March 18, 2022 Free Writes Gaura Purnima at Viraha Bhavan We had a small gathering of guests for Gaura Purnima at our ashram. It was a smaller gathering than we expected. Five people who said they would come didn’t show up. Kamini dasi, Baladeva, Sraddha-dasi prepared the feast, and Krsna dasi did all the pujari […]

March 11, 2022 Free Writes Book Production Meeting We had our book production meeting on Zoom today at 11:45 A.M. In attendance were Krishna Bhajana, his wife Satyasara dasi, Lal Krishna dasa from Oxford, John Endler from Hartford, Connecticut, Baladeva as manager and secretary, and me as author. I announced that since 2022 was the […]

March 4, 2022 Free Writes Praying for the Devotees in Ukraine I am praying for the devotees in Ukraine in this time when the Russians are making war on their country. Many women in the country are fleeing to Poland and other countries as refugees. But the men are being asked to stay back and […]

February 25, 2022 Free Writes 40th Anniversary of the Opening of the Trinidad Temple Today I spoke on Zoom to the audience at the Trinidad temple, where they are observing a three-day festival. They first showed me a video of the temple. It looked very clean and beautiful. I saw the full-sized Prabhupada murti, and […]

February 18, 2022 Free Writes The Myth of Closure Kirtan Rasa gave me a book The Myth of Closure by Pauline Boss. The author says that when a survivor’s dear one dies, we should not seek “closure.” Some professionals recommend “closure,” meaning that one should make a deadline on grieving and get on with life. […]

February 11, 2022 Free Writes Rama Raya’s Ecstatic Harinama I watched an extraordinary harinama video of Rama Raya and a group of men chanting in the Atlantic Avenue subway station, one stop from the ISKCON Brooklyn temple. They go there two days a week and chant for hours. Rama Raya played a large harmonium, and […]

February 04, 2022 Free Writes Radha-Gopinatha’s 40th Anniversary in Trinidad They are holding a three day festival in Trinidad for the installation of their Radha-Gopinatha Deity. I was the priest at that installation, and many devotees gathered. This year they’re making a big festival over it. On that day forty years ago they also installed […]

January 28, 2022 Free Writes Harinama Videos Krishna Kripa travels around the world doing harinama. He takes videos of the harinamas, and he’s been showing them to me here. I enjoy them very much. I watched a small harinama group led by Rama Raya in a subway station in Brooklyn. Rama was wearing woolen gloves […]