I'm not sure who wrote this but I like it. "Be willing to publicly acknowledge when you are wrong. Those selling an ideology likewise have great difficulty admitting to being wrong, as this undercuts the rhetoric and image that is being sold. You get small points for admitting to being wrong on trivial matters and…

“Any gentleman should be a little humorous.” – Srila Prabhupada (Letter to Kurusrestha 75-09-26)

Today I was talking on the phone to someone when I noticed this beautiful peacock opening his plume just out my back window. I had to rudely put them on hold just so I could snap this shot:  

Dear friends and devotees, Jaya Sita Rama. Please accept my humble pranams. 500 years ago, while walking from Navadvipa to Puri, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu spent the night in Bhadrak on the banks of the sacred Salandi river. He stayed at an ancient temple of Sri Sri Radha Madana Mohana (located in Santhiya village). Before departing…

  Śrila Prabodhananda Sarasvati'sŚrī-caitanya-candrāmṛtaThe Nectar Moon of Śri Caitanya English [.pdf format] | English [.doc format] | Sanskrit [.doc format]

Here's an idea for an ironic bumper sticker:   Feel free to download and print. (click image to open a larger printable version)

This quotation just had to be given special treatment.    

I just became aware that the herb Gotu-kola grows wild all over the New Govardhana farm here in northern New South Wales, Australia. This stuff has amazing properties. Read more about it here. I highly recommend the book 'The Yoga of Herbs' by Vasant Lad and David Frawley – Amazon ships books to Australia and…

I was talking to Madhana-mohan Dasa brahmacari today and he gave me this idea for a devotional bumper sticker. It would also work on a t-shirt or hat probably:       

I subscribe to the PAMHO conference ‘Prabhupada Said’. HH Bhakti Vikasa Maharaja regularly sends in short anectodes or passages from Srila Prabhupada’s books. I always find them inspirational and sometimes eerily relevant to what I’m doing or thinking at the time. This one isn’t particularly relevant, but is quite thought provoking …… Badrinaraya Prabhu once…

———- Forwarded Message ———- Text PAMHO:16301400 (82 lines) From: (Bhakti Bhrnga) Govinda Swami Date: 11-Oct-08 04:55 -0400 (12:55 +0400) To: X (Broadcasts) [581] Subject: Kazakhstan ———————————————————— Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. We have continued our efforts in Kazakhstan and it seems that the saga is nearing an unfavorable…

Only Kṛṣṇa can deliver us from this material existence. Indeed, He is always trying to deliver us. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe ‘rjuna tiṣṭhati [Bg. 18.61]. He is within our hearts and is not at all inattentive. His only aim is to deliver us from material life. It is not that He becomes attentive to us only…

Here's an easy way you can make a lot of people around the world feel some love. People who design websites using CSS layout have a really hard time with Internet Explorer version 6 and below. More recent browsers (even IE7) conform to at least some basic W3 standards. IE6 arrogantly thumbs its nose at…