June 02, 2023 Satsvarupa dasa Goswami Maharaja Spiritual Family Celebration Saturday, July 1, 2023 What Meeting of Disciples and friends of SDG Where The Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall 845 Hudson Avenue Stuyvesant Falls, New York 12173 [Plenty of parking near the Hall. The facility is just a few minutes’ walk from SDG’s home at […]

May 26, 2023 Free Writes Taking a “Snap” When he was in the Bowery loft, Srila Prabhupada said to his audience, “All day long I am doing something reading or writing. When I get tired, I take a “snap.” By this he meant a short nap, after which he felt rejuvenated and went on with […]

May 19, 2023 Free Writes TKG’s Last Vyasa-Puja Talk I just heard the lecture Tamal Krishna Goswami gave on his last Vyasa-puja date. He dedicated his entire talk to speaking about the initiating gurus in ISKCON. He mentioned so many names that he had to make his talk on each on brief, but his presentation […]

May 12, 2023 Free Writes Nrsimha Caturdasi We observed Nrsimha Caturdasi at Viraha Bhavan today. The devotees cooked extra preparations and made a feast. They also observed that it was the anniversary of Srila Prabhupada awarding me sannyasa in 1972. We switched our reading in the out-loud reading group from Sri Caitanya-caritamrta to the Seventh […]

May 05, 2023 Free Writes Ananda Kisora Ananda Kisora, my siksa disciple, is doing good service for me based in Italy. He daily posts on Facebook three excerpts from my weekly Journal. He accompanies them with selected photographs or paintings which are relevant to the writings. He sends me the postings every day in my […]

April 28, 2023 Free Writes Harinama Krishna Kripa is here today. He met up with Vicaru. They both know each other well because both have traveled around the world doing harinama in many cities and countries. Krishna Kripa is very dedicated to going out every day. He seeks out good climates. He encourages the devotees […]

April 21, 2023 Free Writes Weather Alert Baladeva went to the farm store to pick up apples. The place was packed because there had been a couple of hot days in a row. Every year it happens like this. The people buy whatever looks beautiful, plants and flowers, but it’s actually a month too early. […]

April 14, 2023 Free Writes Book Production Team Meeting Tomorrow, Saturday, April 8, we’re having our Zoom book production meeting. We expect that Krsna-bhajana, Satyasara dasi, Lal Krsna and Manohara (and Baladeva and myself) will show up on the Zoom. We have already mentioned in this Journal what books are expected to be ready for […]