OppositeRule

People sometimes wonder at how I could have thought that ISKCON was full of liberated souls.  Today I happened to see this article.  At the bottom is a quote of Srila Prabhupada,  “When one works for Krsna and chants His name, he is already liberated and living on the spiritual plane.  Just as one feels [...]

Someone wrote an e-mail to the “BTSwami list,” and it inspired a little hope, so I wrote a reply.  I’m banned from that list, so I sent it privately; however I’m going to copy the main part of my reply here.  Anyway, here it is: —- As I saw it, I was just trying to [...]

Personally, I cannot preach.  What would I say?  I like to chant Hare Krishna, and I suppose I would say to do that, but then what?  Read Srila Prabhupada’s books, I suppose.  But would that be the old or the new versions?  Everybody who reads Srila Prabhupada’s books has their preference, and most seem to [...]

  I’ve been too busy to write here, or do much of anything on the computer.  My wife gave birth last week (Thursday), and so I’ve been taking care of all the work around the house.  It was a homebirth — all of our children were, and the three older girls all were there watching.  [...]