226. Seeing Him

I was at Crossways restaurant today for lunch. As I sat there by myself, a father and his 20 year old son decided to share the table with me. For the next one hour, we spoke about Hare Krishna in Australia, the philosophy in simple language, lack of quality leaders in the world, the rise [...]

225. The Soul Poster

I am at the dentist for regular checkups and I noticed this poster at the reception table. What a good idea ! Basically around the poster, titles of various problems or symptoms related to loneliness  are indicated and for each one of them, there is a verse from the bible giving a solution to that [...]

224. Sunday Out and about

Good morning ! That’s what it was in Melbourne yesterday. Beautiful well lit and warm morning for a good part of the day. Birds, humans and devotees all looked happy as the sun shone on us. Nrsimha Kavaca Prabhu presented a great and enliveling bhagavatam class explaining why bhagavatam is such an important literature for [...]

223. Irreplaceable : SP Vyasa puja offering today

One of our dearest devotees, Prabhu Prabhu read out some beautiful paragraphs from the book “Only he could lead them”. This one stood out the most for me : Mukunda: I was sitting alone with Swamiji in his room, and he was very grave and silent. His eyes were closed. Then, suddenly, tears began flowing [...]

222. Ohe ! Vaishnava Thakura !

Just now the assembled devotees together sang the beautiful prayer, ” ohe! vaishnava Thakura”. As we sang, we all fixed our eyes every now and then on Srila Prabhupad. There are nice colorful flowers around him. On his lap is a copy of the Vyasa puja book this year. Once the prayers concluded, one of [...]

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