippi, United States During my preaching tour in the United States, I was invited to visit New Talavan, an ISKCON rural community in Mississippi. My Godbrother Yogindra Vandana das picked me up at the airport in New Orleans. As we drove through the city [...] |
Taxi Driver WisdomVolume 9, Chapter 4 April 09, 2008, New York, New York, United States One day, Gadadhara Pandit das and I took advantage of being in New York to go shopping for sound equipment for my festival tour in Poland. After several hours I noticed it was getting late. “It’s almost five PM,” I said. “If [...] |
Pastimes of the Holy NamesVolume 9, Chapter 3 March 1 – 15, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, United States In early March, I boarded a flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta, where I would catch an onward flight to Santiago, Chile. It had been three years since my last visit to the Chilean yatra, and I was excited about seeing the [...] |
The Mother TempleVolume 9, Chapter 2 January 29 – February 13, 2008, Bali, Indonesia On the flight from Hong Kong to Bali, I thought about a conversation I had had with my Godbrother B. B. Govinda Maharaja the previous day. We were talking about seeing Srila Prabhupada at the Detroit airport in 1971. It was our first [...] |
A Perfect EndingVolume 9, Chapter 1 January 19 – January 28, 2008, Hong Kong The devotees on our tour were tired from seven weeks of festivals throughout Australia and New Zealand, but they looked forward to the final two programs, to be held in Hong Kong. But we almost didn’t make it. The day before our departure [...] |
