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Today is Ekadasi so Sri Bala Gopala is accompanied by a Tulsi-mala and his dear friends the cows who are eager to lick His sugar candy skin. The cowherd men spoke to Nanda Maharaja (SB 10.26.13-14): “Dear Nanda, how is it that we and all the other residents of Vraja cannot give up our constant…

Today Gopala attracted some …. COWS!!!!!!! (They can’t take their eyes off Him.)

Your feet are soft like lotus body black like monsoon cloud Your form sweet sugar candy that can melt hearts of the proud Your feet tinged soft and pink marked with all auspicious signs oh when will You reveal them to attract this wretched mind? Gopala! Gopala! Gopala! Gopala! Gopala! Gopala! Gopala! You gave such…

Today Gopala arrived at Sri Gopinatha Dham, geographically located in in Perth, Western Australia where there are lots of nice flowers to offer to Him:

Today Krishnagarja Prabhu from Melbourne here instructed me in the art of face painting which resulted in this combined effort. We need some more practice but hopefully Gopala will be pleased with our attempts to paint his face artistically. And here is Sri Laxmi-Narasimha:

Gopala is still enjoying giving His darsan to all of the devotees and guests here in Melbourne: Today a yet to be identified devotee here made Gopala this beautiful garland: I better be careful or Gopala might want to stay here. Hopefully I can think of something nice to please Him so that He doesn’t…

Last night Sri Bala Gopala arived in Melbourne, Australia where He opted to take a place alongside Sri Sri Radha-Vallabha and all of the other Saligram Silas here. Can you find Him in the picture above? Sri Trivikrama (above) is the principal Saligram worshiped at ISKCON Melbourne with great dedication, inspiration and enthusiasm by Krishnagraja…

from Sankarshan Das Adhikari If we simply stick to the process of Krishna consciousness through thick and thin, this perseverance will further us along the path of spiritual enlightenment. There are so many distractions to divert our minds from Krishna. We simply have to master the art of seeing Krishna within everything, even the distractions.…