OppositeRule

During my very recent two-year denial of Krsna consciousness, I was invited to a large community of atheists on Google+, presumably because I seemed like one.  Oddly enough, it was about the time when I had become frustrated with atheistic reasoning (which seems to be thoroughly ignorant of Krsna conscious philosophy), so I turned out [...]

I never suspected I would feel this way, now after fifteen years of doing my best and trying really hard to live for pleasing Srila Prabhupada by participating in and promoting his movement.  I was greatly inspired by a vision of Krsna that originally caused me to seek out devotees as purported to exist in [...]

My most recent blog entry, on “Serving Krishna’s Holy Name,” (http://oppositerule.govindapeacefarm.com/?p=832) was started as a comment in a discussion on “Bhakti in the Business Place” at Harmonist.us: http://harmonist.us/2009/09/bhakti-in-the-business-place/ It’s been an interesting discussion there. The article was supporting concealed devotion in the place of employment; but I work in a big office, and my interest [...]

When I first started chanting Hare Krishna, I knew it would be seen as strange due to the materialism of Western culture, but that wasn’t much of a deterrent to me. I had been chanting Hare Krishna for about two years, since 1995, when I moved to New Vrindavana with my wife and our first [...]

Hare Krishna. Earlier this week, the anti-rtvik crusader Gaura Kesava Prabhu submitted a few messages deriding me on the PAMHO conference “Prabhupada Disciples.” The subject lines were “Bhakta Pandu Hypocrite” and “Immature Bhakta Pandu.” Needless to say, the content of the e-mails was not at all nice, and I do not believe his criticism accurately [...]

Hare Krishna. I’m having a friendly little discussion on Dandavats. Here’s my most recent entry, squeezing in just under the 2500 character limit: Dear Karnamrita Prabhu, Hare Krishna. PAMHO. AGTSP. I think we can agree that we should do whatever may help to induce people to chant the Hare Krishna mahamantra in a mood following [...]

Hare Krishna. I just submitted the following comment to Dandavats (http://www.dandavats.com/?p=6657): ——— I could probably benefit from the advice given here, but am also concerned that it is often taken to the opposite extreme, if one could call it that. For example, it is very common for devotees today, even second-initiated, to not only wear [...]

Hare Krishna. As I recently reported, Gita-nagari devotees had our first-this-year local sidewalk Harinam party Monday evening. The town nearest to Gita-nagari is Port Royal, and a few miles from there is a slightly larger Mifflintown. When we finished, we talked of doing it again this weekend, and it seems that it’s going to happen. [...]

Hare Krishna. I seem to have gotten a little Bhagavad-gita debate started on the Mensa Forums. (I’m leaving out the link because access is restricted to members. E-mail me if you want it.) The topic of discussion was, “How did we get here?” I posted the following in response: Misuse of our free will. We [...]

I sometimes do a little preaching at Huffington Post. I have to use a different name (DharamDev, from my Kundalini Yoga days) because I got banned for saying that cannot reject karma as an explanation even when someone has been raped. Some people prefer to believe that there is no God or that God is [...]