Photos from Minsk

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Baltics winter festival photos

This is the second set of photos from the festival.

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Plee-moot! Plee-moot! Pleeee-moooot!!

Dear devotees, disciples and friends,

Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I last wrote to you from the Baltics Winter Festival in Kaunas, Lithuania some days ago, and you’ve seen some of the photos from there. I’ve posted some more with this message. Read the rest of this entry »

Transcription of a class I gave in Kaunas Vedic Cultural Centre on January 13 2009

So here, the basic point Lord Krishna is making to Arjuna, is that we should not rush people, to try to push them too quickly to a level which is higher than what they are capable of maintaining.  The devotee, understanding the futility of material existence may feel so enthusiastic to help the conditioned soul to achieve the transcendental platform, that he may push them too hard.  But first of all a person…well, a child… before the child can run, the child has to learn to walk. Read the rest of this entry »

Photos from the Baltics Winter Festival

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Crying out for more in the intensity of the flying kirtana

Dear disciples and friends,

Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I am writing to you from Vilnius, Lithuania, looking out the window and snow. The temperature is about minus 10 degrees, and we are recovering from the Baltics Winter Festival, held in Kaunas every year. Read the rest of this entry »

Photos from Mauritius

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At one point I got a little carried away and dived…

Dear disciples and friends,

Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Here is an update of what I have been doing for the last few weeks.

After returning from Sri Vrindavana Dhama via Mauritius I spent some days in Johannesburg and then went back to Mauritius to spend about a week there with my disciples and doing some preaching programmes. Particularly I attended the Rathayatra there, in Mahebourg over the weekend of December 12-14 Read the rest of this entry »