September 09, 2022 Free Writes Preparing My Lecture for Radhastami Radhastami Festival I put in a lot of time preparing my Radhastami lecture. Two devotees helped me do research, Manohara and a scholarly Godbrother who wishes to remain anonymous. We had a modest attendance of about twenty devotees. Ravindra Svarupa couldn’t come because of intense […]

September 02, 2022 Free Writes Daivisakti Dasi’s Lectures on the Srila Prabhupada-lilamrta I recommend all readers of Srila Prabhupada-lilamrta to listen to the weekly lectures that Daivisakti is giving on SPL. She reads extensively from the book but does considerable research to expand on the text. She speaks every Sunday in Vrndavana, and you can […]

August 26, 2022 Free Writes Janmastami Program Our Janmastami program had disappointingly low attendance. But Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu and his secretary Sraddha were there. And Kirtan Rasa got excused from a court hearing just to attend. Damodara and his son Prahlad attended. And the usual close members and friends of Viraha Bhavan were present. Those […]

August 19, 2022 Free Writes Janmastami Preparations We are getting ready to celebrate Janmastami. The devotees at Viraha Bhavan are preparing a menu. We are making up a guest list, but we can’t handle an unlimited number of people. We’ll try to keep it at twenty. This is perhaps the most important Vaisnava holiday of […]

August 12, 2022 Free Writes Balarama’s Appearance Day We had some guests attend: Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu, Saudamani, and Ravindra’s secretary Sraddha attended. Also Janardana from across the street. Hari dasa from Schenectady was here, and he led the kirtanas. Lalita-kaisori and Atindra were here, Amit was here, and Hari dasa’s driver, Isvara Rsi, and Kamini […]

August 05, 2022 Free Writes Print My Books My request to all my disciples, not just the book production team, is that you please help me reprint all the books that are now out of print (and some that have not yet been printed at all). It’s a daunting task, but it’s my gift to […]

July 29, 2022 Free Writes Writings of the Great Vaisnavas My process in compiling the Free Write Journal each day is to begin with two “rabbits.” By rabbits I mean anecdotes, taken mainly from our life at Viraha Bhavan. Readers of the Journal will be familiar with these anecdotes telling about the devotees in our […]

July 22, 2022 Free Writes New Arrival of Tulasis Last year when we took all our tulasis in at the end of summer, they were in beautiful shape from the summertime of sunshine and rain, and our watering them with spring water. But when the cold weather came on, they weakened, even though we have […]