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Hare Krishna. I’m feeling pretty discouraged with devotees lately. As I wrote in my last post here, I’ve been calling for peace between fighting groups of devotees, but it really seems that almost no one wants it, or they they think it’s impossible. I can’t even get my letter out. I wrote it for the [...]

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 [...]

Sigh. Hare Krishna. Last Friday we discovered that our cow, Krishna Priya, had a cut above one of her hooves. It looked a little strange in that it went about half-way around toward the outside. It seemed like maybe she cut it on a rock or something. I sprayed it with betadine and was tempted [...]

Our cow is not giving milk. We attempted to get her pregnant in October 2007, but she tricked us, showing all the signs of pregnancy except for giving birth to a calf. She apparently hasn’t gone into heat since, but I think it may happen again soon. She’s now five years old, which may be [...]

It has recently come to my attention that Hare Krishna centers in New Zealand have stopped offering milk products to Krishna because they don’t have any protected cows giving milk. Of course we know we must do our best to protect cows and that much more should be done, but I don’t believe stopping milk [...]