Sugar Sugar is considered an unhealthy food. But Krsna likes sweets. When Lord Brahma was making his repentant prayers to child Krsna, Krsna was standing casually before him with a handful of a mixture of sugar candy, yogurt and milk. Prabhupada also gets sweets in his diet. 1966 I arrived late at the devotees’ gathering […]

Random Looks at the Srimad-Bhagavatam Instructions by Maharaja Prithu (4.21.28-29) “This is confirmed not only by the evidence of the Vedas but also by the personal behavior of great personalities like Manu, Uttanapada, Dhruva, Priyavrata and my grandfather, Anga, as well as by many other great personalities and ordinary living entities, exemplified by Maharaja Prahlada […]

Free Writes Rainstorm The weather was warm and dry for our entire program at the meeting on July 6th. The devotees had just finished honoring Krsna prasadam when a windstorm arrived, blowing the leaves on the trees. But the devotees managed to finish their prasadam. Then suddenly from the sky heavy rainfall came down. There […]

Radha-Govinda Krsna-dasi dressed Radha-Govinda in new outfits yesterday. I asked her what was the color scheme of the dress, and she replied that it was gray and yellow. Later Baladeva told me he thought it was silver and yellow. For myself, I thought it was green and yellow. At any rate, They look very beautiful […]

Hasya Hasya refers to Krsna’s laughing pastimes. Once, the cowherd boys told Krsna to close His eyes and open His mouth and they would give Him a sweet. Krsna obeyed, but the boys put a flower in Krsna’s mouth. The joke was on Krsna. Once, Krsna disguised Himself as Radharani’s husband, Abhimanyu. He entered Radharani’s […]

Rhyming Poetry Kala-kantha dasa has published a book of poetry, All That Lies Between. It is a collection of rhymed, metrical verses in English. The poems are devotional, well-structured and particularly Prabhupada/Krsna oriented. I am impressed and satisfied with the poetry. But in his introduction he has made a derogatory remark about free verse poetry. […]

Free Writes Rupa Gosvami/Sanatana Gosvami/and a Beautiful Young Girl We heard a tape recording of 1966 of Prabhupada telling a delicious transcendental pastime. He said Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami lived as mendicants in Vrndavana. They resided under a different tree each night. One morning Rupa Gosvami was thinking that if he had some ingredients […]

Free Writes Bhisma’s Passing Away In our out-loud reading at mealtimes, we are hearing the Second Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam. It is very technical about the creation of the cosmos. We find it less interesting than the First Canto, which is filled with juicy sections such as Maharaja Pariksit’s punishing Kali, who he found beating a […]