Srutakirti: We were on an airplane from Mexico City to Caracas and Prabhupada started taking his puffed rice, puffed rice and peanuts. He ate for about 10 minutes or so, and then he just looked and said, “OK.” So I moved the puffed rice over and I gave half to Paramahamsa, the other half I […]
(true story by Malika Mala Devi Dasi, a preacher in Russia and Kazakhstan) Malika-Mala: “Once with Mataji Kirtirani, we performed some festival in Astana, Kazakhstan. We did not have time to have dinner and rushed to the plane because we were going to be late for the flight. The local devotees handed us a big […]
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris have caused the Western World to hold its breath. Many questions have been asked and many answers have been given. Let’s look at what is happening from the spiritual perspective. The other day I came across the following article on the BBC website, ‘Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend […]
The Amazing Story of an Azerbaijani Devotee of Lord Narasimha. This amazing story is about a saint named Mataji Pada Sevanam, from Baku, Azerbaijan (former part of the USSR), who re-established devotional service to Lord Narasimha and changed the hearts of many devotees due to her limitless love to Krishna, fearlessness, and determination. Once upon […]
Dear Sivarama Swami, Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I hope you don’t mind my writing to you. I have never written to a spiritual master before. You don’t know me. My name is Bhaktin Dora and I live in Pecs (Hungary). I’m 14 years old, and I live […]
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‘Giridhari’ means the holder ( dhara ) of the mountain ( giri ) and ‘Giriraj’ means the king ( raj ) of the mountain ( giri ) names which belong to Sri Krsna who appeared some 5000 years ago within the lands of Vrindavan and famously lifted a mountain with his little finger. ‘Giri’ is … Read more
‘Mother’ is a word which is shared throughout the languages as that from which we take birth and according to numerous dialects it appears in the form of ‘mother’ ‘mutter’ ‘madre’ ‘mor’ ‘mate’ ‘ma’ and many variations which are shared throughout numerous languages. ‘Madre’ is the word we find within the languages of Spanish, Portuguese … Read more
Romania is a world of medieval castles, charming towns and Gothic churches all reposing upon sublime vistas such as the Carpathian mountains, the Black Sea, the forests of Transylvania and the river Danube, and like much of this part of the world its language, its names and its place names are very much related to … Read more
Croatia is one of the more beautiful countries of the world surrounded by the Dalmatian coast and the Adriatic Sea as well as many beautiful islands, lakes, waterfalls and rivers and appropriately we may find that this beautiful country of Croatia gets its name from ‘Sarasvati’ the great goddess of the waters. Croatia possesses many … Read more
