In March 1966 Srila Prabhupada had begun America’s first Krsna conscious temple, in a little…
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Atlanta February 28–March 2, 1975 Prabhupada Lila by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami The Deities of Lord…
by Sruta Kirti dasa I was fortunate to be with Srila Prabhupada in 1975 when…
Those days going to mangala-arati was the main priority no matter what age. They even had one western devotee taking note of attendance standing at the temple gate at 4:30 in the morning. I was always tired due to lack of sleep. But there was no way of getting prasadam if we didn’t go to mangala-arati. One day, I devised a plan and shared it with Dwarkadish…
By Atma Tattva Dasa One Ekadasi during the Kumbha-mela in Allahabad, Prabhupada was sitting back…
If Prabhupada can forgive us, we can also forgive each other’s mistakes and meanderings. Lord Chaitanya welcomes everyone and sees past any bodily designations. I respect any devotee who has tried in even the smallest way to serve Prabhupada, Krishna, or another devotee. He or she is special—like the sparrow who drank drops of the ocean to rescue her lost eggs from the sea, or like the chipmunk who was tossing pebbles into the sea to help Lord Ramachandra build his bridge to Lanka. The effort itself is success.
When Prabhupada came to us in his seventieth year, he had already spent a lifetime preparing himself, not only by preaching, but by practicing self-discipline and the many other qualities of an advanced spiritualist. We
joined him handicapped by our so-called hippie freedom and by so many other weaknesses in our characters.
Swamiji asked us how we were doing and seeing the red marks on my face, I explained to him that some bugs were biting me. He laughed and said, pointing to his window, yes they also come here but I stay very still and when they think I am asleep, they come.
Hare Krishna Hawaii By Govinda Dasi Srila Prabhupada was not yet known in Hawaii, especially…
by Draviḍa Dāsa (For Śrīla Prabhupāda’s appearance day.) O Prabhupāda, on this great day, …