April 07, 2023 Free Writes “Little Life” I just found out that something I posted online from my book Japa Transformations received 23,000 readers. I intended it for a small readership, but it exploded. I also wrote a Journal, Worshiping with the Pen, to be published this summer in fifty copies. I wrote it to […]

March 31, 2023 Free Writes Disciples in Vrndavana Some of my disciples are visiting Vrndavana. Some are staying two weeks, some are staying five weeks. I appreciate that most of them are trying to tune in and participate in the out-loud readings on Zoom, which originate in New York. For the devotees in Vrndavana to […]

March 24, 2023 Free Writes Journal I wrote a letter to the editor of my Journal, Prabhupada Revival. I told him I don’t think the Journal will have wide readership. I said I am writing it for Srila Prabhupada, Lord Krsna, my self-purification, and then I added—“to that individual who is my reader.” I think […]

March 17, 2023 Free Writes Out-Loud Reading In our out-loud reading we heard of Maya Danava, who prepared three invisible residences and gave them to the demons. These three dwellings remained invisible to the demigods. The demons began to vanquish the three worlds. The demigods went to Lord Siva and said, “We are about to […]

March 10, 2023 Free Writes Letter from Krsna Bhajana I received a letter from Krsna Bhajana, who is proofreading, correcting, and editing my book, Worshiping with the Pen. Here is what he said about it: “I am liking the book more and more as I go through it. I liked the combination of a personal […]

March 03, 2023 Free Writes Visit from Disciples I was visited today by my disciples Ekesvara dasa, his wife Bhakti dasi and their eighteen-year-old son Balaram. They are from Guyana, but they have managed to get a visa and now they live in Brooklyn. He works as a carpenter in the building industry, and she […]

February 24, 2023 Free Writes A Visit from a Nurse A nurse Landmark Health came out to do a follow up on my condition since being discharged from the hospital. They were the original people we called at 1:30 in the morning to ask what to do in that serious medical condition. On hearing a […]

February 17, 2023 Free Writes Uninvited Guests When the cold weather started, we quickly saw evidence of mice in the kitchen. They didn’t come from the basement as usual, they came in through the wall. Maitreya could hear them from his bed. They left droppings in the drawers with the cooking utensils, around the stove […]