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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 of people [...]

Summer Has Never Been the Same

Volume 10, Chapter 11 August 5 – July23, 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. We just have to [...]

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 drove. “You know, [...]

Offering to Srila Prabhupada

Volume 5, Chapter 30 November 14, 2004, Poland. Dearest Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. Today is the anniversary of your disappearance from this world 27 years ago. You once said that when the Lord disappears from the world, He simultaneously appears elsewhere in some other universe to begin His [...]

Hidden Glories

Volume 5, Chapter 29 October 16 – November 01, 2004, Poland. I returned to Warsaw from my month-long preaching tour in Russia and immediately set out for another tour in Poland. After a night’s rest, Sri Prahlad das, Jayatam das, and I headed south, stopping on the way for a house program in Kelice attended by [...]

Shoot for the Rhinoceros

Volume 5, Chapter 25 August 01 – 30, 2004, Poland. After the Woodstock festival, we returned to the Baltic coast to resume our summer festivals. But no sooner had we arrived than Maya’s forces dealt us a blow. We had chosen a town near our summer base and had signed the contract with city hall well [...]

Up on the Hill

Volume 5, Chapter 24 July 25 – 31, 2004,The Woodstock Festival, Poland . As I work on this chapter of my diary, I am at a loss as to how to begin and how to finish. The great Woodstock festival has just concluded. I don’t know how to put it into words – Krsna’s Village of [...]

Nerves of Steel

Volume 5, Chapter 23 July 16 – 24, 2004, Poland. When we woke up on the morning of Monday July 12, we couldn’t believe our eyes. The sun was shining and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Devotees ran outside just to have a look. For weeks on end, we had struggled with the rain, [...]

A Lesson from an Old Cleaning Man

Volume 7, Chapter 22 July 11 – 15, 2004, Poalnd. Since the beginning of our summer tour it has rained every day, and unseasonably cold weather has prevailed. One couldn’t imagine more unfavorable circumstances for outdoor festivals. Advertising the programs has become a cat-and-mouse game with the weather. Each day we start Harinam under threatening dark [...]

On the House

Volume 5, Chapter 21 June 28 – July 10, 2004, Poland. I flew back to Poland from Baku, and as soon as I arrived, the tour committee held its last meeting for the summer festivals. The first order of business was security. “I found three security companies we can choose from,” Jayatam began. “Which one we [...]