Free Writes Cluster: A Mayapur Parikrama with Bhakti Charu Swami In the 1990s there was much controversy about ISKCON devotees going to see Narayana Maharaja in Mathura. I wanted to avoid the controversy, so for Karttika that year I went to Mayapur. I wanted to have a parikrama with my disciples, but I didn’t know […]

Free Writes Bhakti Charu Swami Prayer I raise my voice in prayer for Bhakti Charu Swami. He has contacted positive for Covid-19 and has been in an American hospital, in a ventilator, for two weeks. Jayapataka Maharaja has organized 30,000 devotees to pray for Bhakti Charu Swami. Bhakti Charu is setting a good example for […]

Free Writes Quoted Out of Context Giriraja Swami sent me a letter by his disciple Kalachandji which included a Facebook posting by Dr. Graham Schweig. As is well-known, Dr. Schweig has attacked the BBT second edition of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, edited by Jayadvaita Swami. Jayadvaita Swami has defended his editing in a booklet called […]

Free Writes Changes in SPL A sannyasi has written to the BBT suggesting a possible one-word revision in a passage in the Prabhupada-lilamrta. The BBT has written to my assistant Baladeva asking him to respond to the sannyasi. I have gone through two extensive revisions (changes) to the first edition, and I don’t want to […]

Free Writes Health Report/ Zoom Lecture I’m exhausted. I’m too tired to do my exercises nicely or completely. Partly this may be due to the change of weather; it’s become warmer now. I have also been intensely preparing for my Zoom lecture. This will be the last lecture I’ll give because it’s too much of […]

Free Writes Lecturing I am obsessing over the lecture I have to give on Zoom on June 6th. Since I rarely lecture, it takes me a lot of time to prepare one. For this one I’m going to tell Prabhupada stories. The first one will be of his attempt to acquire land and build a […]

Free Writes The Trucks Roll By at Stuyvesant Falls For two weeks now there has been a constant flow of huge trucks passing right by our house. For one week they carried grass for the cows, and now they are carrying liquified manure. The manure is used in fertilizing the fields to make grass for […]

Free Writes Local News Spring has sprung. We do not expect any more frosts. Atindra and Lalita-kaisori came by to plant flowers for the Deities in our gardens. They planted marigolds and gladiolas, and then vegetables in Trinidad-Bala’s fenced in garden plot down the street. They didn’t come in the house because of social distancing, […]