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Today is the first time anyone wrote me an offering like their Guru and cooked a feast in honor of me (I asked it be cooked in Srila Prabhupadas honor), as it is my birthday.My spiritual master Om Visnupada Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja, used his Vyasa puja to worship his Guru Maharaja and all previous acaryas, and Srila Prabhupada.Also he did the same

on Guru purnima.Vyasa puja is not a day to   recieve   financial (gifts) contributions, but to worship ones…

I recived this from Tripurari Swami an important article:

Krishna Talk 137 - Envy by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

View online: http://www.gosai.com/writings/envy

The word ‘envy’ is applied in many places and is used in connection to various things – envy of another’s good fortune, being disturbed at seeing the wealth of others, displeasure and jealousy etc. are some of the various examples.…

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Anuttama das (GBC not the car walla ) told me I see you got a few gray hairs you better chant Hare Krishna. Coming from someone that is much older than me.Considering doing gas fracking  in New Vrindavana also causes me to get gray hairs as it is against  Srila Prabhupadas will.

and with a head full of gray hairs.I have a few strands of gray hairs, he is only  gray hair .I chant 64 rounds daily  ,with that much…

please note the purport of Srila Madhavacarya

Text 17

avinasi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idam tatam vinasam avyayasyasya na kascit kartum arhati

Translation

That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul.

Commentary by Srila Prabhupada

This verse more clearly explains the real nature of the soul, which is…

dear Devotees

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I was selling painting for helping the worship of Gaura Nitai in Copenhagen, after all installing Gaura Nitai in Denmark was a very special occasion also.However I was not allowed to keep distributing books , but Harikesa and Devamrta Swami wanted to pressure me to keep selling these karmi paintings.I had enough and it created a clash.I moved outside the temple in april of 1984, kept buying books from the temple and kept distributing them.All the older devotees there got married and stopped…

1981 was a busy year also basically just traveling all over Denmark and distributing Srila Prabhupadas books.

1982 I went to ISKCON Mumbai with devotees from Denmark and Mayapure and Vrindavana, and Devamrta Swami that took sannyasa that year. Some politics sadly started that time , I went to Germany after coming back from India .That was the old temple. Jayatirtha was…

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

When encouraging a disciple to hear Srila Prabhupada's lectures regularly , this is a sweet lecture we heard.Srila Prabhupada   called his purports his devotional ecstasies. His lectures also.Srila Prabhupada states: "So I shall request even the drunkards... In your country, there are many drunkards. There is no scarcity. So if you'll kindly remember when drinking wine that this nice taste of drinking is…

In  January of 1980 I was burned out from all the hard tapasya and no brake,I went to a devotee friends house and stayed for a week, and then I went to Sweden, where I distributed books un till  after Janmastami .That year I got initiated, actually the same day Sri Sri Gandarvika Giridhari got installed I was the first devotee to receive my japa beads and spiritual name from Harikesa. Jaya Tirtha was present and was the main director of the installation.

We where distributing Srila…