Sankirtan in Stockholm
I was distributing on one of the longest shopping streets known to me in Europe, in Stockholm. This time of the year many tourists are expected. I'd hoped to meet some Germans as I drove through Stockholm with a little stock of German books, but it seems that they all vanished from Stockholm. Nevertheless, after just a few minutes, I met a girl who was obviously enchanted by Indian culture. She was carrying a hare-nama chaddar and...
Battlefield Bhajans Vol. 14
Battlefield Bhajans Vol. 14 Dedicated to my Spiritual Master, HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, who is so kind and merciful to keep me engaged in devotional service everyday. I just returned from Balad Air Base in Iraq. I had to have some surgery performed there. As it seems, after doing this service for so long, and the austerities that go along with it, I contracted a rare infection and needed immediate surgery to correct it. The doctor who...
Big Stars Get Mercy
Dear Prabhus! PAMHO. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Many devotees have requested that I share this amazing story. Last year, at the invitation of my godbrother Darshan Prabhu, I went to Mexico to give some book distribution seminars and take the mercy of the Vaisnavas there. As the devotees drove me from the airport to the temple, I saw many billboards advertising the most famous drama in the history of Mexico, which had been...
Srila Prabhupada in Cameron, Texas
Mishra Bhagavan and Sri Rangavati were traveling from Houston. She was wearing a pink sari and he a dhoti and bright yellow T-shirt that read 'Prabhupada on Tour'. They pulled into a little town known as Cameron. Sri Rangavati suggested that they do sankirtana at some stores there. It looked really slow: the type of desolate parking lot that tumbleweed would roll across. She reasoned that these people will...
Metal Festival
At the end of June there was a yearly heavy-metal festival called "Tuska (pain) Open Air Festival" in Kaisaniemi Park in the center of Helsinki. I can easily get into some small talk with the participants of this festival, and on that weekend we distributed books at the Helsinki railway station, near Kaisaniemi. Some 36,000 people participated in this festival, and streets were colored, or should we say, darkened, with men...