On The Road

Great Expectation

Our annual summer festival tour in Poland is just around the corner. So many wonderful preaching opportunities await us! My thoughts drift back to last year’s Ratha Yatra at Polish Woodstock where so many intoxicated kids chanted and danced with us in great bliss. For many, their spiritual lives began with prasadam and the holy [...]

First visit to the Soviet Union

Today we visited Red Square in Moscow. Twenty four years ago I stood at this exact spot as I waited for my ‘contact’ to meet me. It was 1989 and I was on my first visit to the Soviet Union. Feigning illness, I had stayed back that day from the tour group I had entered [...]

Rare Footage of Bindhu Madhava

I took this video one morning when I was in Varanasi in February. It shows the morning puja of Bindhu Madhava, the famous deity that Lord Caitanya visited daily while in Varanasi. Caitanya Caritamrta describes the ecstatic symptoms Mahaprabhu experienced while dancing in front of Bindhu Madhava.

In the Loving Association of Devotees

tandera carana sevi bhakta-sane vasa janame janame haya, ei abhilasa “This is my desire: that birth after birth I may live with those devotees who serve the lotus feet of the six Goswamis.” [ Srila Narottam das Thakur ]

On the Road Again

“My mother is Kamala Devi [ Laksmi ] and my Father is Lord Janardana [ Krsna.] My kinsmen are the Visnu-bhaktas, and my homeland is all the three worlds.” [ Canakya Pandit, Niti sastra, Chapter 10, verse 14 ]

Tomorrow Ukraine

“I wander over this earth meditating on Her, who is a moon shining in the rasa dance arena, who is a host of bright lamps in Vrsabhanu’s palace, and who is the eternal jewel in the necklace of Goloka.” [ Narada Muni, Garga Samhita 1.8.12 ] Sanskrit: sri rasa rangasya vikasa candrika dipavalir ya vrsabhanu [...]

Preparing for Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Appearance Day

“Amongst all types of meditations on the great activities of the Lord, let there be meditation on the sixteen-handed Lord Nrsimha, the Lord of all the worlds, decorated with all ornaments. Two of his arms are engaged in tearing apart the demon Hiranyakashipu, while two others prevent the demon from resisting. Two others carry the [...]

On Honor and Glory

“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. [...]

Following in Your Footsteps

“My heart is always hankering after that Vrindavan. Even though I am sitting in New York, a magnificent city, the world’s greatest city, I shall be very happy to return to my Vrindavan, that sacred place. Of course, if someone asks, ‘Then why are you here?’ I must say that it is my duty. I [...]

South Africa

Leaving South Africa today and heading on to Ukraine and Russia …