OppositeRule

Hare Krishna. A recent blog entry by Ananda Subramanian, titled “Ritvik-vada” makes the point that the desire of Lord Caitanya that “everyone must become a guru” means that Srila Prabhupada could not have instituted a post-samadhi rtvik order. Although many devotees have made a similar argument, I must respectfully disagree. The quote he provides from [...]

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’ve been anxious to get Harinam parties out to our local towns, and sometimes it has seemed almost impossible. I expect such things to be easy in a community of devotees, but for some reason it’s not. A few months ago I sent out an e-mail trying to find out who would be [...]

I saw this on the PETA blog a few months ago and wanted to post it here: Ever noticed that some old people smell funky? Notice that I said “some.” A New Scientist article released last week reports that the “funky old person” smell is a myth unless the over-40-something eats a fair amount of [...]

Hare Krishna. A few days ago I subscribed to an RSS feed for “wordpress/religious news,” and found some of the posts there to be a little interesting. I left a few comments on one titled, “There Are Only Two Religions in the Whole World,” in which the author really means that there are two kinds [...]